what is Glest Advanced Engine?

[dannylee]

hi,
i am new here and i love glest, but what is Glest Advanced Engine (GAE)? Is it another game similar to glest? please can anyone tell me?
danny

[horusofoz]

Glest Advanced Engine is a fork of the main Glest game. As the name suggests GAE has a number of "Advanced" functions and features that are not yet included in the main Glest game. I am new to Glest myself but it is my understanding that it is the aim for these new features and functions to be incorporated into the main Glest in a future version, possibly Glest 4.

I have seen a number of new factions that are in development here in the GAE forum that will hopefully be included in the main game. In addition I think there are a number of other features that are sorely missing from the main app that are in GAE such as being able to Save and Load your game.

As I said I am new to Glest myself but I think GAE is a great vehicle for testing features for futures version of Glest. Hope this helps. For more information I would suggest checking with Hailstone who I believe is one of the project heads for GAE.

[hailstone]

Thanks horusofoz, that sums it up nicely. Also this is a good place for an overview. viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3454

[ZaggyDad]

Glest Advanced Engine is a fork of the main Glest game. As the name suggests GAE has a number of "Advanced" functions and features that are not yet included in the main Glest game. I am new to Glest myself but it is my understanding that it is the aim for these new features and functions to be incorporated into the main Glest in a future version, possibly Glest 4.

I have seen a number of new factions that are in development here in the GAE forum that will hopefully be included in the main game. In addition I think there are a number of other features that are sorely missing from the main app that are in GAE such as being able to Save and Load your game.

As I said I am new to Glest myself but I think GAE is a great vehicle for testing features for futures version of Glest. Hope this helps. For more information I would suggest checking with Hailstone who I believe is one of the project heads for GAE.

That pretty much sums it up, except I don't think the FPM mod should be in the main game, though it could come with the installer, anyway...

[horusofoz]

What is FPM?

[daniel.santos]

What is FPM?

Four Path Magitech.  It's a mod that's based upon GAE and it's the idea that basically started this whole thing.  wciow and I wanted to do some cool stuff in a mod that the engine didn't support so I started working on the engine and adding things to it.  FPM hasn't gotten much development time lately and is still in an alpha state, but it's making slow, yet gradual progress.

[horusofoz]

Just looking around I was wondering how coherent is the GAE organization? I noticed what must be a dozen mods and more factions but cant tell what is a part of the GAE and what are peoples spin-offs of GAE which is a spin off itself. I mean just if everyone is going in different directions how hard will it be to pull all these different efforts together for a single app?

[hailstone]

Really there are only two Glest programs in development that I know of: The original and GAE. Then there are modders who make factions, tilesets, maps, etc. Sometimes Martino makes changes to the original then Daniel merges them with GAE but usually they go into GAE. So people are just using different features of the same app.

[modman]

I other words, all mods right now are for the origanal engine, except Four Path Magitecch.

[verarticus]

I other words, all mods right now are for the origanal engine, except Four Path Magitecch.

not so. I think there is someone going to start work on an elf one for Gae but not 100% sure.

[gameboy]

yep, i'm making one, i have a lot of ideas, thats all i'm saying.

[modman]

Are you using an Ent?  Because I have a Treant in Dark Magic...Not saying you should change anything though.

[gameboy]

Why don't you check out the techtree yourself http://http://glest.org/glest_board/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3944&p=19499#p19499