nu

The NU project.

Two Applications:
    - The Editor
    - The Player

Command Line Tool:
    - The Convertor - Builds assets continuously - should be able to parallelize with IncrediBuild, ElectricFence, ccache/distcc, SN-DBS, etc.

Editor:
  - Have to decide - Qt, wxWidgets, CAPI, Native OpenGL or mixed
  - Should be able to edit more than one projects
  - Import various file formats:
    - TGA, PNG, GIF, JPG, TIFF - for images / materials
    - OBJ, 3DS, etc - for 3d models
    - WAV, MP3, AIFF - for sounds
    - What about animations?
    - Should there be internal format for the data? Should we leave PNG as PNG?
    - For certain platforms (iPhone, Android, iPad) it makes sense textures to be preprocessed.
    - Also it makes sense to LOD 3d models.

File formats:
  - Package format: 
    - .NUPKG
    - Based on ZIP, SQLite, RAR, etc.
    - Do we need quick update in it?
    - Do we need contiguous data?
    - Do we need garbage collecting for old data?
  - Loose files:
    - .NUMDL
    - .NUANM
    - .NUIMG
    - .NUSND
  - Data encoding:
    - JSON?
    - Sexp?
    - ASN.1
    - Google Buffers?
    - Others?
  - Streaming data:
    - Over the internet
    - Over the HDD
    - Over the BluRay/DVD
  - Caching