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| 2 | This is the offical README file for the game project | 
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| 4 | -------------------------------------------------------- | 
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| 5 | orxOnox | 
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| 6 | -------------------------------------------------------- | 
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| 7 |  | 
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| 8 |  | 
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| 9 |  | 
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| 10 |  | 
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| 11 | 1.Preface: | 
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| 12 | ---------- | 
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| 13 | Orxonox is a open-source vertical scroller game programed | 
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| 14 | in c++ and OpenGL. | 
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| 15 | If we manage to be sober enough, this game shall definitly | 
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| 16 | become _the_ open-source vertical scroller ever. | 
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| 17 |  | 
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| 18 | 2.Manifesto: | 
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| 19 | ------------ | 
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| 20 | 1) Alien is a great film | 
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| 21 | 2) Guiness is the most delicious beer | 
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| 22 | 3) If you think there is anything missing specialy in terms of story: you can be shure it's an arcade game | 
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| 23 | 4) Wanna chill: ask Boozoo Bajou | 
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| 24 |  | 
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| 25 | to be continoued... | 
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| 27 |  | 
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| 28 | 3.Overview: | 
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| 29 | --------- | 
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| 30 | 1.Preface | 
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| 31 | 2.Manifesto | 
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| 32 | 3.Overview | 
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| 33 | 3.Contributing To The Project | 
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| 34 | 4.Howto C++ Programming | 
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| 35 | 5.Howto SVN | 
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| 36 | 6.Coding conventions | 
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| 37 |  | 
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| 38 |  | 
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| 39 | 4.Contributing To The project: | 
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| 40 | ------------------------------ | 
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| 41 | People who want to help us working on orxonox are always | 
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| 42 | welcome:) Feel free to chip in anything you like. Wine, beer, | 
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| 43 | coffee... If you like to help us programming orxonox, you: | 
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| 44 | - join the developer community mailing lists | 
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| 45 | - read this README file | 
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| 46 | then you have multiple ways to get started. | 
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| 47 | a) Read the hole source code and choose a topic you like | 
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| 48 | b) check the TODO file to get a knowledge of what we need | 
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| 49 | c) ask us for more information | 
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| 50 | To get more informations about programming and project specs | 
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| 51 | read the programming sections below. | 
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| 52 |  | 
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| 53 | To start programming on orxonox you first have to download the | 
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| 54 | newest svn tree of orxonox. You can do this by enterning following | 
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| 55 | lines in the linux console (ensure svn to be installed with ssl | 
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| 56 | support enabled): | 
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| 57 |  | 
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| 58 | svn co https://svn.orxonox.net/reporx/orxonox orxonox | 
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| 59 |  | 
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| 60 | If you haven't got ssl support in you svn tool, recompile it | 
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| 61 | ./configure --with-ssl | 
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| 62 | make | 
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| 63 | make install | 
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| 64 |  | 
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| 65 |  | 
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| 66 | 5.Howto C++ Programming: | 
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| 67 | ------------------------ | 
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| 68 | If you are new to c/c++ programming, this project is probably | 
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| 69 | not the best starting place to learn it. For you and the rest who | 
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| 70 | need "refreshment" check out these guides: | 
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| 71 |  | 
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| 72 | www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial | 
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| 73 | www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/cppcen.html | 
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| 74 |  | 
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| 76 | 6.Howto SVN: | 
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| 77 | ------------ | 
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| 78 | For a more complete guide about this topic read the documentation | 
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| 79 | avaiable at subversion.tigris.org. | 
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| 80 |  | 
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| 81 | SVN (=subversion) is a version control program similar to CVS but | 
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| 82 | newer. This program enables us to work all at the same program at | 
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| 83 | the same time - tricky. | 
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| 84 |  | 
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| 85 | subversion checkout https://svn.orxonox.net/reporx/orxonox orxonox | 
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| 86 | same as: subversion co https://svn.orxonox.net..... | 
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| 87 |  | 
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| 88 | this makes a directory orxonox at your current place in and gets | 
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| 89 | the hole brand new source code from the server. | 
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| 90 |  | 
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| 91 | now you can work. Remember to use 'svn copy instead of 'cp', | 
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| 92 | 'svn mv' instead of 'mv', 'svn rm' instead of 'rm'... - you got it | 
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| 93 | I think. | 
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| 94 | After you have made your changes to the files enter | 
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| 95 | svn status | 
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| 96 | or with more details: svn status -vv | 
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| 97 | which will show you the changes you did locally on your computer. | 
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| 98 | svn diff | 
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| 99 | is similar but shows you all the changes in detail. | 
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| 101 | svn diff > patchfile | 
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| 102 | the patchfile you can use later in conjunction with the patch program. | 
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| 103 | You could, for example, email this patchfile to another developer for | 
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| 104 | review or testing prior to commit. | 
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| 105 |  | 
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| 106 | To add a new file type | 
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| 107 | svn add <filename> | 
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| 108 | and to publish all your changes type | 
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| 109 | svn commit --message "Corrected number of chees slices." | 
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| 110 | svn commit will send all of your changs to the repository. When you | 
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| 111 | commit a change, you need to supply a log message, describing your | 
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| 112 | change. The message can also be read from a file: | 
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| 113 | svn commit --file logmsg | 
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| 114 |  | 
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| 115 | If you accidently make a change you like to revert, you just can do this | 
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| 116 | by typing: | 
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| 117 | svn revert <filename> | 
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| 118 |  | 
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| 119 | To keep track about the work that is running on the project use the | 
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| 120 | command: svn log. This will show you a bref summary of all changes. | 
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| 121 |  | 
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| 123 | Most of the programmer will do their work on a branch. A Branch is | 
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| 124 | a line of development that exists independently of another line, yet | 
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| 125 | still shares a common history. A branch always begins life as a copy | 
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| 126 | of something, and moves on trom there, generating its own history. Later | 
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| 127 | the two versions will merge. | 
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| 128 |  | 
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| 129 | If you are working on orxonox you will have your own branch in which you | 
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| 130 | will program, some sort of sand-box. If you finish your work on your | 
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| 131 | topic, it will be revised by us and merged with the trunk | 
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| 132 |  | 
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| 133 | 7.Coding Conventions | 
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| 134 | -------------------- | 
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| 135 | Read the File CODING-STANDARDS | 
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| 137 |  | 
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| 138 | #EOF | 
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