This is a 'work-in-progress' roadmap for PVLE.

• 0.1 - Basic integration of 3D, physics, and inputs
• 0.2 - Full integration (3D, physics, inputs, networking, and sound)
  • Networking
    • Integration
    • Gameplay classes (teams, players...)
  • Sound wrappers
  • Game
    • Profile/preferences/options file parser
  • Display
    • Explosions
    • Trails (Homeworld / Spring type) for missiles, swords, etc...
  • Build
    • Builds at least on Linux and Windows
  • Internationalization (Texts only)
• 0.3 - Advanced engine functions
  • Physics
    • Support for environment (air, water...) friction
    • Support for collisions of fast moving geoms
  • Display
    • Base class(es) for menus
  • Game
    • Scripting (Lua and/or Python?) that can read/write engine/game data.
      • Python: boost::python
      • Lua: use lua lib?
• 0.4 - Full-featured 2D/3D GUI
  • Display
    • Support for GUI (2D/3D windows, buttons, scrollers, input fields...)
    • Console
  • Internationalization (Full: Texts, dates, numbers, currencies...)
• 0.5
  • 3D
    • Support for animated models and their file format (which one?)
      • Keyframes
      • Bones/skin
  • Physics
    • Support for a physics model file format (DIF ?)
  • Entities
    • Support for a unit file format (XML - Home made)
  • Utilities
    • Unit viewer/editor (Simple)
    • Full model (Physics + 3D) viewer/editor
  • Basic IA functions
    • Targeting
    • Crowd
    • etc.
• 0.6
  • App
    • Multithreaded application framework
  • 3D
    • Advanced terrain renderer (ROAM, QuadTree...)
  • Deployment (using CMake or another full-featured autoconf/automake tool)

Other ideas:

• 2D Post render effects (Generic image processing)
  • Per pixel processing
    • Ability to render human-type vision of light intensity (Stretch colors when scene is dark)
  • Bloom/Convolution filters
• 3D Classes, helpers, etc.
  • Tire tracks (road, sand, snow...)
  • Water texture effects
  • Static lighting (per vertex or with lightmap)
  • Squeletal animation
    • Ability to clone an animation to another skeleton
  • Motion blending (Transitions between animations)
  • Screen capture (Image/video)
  • On-screen camera (BattleZone II type) with ability to customize detail level per camera
  • Portals
• Pathfinding
• IA
  • LUA/Other Scripting
  • Finite state machines
  • Events/Messages between IA and other IAs, the game, a script, etc...
• Sound
  • Event based changes of musics
  • Crossfading musics
  • Block-based change of musics (blocks are written in a separate file, and describe when and how change occurs: "before/after the end of the block", "anytime", "never"... "with crossfading of 'n' ms", "with slowdown", ...)
• Other
  • Generic "Replay" ability