Difference between revisions of "Zero-K:Developing"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Debug data:
(→Modifying the game: Update/clarify instructions) |
(→ZK's Devving Philosophy (social rules): Fix xponen's misquote of Klangstabil after all those years.) |
||
| Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
== ZK's Devving Philosophy (social rules) == | == ZK's Devving Philosophy (social rules) == | ||
| − | * "War is anticommunication | + | * "War is a product of anticommunication" |
** Communicate with other devs about your changes/fixes, let them understand the issue. Do not make 'random' changes. | ** Communicate with other devs about your changes/fixes, let them understand the issue. Do not make 'random' changes. | ||
* "Do not create work for other people." | * "Do not create work for other people." | ||
Revision as of 08:34, 26 April 2018
New developers should read this before touching the source.
Contents
ZK's Devving Philosophy (social rules)
- "War is a product of anticommunication"
- Communicate with other devs about your changes/fixes, let them understand the issue. Do not make 'random' changes.
- "Do not create work for other people."
- Have responsibility for your changes/commit. Do not leave bugs that require other people to fix.
- "Readability & performance are equally important."
- Optimize code but not to the point of unreadability. Remember the rules of optimization:
- Don't.
- Don't (yet).
- Profile before doing it.
- Optimize code but not to the point of unreadability. Remember the rules of optimization:
- "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
- Don't code fixes that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.
What is in source codes
- Zero-K contains the game proper
- units folder contains unit definition files
- you can read wiki about game development for spring engine
- Zero-K-Infrastructure
- ZeroKLobby - is the lobby program for windows used as main interface and downloader
- Zero-K.info - is the website sources
- Zero-K-Artwork contains sources for 2D art, 3D art and sounds
- SpringRTS-tools contains various dev tools
- Upspring - required to edit the .3do and .s3o model files used in the game
- MapIconBuilder - unit map icon sources are here
- Zero-K-Missions contains source files for official ZK missions
Getting sources
- Get a GitHub account and download Github for desktop
- Locate repository you want to edit and click "clone in desktop" button on website
- After you finish modifying sources, click Pull request in Github for Windows to submit your changes for review
Modifying the game
- Create a folder
games/zk.sddin the Zero-K installation folder. - Clone to desktop Zero-K game and save it to
zk.sdd/. This folder should contain multiple files/folders, such asmodinfo.lua. - To test source modifications, you'll need to enable developer mode in Chobby. Do this by creating an empty text document "devmode.txt" in the same directory as Zero-K.exe. You may need to restart the lobby.
- In the Settings menu a new tab appears: Developer. Edit the Singleplayer setting to be Zero-K Dev.
- Your skirmish games should now use your modified local copy of zk.sdd.
Modifying infrastructure/tools
- Install Visual Studio Community edition
- Install SQL Server express
- Clone to desktop Zero-K infrastructure
- Test by opening Zero-K.sln in Visual Studio
Debugging infrastructure
- Right click asp.net -> properties -> web -> check "Specific Page" and leave it blank. Otherwise you get errors when trying to host locally.
- To run a project right click it, choose "set as startup project" and hit F5 to run using debugger.
- You can enable multiple startup projects to test entire infrastructure locally (game servers, lobby etc). Enable asp.net, springie and ZeroKLobby projects to test it all together. Setup
- Note: in order to run asp.net it's required that you install MS SQL Express on your local PC. Get one from here. The file you will need is called SQLEXPR_x64_ENU or SQLEXPR_x86_ENU. Make sure you install version that matches your version of Windows (i.e. x86 vs x64). During the installation leave all the parameters default except that I changed server name to SQLEXPRESS in one of the first steps of wizard.
Artwork
Missions
See Mission Editor
Engine
Debug data:
[SQLBagOStuff] MainObjectStash using store ReplicatedBagOStuff[objectcache] MainWANObjectCache using store EmptyBagOStuffIP: 18.222.111.205Start request GET /mediawiki/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=3776&title=Zero-K%3ADeveloping
HTTP HEADERS:
CONTENT-TYPE:
CONTENT-LENGTH: 0
USER-AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
HOST: zero-k.info
ACCEPT-ENCODING: gzip, br, zstd, deflate
ACCEPT: */*
CONNECTION: close[localisation] LocalisationCache: using store LCStoreDB[session] SessionManager using store SqlBagOStuff[DBReplication] Cannot use ChronologyProtector with EmptyBagOStuff[DBReplication] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory::getChronologyProtector: request info {
"IPAddress": "18.222.111.205",
"UserAgent": "Mozilla\/5.0 AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot\/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"ChronologyProtection": false,
"ChronologyPositionIndex": 0,
"ChronologyClientId": false
}[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::lazyLoadReplicationPositions: executed chronology callback.[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLocalConnection: connected to database 0 at 'localhost'.[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[session] SessionBackend "adu42k62ba82m82vksjsf92miju09q55" is unsaved, marking dirty in constructor[session] SessionBackend "adu42k62ba82m82vksjsf92miju09q55" save: dataDirty=1 metaDirty=1 forcePersist=0[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw__session", "", "1713767742", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_UserID", "", "1713767742", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_Token", "", "1713767742", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "forceHTTPS", "", "1713767742", "/", "", "", "1"[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLocalConnection: connected to database 0 at 'localhost'.Title::getRestrictionTypes: applicable restrictions to [[Zero-K:Developing]] are {edit,move}[ContentHandler] Created handler for wikitext: WikitextContentHandlerArticle::view: showing diff pageDifferenceEngine old '3776' new 'prev' rcid ''[MessageCache] MessageCache using store SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] SqlBagOStuff::lock failed due to timeout for wikidb229-mw_:messages:en.[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[MessageCache] MessageCache::load: Loading en... local cache is empty, global cache is expired/volatile, loading from databaseParserFactory: using preprocessor: Preprocessor_HashUnstubbing $wgLang on call of $wgLang::_unstub from ParserOptions->__constructDifferenceEngine old '0' new '0' rcid '0'WikiPage::getParserOutput: using parser cache: no[caches] parser: SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuffParser cache options found.[Preprocessor] Cached preprocessor output (key: wikidb229-mw_:preprocess-hash:f9f7933be0106225aba834db5f9b3dde:0)[Preprocessor] Cached preprocessor output (key: wikidb229-mw_:preprocess-hash:f9f7933be0106225aba834db5f9b3dde:0)MediaWiki::preOutputCommit: primary transaction round committedMediaWiki::preOutputCommit: pre-send deferred updates completedMediaWiki::preOutputCommit: session changes committedMediaWiki::preOutputCommit: LBFactory shutdown completedTitle::getRestrictionTypes: applicable restrictions to [[Zero-K:Developing]] are {edit,move}
