[MatthTheGeek]

I guess directx is a good part of why it's not cross-platform, amirite.

[The E]

Correct.

[Polpolion]

oooooohhh real C++!

[braddw25]

Thanks for the guide, E, I got it up and running. Now I just need to buy an idiots guide to microsoft C++. LOL

[The E]

This tutorial is a pretty good start.

[MatthTheGeek]

So I suppose this code is proper, object-oriented C++ instead of FS2's C-based spaghetti code ?

[The E]

Yes. The project itself is a bit disorganized (A part of the code resides in nGenEx, the other in Stars45), but the code is full-on object-oriented C++ from top to bottom.

I'll post a little guided-tour-like text to explain what each project does shortly.

[The E]

While working on some of the reported issues, I have stumbled upon the sourcecode for the modfile utility. However, in order to test it, I need to take a look at the modfile.bat script mentioned in the bug report. Can someone post it here?

[pecenipicek]

whats with the OPCODE library i found in the source tree? its used for collision detection in the game or?

[The E]

Yes. OPCODE is a dedicated collision detection library.

[rscaper1070]

While working on some of the reported issues, I have stumbled upon the sourcecode for the modfile utility. However, in order to test it, I need to take a look at the modfile.bat script mentioned in the bug report. Can someone post it here?

Here's a copy of wdboyd's My Mod Example that contains the createmod.bat.

[Echelon9]

What licence has the source code and graphics assets been released under?

Comment at the top of each source code file is still a copyright in favour of John DiCamillo, i.e. not freely open source.

[Thaeris]

John DiCamillo, aka Milo, is the game's author, who thus released the source and the game into the open.

(Unless I am somehow mistaken)

[The E]

Yes, but he did not change the license agreement. I will try to contact him to see if I can arrange for BSD licensing for the code and CC-BY-NC for the data files.

On that note, does anyone have a valid email address for him?

[braddw25]

Do you have contact info for him? If not I can try to dig into the snapshots available of ssmods to see if I can find milo's email address. I was able to find a few addresses from site members via that method.

[The E]

My net searches have so far been unsuccessful (As I am on my Smartphone right now); the only address I was able to find was an address at Starshatter.com, which I suspect is no longer valid.

[braddw25]

I'll try to dig into the archived SSmods snapshots to see if I can find something out.

[Echelon9]

Yes, but he did not change the license agreement. I will try to contact him to see if I can arrange for BSD licensing for the code and CC-BY-NC for the data files.

That would be a pretty good outcome, to clarify the position. Obviously the author has to be the one to agree, but those proposed licenses would work.

[The E]

I have uploaded a new Starshatter build to the google code page: http://code.google.com/p/starshatter-open/downloads/detail?name=Starshatter%205.1.66.7z&can=2&q=

Please check it out.

[BlasterNT]

Um.  Question about Starshatter itself.  Is there any way to reload or repair capital ships?  It seems like they're pretty useless after you've run out of missiles.