ToDo

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Revision as of 14:54, 11 April 2011

Moviesandbox has had a very under-the-radar pre-release with a couple of people telling me that it's still a bit rough around the edges. A couple of months and a lot of hard work later and Moviesandbox now has its public Version 0.5 release - for Mac and Windows.

I will try to get some funding through Kickstarter for a proper V1.0 release this summer, mostly to tackle some usability issues and to have some time for documentation and emprettyfying.

For Version 1.0, the following additions are planned: (in no specific order)

• make propertyButtons nice and non-text-entry-only
• add gizmos for moving/rotating both objects and the scene-view
• add settings menu
• add traditional menu-bar
• switch saving/loading to OS default dialogs
• add orbit-functionality and other ways of navigation to scene view
• set up extended functionality in right-click menus and inspectors
• make curveable Grid and implement Grid-snap-to-view functionality
• rotational objects and symmetrical drawing
• pen-drawing (straight lines, polygonal lines)
• brush draws primitives
• smoother drawing ( automatic closing of gaps)
• bounding boxes and better communication of selection and current drawing
• adjustable text and menu sizes
• simple localisation options
• Intel OpenGL 2.0 fixes
• variable mouse-images for better functionality communication
• lots of documentation
• thorough integration of external tools such as AudioInput, processing/Arduino, Kinect, etc...
• better scene object management
• Node management functions (containers, etc.)
• optimisations for renderer
• move away from GLUT and do proper per-OS windowing
• integrate TouchOSC protocol

And more structural changes:

• hide internal resources from asset viewers
• rethink project structures, im-/exporting and sharing content
• easier custom shader integration