12-11 Update

Most likely last update.

Tomorrow is "official" presentation.

Received video clips from all German team members, merged them into one film to be shown during presentation.

Car now accelerates and decelerates realistically.

Strange bug remains - when pressing "A" on Xbox controller, game goes immediately to the Credits screen, regardless of current game mode. Keyboard works as planned.

Lap timer and counter have yet to be implemented.

We'll see what happens in the future :-)

12-7 Update

-Jasmin modified the Sounds class to include SoundEffectsInstances; this eliminated an issue where the menu music would stop playing when the user navigates the menu

-I added gameplay music; music switches when user goes from Menu state to Game state. Also added golf cart idling noise when the game runs; have yet to figure out how to stop the sound effect when switching back to the menu. Jasmin is working on it :-D

-Claus is bringing a camera tomorrow to record their section of the presentation

-Shane is working on the powerpoint for Wed/Fri. Have yet to see what content is added

---Ron

12-2 Game Screenshots

12-2 Update

Combined progress update between German and American members:

Recent Work:

-Mike and Hans designed the Track and figured the position of trees,
bushes and tracklimits
-Denis wrote a class to display the car from behind the car's position
and is working on turning the car appropriately
-Max is working on the documentation for the game
-Tobias is working on the physics-class to calculate the new car
position depending on the user input
-Denis and Claus wrote the input-class to deliver the input of keyboard and
gamepad
-Claus wrote a car class and began to write the collision detection code
-Chris researched baking issues with car model having some transparent textures; no luck yet

What needs to be done:

-HUD such as lap timer/counter -> Shane?
-fix collision detection -> Claus
-fix physics -> Tobias
-get position of the 3d assets -> Mike and Hans
-test the game -> Max
-fix display (rotate car) -> Denis
-fix the car -> Chris
-fix sound -> Jasmin

Sound Class is done and working

I uploaded the SoundClass and it is working.

Tortoise gave me an error message, so I'm not sure if it worked out.

11-21 Update

• Claus uploaded a Cars.cs containing vehicle and physics data. Will add to project and tinker
• Landscape to be finished by Monday
• Worked with Aaron to figure out some camera issues
  

test

test for claus

11-18 Update

-Changed project name to "Campus Tournament 2009" to reflect the group's multi-campus nature
-Converted sound assets to Mp3 (need to figure out why they sound so tinny)
-Added Tobias to Credits screen

11-15 Update

Spoke with Claus via Google Chat:

• established some short and long term goals
• communicated about class structure
• discussed German-created digital assets
• made sure the German group has a Web cam for Monday
• made sure the German group was able to access the digital assets on Angel and the code on the Google Code repository

Spoke with Jasmin:

• wanted to make sure she'll be able to join the video conference on Monday
• said she'll work on the Sound class over the weekend

Personally:

• Uploaded XACT project to Angel
• Read some XNA 3 tutorials
  

11-11 Update

Posted a message on the ACT2009 Google Group regarding the content of this site and the Basecamp site.

Established accounts for Team on both Web sites.

Uploaded newest versions of digital assets and project files to ANGEL and the code repository.

Establishing tasks with the German crew for assignments and assets.

