Difference between revisions of "Developer Center"

This page is intended to be the center of the developer community, i.e. people working with direct Mercurial access. The final code documentation should be written by doxygen into Mercurial in docsrc/ directory, but intermediate doc are welcomed here to be worked on.

Resources for developers

See on glob2wiki main page

Coding info

• Proposals for some actively supported issues
• Bounty projects - a list of things people will pay to have implemented.
• General Gameplay Guidelines - what the game must keep to
• The hierarchy of files in glob2's sources. Refer to Mercurial HEAD.
• GUI Theming
• Programming conventions used by source code. Please follow them if you want to contribute to source code. You can comment them in ther discussion page.
• View the way code should be documented
• Things to read if you want to enter into glob2's source code.
• Mistake often seen in C++. Please read this and check your code if you are new to C++.
• Campaign Creation Information on adding campaigns into the code
• BuildingSourceInts
• Race Customization
• Making An AI With Echo. Read this if you want to make an AI for Glob2.
• How to contribute without having access to VCS

Algorithm Descriptions

• Resource growing description
• High level gradient usage description
• High level terrain description

Of course, Resources for contributors, savannah as well as IRC are also very usefull for developers.

Work in Progress

These sections are still being worked on. While you're welcome to comment on them, you shouldn't spend all day nitpicking on them, as they might be changed completely or removed before you're finished.

• AINicowar
• Universe Background
• USL interface

Request for comments

These files have been written up fully, but need to be peer-reviewed. Please read through these pages, edit and comment on them.

• nothing for now