As you may have noticed, the readme.html that is supplied with the spring installer is getting a bit out of date. There's a lot of more current information in the wiki though, and I was hoping that someone would be willing to update the Readme which I imported into the wiki some time ago.
I created a little script that removes the wiki formatting from the Readme and makes it look like the current document that we distribute in the installer, here. The idea was that it could be used to export the readme for new releases.
It's possible that there is some better solution, such as including a few more articles such as the getting started etc with the installer. Or just linking to them on the site perhaps.
Updating the readme
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It'd probably be wise to include some multiplayer information, such as information on port forwarding and stuff for online play and maybe a local version of the LAN play doc as well.
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Warlord Zsinj
- Imperial Winter Developer
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There is quite a bit of stuff that people "need" to know before trying to get online... Someone could try to have a look at the readme(I might after work but someone else will probably get to it before me) and make sure there's nothing essential missing from it or wrong and updating it with links to the wiki pages that can give people the rest of the instuctions... AKA http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Using_Spring and http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Getting_Started which are not complete but very useful as they are... with a general insitement to look over the wiki and forums for the latest news and info... anyone who is going to play sping online is going to have a connection to the internet so links should be fine... the wiki is updated at least daily somewhere so including a rip of it wouldn't really be all that helpful...
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PauloMorfeo
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PauloMorfeo
- Posts: 2004
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No better solution seems to be hapening...I've done a mini-help system. You can find it here:
http://www.fileuniverse.com/?p=showitem&ID=1674
It's basically an HTMLification of parts of the wiki + some stuff in the original readme.
It's neat and simple. Seems to be working ok, even though it's nothing special.
The starting page is "main.html".
Beware i changed some few minor things. For example:
Before:
After:What is TA Spring?
TA Spring is a project to create the best RTS ever (no joke). There are three principle goals which we hope to achieve.
1. Reach a stage where TA Spring can flawlessly execute most of Total Annihilation's original gameplay, with its original units in their original format.
2. Add new features as we see fit, fix bugs, and release new versions when we feel it is appropriate to do so.
3. Support the mod community as we see fit.
Check it out to see if it is ok and if it suit your curent needs.What is TA Spring?
TA Spring is a project to create the best RTS ever (no joke). There are three principle goals which we hope to achieve.
1. Reach a stage where TA Spring can flawlessly execute most of Total Annihilation's original gameplay, with its original units in an improved format.
2. Add new features as we see fit, fix bugs, and release new versions when we feel it is appropriate to do so.
3. Support the mod community as we see fit
By the way, all the new pages were validated successfully through the W3 Markup Validation Service:
http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html
The only page that failed that validation was "LICENSE.html" which is original from the game
."No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to WTF-8."
finally, I can see it could do with an aesthetic overhaul badly though.
I can see a GroupAI could be made that added a small window with a html viewer inside, then the code could be integrated into the New GUI.
I'd try and integrate it myself but I dont know much about IE/mozilla controls or implementing html parsers, or how the new GUI code is layed out.
I can see a GroupAI could be made that added a small window with a html viewer inside, then the code could be integrated into the New GUI.
I'd try and integrate it myself but I dont know much about IE/mozilla controls or implementing html parsers, or how the new GUI code is layed out.