-Ron

German-American Team Communication T2

[10:25:33 AM] Mike Kotsch says: hey there
[10:26:20 AM] Shane Moore says: hey
[10:26:24 AM] Mike Kotsch says: seems like we had two groups here working with one group of you *group II*
[10:26:40 AM] Shane Moore says: yeah i think thats how it was broken up
[10:26:48 AM] Mike Kotsch says: so what to do?
[10:26:57 AM] Mike Kotsch says: do i have to search for another group?
[10:27:45 AM] Shane Moore says: no, i dont think so. I think that you guys have had more teams than we did, so some of your groups are doubling up
[10:28:00 AM] Mike Kotsch says: ok!
[10:28:24 AM] Mike Kotsch says: the other guys said that you are going to do the models?[10:28:33 AM] Shane Moore says: so i dont know if you can like combine groups on your end[10:28:46 AM] Mike Kotsch says: or am i still doing modelling stuff?
[10:28:50 AM] Mike Kotsch says: carts and so on?
[10:28:57 AM] Mike Kotsch says: ok
[10:29:12 AM] Shane Moore says: I am working with programming the models, and i think chris has some model and experience with that.
[10:29:22 AM] Mike Kotsch says: hm
[10:31:36 AM] Shane Moore says: i think right now we are in the process of converting our code from XNA 2.0 to XNA 3.0
[10:31:41 AM] Shane Moore says: hopefully everything works
[10:31:51 AM] Mike Kotsch says: :)
[10:32:07 AM] Mike Kotsch says: what else can i do?
[10:32:16 AM] Mike Kotsch says: i started working on the carts.
[10:32:26 AM] Mike Kotsch says: what about the environment?
[10:33:04 AM] Shane Moore says: ron and i, are trying to figure that out, we are unsure how to use the environment in XNA
10:34:19 AM] Mike Kotsch says: can you send me a table which shows up who is in group two and which tasks do you work at?
[10:34:43 AM] Shane Moore says: yeah, give me one sec.
[10:35:29 AM] Mike Kotsch says: k
[10:35:36 AM] Shane Moore says: Basically its Ron-our main coder, he is working on setting up the classes and workign on the menu right now.
[10:36:40 AM] Shane Moore says: I (shane) am working on helping ron, and working with the programming of 3d models
[10:37:12 AM] Shane Moore says: Chris is working on most of our art assets, he designed our first cart model, and some character designs
[10:37:42 AM] Mike Kotsch says: ok
[10:37:56 AM] Shane Moore says: Jasmin has worked on our sound class, and gathering the sound files. She also wants to be the groups "tester"
[10:38:00 AM] Mike Kotsch says: the other german team members do coding to!
[10:39:28 AM] Shane Moore says: yeah, you guys are probably much better at coding than us, haha
[10:39:54 AM] Mike Kotsch says: how many carts do we need?
[10:40:31 AM] Mike Kotsch says: what about the two campuses *don't know the plural..*[10:41:03 AM] Shane Moore says: well, the way me and ron were looking at it, is we'd much rather have 1 cart and 1 driver, anda basic course at first... then depending on how long that takes, implement more drivers and carts.
[10:41:29 AM] Mike Kotsch says: yes, probably the right way
[10:41:33 AM] Shane Moore says: because by having just one cart and stuff we can start working on making the game work, and then we can worry about bringing more assets into the game.
[10:41:40 AM] Mike Kotsch says: concerning the 4 weeks we have to go
[10:41:45 AM] Shane Moore says: yeah
[10:42:14 AM] Mike Kotsch says: so is there any task for me?
[10:42:24 AM] Shane Moore says: so our focus on our end has been getting the game up and running as quick as possible, so that way we have something that runs.
[10:42:41 AM] Mike Kotsch says: i can not code *using a mac AND not having any idea of coding*
[10:42:47 AM] Shane Moore says: im not sure, what would you want to work on?
[10:42:59 AM] Mike Kotsch says: sound/ texture/ 3d
[10:43:08 AM] Mike Kotsch says: everything excepted coding
[10:43:37 AM] Mike Kotsch says: i can brew coffee -.-
[10:43:48 AM] Shane Moore says: okay, we still need some kind of menu music. And do you want to create a basic terrain/environment?
[10:44:05 AM] Mike Kotsch says: yeah, sounds good
[10:44:10 AM] Shane Moore says: maybe a basic circle course (im not sure how hard that will be though)
[10:44:33 AM] Mike Kotsch says: i'm starting...
[10:45:09 AM] Shane Moore says: okay, i have to go for a sec, i have to go to the classroom, ill be back on in like 10 mins
[10:46:37 AM] Mike Kotsch says: kk
[11:00:31 AM] Shane Moore says: okay im back
[11:14:24 AM] Shane Moore says: hows the model building going?
[11:15:16 AM] Mike Kotsch says: hey
[11:15:19 AM] Mike Kotsch says: i am trying...!
[11:15:23 AM] Mike Kotsch says: looks like this!
[11:15:30 AM] Mike Kotsch (see attached Image)
[11:16:26 AM] Shane Moore says: nice
[11:17:25 AM] Shane Moore says: looking good, is there anyone else over there from your group? ron said soemthing about someone created a cart model already?
[11:19:29 AM] Mike Kotsch says: doyou have a camera?
[11:19:34 AM] Shane Moore says: yeah
[11:19:42 AM] Mike Kotsch says: next time we might have a skype call!
[11:19:58 AM] Mike Kotsch says: prof lano isnt able to get a stable connection -.-!
[11:20:01 AM] Shane Moore says: our professor wants us to do that now...im not sure hwy[11:20:25 AM] Mike Kotsch says: we have to leave now
[11:20:30 AM] Mike Kotsch says: we have another lesson!
[11:20:35 AM] Mike Kotsch says: i am writing later!
[11:20:39 AM] Shane Moore says: okay
[11:20:40 AM] Mike Kotsch says: bye
[11:20:51 AM] Mike Kotsch says: the course is set until nex monday!
[11:21:02 AM] Shane Moore says: okay
[11:21:02 AM] Mike Kotsch says: i hope! :D
[11:21:58 AM] Shane Moore says: lol well best of icl
[11:21:59 AM] Shane Moore says: luck*