by spacegaier | Nov 6, 2012 | News
As most of you will already be aware of, it has again been an interesting and productive Google Summer of Code year for our community. As usual the GSoC year is concluded by a summit for the mentors organized by Google and we thought we’d share some bits and pieces as well as talk about the experiences of this year in general.
As we do every year, we sent out two of our mentors to represent our community at the summit. Last year it was Noam and Mattan, this year Assaf and Mattan (David was our first pick as he never attended so far, but it didn’t work out in his schedule).
The event is a two day conference held in Google’s offices in Mountain View, California. Hospitality was wonderful, nice hotel rooms, great food and lots of friendly people. The breakout sessions during the summit covered a variety of topics, all focusing on the summer of code and open source in general.
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by spacegaier | Apr 23, 2012 | News
It is official now: Ogre has been awarded four GSoC 2012 slots this year! It took quite a bit of discussion within the team to pick our top four projects, but we finally made it and are now looking forward to this coding summer and hope that the students can help to really move Ogre forward a notch.
The selected projects are (in no particular order):
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by spacegaier | Mar 17, 2012 | News
For the 6th time, we were accepted as one of the 180 open-source projects to participate in this year’s Google Summer of Code! As you can guess, we are very thrilled about it and are now looking for some talented people to tackle some interesting projects and help evolving Ogre even further.
So, if you are a student and don’t know what to do over the summer yet: This is your chance!
We have put together all relevant information, e.g. on how apply for an Ogre GSoC slot or where to find project ideas in this announcement thread: Ogre GSoC 2012 Guide
In case you have any questions, feel free to open a thread in our GSoC forums section. The same applies if you want to discuss or pitch in ideas you have, regardless of whether you plan to tackle them yourself or just want to help our soon-to-be GSoC students to find their perfect project. All input in this matter is highly appreciated!
We are looking forward to another great coding summer! Best of luck to everyone participating this year!
So, let the summer begin!
by spacegaier | Oct 3, 2011 | News
It has been quite some time since we came around posting another news flash. We are sorry for that, but let’s focus on the bright side: This one is going to be a huge post 🙂 . So here it goes:
- Project Aftershock released some new amazing screenshots
- The commercial game “Heavy Hogur – Dwarf Puzzler!” has been released
- Assaf Raman ported Ogre to Google’s Native Client (NaCl) along with a nice guide and a demo
- The commercial game “Garshasp – The Monster Slayer” got video coverage on BBC News
- The “Run3 game engine” using Ogre specifically for FPS-type games was showcased
- First demo for the game “The long way” utilizing the above mentioned “Run3 game engine” was released
- Marble Madness clone (Atari) called “YAMM – Yet another Marble Madness” created by a team of the Braunschweig University of Technology was released
- OgreSpeedTree has been discountinued, but source code is still available through your IDV SpeedTree representative
- Nice little game called “Stained” has been announced
- New volumetric terrain implementation as part of a bachelor paper was showcased
- Integration of berklium + jsLINB was showcased
- Online FPS engine called “SilverTech Engine” was previewed
- The first person tower defense game named FPTD was released
- Screenshots of the Ogre-rendered movie “Turin – Before the city” were released
- The creation of the space epic “Salvation Prophecy” is reaching its final phase by showcasing some new impressions
- New Ogre particle editor called “Ogre Particle Lab” was released
- EZPhysics library was updated to work with Ogre 1.x versions
- New version of the Ogre-powered 3D music player MMiX.Me was released
- The Jade:DS games distribution platform was successfully launched with three Ogre powered games
- A new version of OpenSpace3D with a lot of new features was released
Additionally: All Google Summer of Code projects have been completed successfully and all changes have already been merged into the official Ogre code repositories.
We as the Ogre team have also started preparing a new release, namely a first RC for Ogre 1.8 and we plan to publish the final stable version right on the turn of the year. More information can be found in this thread.
Cheers,
Your Ogre3D team
by spacegaier | Aug 11, 2011 | News
It has been over a month since the last update, so it is definitely time for a new one. We got quite some requests, so the list is rather long this time:
- OGS Majong got a new update, adding new features as well as fixing some bugs
- First version of the capture-the-flag-type-game Nina Flag was released
- A nice little puzzle game called Magick Brick, which was created at the Shanghai game-jam, was showcased
- The WIP visual shader editor as part of the Alimer Game Engine was demonstrated in a video
- Ogre Meshy v.13 was released
- The upcoming Particle Universe v1.5 was previewed
- New iteration of the space simulation project Void Destroyer was showcased
- The promising Victory: The Age of Racing team announced the close beta phase and showcased their last E3 trailer
- Lumen Digital released a video showing one of their Ogre and Kinect based simulations
- Ogre Procedural got extended by great new features such as SVG support
- A first version of an adaption of the multi modeling format converter Assimp named OgreAssimpConverter was released by jacmoe
- metaldev released a series of great video tutorials, explaining how to create models in Maya for the LFA Scene Manager
- The VDrift and Ogre based game Stund Rally reached version v1.2 and released some new in-game videos
- Two great new wiki articles covering two different phong shader (one with cube and one with sphere mapping) were created by toglia
- A first preview of the virtual fitting room project called FitNect was released
Aditionally: Still a lot is going on in our four Google Summer of Code projects. If you are interested, check this dedicated subforum area.
Also, please participate in our Ogre User Survey 2011, if you haven’t already. The survey is still running until the 31th of August. Afterwards, we will then publish the results.
