TortoiseHg - mercurial in TortoiseSVN GUI
Actually CLI is awesome for developement - I like it better than any IDE. However I like netbeans and eclipse when it comes to Java developement.
Of course nothing happens, they’re comments, but after few generations of those they just make things harder to read
About bazaar - I don’t consider it as mature. On other hand, mercurial is used at Mozilla (moved from CVS), by python developers (moved from SVN), OpenJDK, Atlassian (large project management software developer, moved from SVN), Google and many, many more. Git is used by Linux Kernel developers, Android, Ruby on Rails, KDE, Gnome, Debian, and many, many more too. I personally prefer mercurial with it’s ease to use for beginners and being powerful for advanced users, not to mention fantastic extension system (look at Mercurial Queues and HgSubversion), however both git and mercurial are fast, powerful and used in large scale projects.
Another C++ programmer and avid HoMM3 fan here looking to help out. I was thinking of looking into AI, since that’s a subject of interest to me at the moment (and I’ll be taking a course in it shortly). Is that something that still needs work? I don’t see any adventure AI code (in trunk, at least), though at least the stupid battle AI looks reasonably easy to read.
Anyway, I guess I’m looking for pointers/suggestions to get started.
Thanks much!
EDIT: I should probably mention that I’m not ENTIRELY clueless when it comes to AI, since I’ve done a little (very simple) work with it.
It might also be worth noting that I more or less know what I’m doing with SDL and SVN, and am already on SF (as “capn_fish”; I probably should have thought of that before registering here).
Hi.
Currently we have 2 AIs - outdated GeniusAI and better StupidAI. Also there is work-in-progress adventure map AI (Tow is working on it).
There may be some areas that are still missing in battle AI like spellcasting but it will be better to contact Tow at first - he should know more about that.
To get started you can also check for some bugs on our tracker or implement some missing features. There is TODO list on our wiki that you can check but it became quite small lately.
Tow & Tow Dragon have quite ambitious plans about AI, including their programming Challenge project. I strongly recommend contacting them first before taking any others steps.
Hello, as I wrote in the Mac OS X thread I am an objective c / java programmer and a heroes 3 fan.
I saw your project and I instantly thought it has a lot of potential and I would love to help. I don’t have experience in writing C++ code but I read a few books and I am sure I will bring some value to this project.
I created sourceforge and mantis accounts both with the same username: cipone23. If someone could assign me some small tasks at the beginning and guide me through the process of submitting the code I could get started right away.
Main Theme for Heroes 3 is already done. This is just homemade and we’re gonna rerecord it in few months with all the changes necessery. I’ll make a new topic with all details about it. Enjoy.
PS. We are still working on the rest of soundtrack ; )
I just wanted to let you know that I want to get involved again in this wonderful project. I started something at the beginning of this year but I was very busy with learning Java EE ( I wanted to change my job and move to a bigger city).
Now that I have done those, I will have lots of time on my hands for volunteering this project and I want to get really good at C++, not to mention how much I would like to contribute to the rewriting of H3.
Starting December I will look on the Mantis bug tracker and start by fixing some bugs I found there.
hey i changed to unsupported resolution 1600x1200 for my monitor so i have error when starting vcmi. what is command to change resolution in vcmi client ? i tried to enter something isaw in manual didnt work, i just can change it to 640 in compatibility options. many thanks
I’m a french engineer specialized in C++ programmation, espacially 2D/3D things.
As a big fan of HOMM since Heroes 2, I would like to help this great project.
To start slowly with VCMI, I could look into the translation feature ?
I like playing games in my language (french), and I could translate the game.
I haven’t seen any translation support in the sources, but I haven’t read it all !
We don’t have proper translation support (like gettext) but vcmi should be able to use your localized copy of H3. Assuming that such version was released to begin with.
There are some minor issues related to this like lack of encoding detection (vcmi uses utf-8 while H3 uses one of Win125x encodings) but apart from this vcmi should work with localized copies of h3.
Actual support for translation (preferably via boost::locale to avoid extra dependency) would be great but:
Translating H3 in “normal” way by keeping dictionary (english string -> translated string) may be problematic due to copyright. So for H3 translation we’ll have to find some other way.
Non-text data. H3 have notable amount of non-text data that needs translation - voiced campaign intros, main menu buttons that are actually images with “built-in” texts, etc. This makes translation support a bit more complicated.
Right now we have very few “own” texts that need translation (check launcher + config/translate.json). So for vcmi itself translations are not highly important feature.
All in all - go ahead if you’re interested in this. Support for translations is one of features that we’d like to have but never got to actually implementing this. If you have any questions - feel free to ask.
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