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When starting with everything, I actually tried retrieving the texts directly from the XML templates. But to be honest I didn't get that to work. My current idea is to store all texts only in JSONs and only show them in the encyclopedia. And to entirely remove the texts from the small viewer popup (and from the template XMLs) because they don't fit well there. And maybe add a button in the viewer popup that opens the respective article in the encyclopedia instead. Yes, that was also my plan. I will do that in the next few days. Making the Civ Selection similar to the dropdown in the top right of the structure tree actually seems like a good and intuitive solution, if that's what you mean. Don't reasonably sized buttons take up more space than text? I'll see what I can do. That's probably best, it shouldn't take me long to implement them.

Hey everyone, For the past week and a half or so I've been working on implementing an encyclopedia page orientating towards the concept shown by @wowgetoffyourcellphone. And the framework is done. Here's a short showcase: showcase.mp4 And yes, I am aware that it is incredibly ugly. I wanted to get everything to work first and then focus on aesthetics. I moved all texts to new JSON files with a script, and the engine is retrieving the texts from there. I did this because JSONs are easier to read and also provide more flexibilty for adding new features like different formattings, subheadings, or inline links. There are also some elements I'd personally like still missing, for example the portraits, but they are on my to-do list. If anyone has a suggestions, for example on how to cramp the many buttons into the small space in the left panel, definetely let me know. Btw, applause to all developers of 0ad's engine. It seemed very overwhelming at first but it is very easy to learn how to use. Very well done! P.S. no pressure on anyone of course, but (and I know we've asked this a few times already) how can we get to merging into the mainline? Or is it a bad time for that right now?

As @ShadowOfHassensaid, it'd be great if we could start merging what we already have. Is there someone who can explain when and where to do that? Pr for Wei Qing: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/119

Han Xin: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/115 And two of his most important battles: Battle of Jingxing: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/117 And the Battle of Gaixia: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/116

https://play0ad.com/game-info/project-overview/ 0 A.D. (pronounced “zero-ey-dee”) is a free, open-source, historical Real Time Strategy (RTS) game currently under development by Wildfire Games, a global group of volunteer game developers. As the leader of an ancient civilization, you must gather the resources you need to raise a military force and dominate your enemies. But I like the German "Null 0 A.D." better too.

I find 0ad's soundtracks fantastic too. It's very hard to choose favourites, but I'd put these as my top three: 3. Peaks of Atlas 2. Cisalpine Gaul 1. Honor Bound (the main theme)

The small "Zhanchuan" ship: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/113

We already have a wall mixin, however, I think the Great Wall deserves a text of its own: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/112

Is it worth suggesting name changes like this? Because I'd have some too from my research for the encyclopedia.

Most likely a literal translation into Chinese. I've come across some names like this as well. I'm working on Han Xin already by the way.

Liu Bang: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/110

Ok, I figured it out. It was on me, there was another backslash in another file I edited. This fixes it: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/109/

That's bad. The backslash came from one of my texts, right? And I forgot to mention it in the last post, but I will write the heroes next.

3 more finishing the cavalry: These are the ones I was referring to when asking if I could write about more general stuff instead of specific units. I finally finished them. I put one in the stables, one in the cavalry spearman, and one in the cavalry archer. Horses in the Han dynasty (for the stable): https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/106/ Han cavalry in general (for the Cavalry spearman): https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/107 And the horses of the Han cavalry: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/108 Btw, @ShadowOfHassen have you managed to fix the error?

Yes, some sort of illustrations for the encyclopedia would be amazing. And while I can't really estimate how much work the encyclopedia, that @wowgetoffyourcellphoneshowed, would actually take to implement, I'm sure we will find someone to do that. Also besides this, I think 0AD can always find good use for an illustrator.

Han barracks: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/104/ Han dock: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/105

Always happy to see new players enjoying the game:)

and the Han chariot: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/103

Tower ship: https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/102

I have read that some especially talented and meritorious students from the academy were appointed to palace guards.

Two more: adding some more information to the battering ram mixin:https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/98 Tiger and Leopard cavalry:https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/99 Im honestly not sure whether the Champion Cavalry Spearman, the Wu Wei Yin Cao Cao guard, even represents the tiger and leopard cavalry. If not, tell me, then I guess Ill have to find out the hard way.

Yeah, my bad. I was relying too much on my intuition. @ShadowOfHassen corrected it to "nonflammable".

I havent stopped writing, I just started working on many articles simultaneausly and until now havent finished any. Here are two: (the second text is what i meant: not specifically about the unit, but related, so we can link from the Champion Spearman to this article) Siege tower (a mixin): https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/96 and Guards in the Han capital (Champion Spearman9 : https://github.com/TheShadowOfHassen/0-ad-history-encyclopedia-mod/pull/97

Hey @AIEND Thank you for the feedback I'm all for mentioning the Chinese name in the texts, just like I did with the Greek names for Athens and Sparta. The problem for me is that I don't speak Chinese. And many times how something actually was called often mismatches with the SpecificName which is often only a literal word by word translation into Chinese. But if people think it's worth it I can include them nevertheless. The mangonel is a good example: in game it is called "Toushi Che" which seems like a direct translation of the word 'mangonel' or 'trebuchet' into Chinese. I doubt that was the word used in the Han dynasty. The mangonel in the game is actually also not only a "礮Pao" (as you said), but a "旋風砲Xuan Feng Pao" or only "旋風 Xuan Feng" translating to "whirlwind (catapult)". I've been told before that my descriptions are too detailed and complicated sometimes. If we actually can actually put images or even animations above the article, these precise descriptions aren't as much needed as they were back when I wrote the text. In regards to the text about religion, thanks pointing out some inaccuracies. I never was happy with that text and wanted to rewrite anyway. Finding good sources on this topic was quite a challenge. If you're fine with it, I will rewrite it based on your description (of course not without crediting). You can also write it entirely yourself or just leave out the passages addressing me and use it like that.

What I'm picturing is the articles of the encyclopedia referencing each other. No external links. If that is really not possible, linking to related encyclopedia articles at the bottom and of the page seems good enough as well.