Mission statement

A mission statement for the project.

Arx Libertatis - To update and improve the Arx Fatalis source to bring it on par with modern implementations of similar games.

Basic Project Goals

• Update the Arx Fatalis source code to support modern systems
• Improve Portability of the game
• Provide ports and on-going support in source to modern versions of Windows, Linux and OS X
• Eliminate bugs or limitations of the original
• Improve basic functionality to bring the engine on-par with similar modern games
• Provide for further improvements and customizations to be made to the game by the community

Anticipated Milestones

First release:

• Core upgrades for compatibility with modern systems
• Direct support for Linux, Os X and Windows

Milestone 1:

• Hardware transform and lighting
• Modern shader support
• Debugging tools (profiling hooks for cpu & memory usage, debug hud, in game console, launch script)
• Game editor with a modern implementation (using Qt)

Milestone 2:

• General portability (potentially tablets and mobile devices)
• Improved graphic, audio and control support and configuration
• Texture processing (alpha smoothing, re-synthesis, interpolation)
• Modern user interface

Milestone 3:

• Hardware physics support, modern physics library
• Previously missing features and assets
• Audio processing effects such as reverb
• Improved formats support (3d models, textures, audio, etc)

Milestone 4:

• Support for community resources (3d models, textures, audio, scripts)
• Support for mods to currently static core features (spells, characters, physics, graphical effects)
• Support for completely new "story mods" with custom features, scripts and resources

Open questions

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Current project members and contributors

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