I think this is a smart move for two reasons: 1, we won't get burned out as easily meeting only once a week, and 2, meeting Saturday morning gives us a lot of time to work with compared to after school during the week. Also i personally find it easier to code not after a long day at school and work. It is somewhat hard to give up sleeping in Saturday morning but ultimately i think the gains will outweigh the negatives.
This Saturday I implemented a large portion of the functionality of the pods. There is now a base pod class that all ships can interact with by picking up, droping, and shooting. To begin with I added on test pod that makes the ships "laser_strength" variable grow and shrink accordingly. the firing animation if you can call it that is not exactly polished though and the pod sometimes jumps to a new location as it is fired from the ship.
The deeper we dive in to the 3d of xna the more we find that there is much we can use built into the framwork.
when researching how to generating bounding boxes for the collidable models we found that xna will make bounding sphere's for each seperate mesh of the model as well as for the model as a whole. So by having our artists break up their models into several meshes the bouding spheres will be generated for us. However it was hard for our artist to know how the bounding sphere's where going to look so i made a small windows forms program that incorporates xna and will draw the model loaded with the auto generated bounding spheres.
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