[kasperl]

The terrain engine is taken nearly line for line form www.frustum.org. But it's not suitable I found it out.
But I won't continue to develop my engine if I manage to make the FS2 engine mod to work.
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You're right. Normally this should be done in threads. By the way, the idea with generating models is interesting. I would like to use different routines for different object types. a voxel engine for asteroids from the guy (http://www.home.zonnet.nl/petervenis/index.htm). For big capital ships we can better take mount static chunks instead of compiling a BSP model. But there are other problems now

I have one question: How are you handling the license issues? FS2 isn't GPL, so even if the code you're using is GPL, you've still got a problem. Not to throw a spanner in the works, but someone might want to have a good long look at the licensing stuff...

[Turey]

The terrain engine is taken nearly line for line form www.frustum.org. But it's not suitable I found it out.
But I won't continue to develop my engine if I manage to make the FS2 engine mod to work.
...
You're right. Normally this should be done in threads. By the way, the idea with generating models is interesting. I would like to use different routines for different object types. a voxel engine for asteroids from the guy (http://www.home.zonnet.nl/petervenis/index.htm). For big capital ships we can better take mount static chunks instead of compiling a BSP model. But there are other problems now

I have one question: How are you handling the license issues? FS2 isn't GPL, so even if the code you're using is GPL, you've still got a problem. Not to throw a spanner in the works, but someone might want to have a good long look at the licensing stuff...

Good thinking.

EDIT: Looks like it's GPL, everything else on the site is. Bummer.

[chief1983]

If it's LGPL we should still be ok using it I thought.  Not sure which it is though.

[Turey]

If it's LGPL we should still be ok using it I thought.  Not sure which it is though.

Yes, LGPL is ok. No, it's not likely to be LGPL. Most people pick one License and stick with it, and at least one of the projects on that site says "GPL" not "LGPL".

[jr2]

How large is this program?  If its small enough, you could use the clean room approach that everyone and their brother used on PHOENIX to get their BIOS. 

[razorjack]

I've not said a word to import their terrain engine into FS2, so it's a "no"
There is no problem to write new routines for us. The current terrain engine is less than 800 lines. The frustum.org engine is good but not suitable.
All the other sources are 100% my own.

[lostllama]

Cool. I like this idea, it could offer new opportunities and not necessarily make the game un-FreeSpacey. If I knew how to program I'd have a go at trying to implement something like this.

[YemminatoR]

make a freespace2 fork? or a new space game using scp fs2 engine plus new improvments

[razorjack]

It depends from the SCP team. It would be good to join and integrate my proposed feature into FS2SCP.
Otherwise I will have to fork.

By the way I need regular tests (look at http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,49809.0.html)
I began to modularize the engine and merge it with my sources at some places and there are possibly bugs inside.
Any help would be welcome.

[chief1983]

There's no need to fork.  Forks are bad.  Forks are evil.

[Nuke]

just grab an up to date head build, add stuff to it, and then if it looks like its stable and doesnt break reverse compatibility, they might let you commit it. seems to be the usual procedure for adding features.

[razorjack]

The problem is that I can't grab the actual build because I've changed almost every file.