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Project Follow Up

Last Update: 2019-08-19

The SRR Framework is developed in steps.

The original project SrrTrains v0.01 established the goal to release version v0.01 with the Step 0100 (probably in year > 2012).

This goal has not been abandoned, however, the project was hibernating for a long time and we are now expecting step 0100 for earliest beyond 2021.

Currently the project is closed and waiting for 3^rd party interest.

Some cross-cutting concerns

• X3D Player Support

• Authoring Support

• Documentation

are followed up independently from the "steps".

X3D Player Support

Please refer to the Current Interworking Matrix.

Authoring Support

Python Scripts for Blender are envisioned but not yet planned.

Documentation

The file tree contains two directories

• concepts/ and

• testcases/

that hold some .txt files with additional information and are kept up to date continuously.

Steps 0001 - 0032 (historic)

Step 0033 "Re-Design after 1st LAN Party" (CLOSED)

Rework the SRR Framework from step 0032 completely (discuss concepts within the community), adopt console interface for basic vehicle cab

Step 0033.01 – "Initiate Project X" (done)

• save old SRR Framework and old Demo Layout (step 0032bf3) -- DONE

• delete all files of SRR Framework and Demo Layout, start rework -- DONE

• rework SrrControl.x3d, SrrControlNs.x3d, SrrTracer.x3d -- DONE

• “classic” demo layout without SRR objects (comment them out) -- DONE

• new main file (loads "ldf.x3d" – layout description file) -- DONE

• avatar container revival -- DONE

• describe test cases -- DONE

• publish step 0033.01 -- DONE

• create "official" open source project on the sourceforge -- DONE

Step 0033.02 – "Module Coordinator" (done)

• role selection -- DONE

• registration of static modules -- DONE

• publish step 0033.02 -- DONE

Step 0033.03 – "Dynamic Modules" (done)

• singleplayer instant -- DONE

• avatar container for modules -- DONE

• module activation/deactivation -- DONE

• dynamic modules -- DONE

• publish step 0033.03 -- DONE

Step 0033.04 – "Basic SRR Objects for Static/Intrinsic Models" (done)

• SrrObjectBase -- DONE

• Trigger -- later -- DONE

• Key Container -- DONE

• Carried Keys Lock -- DONE

• Contained Keys Lock -- later -- DONE

• Binary Switch -- DONE

• Carousel Drive -- DONE

• Console Interface -- DONE

• Beamer -- DONE

• 2nd LAN Party -- DONE

• publish step 0033.04 – DONE -> "first official pre-alpha" 0033.04bf14

Step 0033.05 - "Modularity and Train Manager Module" (done)

• multiplayer open source -- later

• review SrrObjectBase -- DONE

• Online Test Session No.1 (OTS1) -- DONE

• outsource "Keys" and "Beamers" to own extension modules -- DONE

• module hierarchy -- later

• Basic Tracks and Turnouts (no crossings, no Wye-turnouts) -- DONE

• publish step 0033.05 -- DONE

Step 0033.06 – "Preps for Rail Vehicles and Trains" (done)

• Registration of Vehicle Types -- DONE

• Setup Points basically -- DONE

• publish step 0033.06 -- DONE -> "second official pre-alpha" 0033.06bf6

Step 0033.07 – "Web Spaces" (done)

• testing: Monolithic Layout on Webspace -- DONE

• publish step 0033.07 -- DONE -> "third official pre-alpha" 0033.07bf4

Step 0033.08 – "Rebase to SMUOS" (done)

• testing: Support Octaga Player again -- later

• asynchronous controllers of Extension Modules -- later

• replace base module by Smuos -- DONE

• update models for model prototypes -- DONE

• instrument station house – DONE

• publish step 0033.08 – DONE -> "fourth official pre-alpha" 0033.08bf1

Step 0033.09 – "Preps for Rail Vehicles and Trains II" (done)

• console improvements -- done

• rename setup points -> replicators -- done

• MIDAS Object: Replicator -- done -> "fifth official pre-alpha" 0033.09bf2

• Windmill Report -- done

• publish step 0033.09 -- done

• Consummatum est / start hibernation -- done -> "inofficial pre-alpha" 0033.09bf4

Step 0033.10 "Pieta" (done)

• ArrT web update -- done

• rebase to Core Prototypes -- done

• documentation update (concepts' descriptions) -- done

• publish step 0033.10 -- done

• Quality improvements – done

• publish step 0033.10bf2 "Pieta" – done -> "inofficial pre-alpha" 0033.10bf2

• Key Container improvements – done

• Leaving Hibernation Mode – done

• Closing the project – done

• publish step 0033.10bf3 "Pieta" – done -> "inofficial pre-alpha" 0033.10bf3

Step 0033.11 „Rail Vehicles and Trains“ (CLOSED)

• creating an unbound model – closed

  • The Regway – standalone mode – done

  • The Regway – bound model – done

  • The Regway – single player experimental – done

  • The Regway – closed

• experimental vehicles

• "Handover and Bumpers"

  • derailment = explosion (unfinished track, gauge check)

  • Adapt SRR Objects for bumper handling of trains

  • Adapt SRR Objects for usage in HO track, HO handling

  • SRR Object for crossing (still no collision handling on crossing)

  • SRR Object for 3-way switch

  • SRR Object for Moving Modules

  • models of Y/3way-turnouts, bumpers, crossings, turntables, handover-tracks

  • test: Tracks and Turnouts on dynamic modules

  • model of a wagon carrying a wagon, Narrow Gauge Regway

• Update the Concepts' Descriptions

• publish step 0033.11 "Arimathea"

Step 0033.12 „To Be Defined“

• basic vehicles (incl. MIDAS Objects)

• SRR Framework improvements

• further models of houses

• publish step 0033.12 "Sabbath"

Step 0100 - „SrrTrains v0.01“ (beyond 2020)

• process steps to be defined

Pending Features, Change Requests, Ideas and User Stories

"Finish New Concept Paper" / "Improve Input for SPARK Project"

Convenience Feature "Fiat-A"

• Single User VR

• Single User Desktop

• Single User Desktop NG

• Single User VR NG

• Multiuser

• Mixed Reality

"LAN Party #3"

"Coupling and Collisions"

• derailment on points, bursting open the points

• coupling, rear end collision, head-on collision

• slanting collision on turnouts and crossings

• decoupling track

"Basic Interlocking (1900's)"

"Banks'n Cuts"

"Body Language"

"Cars'n Pedestrians"

"Synthetic Voice"

"Application of X3D Earth"