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Milestones and TODO

Given in order of top priority to least

Reverse-Engineering Phase

• Reasonable nVIDIA support for <4 years old
• Load all official valid* TV/Fury3 BINs
• Player starts at correct start point and orientation
• Map window
• Player HUD/Status/Crosshairs
• Proper orientation of world objects
• Correct player movement and controls
• All objects have approximately correct AI
• Projectiles
• Collision detection with objects
• Collision detection with ground
• Collision detection with tunnel
• Tunnels properly work, separate tunnel/terrain modes
• Lightweight tunnels/portals for improved performance
• Terrain looping
• Terrain mirroring mode
• Sound
• SFX
• .MOD music
• Gamepad support
• Mission objectives
• Multiple view support
• Level playable start to finish
• Levels load / clear GPU cleanly between levels
• Save games (java bean format)
• Welcome screen and music like in Fury3
• Player setup dialogs
• Shadows
• Game playable start to finish
• Game is proof for file parsers

Milestone: Game is playable

• GL ES 2 Support
• Raspberry Pi
• Formalize debug/log system
• GUI for loading PODs
• Save default pods to settings file
• Loading screen
• Briefing screens
• Cutscenes
• Backface removal in models
• Improve loading time
• Light sources

Milestone: Game is on-par to original

• Auto-search for PODs
• Lazy Loading
• Lazy terrain setup
• Lazy release
• Integrate remakes from lllACRYONlll and Scott B
• Integrate new SFX from lllACRYONlll
• Algorithmic texture improvement
• Volumetric clouds / Fog
• Transparency-block parallax mapping, especially on terrain edges
• Water gloss and animation
• Sound rendering engine
• Extension system
• Model Override * BIN * 3ds?
• Music/SFX Override
• Hack features
• Override/Swap models Fury3-TV-MTMx-Hellbender
• Physics modification
• Aperture blur / Motion blur(?)]

Speculative

• Spinoff standalone engine
• Make available for use by MTMx project?
• Hellbender support
• Surround support

* there may be some incomplete "lost" files and levels in the official game which could hypothetically be run but it is low-priority.