Community Roadmap

As a way to keep the Horde3D community on the same page in regards to the development of future features, this Community Roadmap will keep an up to date log of the undergoing activities.

Feature	Description	Assigned to	Completion	Release date
D3D Backend	Write a D3D9/D3D10 backend, in addition to the current OpenGL backend		Waiting for definition of gfx API Abstraction Layer.
Compressed Texture Support	Support for DDS, PowerVR, and other Texture formats.	swiftcoder	superseded by 1.0 Beta3
OpenGL ES2.x Backend	Write a OpenGL ES2.x backend, Horde3D port for mobile platforms		In Standby. Waiting for definition of gfx API Abstraction Layer.
Ambient Occlusion	Add ambient occlusion support for Horde3D
Alpha & Depth Test	Provide support for the different tests in the shader context configuration, present in Community SVN	AcidFaucet	100%	(EST.) September 22nd, 2008
Shader Context Linking	Enable Shader XML to link to contexts in other shaders, public draft available, currently experimenting with multiple implementations	AcidFaucet	75%	(EST.) September 26th, 2008
Terrain system improvements	Enable larger terrains that can be "paged" in blocks. Enable different sources of data than just textures (eg: procedurally generated data).	Reiko	25%	No estimate

Wishlist:

Feature	Description
Texture Improvements	Support for simple downloading of texture data, mipmaps for RTT render targets (for e.g. impostors)

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Upcoming Horde3D Version: 1.0	Upcoming Horde3D Editor version: 0.8
The current version is: v1.0.0 Beta3	The current version is: v0.8.0
For version 1.0.0 Beta2 of Horde3D the following features have been integrated: Support For Compressed Animations Occlusion Culling For Light Sources Statistics For Better Debugging CMake Files For More Compiler Support See also the changelog for more details. In the following weeks no new features will be implemented. Instead the development will be focused on bug fixes and further documentation.	The next version 0.8.0 will be based on Horde3D v.1.0.0 Beta2 and will bring a sample plugin for attachments.