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Cool paper. So what filetype does Panda use for its terrain data storage? 8-bit graymap bitmap heightscales? EDIT: I answered myself... This would be a really easy/fast way of creating an engine... Cutting a map maker out of the equation and having a terrain generator instead, along with maybe an XM...

I foresee the biggest hurdle will be getting the server and client model data to match. It really doesn't matter much after that what you do in terms of how you code the gameplay server side, as long as you have classes that mimic that on the client and that are neworked we'll be good, but to have s...

Yea, Wave looks revolutionary. The fact that it's going to be a) Open Source and b) a Protocol makes me drool. I imagine video games will start integrating Waves into their chat systems. Can you imagine if you could wave from inside an MMO? *drools*

Learning a new engine is always annoying, you have to *read* a lot of its code before you get it, and follow down definitions and read those, etc... I remember that learning the HL2 engine took me a good 3-4 months, and then again parts of it were still totally unknown to me. How does Panda handle r...

Been busy myself with work and systematically watching every Google I/O video on YouTube... GWT... *drools*

It would be to support the website. I don't really see what the problem would be. People in FPS games have donation systems for their servers all the time, like in Counter-strike, etc...

Sure, wouldn't be too hard to incorporate a small module into servers that connects to a database and allows them access to a different skin, or other kinds of weapons/armor...

Hmm... Collada looks good too... Hmm...

I'm doing a bit of poking around trying to figure out what most people around here use for modelling... I'm personally not a modeller, but I like Milkshape and the fact it exports to 5000 different file formats. The reason for this poll is I'm trying to get an idea of what file types would/should be...

I know, but when you've had to learn a new language at least 5 times like I have, it gets old having to lookup in the docs every fine minutes what that new language's weird syntax is for making a while loop or an if statement.