OpenRaider/TODO

 OpenRaider 
 TODO ( Updated 2003.05.17 )
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 [Short list]
  * Replace USING_ defs with HAVE_ for the autoconf nutjobs
  * Ponytail loader back in
  * Var system, maybe using mlisp, to control entity/game
    attributes in realtime
  * Use new unified sector/fd system to have better world clipping
  * Get event system up
  * Animatated textures (tr2_opengl_ref:2027) 
  * Any little bit of abstraction to reduce interfacing
    with TombRaider's complexity ( Offload more work to
    TombRaider class, but hide it behind abstract API )
  * Replace Render::drawModelMesh with OpenGLMesh use
  * Move OpenGLMesh array use back in...
  * Replace color_tri_t, texture_tri_t, and model_mesh_t
    with OpenGLMesh?
  * Weapons animations
  * Better user interface
  * System abstractions should be agregates not inherited
    also remove static members and force singleton
    Split OpenGL dep from System
  * Text subsystem needs looking at for possible overhaul soon
  * Checksum matches on torsos to do special animation per 
    known models like in my freyja demo  ;)

 [OpenRaider.cpp]
  * Remove skeletal_model_t dependency
  * Add client system
  * Add event system
  * Remove all Tomb Raider format dependence, move to generics
    * processMoveable needs to use generics
    * processMoveables needs to use generics and metadata
    * processSprites needs to use generics 
    * processPakSounds needs to use generics and metadata
    * loadLevel's looping loaders need to move into the methods 
      which would reduce function calls and section off better

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 [General]
  * Automatic unit testing per system/agent
  * Scrict time based event/animation frames
  * Sound sampling to allow various rates traded off for ram
  * Account for TR3+ alpha in polygon building  
  * AutoAim for 3rd person view
  * Metadata pak wrappers for sfx linking and previews

 [ TombRaider API ]
  * Add TR5 support and rewrite Room structures and etc as
    seperate classes as collections inside TombRaider class
    Move parsing into TombRaider as much as possible and improve
    memory use of TombRaider to perhaps read a room at a time
    off disk ( PS2 has limited memory )

 [Interface]
  * Multilevel menu system
  * Keyboard setup in RC
  * Key command event system needed, move it into System
  * Improve menu system and map select screens
  * Factor out a CVARS/RC system 
  * Gobal options (CVARS) class
  * Model and Map selection via preview of some kind like a pic
  * Improve console: history, autocomplete

 [Network]
  * Playable multiplayer release
  * TCP use for moving data like HTML and models perhaps
  * HTML forms filler for automatic bug reporting ala 'talkback'
  * Handle cheat proxies: Bad yaws, pos, firing rates
  * Have server maintain game state
  * Allow client checks to remove players clientside on peer mode

 [Renderer]
  * Animation blending ( Rewrite of translator/animator )
    Seperate animations from models also add multibone support
    and weld TR4+ lara vertices ( skin )
  * New skeletal animation system ( current one mem wasteful )
  * Use room light intensity level for static mesh (room model) rendering
  * Add particles for weather, water drip/splash, metal material collisions, 
    gunfire, etc
  * Account for room attrib flags for base visual and special fx in that room
  * Account for room vertices attrib flag for visual and special fx
  * Needs real portal visibility system
  * TR4 lara may needs to have mesh generation to fill in her gaps by
    looking for vertex 'rings' that match from the 2 meshes where gaps happen
  * Animated textures
  * Fix lighting to work in vertexlight as well as texture
     modes better
  * Better visiblity with full portal system
  * Better out of world camera handling, add smooth pan, drags