User:Jeko
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Software Wars - French Edition
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Planning
I quickly summarize here my availabilities and the work I plan to do.
| Week | Availability | Job |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | Quite busy | Answer e-mails -- specification/conception |
| 25 | Out of business | At Madrid |
| 26 | Less busy | Specify Simulator API |
| 27 | Full time | Choosing code base |
| 28 | " | Learning Mono/Ogre/Torcs |
| 29 | " | Build Torcs' graphics plugin for C#. Define the new WorldMap interface. |
| 30 | " | Begin OgreDotNet implementation of the graphic plugin C#, have something being displayed by OgreDotNet on SSG's main screen. |
| 31 | " | " |
| 32 | Quite busy | Moving to Lebanon. Keep up working on the rendering engine. |
| 33 | Full Time | Screenshots should start to be analyzable by vision, export them. |
| 34 | " | ??? |
| 35 | " | ??? |
| 36 | " | ??? |
| 37 | " | Dead-Line! |
Daily journal
The time I spent working on vision project.
Period 1
| Date | Time | Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| before | 4 hours | It is an approximation. I think it is honest, I hope that Keith feel that I am to. |
| 2008-jun-09 | 5 hours | Mails about scripting languages, about world simulator, writing planning, ... |
| 2008-jun-12 | 4 hours | Compile Torcs from CVS. Make it work (black screen problem). Start understanding the 3D engine and make improvements plans. |
| 2008-jun-13 | 2 hours | E-Mail. Understanding the 3D engine (car models and tracks). Make improvements plans. |
| 2008-jun-24 | 2 hours | Improvements plans, net-meeting with Keith about the world simulator framework. |
| 2008-jun-26 | 2 hours | Organize wiki. Answer a few questions. Installed and compiled mercurial's repository on my laptop. |
| TOTAL FOR JUNE | 19 hours | |
| 2008-jul-02 | 4 hours | Study OgreODE, Plans for the changes to an Ogre/ODE/Collada architecture., and share my point of view (e-mail meeting). |
| 2008-jul-03 | 2 hours | Install back Torcs / Mercurial after system upgrade. Fixing compilation problems. |
| 2008-jul-04 | 3 hours | Slimming torcs' data directory to 28 MB (te best that can be achieved without changing texture, sound and 3D models storage format. Birthday :-) |
| 2008-jul-05 | 3 hours | Trying hard to install OgreDotNet, I discovered it's a dead project supporting a very outdated version of Ogre... Trying alternatives. : Axiom, OsgDotNet, Irrlicht, Plib? |
| 2008-jul-07 | 7 hours | Ogre and OgreDotNet installed from sources.
Setting up my first Mono Develop Solution which links with OgreDotNet. Starting TorcsDotNet :
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| 2008-jul-10 | 4 hours | Learning Ogre3D |
| 2008-jul-12 | 4 hours | C# graphic plugin for Torcs. |
| 2008-jul-13 | 2 hours | C# wrapper for Torcs made a separate project from driving robot. |
| 2008-jul-15 | 2 hours | Torcs' C# graphic plugin added. |
| 2008-jul-16 | 3 hours | Torcs' C# graphic plugin : OgreDotNet initialized. |
| 2008-jul-18 | 3 hours | Torcs' C# graphic plugin :
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| 2008-jul-19 | 4 hours | Work on Torcs' C# interface and graphic plugin. |
| 2008-jul-21 | 2 hours | Cleaning up C# code. |
| 2008-jul-28 | 0 hours | Reinstalled everything. |
| 2008-jul-29 | 4 hours | C# plugins now displays something. I finally discovered (after hours of debugging) that custom window creation interferes with resources loading, which was the reason I got strange exceptions. |
| 2008-jul-31 | 2 hours | AC3D track file converted to Ogre Mesh, experimentally displayed with buggy textures. |
| TOTAL FOR JULY | 49 hours | |
| 2008-aug-01 | 2 hours | Fixed the texturing problems, switched texture format to JPG and PNG. |
| 2008-aug-10 | 4 hours | Fixed AC3D->Ogre conversion problems, work on the alpha channel problem. |
| 2008-aug-11 | 3 hours | Fixed double faced faces problem (have to be made by hand unfortunately), test of texture-based shadows. |
| 2008-aug-20 | 4 hours | Fixed alpha-channel textures, try to make shadows which work with this. |
| 2008-aug-21 | 4 hours | Solved texture shadow problem, initial work on car display. |
| 2008-aug-22 | 3 hours | Work on car display, fixed the aspect ratio bug, big commit to mercurial. |
| 2008-aug-23 | 4 hours | Continue with cars management (now called Avatars for generalization purposes). Switch to shader based materials. |
