zunath / winterengine

Winter Engine - The community game development tool

DEPRECATED. Refer to https://github.com/zunath/Ceriyo for a cleaner, better version. :)

Winter Engine

Winter Engine - The community game development tool http://www.winterengine.com

Quick Install / Setup Guide

• Download and install FlatRedBall: http://documentation.flatredball.com/frb/docs/?title=Download_the_FRB_Engine_and_Components

• Download and install Awesomium SDK: http://www.awesomium.com/download/

• If you are using Visual Studio 2012 (or later) please refer to this guide for setting it up for XNA: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10881005/how-to-install-xna-game-studio-on-visual-studio-2012

winterengine's Issues

Game: Character Selection UI Redesign

Now that we have Knockout and JQuery UI working well together, we need to revisit the Character Selection's UI design and redo its layout / styling to make it consistent with the toolset.

Tileset Editor: Tile Specs Editor

Users need to be able to create/delete/update tilesets. Tilesets are defined as the following:

• A sprite sheet broken up into 32x32 pixel tiles.
• Individual tiles must have editable properties (e.g: passable/not passable)

The Tileset editor falls under the "Tilesets" section.

Responsive Apply/Discard Changes Buttons

The Apply Changes and Discard Changes buttons aren't responsive to the window resizing like they should be.

jQuery Validation - Not applying to all fields

jQuery Validation isn't being applied to all fields. It seems to apply only to the first field in the form tag.

Game: Main Menu UI Redesign

Now that we have Knockout and JQuery UI working well together, we need to revisit the Main Menu's UI design and redo its layout / styling to make it consistent with the toolset.

Scroll Over and Button Clicks Moving Accordion to Top

If an accordion has a scroll bar and you scroll it down, then hover over a menu button or click the Apply Changes / Discard Changes button, it will move the scroll bar to the top of the screen. This makes it impossible to use the Apply Changes / Discard Changes button.

Example:

1.) Creatures tab
2.) Create a creature
3.) Expand the inventory accordion tab
4.) Scroll down to the bottom
5.) Either A.) Hover over a menu item (like File) or B.) Click the Apply Changes button.
6.) The scroll bar goes back to the top of the accordion.

Resizing issue: Buffer Copy accesses invalid memory

When the map is showing this error is likely to occur in TextureConvert.cs

at line

buffer.CopyTo((IntPtr)(uint)(lockrect.pBits), lockrect.Pitch, 4, false, false);

Surely this means that the lockrect.pBits is being initialized with the wrong pointer.

Conversations Editor

Need to create a branching tree view for conversations.

Loading Graphic on Module Create / Load

Need to display a loading graphic on the pop-up box while creating or loading a module.

Knockout Mapping Not Making Children Observable

Knockout.mapping is not making children objects observable. Need to figure out if this can be automated or if it can be added

Toolset - Object Properties Side bar not scaling to screen size

The side bar for object properties in the toolset is not scaling to the height of the window. If you maximize to 1920x1080, it will only use a portion of the screen. It should expand to the bottom of the window on the right hand side.

Area Editor: Tile Picking from UI Layer

Set up single tile and multi-tile picking in Awesomium. (HTML5 Canvas perhaps?)

Horizontal Scroll bar

The treeview on the toolset needs show a horizontal scroll bar on overflow.

Development Installer

Need a download package that will install all dependencies used by WE.

XNA 4.0
Awesomium 1.7.2 (or higher, as needed)
FlatRedBall

Game: Server List UI Redesign

Now that we have Knockout and JQuery UI working well together, we need to revisit the Server List's UI design and redo its layout / styling to make it consistent with the toolset.

Entity Framework - Migration Handling

Need to be able to handle schema changes when the database structure changes.

Network: User login security check

Currently, the servers request the username of a player from the client. This is a security issue because the client can fake his username and the servers have no way of knowing.

Solution:

Clients need to periodically update their status with the master server. They will link their IP address with their username, and will expire after X amount of time without activity.

Servers will get a player's username based on his IP address from the master server. Checks will be made, and if they pass the player is allowed to join the server.

Toolset - Sidebar controls aren't responsive

The text box fields, drop down menus, etc are not responsive to the size of the window. They should be the width of the right side bar.

Get a Tile Spritesheet for Testing

Find a 32x32 or 64x64 sprite sheet to be used for early development.

TreeView/Object Menu needs to be resizable

The treeview div and the object menu(I don't know what to call it, that menu that pulls right) should be resizable with a cursor.

Scripting Syntax Highlighter / Embedded IDE

Need to find a syntax highlighter or, even better, an IDE that can be integrated to the toolset.

Must be open source or have loose licensing restrictions.

Apply Changes / Discard Changes - Disable Initially and Enable When Object Loaded

When the toolset is first loaded, the Apply Changes and Discard Changes buttons should be disabled.

They should be enabled under the following circumstances:

• An object is currently loaded for the active mode (Area, Creature, etc)

They should be disabled under the following circumstances:

• An object is not currnetly loaded for the active mode (Area, Creature, etc)
• The module is closed.

Local Variables - UI

Need to create a more intuitive UI for adding / removing / editing local variables.

Entity.MouseEnterUI() Bug on Game Load

On toolset load (WinterEngine.Game project), occasionally the UI Document.Ready will load slowly and cause an error to occur when the Entity.MouseEnterUI() or Entity.MouseExitUI() is called.

Module Properties Pop Up

Need additional fields for editing module properties (Name, Tag, event scripts, etc)

Character Creation Screen

Character fields:

• Details (Name, Age, etc)
• Gender
• Race
• Portrait
• Class
• Abilities
• Skills
• Appearance

Accessed from the Character Selection screen.

Maximizing and unmaximizing the toolset window causes the page to not be drawn.

Maximizing and unmaximizing the toolset window causes the page to not be drawn.

HTML Partial View Loading from C#

The Toolset.HTML file is getting to be several thousands lines of code. To eliminate having this much mark up in one file, we need a mechanism for loading partial views.

My idea is this:

Div containers are set in the main HTML page with the attribute "data-PartialView" pointing to the location of the partial view.

When the main page loads, all of the partial views are loaded dynamically into the page.

This will let us keep separate components in their own files and increasing maintainability.

NOTE: We cannot use Ajax because it's not supported in Awesomium (to my knowledge). We'll need to load the partial views in C#, then send them as strings to the main page.

Tileset Editor: Drop down list not changing tileset on arrow keys press

The tileset image is not changing when the arrow keys are pressed. Need to check into Knockout's click event and have it fire when arrow keys are used.

Area Editor: Tile Placement / World Building

Take the selected tile or tiles from the UI layer and paint it in the game world.

Find a scripting language that hooks into C#

Find a scripting language that enables hooks into C#. Some options I've looked at are CS-Script and Python.

Would prefer to stick to a C-like language but will be open to other options.

Creation of Initial (Default) Values

All entities need to have a base "Default" value created on module creation.

Most of these will be named as "(None)". That way, when other objects link to them there's a physical object and we don't have to deal with null values or special-case scenarios.

Awesomium - Missing DLLs / Reference Errors on Release Building

Getting lots of reference errors when the solution is built on Release settings. I think all of these are in reference to Awesomium. Probably missing some dlls for the release build. Not too sure. May need to research on Awesomium's site

Stop tracking .suo files

the .suo files are in the gitignore but they are still being checked in. I untracked it from my computer last night but I don't know what else needs to be done.

After fixing this should be tested by pulling a new again and making sure that file isn't coming down. We don't want new contributors having this problem as well.