Friday 2010-04-09 Discussion Thread

[philip.ed]

I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Will it affect time scale?

[Richie]

Pretty sure that is from the 10 min short film called "The German" I put questions up on simhq about it. I'm Hackl in there.



http://www.thegermanmovie.com/

[AndyJWest]

...we are rebuilding version

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Will it affect time scale?

Almost certainly just a normal part of the development process. Most likely, they try to create a 'stable' compile of the software every so often, and then updates to separate parts are tested with this. Every so often, they need to incorporate the changes into a new compile - the 'rebuild' that Oleg refers to. If you try to continually incorporate all changes into your development compile, you can end up with hard-to-track-down conflicts, problems with testing, and much else.

Of course, he could mean he's starting again from scratch.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

Almost certainly just a normal part of the development process. Most likely, they try to create a 'stable' compile of the software every so often, and then updates to separate parts are tested with this. Every so often, they need to incorporate the changes into a new compile - the 'rebuild' that Oleg refers to. If you try to continually incorporate all changes into your development compile, you can end up with hard-to-track-down conflicts, problems with testing, and much else.

Correct

[philip.ed]

So Oleg, does this mean that the pictures and videos that we were shown before are now redundant?

[choctaw111]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

So Oleg, does this mean that the pictures and videos that we were shown before are now redundant?

I guess it would be as redundant as a "work in progress", as we have been told EVERY update. Things change throughout the development process.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by choctaw111

I guess it would be as redundant as a "work in progress", as we have been told EVERY update. Things change throughout the development process.

So true I'd be interested though to see comparison shots of any details that have been signifcantly changed

[AndyJWest]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

So Oleg, does this mean that the pictures and videos that we were shown before are now redundant?

I hope not! As Oleg said, it is normal to do this while developing software: actually, for a big project like SoW:BoB, trying to do it any other way would be madness. I'd imagine that as you get nearer the end of the development cycle, such rebuilds tend to become more complex because (a) you are dealing with more code and data, and (b) you have to be more fussy about sorting out minor bugs that you could work around in earlier development stages.

Remember too that a lot of changes may have no effect on graphics, though since we've been seeing WIP, hopefully visual changes will be improvements.

[Stranzki]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Will it affect time scale?

Putting together new versions of a software internally is a pretty normal process and very important. On this way you can assure that every part of the application is working and more important is working together as a unit.
The other way round would be the "big bang integration". Wait to the very end, put everything together and see what happens - most time nothing works at all and the project is delayed by months, years or is aborted

[philip.ed]

Great news, thanks chaps