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[Skeggox]

Simple solution - ensure the intermediate format allows you to save an opaque data block and dump the source memory in there

On other news, I stand victorious over the beaten form of OSG. Behold!

V0.03

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That shows Obsidian rendering the example glider from OSG.

I also hooked up the mouse and keyboard handlers, so as long as the rendering window has focus you can use all of the default OSG controls to manipulate the model, change rendering options (shadows etc).

Next up is getting a basic version of DFHack running, so that we can start bringing in the awesome from DF

[Locriani]

Host your images on the wiki.

[Skeggox]

That's acceptable usage? Nice
Lemme go set that up.

[smjjames]

You can also use tinypic.

Give photobucket a try, they're pretty good.

[Locriani]

That's acceptable usage? Nice
Lemme go set that up.

As long as it's related to dwarf fortress, it can fly.  I also don't limit bandwidth usage.

[Skeggox]

I've created a wiki page for Obsidian - http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Utility:Obsidian

[Skeggox]

V0.04

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Obsidian now has a DFHack module and can successfully attach to Dwarf Fortress!

[Djohaal]

Great! 

How do you plan to genarate the geometry? a new approach from zero or recycle the stuff that visual fortress used? I found VF's approach with that random noise map and stuff genius work to give the terrains a more natural feel.

[Skeggox]

At this point I plan to recycle VF's approach, with Perlin noise and everything. Although, I don't know how the difference between his custom renderer and OSG will affect the implementation. I'm pretty sure OSG has their own noise generators, etc.

Just finishing up the DFHack bindings, so that I have something to test the geometry generator on.

I had a nice super long weekend, but work starts again tomorrow, so expect the progress to slow down a wee bit

[Duuvian]

This sounds cool. What kind of kitten do you want?

[DKS]

I don't have any skills to actually help, but I'd like to say this project looks awesome.

[Skeggox]

Mosey on over to this thread http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57923.0 and vote for the Obsidian logo.

[Chronas]

This seems incredibly ambitious but i love the idea of a modular visualisation tool for DF

[soundandfury]

Any kind of a way I could get started on coding a module to export the terrain as a DF Designer map?
For instance, have you sorted out an interface yet for modules?  (Or better still, is the Obsidian source on a public repo?)

It's just that 'terrain import' is, like, my top requested feature.

[Skeggox]

Any kind of a way I could get started on coding a module to export the terrain as a DF Designer map?
For instance, have you sorted out an interface yet for modules?  (Or better still, is the Obsidian source on a public repo?)

It's just that 'terrain import' is, like, my top requested feature.

Alas, Obsidian source is not yet in a public repo. I have to sort out a few things before I can do that.

As to the module interfaces, there is no set interface. An Obsidian module is nothing more than a Lua module/package, either written in pure Lua, a Lua shared library or a mixture of the two.

The only real interfaces will be with the rendering engine (which I still need to design) and the internal Cell engine - which I'm working on right now. The Cell engine will represent a fortress as a collection of C++ objects, exposed through Lua. It will start with an xml and binary serializer, but you are more than welcome to write a Lua module that will export to a DF Designer map.

I still need to nail down the internal representation of a fortress - it will directly affect the interface and available operations. I'll create a wiki page with the latest version of the representation and where we can discuss what info needs to be in it.

I haven't yet looked into the internals of DF, i.e. how terrain is represented, etc., so any input from anyone who has done that before will be MUCH appreciated.