I want to help

[Battlestar]

hey i\'m just new here but what you guys have going looks great, and i see from the \"help us\" page you are i need of a dev or two.

just letting you know here (since there\'s nowhere else) that i\'m interested in helping any way i can.

what i do have is a meagre knowledge in alot of things; web/graphic design, 3D modelling, Visual Basic, and some command-line C++. All of my knowledge is very basic, but i\'m sure with some motivation and even a hand up i can do my best at giving you guys a helping hand in whichever area you need it.

[Moogie]

Extra coders are always welcome, though we are currently shorter on artistic members. Read the Helpus section of the website to apply to a department. Once your email is read (it can take several months- Talad is a very busy man) you may be given a test-task with which to test your skills.

If you want to try your hand at the coding side of things you can begin contributing straight away. Grab the source from CVS and pick out some bugs from the Bugtracker to fix. If you send enough bugfix patches Talad will have no choice but to hire you.

[fken]

is there a place where people can learn what\'s the main variables or function of ps?

ie : the variable of the display in the system chat.

[lukus]

I can help with the graphic side, but i\'m still not used to GIMP yet, from being a photoshop user, plus my tablet isnt supported =( lol..

i was going to make a skin for the game and i guess i can do some item graphics too =)

[fken]

what\'s your graphical tablet\'s brand and model?

[lukus]

Originally posted by fken
what\'s your graphical tablet\'s brand and model?

genius wizardpen 4X3... i have the drivers, but it isn\'t making any make file so i cant install it so i given up on it for now, all the stuff i\'m downloading seam to be messing up on ./configure or make..

Might purchase myself a wacom, only thing is, it\'s not really any better than what i have... i mean if has a million different presure sensors, and your program only uses somthing like 18... lol ?400 over ?40 is a bit wasteful.

[Battlestar]

okies then, i will do that as soon as i can, taking months won\'t bother me too much lol, in my final year of school atm so i probably work at a similar rate. i would like soemthing like this to help my knowledge of C++, since i know very little and i\'ll need it for university next year.

[Battlestar]

i couldn\'t find the sources at sourceforge (where the link on the source page of the website takes you) so could someone please put a link in this thread for it? i don\'t even no what CVS is...

[Darkhack]

Planeshift isn\'t exactly a project for a beginner.  You should take some time to learn and really understand the concepts of C++ and learn to program smaller apps and work your way up.

You don\'t nessisarly need to be the \"uber leet\" programmer, but you should be able to complete some basic projects in C++ even if it is something simple thats been done a billion times because that goes a very long way.

If you do however believe that you have the required expierence then you can first begin by learning to compile and run planeshift.  Browse the config files and learn a little bit about how it works and browse the source files as well.

If you need help building PS, then you can join us at (irc.freenode.net 6667) #planeshift-build and we\'ll be happy to step you through the processe.  stfrn (bless his heart) spent several days with me until I was able to compile PS and get it running.  I would gladly pass that knowledge forword.

[Battlestar]

yea you\'re probably right, i\'ll have to take a bit of time to hone my C++ skills a little before trying anything too major. What IDE/compiler do you use?

[Darkhack]

Well, on Linux I use Anjuta as an IDE which uses gcc/g++ for the actual compiling and I use Dev-C++ on Windows.

Anjuta -- http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/

Dev-C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

[ramlambmoo]

Planeshift isn\'t exactly a project for a beginner. You should take some time to learn and really understand the concepts of C++ and learn to program smaller apps and work your way up.

You don\'t nessisarly need to be the \"uber leet\" programmer, but you should be able to complete some basic projects in C++ even if it is something simple thats been done a billion times because that goes a very long way.

If you do however believe that you have the required expierence then you can first begin by learning to compile and run planeshift. Browse the config files and learn a little bit about how it works and browse the source files as well.

If you need help building PS, then you can join us at (irc.freenode.net 6667) #planeshift-build and we\'ll be happy to step you through the processe. stfrn (bless his heart) spent several days with me until I was able to compile PS and get it running. I would gladly pass that knowledge forword.

Very true.  To even understand the project, IMO, you need quite a fair amount of c++ knowledge and experience, let alone to try some bug fixing.  Not saying that it\'s impossible, but I\'m not sure if it\'s the ideal project to start out with.  Also, as well as actually being able to understand the code, you need to understand compilers.  If you\'re using windows then you will need to become profecient with mingw, or VisualC if you have it.  If you use linux, well its probablly a little easier.  Thats all just from my experience.

[Battlestar]

well ok then, i suppose i\'ll leave C++ till university next year, in the meantime i\'l apply to be a background/setting dev, since i should be able to at least help out with that.