| 2008-aug-25 | 2 hours | Continue with cars management, discovered the Ogre picture is not dynamic (SSG steal it the OpenGL context after the 1st frame) |
| 2008-aug-26 | 3 hours | Investigate the Ogre + SSG OpenGL Context problem... No solution for the moment, posted questions on forums. |
| 2008-aug-27 | 6 hours | Solved the OpenGL Context problem. Fixed car position tracking correctly (there was a misalignment in C->C# data structures). |
| 2008-aug-31 | 2 hours | Work on the car orientation problem. |
| TOTAL FOR AUGUST | 37 hours | |
| 2008-sept-5 | 2 hours | Solved the car orientation problem. Camera can now track a car. |
| 2008-sept-8 | 4 hours | Fixed stencil shadow problem (by spliting the models), activate per-vertex ambiant coef, imported an high-quality skybox, start making some 3D models manifold. |
| 2008-sept-10 | 4 hours | Trying to add lightmaps to the track model. |
| TOTAL FOR SEPTEMBER | 10 hours | |
| 2008-oct-5 | 2 hours | Looking for OgreDotNet render-to-texture way of doing screenshots for multiple cameras. |
| 2008-oct-6 | 3 hours | Conception and start implementing the screenshot feature. |
| 2008-oct-8 | 5 hours | Code clean-up and refactoring, continue with the screenshot feature. |
| 2008-oct-9 | 3 hours | Manage the list of user defined cameras. [Keith paid for all hours (128) through now * 2] |
| TOTAL FOR OCTOBER (1) | 13 hours |
TOTAL FOR PERIOD : 128 hours
Period 2
| Date | Time | Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| 2008-oct-21 | 3 hours | Configure and generate Doxygen for Monographic. Continue the camera stuff and some code re-arangement. |
| 2008-nov-24 | 2 hours | Getting back to the code, end of refactoring. |
| 2008-dec-01 | 2 hours | Commit to mercurial, try to fix the hack who force the 406 to be loaded (can't be fixed until we're more advanced, since it require the whole drivers XML files to be parsed).
Render the user-requested cameras to files (for easy sharing point of views requested by the vision engine). |
| 2008-dec-02 | 4 hours | Solved a Monodevelop bug (I wasn't able to compile anymore...). Work on "TorcsDotNet", the Track is loaded using the C++ plugin from a C# application. |
| 2008-dec-04 | 4 hours | Work on "TorcsDotNet", the Ogre graphic module is initialized and displays the Track, start investigating the creation of a tSituation (found raceman.h / raceinit.cpp). |
| 2008-dec-08 | 3 hours | Work on "TorcsDotNet", wrapping the raceengine for creation of drivers and situation. |
| 2008-dec-09 | 2 hours | Wanted to know what robots exactly need to drive (C version and SharpyCS one). SharpyCS uses nothing different than C robots (ie torcs C interface).
Decision is to wrap the C robots so we'll have all drivers available. |
| 2008-dec-10 | 2 hours | Work to wrap raceinit's InitCars, which initialize olethros. It bugs... Trying to figure out why. |
| 2008-dec-13 | 2 hours | Compile Olethros within Monodevelop project. Wrapped GfParm to load torcs' parameters files from C# RaceEngine. |
| 2008-dec-15 | 3 hours | Olethros loaded and initialized. Now we go to another big part : initialize a race. |
| 2008-dec-16 | 4 hours | Better wrapping of a few core classes. Start loading the car structure (tCarElt).
Study of Torcs source code to understand all the informations available/needed for cars simulation and driving. |
| 2008-dec-17 | 3 hours | Including SimuV2 and SOLID-2.0 into TorcsDotNet. Fighting against a Monodevelop bug...
Trying to figure out how I can monitor my activity inside Monodevelop (for precise time management). |
| 2008-dec-18 | 4 hours | Starting to wrap in C# SimuV2
Fixed all C# <-> C++ structure alignment bugs using __attribute__((__packed__)) on C++ side and [StructLayout (LayoutKind.Sequential, Pack=1)] on C# side... It crashed.. Hardcore debugging.. Finally discovered a bug in Mono! Under some circonstances C# Packed structures are not duplicated correctly (miss a few bytes at the end). I need to reproduce it on a simple example to submit a bug report. Removed the dependency over PLIB by including in the project the very few functions used by Torcs core. |
| 2008-dec-19 | 1 hour | Reproduce the mono bug on a small example, filling bug report: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460608 |
TOTAL FOR PERIOD 2 : 39 hours
Goom
Low-priority task.
| Date | Time | Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| 2008-dec-01 | 1 hour | Install dependencies needed to compile Totem. |
| Total | 1 hour |
