Mission statement

A mission statement for the project.

Arx Libertatis - To update and improve Arx Fatalis to bring it up to 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 for modern systems
• 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

Project Milestones

Achieved Milestones

Version 1.0: "Bloody Gobblers!"

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

Version 1.1: "Rhaa Movis"

• Continued bug fixes

Anticipated Milestones

The following are anticipated features but not yet fixed or fully decided upon.

Milestone 2: "?" idea: make it fast

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

Milestone 3: "?" idea: make it shiny

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

Milestone 4: "?" idea: extend it

• 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 5: "?" idea: make it reusable

• 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

• Replacement for scripting system
• Patching system for asset collections

While answering these and creating milestone wiki pages we're sure to come up with more.