[Kazan]

PCS2 has been worked on in MSVC6 to date.  If all three of us have MSCV8 i have no objection to porting it over, the hardest part i believe is getting wxWidgets set back up - it compiles to single target libs in MSVC6 but i think it compiles to a sicken slew of libs in MSVC8

i'm not using std::vector and std::string at the moment because i needed to be able to debug into those - so i have temp replacements (included in the util folder) called kaz_string and kaz_vector - they're interface compatable so when we're ready a simple string replacement will flip it back to std::(vector|string)

the internal model format of PCS1 was POF
the internal model format of PCS2 is PMF (PCS Model Format) - module interface defined in pcs_file.h

POF<-->PMF conversion in pcs_pmf_pof.cpp (implemented) - BSP compiler/decompiler in pcs_pof_bspfuncs.(h|cpp)
COB<-->COB conversion in pcs_pmf_cob.cpp (incomplete)
adding support for additional file types like COB is comparatively trivial in PCS2 when compared to PCS1

POF handling code in the POF folder
BSP handling code in the BSP folder (messy, but gets the job done)
COB handling code in the COB folder (minimal support - only that which we need)

util folder has various ****e (platform abstracting directory lister w/ search support), my templates, openGL texture loader that follows fs2 search path/VPs, VP reader

compat folder - obvious

GUI folder - obvious (split into source/headers) - most of the work to be done here is with the editors (in subfolders) and fancy stuff for the openGL window (wxGL_PMFCanvas.cpp)

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i think i already had it working in MSVC8 on my machine.. lemme double check.. i made a bunch of changes i needed to roll back

PS: i have 32bit <--> 64bit portability warnings turned on... and i'm not supressing warning C4267 - it aint pretty, we need to clean that up.. when i tried i made things worse (what i just rolled back)

[Kazan]

somone demonkey kaz, i bet it makes him feel unwelcome.

very perceptive, thank you

[Kazan]

building on MSVC8 - .sln file commited to CVS - requires wxWidgets 2.8 compiled to static link, not dll

[edit]
forgot to answer - been using the GUI by hand

[edit again]
i see you've already got write access bob (probably from ferrium)

Access List to my repo:
Me (admin),
Bob (cvs, release tech)
Kara (cvs, release tech, shell)
Goob (cvs)
Taylor (cvs)

[edit3]
i turned 32/64 portability warnings off

[Bobboau]

good ole signed/unsigned mismatch error, my own little project has that same issue, I got over 200 of em (mostly the same ones in a header getting tripped every time that header is included) when I first noticed them I figured it'd be easy to fix them later, now that it's later it's more like 'well it's not that big of a problem' so the lessen learned is if you are going to fix it fix it sooner rather than later.

it seems glcanvas isn't enabled by default, seems I need to recompile wx...

[Bobboau]

hmmm... got it to run, I though it was going to use a tree control for navigation, what ever happened to that?

ok, I'm going to start work on this, my basic plan is a ground up approach, I'm going to make sevral common editors derived from a panel, things like an array control that has new/erase/copy buttons, a combo box for selecting an indevidual item, and a sub panel for more controls (editors for the elements in the array) and a vector control (which could have derived normal control that handled things like normalisation).

[Kazan]

hmmm... got it to run, I though it was going to use a tree control for navigation, what ever happened to that?

it was clunky, and ugly

and yeah i forgot to warn you about glcanvas

[Bobboau]

this needs it's own topic

[Kazan]

word of warning - the way PCS2 deals with infinite recursion situations is by terminating that path - thereby truncating the geometry

[Scooby_Doo]

Good, at least then I'll know where the errors are, instead of having it freeze. 

[Kazan]

Good, at least then I'll know where the errors are, instead of having it freeze. 

yup

[Bobboau]

you could have it make the last set of polygons red flat polys, that would make it even more aparent, or sence it's going to be internal just highlight them.

do you mind if I bring the tree back?
I realy liked the idea and I don't see how it could have been determined to be clunky seeing as PCS2 never got to a state were it could be used enough to make that determination

[Kazan]

I realy liked the idea and I don't see how it could have been determined to be clunky seeing as PCS2 never got to a state were it could be used enough to make that determination

you can try.. lemme see if i deleted the code, or just disabled it

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disabled -

wxCTreeCtrl.h

yup.. most of the code is still there, just commented out

[takashi]

does it still leave the turrets in there proper places instead of sticking them in the middl of the ship?

[Scooby_Doo]

I've never had that problem with PCS, now with Max exporter I've always had that problem.

[Bobboau]

hey, what do you use to convert xpm files?

[Kazan]

hey, what do you use to convert xpm files?

paint shop pro

[Kazan]

does it still leave the turrets in there proper places instead of sticking them in the middl of the ship?

word to the wise - don't blame me for other people's bugs

[Taristin]

Kazan: Just ignore takashi... it's safer for your heart in the long run, truuust me.

[Bobboau]

yeah, read his title.

anyway PSP doen't have xpm as a type, but I found something that should work.

[Nuke]

does it still leave the turrets in there proper places instead of sticking them in the middl of the ship?

its not the converters fault if you forget to reset xform

that said a max->pmf plugin would be cool. actually be sure to thouroughly document that pmf format so that plugin devs can write output scripts/plugins for *insert name of modeling program here*. also support for an ascii version of the format would be cool cause some scripting languages cant really deal with binary file types.