Main Page

Welcome to our Widelands-Wiki.

This is the place for developers and endusers who look for information and documentation. Below is a list of pages, which might be interesting to you.

To ease the use of this page, we have split it into subsections. That way anybody can easily find what (s)he is looking for.

On our homepage, there is always something to do. Updating the wiki is one important point, for other stuff see Homepage ToDo (EN). If you would like helping out in translating the WIKI to your language, please have a look at Translating the WIKI (EN).

General

• About Widelands - What exactly is Widelands?
• Download - Where can you get Widelands?
• Reporting Bugs (EN) - You found a bug? Tell us about!
• Wanna Help (EN) - Do you want to help us ? :-)
• Donations - A list of all users, who donated to us.
• Developers - Who is developing Widelands? What is the "Widelands Development Team"?
• Contact - How to contact us and stay up-to-date.
• Links - Links to Sourceforge-Project pages (General, Bugs, Features)
• Changelog (EN) - What's the difference between our last releases?
• Roadmap (EN) - What is left to do until our next release?

Help

for the Game

• Basic Interface - Explains all the basics: what does every button in the game do?
• Quickstart - The "basics" for everyone who likes the "learning by doing" principle
• The Tribes
  • Barbarians - About the Barbarians, their history and their Economy
  • Imperials - About the Imperials, the imperial history and Economy
  • Atlanteans - About the Atlanteans, their history and Economy
• Building a new Economy - Some strategies how you could build houses and produce wares.
• Military and Warfare - Explains the specifics of soldiers and how to battle with others.
• Setting up Multiplayer Games - How to play Widelands with other human players.

for the Editor

• Editor Help - How to use the Widelands Map Editor.
• Editor Tutorial - a step by step tutorial demonstrating how to create a map with the Editor.

Development

This subsection contains links to various documentation that may arise. Whenever something is worth defining, it will eventually land here.

As these pages can change very fast, as they are uninteresting for endusers and as more than one version can spread confusion under the developers, these pages stay untranslated in English language.

General

• Reporting Bugs
• Debugging Desyncs
• Wanna Help
• Translating Widelands
• Translating the WIKI - How to translate the WIKI.
• Uploading and updating images in the Wiki - A short HowTo
• Building widelands
• Releasing widelands
• Changelog
• Roadmap
• Widelands Map File (.wmf)
• Widelands (Save-)Game File (.wgf)

Programmers

• Source code repository policy
• About source code documentation
• Guidelines for writing good C++ sourcecode
• Resource mining (draft)
• Game Server Protocol (draft)
• About Battle (draft)
• Land usage plans (draft)
• Transport system design (draft)
• Worker distribution (draft)
• Generic Movement Suggestions (draft)
• AI improvements (draft)
• Editor plans (draft)

Creator of game content

• Game Content - Developer information about game data.
• Widelands Art Ethics
• Blender Perspective
• About Colors
• About Geometry
• About Audio
• Campaign UI
• Trigger and Events Reference
• Markup Reference for Richtexts
• Player colours (PDF) -> down