From DungeonHack

This page is your starting point for contributing to project DungeonHack.

Here you'll find guidelines, documentation, and procedures for the development of code & content.

Contents 1 Project Management 2 Programming 2.1 Draft Notes 3 Game Design 4 Lore 4.1 Lore Store 5 Content Creation & Modding 5.1 Resources

Project Management

These links concern project-wide issues and coordination between departments.

• About DungeonHack
• DH Project Roadmap
• DungeonHack Forums
• Developer Discussions
• Subversion Guidelines And Policy
• Release Checklist

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Programming

These links concern current coding practices and guidelines as well as the structure of the code base.

• Build Instructions
• System Architecture
• Walk the sources!
• Code Style Guidelines
• SourceForge Project Page
• Trac issue tracker (https)
• Cross-platform Compatibility Tips
• Sound System Architecture
• Terrain Generation

Draft Notes

These are explorations of coding issues we confront in the future.

• World Generation Study
• Map File Format
• DH Scripting API proposal

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Game Design

These links describe the overall design philosophies our engine is meant to support. Specifics of each world module are dictated by that module's lead developers.

• Art Design and Philosophy
• Visual Guidelines
• Musical Styling
• Sonic Design

Lore

These links describe the lore for our "Native" world module to ship with the engine.

• The Peregrine God (working title)
• Subcontinent of Rhan

Lore Store

This is a warehouse of ideas that can be used by any world module development team.

• Eocenovai
• Proposed Non-human Races

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Content Creation & Modding

These links concern the development of art assets as well as how to add them to a world module. know the technical and stylistic guidelines first

• Summary of Content
• Import Blender meshes to Ogre for DungeonHack
• Modding in Environmental Objects
• Guidelines on 3D Art Assets
• Model Optimization
• Gallery of DH Art Assets, Concept art located there
• Game Animation Archive
• Modeling Actions and Animations

Resources

These are 3rd Party art resources which may be useful for developing art assets.

• OpenFrag Slayer texture pack - CC-BY
• Lost And Taken - Public domain high resolution textures
• Low Poly Co-op's Daggerfall WIP collection
• Freeware Art Assets
• Seventh Sanctum word and phrase generators
• Kate Monk's Onomastikon (name dictionary)
• robg3d
• Wikia Gaming 3D Models List
• Free the models
• Tutorial on drawing a planet/moon

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