Matthew Daggermenace
Sea Legs
Greetings. While I am not used to working with these forums, please bear with me on this one.
While browsing around and doing a bit of research on TLOPO, I had found that its version of Panda3D (the game engine used to develop POTCO and by extension TLOPO with it being a private server of the former) was not clearly specified. I assumed then that, given the age of the game, it was clearly not the latest version of the engine (Version 1.9.4 as of several months ago), nor was the OpenGL API used for obvious reasons.
That being said, I would like to know three things in regard to the engine itself:
1. What version of the engine is being used by the game as of now, and whether it can be publicly displayed on the game's launcher with the Server and Launcher versions.
2. Whether this version can be updated to the most recent version of Panda3D, and if doing so is in the best interests of the dev team.
3. What version of OpenGL is implemented with the currently assumed to be quite old version of the engine, whether it can be publicly shown in the Display Options section of the launcher alongside the experimental DirectX 9 version which has yet to be fully implemented, and whether it can be upgraded if it is not currently using OpenGL 4.3 or more preferably 4.4, the last versions released before the original POTCO's shutdown.
With this I am posting a poll asking about these, and whether you would like to see the engine upgraded if possible. Also, feel free to share your thoughts on this matter in the comments and such.
Regards,
—Matt.
While browsing around and doing a bit of research on TLOPO, I had found that its version of Panda3D (the game engine used to develop POTCO and by extension TLOPO with it being a private server of the former) was not clearly specified. I assumed then that, given the age of the game, it was clearly not the latest version of the engine (Version 1.9.4 as of several months ago), nor was the OpenGL API used for obvious reasons.
That being said, I would like to know three things in regard to the engine itself:
1. What version of the engine is being used by the game as of now, and whether it can be publicly displayed on the game's launcher with the Server and Launcher versions.
2. Whether this version can be updated to the most recent version of Panda3D, and if doing so is in the best interests of the dev team.
3. What version of OpenGL is implemented with the currently assumed to be quite old version of the engine, whether it can be publicly shown in the Display Options section of the launcher alongside the experimental DirectX 9 version which has yet to be fully implemented, and whether it can be upgraded if it is not currently using OpenGL 4.3 or more preferably 4.4, the last versions released before the original POTCO's shutdown.
With this I am posting a poll asking about these, and whether you would like to see the engine upgraded if possible. Also, feel free to share your thoughts on this matter in the comments and such.
Regards,
—Matt.