[Savannah-register-public] [task #4772] Submission of NAUSEA

[Luca Saiu]

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                 Summary: Submission of NAUSEA
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: positrone
            Submitted on: Thu 10/13/05 at 20:09
         Should Start On: Thu 10/13/05 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Sun 10/23/05 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
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                 Privacy: Public
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Full Name:
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  NAUSEA

System Group Name:
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  nausea

Type:
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  non-GNU software &amp; documentation

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  Introduction
============
NAUSEA is a programmable distributed 3D world simulator engine.

The most important feature of NAUSEA is its programmability: every aspect of
the world *behaviour* implemented in the server can be programmed by the
user
(the "world superuser") in Scheme, using an event-based model.

The world status is kept in a central server communicating with (possibly)
multiple clients over TCP/IP sockets.

Clients can be either interactive or non-interactive: interactive clients
forward user commands to the server and provide graphic interface.
Non-interactive clients are used to implement artificial intelligence in
non-player characters.
Interactive clients also provide a quite elaborate 2D interface, and support
for music and sound.

A powerful editor with graphic interface allows to edit both the world data,
including object placement, and the world metadata, cosisting in the
*behavior*
of objects.

Some relatively simple utilities to manage archives and models are also
provided.

The system is thought as a very high-level framework to build elaborate
games
or simulations.

Implementation
==============
The code is heavily object-oriented, and quite clean.

The Scheme engine is Guile. We interface with it from C++ using a relatively
simple higher-level wrapper, which in particular makes easy to define smobs.

Interactive clients have an interface built on SDL (plus SDL_image and
SDL_mixer) and OpenGL. The editor uses Qt and OpenGL.

The C++ code is quite heavily optimized, even if some opportunities for more
speed remain to be exploited.

Portability
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The code is very portable, independent from either processor word length
and byte ordering. NAUSEA is written to run on GNU systems, currently
GNU/Linux, and in the future (we hope) GNU/Hurd. NAUSEA should be very
easy to port to other systems, but we don't consider them prioritary.

Status
======

NAUSEA is still in flux at the time of this writing (2005-10-13), but mostly
usable. The code consists of about 40,000 (non-empty, not automatically
generated) lines, the vast majority of which is C++. The rest is Scheme.

The editor interface is being heavily reworked, some optimizations are
needed
and there is need for documentation, especially about the Scheme interface.
Non-interactive clients don't actually exist yet.

A temporary page holding a NAUSEA snapshot and an example world is
http://www.di.unipi.it/~saiu/nausea


Other Software Required:
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  Well, maybe the only not-so-common item is glpng:
- GNU Guile >=1.6, GNU MP, GNU Readline (Readline is optional)
- GNU Texinfo, a TeX distribution (TeX is optional)
- An OpenGL implementation, glpng
- SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer
- Qt 3.3.x
- GNU Bison, flex
- GCC, GNU binutils, GNU Make

Other Comments:
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  I, Luca Saiu, am co-author of the project.
The other co-author is Dario Russo, who has an account on Savannah with login
name "darior".








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