WorldForge Community

The team is in constant flux. People come and go, and sometimes people are too busy to contribute for a while, but will probably come back later.

I'm afraid we have been terrible at keeping the team page updated, so its current state is probably years out of date.

I don't think there is anyone currently actively working on GUI art or animation however. Is it an area you are interested in?

The person to speak to would be Erik who is the lead on client development.

What sort of technical skills do you have? Are you able to write scripts that control UI elements?

My day job is as a web developer. I'm most familiar with PHP and Javascript, but I regularly use Java also, and I've written things in C++, C#, and Lua in the past.

I'm one of those folks who's comfortable doing both code and graphics, though I favor the graphics side of things.

I'm lurking on the General mailing list now, and occasionally popping into the Purple IRC server.

To create actual models for WorldForge you will need to use an external program. I think most of our recent contributors have used blender, which is a very sophisticated program. I think Erik understands a bit better than me how to use it, and what plugins are required if any to export models.

Ember has some great features for editing at a higher level, including the ability to edit terrain, manipulate and places objects in the world etc. If you make good progress with C++ you should be able to help Erik and the other Ember coders to create more builder features. In order to use these features you will need admin access to a server. You can do this by running your own copy of cyphesis, or getting an admin account one someone elses server. Dean has put up a public sandbox server which anyone can log into using the username "admin", password "admin".

Al