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Thanks for being so helpful btw Jason, it's always nice to see the knowledge of the "old" members being forwarded to new contributors

It's actually more of the opposite: the women are only workers =) In other words: the women don't (generally) fight, while the male workers both work and fight. Unless you are talking about the AI? But I think I've seen it use both citizen soldiers and female citizens to work, so I doubt that. The female citizens are better at farming though, so for that it's best to use them

So in other words, fixing a bug for this experimental version fixed a bug for the usual version of the game? That's a win in my book

Could you please attach your systeminfo.txt? (See http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths for how to find it.)

I guess you mean lower the terrain? If so that's possible, just right-click/right-click-and-drag instead of left-clicking when using the Alter terrain tool (See http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Atlas_Manual for more information on how to use Atlas )

It might certainly be possible. The question is if it's a good idea though, the fewer steps something needs to go through the more likely it is that it will work. At least generally speaking, converting something from one format to another always leaves a risk that some information is lost.

No, he's not forced to use Blender. But he does have to use an application that can export to Collada. And as far as I'm aware the version of Max that he's got can't do that. So then he either has to get a newer version of Max, which is expensive, or get Blender which is free

To help out with the translation see: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/0ad/ Generally the 0 A.D. code is so advanced now that it takes quite some experience to work on it. Please see http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedProgrammers for more information on getting started programming for 0 A.D. including (on one of the linked pages) a list of tasks which require less skills/previous knowledge of the engine.

3DS Max 5? From 2002? I'm afraid that's not too likely to work as it needs to be able to open or at least export to Collada files, and I don't think there's a way to make that possible with such an old version. Newer versions support exporting to Collada (.dae) files by default unless I'm remembering wrong. There is a plugin that was used previously, but the oldest version that plugin supports is 7. I'd recommend using Blender instead. It might take a little while getting used to if you're used to Max's interface, but it supports Collada by default and since it's free you can always have the most recent version.

Did you use another email address there? I searched my inbox for the one you have for your account here, but didn't find any emails from that address. http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11297 gives you the information required for how to start helping out with making the art for the game, but to summarize: Make sure you understand the license the content will be used under (and agree to it) and start working on one of the open tasks. If you consistently produce good work you will eventually be asked to join the team. An application can be nice as it gives us a chance to get to know you and your previous work, but it's the work done on the game that will make the biggest difference.

That's mostly a matter of resources: if we had had a ton of animators it would have been done already I would say it's a really low priority thing though, seeing as it's something that's only going to be displayed for a short while + there will be a lot of other things going on at the same time. The thing that's complicating it most is probably that there would have to be one animation for each building. The units just needs a few since they can re-use the animations, but the buildings are too different to make that possible.

Cool, that was perfect timing Wish I could say that it was planned =)

To put them up we'd really need to have someone go through them and fact-check them a bit more. The quality varies a lot, so not all of them would deserve to be put up. You wouldn't happen to remember the title of the page? I took a quick look through the list and searched through the ones that looked relevant, but I couldn't really find anything on the war dogs in the history articles.

The forum software autosaves at certain intervals (every two mins unless I'm mistaken). There should be a text at the bottom left which says Last auto saved: and the time when it was saved. If you leave the page for any reason and then return it should say "View Auto Saved Content" + the date and time. Click that and you get a dialog with the saved text + a button that says "Restore content". Click that button to get what you have written back

Just make sure to make it obvious that it's a fan page (I.e. include "fan page" in the title etc ) And be sure to let us know when it goes live

Actually you can import heightmaps, just save them out as an image file and import it using the Import Heightmap... option in the File menu in Atlas

http://play0ad.com/0ad-0.0.17-alpha-win32.exe.torrent

Which version do you want? I.e. for which OS?

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The PPA is not yet updated, try again in 24 hours or so.

I see some weird lines in the background if that's what you mean. I would suggest that you try deleting the cache to see if that fixes those though, or rather iirc that kind of thing (or at least what it looks like, it's not much one can see far in the distance there) usually is a sign that something is wrong with the cache. I have 512MB VRAM (and 8GB RAM).

Hmm, it's not 100% clear from your post whether or not you get the errors with just SVN as you first say with the vanilla game, and then at the screenshot mentions additional units from mods. I certainly don't get any such errors in the SVN version. (On Windows 7.) Also, it would really be helpful if you would be more specific than "get some glitches". If it's difficult to describe in words, please take a screenshot of it, or possibly record a video if it's hard to tell in a screenshot.

Please create your new AI in a mod of your own rather than in the public mod, that way it's a lot easier to avoid issues when the main game is updated. And perhaps most importantly: when you want to give it to someone else to try it out Then it's a lot easier to have it as a mod that one can install and activate/deactivate at will

The AI isn't working as well as it should yet, but we're working on it. It works a lot better in Alpha 17

No, they will not. We're just trying to fix one last bug and then we'll release Alpha 17. We'll be very grateful for any improvements to the translations in future releases though