Programmer App

[Jacar L'Etranger]

Hey Guys,

 

Saw some references to your project on TTLG. I do want to help, but I also want to be realistic and honest upfront, so I don't promise anything I can't deliver on.

 

I'm a first year CS Major right now, somewhere in between beginner-intermediate in my C/C++ skills. Made the jump into programming by modding for the Fallout & Gothic Series, some of my favorite RPGs. So I do know a bit about Game Scripting as well. Hope to get a career in the game industry, so I'd like to work on a few projects to build my skills in relevant areas. So, I wouldn't mind helping out here.

 

One thing, I don't have a huge amount of free-time, my college schedule, work, and other RL commitments do keep me quite busy. As such, I don't have time to be a full team-member right now.

 

However, if you guys are willing to consider it, would you mind having someone on the team who can contribute code on a part-time basis, patching reported bugs, feature additions, etc? If so, I think with my levels of free time and programming experience, that would be great .

 

I would really love to help, just for the sake of boosting my own skills and working on a project that stirs my interest like this one. Let me know.

[greebo]

I'm sure we can use another helping hand, even if it's not full-time.

 

At this point the code is pretty much in freeze state, and all the team is working towards the first release. After that will have happened, there will be an influx of bug reports needing to be dealt with. During that phase, I guess your job could be to pick up certain bugs which seem appealing to you and figure them out. This is probably the quickest way to learn about how our game code is organised, so this might be a possible setup for you and for the team.

[Mortem Desino]

As a first step, you might want to follow the guide to installing and compiling the Doom 3 SDK in the mod programming subsection of the www.doom3world.org forum. The best tool I've found for this is the

Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition (I think it's still a free download!).

[Jacar L'Etranger]

As a first step, you might want to follow the guide to installing and compiling the Doom 3 SDK in the mod programming subsection of the www.doom3world.org forum. The best tool I've found for this is the

Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition (I think it's still a free download!).

 

Hi,

 

I got Visual Studio 2008 free as part of an academic program through my college , so I will go through that and have a look. I'm sure it won't be too much hassle too compile, but I will report if I have difficulties. I'll keep you updated .

Edited September 24, 2009 by Jacar L'Etranger

[Jacar L'Etranger]

Yup, it builds fine in Debug mode. Will grab the Dark Radiant source, then let me know what's next.

 

EDIT: All set with DarkRadiant and the Doom 3 SDK. Never played Doom 3 before, borrowing it from a friend just to work on this, so I'm spending some time perusing the code provided in the SDK. Don't want to be that guy, but that read is a pain.

Edited September 27, 2009 by Jacar L'Etranger