This article is currently only a proposal

The features or design guidelines described in this article are only a proposal made by one or some persons. It has not been evaluated or accepted by the core development team yet. Feel free to add your personal opinion about them or make counter proposals.

❝ This article is currently under construction.❞

This page is to include the plan of TMW development part of of wiki. We can imagine a part of this page (or the whole) is transcluded to main page.

See also: Wiki Guidelines

Development General information

You want to help or join the development team but don't know where to start? Well look at these pages to know on what you would like to focus on first. You might also want to talk with other devs on IRC. irc.libera.chat and the Developers' channel is #themanaworld-dev.

• Joining the project,communication, team working, developers and contributors, GHP.
• Reporting Bugs
• Help with testing

How to Develop

Overview of various ways to contribute, directs to more specific pages such as personal server and git

• • Hack your Client
  • How does it work? what Server does, what client does, file hierarchy, (may duplicate with further object description)
  • Personal server setup is required for scripting and mapping.
  • Keep you files up to date: github quick intro (?), Github hierarchy

Who's Who

• • Projects and Teams
  • Lists of developers and contributors.

Tools

Team Working Tools

• TMW IRC
• FAQ IRC
• TMW Forums
• Git , GitHub, Gitorious, how to use?
  • Git repository
  • Working With Git (Kandiman)

Individual Tools

Describes and categorizes tools, directs to specific pages such as Tiled

• Tiled
• Sharing tools and sites: dropbox and alike, Deviant art, Image sharing, pastebin...
• Various Suggested tools and where to get them (IDEs, graphic, music software..).

Game Content

• Story and Game Concepts
• TMW Eathena objects and their relations

Graphic Development

Items, NPCs, Mobs: Icons and sprites

• Graphic Development Guidelines
• Graphics: Art in Development - Animations - Particle engine - Image dyeing

Mapping:

• Mapping Tutorial
• Tiles and Tilesets: Tileset development
• Mapping: - Map development - Mapping Tutorial

Scripting

• Quick Tutorial
• TMW-eAthena Script Reference:
  • eAthena Scripting Standards se also TmwAthena Scripting Standards by Kandiman (one of them will have to be removed)*
  • EAthena Scripting Basics*
  • EAthena functions Reference (Actually EAthena Scripting Reference)
  • Special Topic: Mob design
  • Special Topic: Skills
• EAthena Script Sample Code*
  • Commented Examples (tutorial tool)
  • Code Snippets (development tool)

Sound and music

• Sound Guidelines
• Sound effects
• Music

Other

• web site
• wiki
• Translations
• Game systems

Client and Server Development

• Client (s) ?
• Servers: EAthena Manaserv.... ?
• EA Related: Dependencies- Ports
• Manaserv related: (?)
• Miscellanous: Source code documentation (Doxygen)
• RFCs: Rendering - Action layers - Collision system - Movement system - Logging
• Reference: Server development - Realtime combat - Monster Database - Weapons
• Releases: Making a new release - How to release an update

COMMENTS

while this page has not been accepted, use this place to place your remarks and edits. (please sign) --Nard 04:22, 11 April 2013 (EDT)

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