Chief Engineer's Report: 2008.12.09

        Here comes another yearly IDMR report!

Let's see, lot of progress on YOGEME since the last report, a handful of other projects have started or at least made the drawing board in that time as well. The TIE portion of YOGEME is effectively done, only minor things like the Formations Dialog and Backdrops aren't implemented, but that's going to wait until I've finished the other platforms. As of this writing the main interface for XvT is built and I'm in the middle of writing the procedure to load XvT mission files. I've set aside my other open projects after a break from YOGEME so I'm trying to get this update done rather quickly.

Work on the TF Control Ship has slowed even more, effectively halting progress. I moved the model out of 3D Studio and into Blender with minor data loss and corruption in the progress, as such any work I had on the bridge was lost, and the pieces had to be reassembled correctly again. I simply don't have enough time to do the large amount of programming I have on the to-do list as well as continuing significant progress on 3D models. Maybe it's something I can return to at a later time, but I don't expect to work on it much any time soon.

File format documentation has come a long way, and aside from fleshing out the documents a little more, mission files are complete as well as most of the TIE resource files. I have documentation for pilot files, but for security reasons they will not be posted on the holosite.

This should be rather lengthy, so let's get started...
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Releases:

-10/31 - LFD Image Reader - Displays images and animations from TIE95 .LFD Resource files
-8/18 - EaW Simulation Install Help Video
-12/15/07 - TIE Sound Extractor - Exports and imports WAV files for TIE9
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Updates:

-12/2 - TIE File Reader update, LFD Image Reader update
-10/31 - TIE File Reader update, no longer keeps file open
-8/15 - YOGEME 0.3 release, TIE effectively done
-8/8 - IDMR site redone to PHP
-7/14 - YOGEME brifeing interface added
-6/14 - MissionVerify update
-6/12 - Converter update
-6/10 - Converter update
-5/6 - YOGEME registry update
-5/4 - MissionVerify update
-4/3 - Converter updated with Rebel TIE player support
-3/9 - YOGEME battle interface update
-2/23 - Converter updated for better TIE-XvT/XWA trigger support
-2/10 - YOGEME update
-1/6 - YOGEME map interface update
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R&D:

(All) Utility - YOGEME, specifically XvT interface
(TIE) Utility - TIE Sound Extractor update
(TIE) Utility - Unnamed project, concourse and cutscene editor
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There, that should cover me for a while, now I can go back work instead of paperwork again ;-)

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