glElite

While original plan was to create OpenGL version of Elite, current development is focused on making modular, generic opensource space-roleplaying framework. Teddy is project name for the graphics engine of the framework. glElite is project name for rest of the framework and the original game idea.

• While this page was not updated for a long time, there has been a lot of things happening behind the curtains. I have made progress as a game engine programmer in other projects, gaining some useful experience. I have almost discontinued the development of Teddy, and glElite will use Ogre instead in the future.
• glElite - or Teddy::SpaceGame (or whatever the name now should be when Teddy is no more) - has made progress in planning. I am especially happy about the physics and propulsion system solution, which is quite unique and will make the gameplay realistic and great game at the same time.
• If you would like to contact me, then please note that currently (beginning of 2005) my university account has been idle for a while and thus locked. Eventually I will open it again, but the recommended way to contact me anyway is to mail me at timo at futuremark.com.
• Indeed you should mail me to the above address if you think you could help me. I would need programmers to help me (C++ experience required, Ogre experience is a plus) as I have too little personal time to work on the project myself.
• This is older news, but I'll keep it here for a while until I have something else.. No new downloads yet, but a couple of screenshots. I am doing some research on atmosphere rendering - I want those to look as good as possible - and it looks promising. Nishitas algorithm can be further optimized and made to run realtime.
• Teddy is under heavy refactoring.
• I have received some additional information about Frontier: First Encounters internals, so I will be able to update FFE ship and universe information better in the next release.
• glElite release 1.3 has initial collision detection using Photons ColDet library.
• glElite and Teddy are now separate projects. so I can set up separate project for Teddy.
• I am investigating orbit calculations and other stuff. Nice pages about this: http://www.ottisoft.com/samplact/The%20Moon%20and%20L4.htm

• Latest Win32 demo executable. For source, get latest Teddy source archive (1.80 something) from http://teddy.sf.net.

• SDL
• SDL_image
• SDL_mixer
• libjpeg
• libpng
• libz