{"id":8,"date":"2014-04-25T12:49:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T12:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/?p=8"},"modified":"2022-03-31T19:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T19:26:24","slug":"accepted-to-gsoc-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/2014\/04\/25\/accepted-to-gsoc-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepted to GSoC 2014!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will be participating Google Summer of Code this year! My project will be about improving\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.residualvm.org\/\">ResidualVM<\/a>&#8216;s support for Escape from Monkey Island (EMI).<\/p>\n<p>My main goals will be to improve the animations, lighting and sound in ResidualVM&#8217;s implementation of the EMI engine. If all goes well, I also hope to be able to spend some time on improving compatibility with the PlayStation 2 version of EMI.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve contributed a number of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/residualvm\/residualvm\/commits?author=Akz-\">patches<\/a>\u00a0to ResidualVM previously, but the EMI part of the engine is mostly new for me. In order to familiarize myself with the engine, I chose to work on a couple of animation issues that I noticed while playing the game.<\/p>\n<p>My first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/residualvm\/residualvm\/pull\/846\">pull request<\/a>\u00a0for EMI implements some missing functionality related to starting and stopping animations, and fixes interpolation between animation frames. Due to the latter change, animations now appear much smoother than before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/03\/guybrush4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next step will be to implement animation blending. This will improve transitions between different animations.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to participate in GSoC is a unique opportunity, and I.&#8217;m very grateful for being accepted. This will be a really exciting summer for me. Now, let&#8217;s get started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be participating Google Summer of Code this year! My project will be about improving\u00a0ResidualVM&#8216;s support for Escape from Monkey Island (EMI). My main goals will be to improve the animations, lighting and sound in ResidualVM&#8217;s implementation of the EMI engine. If all goes well, I also hope to be able to spend some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scummvm.org\/akz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}