[NEWS] Ogre News #8

[OgreNewsBot]

Here the list of new things that happened throughout the last two weeks:

• First impression from NonLife, a multiplayer world building game, were published
• Unity builds are now possible for Ogre
• The simple scene editor Glue Editor Lite 1.0 was released
• Great new wiki article about deploying applications on different platforms
• Neat, little project Tower of Hanoi made with Ogre and Cocoa was published
• Alienmotion, a new animation middleware inspired by tecnofreak, was released as a beta version
• Google Summer of Code 2011 projects for Ogre were announced
• Ogre finally has an official console lead since Jim Buck joined the team
• A new high profile game made with Ogre named Garshasp was released on Steam and GamersGate
• New maintenance release of Ogre alias Ogre 1.7.3 ['Cthugha'] has just been uploaded yesterday

[JDX_John]

Unity builds are now possible for Ogre

Can someone explain what this means please? Unity the Linux windowing system or some other meaning... 'Unity' is quite widely used

[CABAListic]

http://buffered.io/2007/12/10/the-magic ... ty-builds/

[JDX_John]

Interesting, thanks. This really only speeds up linking though surely - compiling C++ code maxes out my cores (all of them with a multi-thread compile) but linking drops CPU to virtually zero.

I wonder how useful UB is on a SSD-based system?

[CABAListic]

No, it speeds up compilation. Linking doesn't change much.
That your cores are maxed out doesn't mean you can't speed it up If the cores are used for the wrong tasks...
Just try it. Speed-up is usually around 50-60%.

[betajaen]

I use Unity build on NxOgre.

Before it took around a minute to compile NxOgre, now it takes about 3-5 seconds. It's a neat little hack that makes a world of a difference, IMHO.

[JDX_John]

Hmm, weird. If a file takes 1s to compile (a fair average) it's hard to see the file-access time is significant. But if it works, great I still want a SSD though!

[CABAListic]

The problem is more that header files keep getting read and parsed again when they are included in 100 compile units as opposed to just a few.

[JDX_John]

Ah, obvious.

[jacmoe]

Dear News Bot:
You spelled Garshasp wrong!

It's 'Garshasp' not 'Garshaps'.

Thank you.

[betajaen]

Whoops, I'll reboot OgreNewsBot next time I see him.

[spacegaier]

Whoops, I'll reboot OgreNewsBot next time I see him.

Seems as if I met him before you, since it fixed it.

[betajaen]

Time traveling again?