Hi William et al.,

Just to let you know that I have made some progress on
the game that I mailed the list about a few weeks
back. It's been a little slow as I have been out of
town.

I now have the PGN file reading working, so that I can
watch some of the matches posted on the Yahoo site.
There is still one bug to work out for this part.

I don't have the PGN file writing working just yet,
but that should be fairly easy since I now have the
structure of the valid game piece movements set up.

I have added some cameras to the game so that you can
see different views of the game boards just by
pressing the function keys. This means you don't have
to zoom/pan around the board with a single camera,
which ultimately means I can use higher poly (ie.
smoother looking) pieces without stressing the
computer.

You can see a couple more (grainy) screenshots here:

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~wilsonk/3dchess.gif
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~wilsonk/3dchess1.gif
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~wilsonk/3dchess2.gif

Sorry about the quality of the gif pictures, but I
don't want everyone to have to download 1M files ;)

I will keep you posted as to when I can release a beta
copy for testing.

Thanks,
K.Wilson

--- William D'Agostino <william_dagostino@...>
wrote:

> Hi K.Wilson,
>
> Thanks for building a 3D computer version of
> Millennium 3D Chess*, and I'll be happy to help beta
> test it with you. It looks like you're off to a
> good
> start!
>
> In reference to the "legal" stuff, I will be happy
> to
> grant you a free license to use the Millennium 3D
> Chess* rules and name provided that you offer your
> progam as "freeware" and include my copyright and
> trademark notice. I can help write the legal notice
> when you get nearer to your offical release.
>
> But, I'm excited to see your program, and I hope it
> will help others to play and enjoy the game...
>
> Please keep me posted with your process...
>
> Thanks,
> Will
>
> *Trademark
>
> P.S. Yes, Orion also has a "beta" version of a PGN
> program for reading Millennium 3D Chess* games...
> I'm
> looking forward to seeing the final release of
> Orion's
> program too.
>




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