You should register on assembla.com/ and give me your login you use there. Then I’ll add you to our space and send you all necessary information.
Yes, hero placeholders are not yet reversed (IIRC this is the last unreversed part of h3m format). And you are supposed to reverse it if you want to fix this issue.
Hi there.
I’m into Heroes of M&M series since I don’t remember 
I would like to help and do some serious testing in VCMI Project.
Well, I’ve got some experience in testing processes - it should help a bit.
Is there any bug tracking system here?
I did quick forum view and found some threads with mass bug reports.
It’s very hard to get through it for newcomers like me
I will appreciate if someone will contact me to discuss more details (in case You will need my help).
Hi & welcome to the forum. I’m just one of the testers, not a dev, but until one of them passes by, I can confirm that help is always needed, especially from gamers who like testing.
This is where you can find the download link to the latest release. As explained there, after downloading the archive you only need to extract the files into your Heroes folder (where WoG 3.58f should be already installed). This does not mean VCMI will interfere with H3 or WoG versions of the game, so no worries there.
And this is where you can report the bugs you encounter.
Of course, there is also a Polish version of the forum, so you can report bugs there as well if you prefer (though I won’t deny I could use another fellow tester here in the English section). 
Cheers and hope you’ll like what the devs have done so far to stick around!
I’ve installed vcmi client for 2 weaks (smoke tests passed) unfortunately I’m using polish language pack right now.
I want migrate to english version. Is there any way to do this without new installation?
Nice to see that a new tester is going to help us. Zamolxis wrote what you should do to run VCMI on your computer and where you can report encountered bugs.
You can download english files form Acid dragon’s site: wog.acidcave.net/download.php (English WoG 3.58f files). Just install them like any other WoG modification.
Development of VCMI slowed down lastly because of our duties at the unversity but we have made some progress since last release. I hope new development version will be released soon. Good news is that we have a new developer that is writing battle AI. It’ll certainly make VCMI testing more interesting.
I’m agree with ABlackHorse that we need a bug tracking system. Maybe current solution is good but would be nice if we could focus only on errors and their states (open, in progres, closed etc). It would be helpful for developers and testers. Of course, I’m aware that this needs some work.
You mean for us? Or for the devs?
I worked as beta tester for Ubisoft, and even they didn’t have a bug tracking system for the use of the testers. IMO if the devs give a short list with the main known issues at every release, that is already more then enough.
For the rest, basically with every release we don’t need to worry about browsing the whole “Main bug thread” to see what was reported in the past. You never know when a bug corrected at some point, came back later on, and devs won’t know if we don’t report it again. That’s why I feel it’s better if we use the “Release 0.xx - Bug Reports” threads, which will rarely have more than a couple of pages, so it’ll not be any effort for us to check what has been already reported.
A bug tracking system could help both testers and developers but ATM we have too little bugs reported per version to benefit from it significantly. I think that bug tracker will help a lot in later stage of development, when a lot of small bugs are reported and quite often they’re not fixed in the first following release.
I emailed Tow before I saw this thread, but I’ll post here anyway…
This project looks very promising and I’d like to offer my help if I can. I’m relatively good with graphics as well with sound, and although I don’t have much experience with animations I can try
If you guys need help in that area, please let me know.
We usually don’t need people to create contents but if you can code in C++ you could add sounds to VCMI. We have some progress in this area but we focus on more important features. You would have to find a way of playing 82m sounds, redesign sound player and eventually add all these ‘play sound’ commands around the code. It would be good if you could do at least the last thing.
Unfortunately I know nothing about C++ and my programming skills are pretty much non-existent. 
But if you need help in the future with new content, please let me know. 
Hi!
Let me start from saying that I would like to help you with VCMI project. I have average knowledge of C/C++. I’ve written a few simple/more-than-simple games in Allegro/OpenGL. I also have basic understanding of LUA (can always broaden my knowledge, nay?). If there is something I can help with, just PM/GG/mail me.
Hi,
code (C++) contribution is warmly welcomed. Our repository is publicly available ( vcmi.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vcmi/trunk ), you can obtain there VCMI sources and project files for MSVC.
There are many not implemented parts of engine, including:
Besides, almost all other parts of VCMI still needs to be developed, improved… just look at the issue list
If you are interested in working on one of the mentioned (or not) part of VCMI, let me know and I’ll try to provide you further instructions and advice.
hmh… i was always wondering why this forum don’t have much people as there are millions of h3 players… why don’t you post in main heroes of might and magic about this forum and ask for some help. as the more users u go the faster we can find bugs or u already did that 
I think most of significant Heroes III portals wrote some time ago about us - when we released version 0.54. Now we don’t strieve for publicity, VCMI is not yet playable what would discourage many people from tying it later.
well… maybe you are right. tho… i am not scared that i can’t play it normaly, and i am happy to help by finding bugs or so ( the least i can help). and i bet others would help you also, however they could, maybe event by programing or event some $$ support. just needs some advertising on other big forums as i see you are doing it for free and it does takes your time.
I’d like to help. I’m an AI graduate student at UCLA, and would love to try to make a good AI. In H3, the AI was terrible, and it made the game less fun.
I have 5+ years of C++ experience too!
Could somebody help me figure out the SVN Repository?
You will need SVN client. Easy to install and configure.
Can’t help you more as I joined the project less than two weeks ago
Hello,
I’m a CS student with extensive C and Java knowledge to complement my otherwise average C++ skills and I am interested in joining as well. I’ve dealt quite a bit with Lua as well. As a long time Heroes 3 and WoG fan I’ve wished for a source code release, and I only recently found out about this project. I have never really done any reverse engineering though, and I know next to nothing about the H3 file formats but I could at least implement missing functionality.
I’ve looked through the code and fiddled a bit with it and I ended up fixing the melee attacking in combat so that the cursor behaves like in H3 when selecting a target, rather than basing the direction by which hex you previously hovered.
Wow, that’s great. 
I’ll be happy to see that in one of the next releases. On one hand this was not a big bug, to need prioritization, but on the other hand, it was kinda pending for too long. And even the smallest issues, if you run into them daily for half a year, even if you try, you can’t ignore them forever - and then it’s quite a relief when they are finally solved.
Welcome to the board OnionKnight! 
It’s nice to see more programmers joining… Like this things may move faster - if there are more people coding, each what they know best, what they like to do most.
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