root/trunk/RBRapier/doc/DesignLayout.xml

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<project name='RuneBlade Rendering Project'>
    <package name='Renderer'>
        <package name='Geometry'>
            NOTE: Don't forget support for selection and picking

            <module name='Data'>
                <object name='VertexArray'/>
                <object name='NormalArray'/>
                <object name='ColorArray'/>
                <object name='TexCoordArray'/>
                <object name='EdgeFlagArray'/>
                <object name='WeightArray'/>
            </module>

            <module name='Traversal'>
                <object name='Array Traversal'/>
                Outstanding issues:
                    * NV_element_array and NV_vertex_array_range
                    * ATI_element_array and ATI_vertex_array_object
                    * EXT_multi_draw_array
                    * NV_primitive_restart
            </module>

            <object name='Immediate Mode'>
                Provide something to derive from/implement so that
                immediate mode tests are possible and simple.

                Not really intended for production usage.
            </object>
        </package>

        <package name='Image and Raster'>
            <module name='Image Bitmaps'>
                To be explored
            </module>
            <module name='Texture Objects'>
                To be explored
            </module>
            To be explored

            Look at:
                Standard/simple
                Multitexturing
                Dot/Bump/Blend/Specular/Min/Max etc...
                Spherical/Cubic environment mapping
        </package>

        <package name='Transformations'>
            Model View (multiple)
            Projection
            Color
            Texture (multiple?)
        </package>

        <package name='Appearance'>
            <module name='Accumulation' />
            <module name='Lighting and Lights' />
            <module name='LogicOp'>
                NOTE: Avoid using -- slow
            </module>
            <module name='Fog'>
                Outstanding issues:
                    height fog
            </module>
            <module name='Blending'>
                Blend seperation
            </module>
            <module name='Materials'>
                Normal
                Colored Materials
            </module>
        </package>

        <package name='Environment'>
            <module name='Selection'>
                Don't Forget this!
            </module>

            <module name='Stenciling'>
                Outstanding issues:
                    stencil wraping
                    EXT_stencil_two_side
            </module>

            <module name='Fragment Tests' >
                Scissor
                Alpha
                Stencil
                Depth
                See fragment programs and Cg as well
            </module>

            <module name='Buffers' >
                Color
                Accumulation
                Depth
                Stencil
                Aux[]
                PBuffer?
            </module>
        </package>

        <package name='Programable Operations'>
            Placeholder for Vertex, Fragment, and Texture programs
            Cg also might here?  Not sure.
        </package>

        <package name='Managers'>
            <module name='States'/>
            <module name='ClientStates'/>
            <module name='Attributes'/>
            <module name='BufferClearing'/>
            <module name='Display List Cache' />
        </package>
    </package>

    <package name='Tools'>
        <module name='Vector Library'/>
        <module name='Quaternion Library'/>
        <module name='Transformation Library'/>

        <package name='Geometric'>
            <package name='Analysis'>
                <module name='Index matching' priority='0'>
                    TODO: Describe this?  But how?
                </module>
                <module name='Index locality remaping' priority='1'>
                    Rearranges indices so that ones referenced first are first in 
                    the collection.
                </module>
                <module name='Line connectors' priority='1'>
                    Converts a set of independent lines into sets of connected lines.
                </module>
                <module name='Mesh stripification' priority='1'>
                    Converts a mesh of faces into a collection of triangle strips 
                    fans and lists in an effort to decrease the quantity of data 
                    submitted to the rendering engine.
                </module>
            </package>
            <package name='Synthesis'>
                <module priority='-1'>
                    Convert a collection of (position, scalar) values to a mesh.
                    Variations for:
                        * regular/irregular positions.
                        * dimensionality of data.  (functional, parametric, etc...)
                </module>

                <module priority='0'>
                    Heightfield from image data
                </module>
            </package>
            Also belonging in this area:
                Level of detail algorithms
                Deformations -- specifically terrain
        </package>

        <package name='Primitives'>
            <module name='Axis'/>
            <module name='Grid / Checkerboard / Plane'>
                Using evaluators, or
                Using immediate mode, or
                Using texture mapped geometry, or
                Using projected textures
            </module>
        </package>

        <package name='Animation'>
            Variations: Simple, Spline, Sperhical
            <module name='Linear interpolation'/>
            <module name='Cubic interpolation'/>
            <module name='Mass-spring interpolation'/>
            <module name='Other physics-based interpolation'/>
        </package>
    </package>

    <package name='Formats'>
        optimized internal, 3d Skins, SVG, LWO, OBJ, MDL, ...
        <package name='(Wavefront, LWO, SVG) Object Format'>
            These have been moved to seperate top level packages so that
            they don't have to be perfect... as inclusion in the render seems
            to imply to my brain.  Out at this level, they "use" the Rendering
            Tools and OpenGL renderer to accomplish rendering of their format.

            Call me obsessed...  It's probably true.  ;)

            <module name='Load' />
            <module name='Save' />
            <package name='Adaptors for OpenGL'>
                <module name='As-is mesher' />
                <module name='Optimizing stripifying mesher'  />
                <module name='As-is lineset' />
                <module name='Connected lineset' />
                <module name='Pointset' />
            </package>
        </package>
    </package>

    <package name='Models'>
        <package name='Windowing, Viewport'>
        </package>

        <package name='Event, interaction, and animation'>
        </package>

        <package name='Objects'>
            Collision testing
        </package>

        <package name='Effect Libraries'>
            Partical engine, shaders, fog, lens flares, fresnel effects
        </package>
    </package>

    Assure support for:
        http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorials/lesson.asp?l=09
        http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorials/lesson.asp?l=19
        http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorials/lesson.asp?l=20
        http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorials/lesson.asp?l=26
        http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorials/lesson.asp?l=27
        http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorials/lesson.asp?l=30
        http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorials/lesson.asp?l=35
        http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorials/lesson.asp?l=36
</project>