Hello! and some questions

[Benzetacil]

Hello Everybody!!

I’m new here, so i think is better begin with an introduction : )

My name is Alex. I'm from Brazil (São Paulo), and I will start university in Computer Science.

Searching for RTS games I Found 0 A.D. a few months ago. I really liked the game and when I saw the game is open source and anyone could help i thought that could be a great place to learn more about game programming and how works a big project.

I downloaded the code and opened with visual studio. but it's hard to begin from zero modify the code. where can I found a documentation or tips to help me?

what I need to know before try to help? I know openGL is important so where can i learn more about?

sorry if I made silly questions, and sorry for my english mistakes.

[leper]

Hello. Have you found our wiki (trac) yet? There is a page for new programmers there.

[thamlett]

Hi Alex,

You don't really even need to know that much about OpenGL in order to work on the game. Most of it is Ideas, 3D Art, and editing .XML documents.

When I first came here, I thought I needed to learn code too (and I have learned some from working on the game and its mods). But I found that all I really needed in order to start was the willingness, diligence, and patience. Everything else followed .