Point of clarification

[ClymAngus]

I've been ho humming my way around the internet recently and I've been noticing several other games that seen to use the same kind of languages that oolite does.

Now I know we're in a "fresh stuff" freeze at the moment but is there any point making a note of these games so they could have their coding ripped in the future?

[Zireael]

Maybe not 'ripped', but 'borrowed', 'used to inspire' etc. Sounds nicer...

[drew]

Maybe not 'ripped', but 'borrowed', 'used to inspire' etc. Sounds nicer...

Nah, let's go with 'eviscerated'.

Cheers,

Drew.

[JensAyton]

I don’t understand the question.

[Sarin]

In a short, use part of compatible coding from another game written in same language....Spock.

[JensAyton]

In general, that would be entirely impractical. Unless games are written using the same middleware, features can’t simply be copied between them (and Oolite doesn’t use any middleware).

[drew]

In general, that would be entirely impractical. Unless games are written using the same middleware, features can’t simply be copied between them (and Oolite doesn’t use any middleware).

No middleware? You sure about that? I always wear my cummerband when in the pilot's chair, and very dashing I look too.

Cheers,

Drew.

[JensAyton]

We would like to make clear that no member of the Oolite team has taken a public stance against middlewear.

[aegidian]

We would like to make clear that no member of the Oolite team has taken a public stance against middlewear.

Indeed, we favour a belt and braces approach.

[ClymAngus]

Middle wear? Sounds like wedgee talk to me. Ok I realise that variables being fairly specific things that cut and plonk ain't an option. But coming from a minor programming background we do use a lot of "operators" in my line of work that do specific things and are kept as a palette when we need one of our programmes to do some "clever shit".

So I suppose I'm talking about saving some time by reverse engineering (with permission of course) certain aspects of other games. Active cameras, that kind of thing. You know take a mooch around and see if anything fits. I take it objective-c doesn't work that way?

[another_commander]

So I suppose I'm talking about saving some time by reverse engineering (with permission of course) certain aspects of other games. Active cameras, that kind of thing.

I think we would be saving ourselves a lot more time if we were to just sit down and write it from scratch rather than reverse engineer anything. And that does not mean that doing so would take a little time.

[ClymAngus]

That's fair, as my father used to say you never learn if you don't ask.

[JensAyton]

So I suppose I'm talking about saving some time by reverse engineering (with permission of course) certain aspects of other games. Active cameras, that kind of thing.

I’m not aware of any games in Objective-C that do things I don’t know how to do. The problem with implementing a good camera model is not designing it, but updating all the bits of Oolite that make assumptions about cameras.