Re: [CsMain] Website's first page

Even more important then a good writeup is a page that -looks- good, the
number of people that really are going to read all that is small (however a
clear writeup is important) A nice design is more important then anything
else really, some people will use the engine because it looks like its a
good engine, not that it may be the best for them.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Eric Sunshine <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 2/8/2010 7:01 PM, Christian Van Brussel wrote:
> > "Crystal Space is a very mature and complete software development kit for
> > real-time 3D graphics and high-level applications like games and virtual
> > reality. It is free (LGPL) and cross-platform (Windows, GNU/Linux, OSX).
>
> Rephrase: Crystal Space is a mature, full-featured software development
> kit (SDK) providing real-time 3D graphics for applications such as games
> and virtual reality. It is free (LGPL) and cross-platform (Windows,
> GNU/Linux, Mac OS X).
>
> > Crystal Space is actually split in two main sub-projects:
>
> Rephrase: The project encompasses two main components:
>
> > - Crystal Space: component-based rendering engine on top of OpenGL, with
> > many features such as advanced shaders and lighting systems, physics, 3D
> > sounds, animation blending trees, terrains, XML loading, virtual file
> > system, handling of physical peripherals, and many many other things.
>
> Rephrase: A modular, configurable, and extensible rendering engine
> supporting OpenGL and advanced features such as shaders and lighting
> systems, physics, 3D sounds, animation blending, foliage, terrain,
> virtual file system, physical peripherals, and more.
>
> > - CEL: entity system providing support for higher-level functionalities
> > like runtime package environment (CELStart), generic event system, avatar
> > and camera management, artificial intelligence (path finding, steering
> > behaviors, neural networks and genetic algorithms), cars and hovercrafts,
> > networking (experimental), etc.
>
> Rephrase: Entity system supporting higher-level functionality, such as
> runtime package environment (CELStart), generic event system, avatar and
> camera management, artificial intelligence (path finding, steering
> behaviors, neural networks and genetic algorithms), vehicles, and more.
>
> > Crystal Space is also closely linked to other projects like Planeshift,
> > blender2crystal, CrystalArchitect, YoFrankie and CrystalCore."
>
> Rephrase: Related projects: YoFrankie, PlaneShift, Blender
> (blender2crystal), CrystalArchitect.
>
> (I omitted CrystalCore because it appears to be mostly dead.)
>
> -- ES
>
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