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:* What 3d engine are you using? What version?
 
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:* What rendering techniques should a new developper read about? Maybe from GPU gems / wikipedia or similar materials?
 
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:* How many voxels do you have in a block? (ie: what is the resolution)
 
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:* How do you manage frustum, culling, drawing back faces, deciding what to draw, etc?
 
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:* As it is the game is very similar to minecraft. Is this project a clone of minecraft? If not, how do you intend to make minetest unique?
 
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:* Is there some parts of the code that need to be recoded or refactorized?
 
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:* Can you provide a list of existing discussions about those features so a newcomer could see what has been discussed before:
 
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:** Can you explain the license more so I can judge wheter library X/texture Y/model Z would be usable in Minetest? (ex: why can't irrklang be used instead of those 3 sound libraries)
 

Revision as of 16:15, 19 January 2013

This is a list of things that need to be done on the wiki.

Big, overarching pages

For the lua API

  • Create
  • Link to a tutorial or so (maybe Lua/Tutorial)
  • Talk about some of the benefits
  • Talk about the meaning WRT Minetest
  • Consider the existing Intro page
  • Create
  • Link to Lua tutorial and page, talk briefly about Lua
  • Link to some examples of good mods. Make sure they don't conflict with our licensing!
  • Briefly describe each part of the minetest object

For the core engine

  • Maybe move from Core Architecture, I don't know.
  • Talk about general structure, don't get into details or implementations (or code)
  • Link to pages for each component
  • List here things we need to document, how we will document those things, and more.
  • Maybe use Doxygen-style comments. Yes, do that.

For community things

  • Something like a rule set, but nothing official (make that clear)
  • Link to IRC, Forums, GitHub
  • Explain how we use GitHub.
  • Mention issues, link to our pages, etc.
  • Explain how we use Git
  • Mention how to download things, how there are two separate repos, etc.
  • Answer most of the questions below

Littler pages

For the lua API

For the core engine

For community things

Potential questions from a new developer

Moved to Project_Overview

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