Tasks currently in progress:

1. New animation system based on Kochanek-Bartels splined motion paths.
2. Polymesh primitive.
3. Moving guile code out of objects and into seperate files.
4. Loading classes dynamically via plug-in system.
5. Point and Object selection based on GL_SELECT buffer.

High(er) priority tasks (currently unaddressed):

1. Better file format. Possibly IFF based.
2. Revamp skeletal system.
3. Inverse kinematics for skeletal system.
4. Bicubic patch export code.
5. Better light and camera interfaces (Add area lights, and gui controls)
6. Add manipulator widgets like this.
7. Interactive Object Rotation (use arcball algorithm?)
8. Better group management. Grouping, ungrouping, and deleting from scene tree widget.
9. Reimplement spline support (At one time, Extreme Wave could read sPatch files).
10. More primitives!
11. More import/export capabilities (everything under the sun).
12. Start generating RPMs and DEBs.
13. Move development to CVS
14. Guile 1.4 Release - This would make RPMs and DEBs a lot easier.

Tasks that should be completed before 1.0 (Spring 2000?):

1. Subclass of Fl_ToggleTree that has a visibility switch like the Gimp's layer visibility switch.
2. Maya import/export.
3. Command line arguments / non-graphical batch mode a la the Gimp.
4. Support file includes, and be able to save changes back to the correct files.
5. More renderer options -- SART, bmrt, panorama, etc..
6. NURBS support (possibly hnurbs?)
7. a better texture / material / shader interface - it currently copies povray's material model, which I don't think is the best, and is certainly not raytracer independent..
8. Default scene / scene wizard (for lights, ground plane, sky, etc..)
9. GUI / Toolkit enhancements:
   • More / better theme and style support in Fltk (2.0)
   • A built in text editor to edit scripting language code and dynamically replace and execute it. Built in debugging tools and a robust crashproof system would make this impressive.
   • Subclass Fl_Input to be interactive like readline -- command completion, etc..
10. Profile Extreme Wave's performance and tune it.

Blue Sky (ideas with no time frame -- things that might be cool given infinite time or if someone else does it :-)

• CORBA -- Integration with other programs like the Gimp, emacs, etc could be very cool. If one of the CORBA ORBs will support guile and is cross platform enough to work on both Irix and Linux, I'd like to chunk the guile binding in favor of a CORBA binding that would interface to other languages.
• A 3d graph plotter -- raytaced bar graphs!? Perhaps some sort of plugin that utilizes gnuplot to build the graph and then converts it to an ewave file which can be rendered. Check out www.chartspro.com.
• A sort of calculator -- this would be easy to write in guile -- I think there are already some tutorials on doing it in Gtk. If it were a really *good* calculator like THX-1138, and supported plotting, then it could plot into a 3d object. oooh, aah. A simpler feature would be to add lots of vector operations so that any vector field could call up the calculator to edit it's value. Then if the user really wanted a vector to be the dot product of another vector it would be a simple task.