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Wesnoth on Liberapay
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Pentarctagon » April 5th, 2019, 2:09 pm
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Greetings!
We are happy to announce that Wesnoth is now able to accept donations on Liberapay . While Wesnoth does rely on the work of dedicated volunteers, no project can function completely cost-free. Revenue from the Apple App Store and from donations goes towards maintaining our servers,...
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[Policy] Community Guidelines — Updated July 28th 2019
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Write clearly, be nice to others, and be very careful when posting anything related to politics or religion. When asking for help, remember that everyone here is a volunteer. Prefer editing your previous post over double posting. No animated avatars or graphical signatures. Don’t plagiarize other’s...
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Getting Started
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shadowm » July 25th, 2015, 2:17 am
You’ve come here either after reading our latest news post or because you saw this thread crop up in the forum index under the Developers’ Discussions section, which is now open for a limited time to posts from regular users.
So, you probably want to help develop Wesnoth but don’t know where to...
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Last post by Pentarctagon
May 20th, 2017, 9:09 pm
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Autofight Utility
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Yomar » September 15th, 2019, 8:52 pm
Time ago a guy made an utility for statistical purposes, is there someone than can update it to work with BFW 1.14 ?
Here's the link of the threat;
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Yesterday, 10:30 pm
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Ask for help to create "asynchronous/PBEM" matches
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C4nt3r » September 6th, 2019, 9:59 am
I know this is asked a lot, and not ready for it, but just wanted to know if there is a way to try it, mainly to play with friends.
Probably is not possible using official server, but would like to know if could be possible to host my own server, with matches configured with longtime turns, for...
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Last post by lhybrideur
September 12th, 2019, 4:43 pm
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Lua Bots documentation and samples?
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C4nt3r » September 9th, 2019, 9:33 pm
Maybe I’m blind, but I see WML and LUa reference, but can’t find documentation/tutorial where to start developing a bot and/or samples
Some idea?
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Last post by josteph
September 23rd, 2019, 1:35 pm
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HOWTO: wesnothd + user_handler=forum
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psymin » July 18th, 2019, 3:57 pm
I'm posting this here for folks who might be interested in attempting to set up wesnothd (on linux) with forum_user_handler without having to install PHPBB.
When building the project, it looks like you might need to use scons with forum_user_handler=true
Below is a copy of wethnothd.cfg...
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Last post by Pentarctagon
August 13th, 2019, 3:37 am
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Importing ANCIENT maps
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SurekUr » July 31st, 2019, 6:20 pm
Greetings everyone! (My first post in the official forum. :D)
In the good ol' days - when trolls were green, and Konrad were a cute child book character instead of a badass crusader - the game had some huge, unbalanced, but also somehow interesting maps.
Today I'm in a nostalgic mood so I'm decide...
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Last post by SurekUr
July 31st, 2019, 7:41 pm
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Out-of-game Map generation and Tiled Map Editor
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nyov » July 14th, 2019, 10:27 am
Heya, I'm interested if anyone ever tried to clone the map-rendering logic of BfW and make it standalone , or, more widely accessible.
That probably sounds ridiculous; why take the mapeditor out of the game only create another mapeditor then?
Well, there is this really decent, generic,...
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Last post by nyov
July 18th, 2019, 12:20 am
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png usage
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Luc7y » July 15th, 2019, 1:45 am
If I start about the terminal (behind with the reason to experience more about the missing of overlay) is coming the message:
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Know anyone what this means?
A deeper view into the images, with file *, in core/images/terrain drives to the usage about...
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Last post by Luc7y
July 15th, 2019, 9:03 pm
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fonts missing
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Luc7y » July 15th, 2019, 2:52 am
He there,
since my work on a new add-on - I would faster check it out
and found the solution to start with,
wesnoth -d -c ./The_20th
-d for debug
-c for the following campaign
but it is coming in an other way - because truetype fonts are missing,
no panic without these extra-wish is there no...
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Last post by Luc7y
July 21st, 2019, 8:03 pm
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Last post by Iceblade
July 5th, 2019, 12:29 pm
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Sequence Code
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Luc7y » July 2nd, 2019, 2:52 am
Since I had found the tool imgcheck, I work with this
possible because the done renaming of the tool in imgcheck.py
Now I can let take that the input-folder with the images for the sequence
with:
python imgcheck.py ./thesubfolder/* > the colorsequence.txt
I became for my drawings inside the folder...
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Last post by Luc7y
July 2nd, 2019, 2:52 am
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New feature to allow for easier voice acting
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The_Gnat » January 8th, 2019, 7:25 pm
Hi,
Myself and a few other people are working on voice acting another two campaigns (DiD and AOI). We really think having campaigns with voice acting adds a lot to the campaign and we hope to do even more campaigns soon.
However, currently in order to voice act a campaign the campaign has to be...
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Last post by josteph
June 26th, 2019, 8:21 am
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Tips for AI development for a beginner
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Thnick » February 27th, 2019, 6:09 pm
To clarify, I’m not a beginner developer, but I’m new to Wesnoth. Some friends and I just came back to Wesnoth after a decade, and we noticed the AI made for a very poor teammate. Since I’ve gotten my BS in Computer Science recently I thought it’d be a fun project to mess around with making my own...
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Last post by Shiki
March 3rd, 2019, 8:53 pm
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possible bug with BaB tile
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denispir » January 17th, 2019, 10:54 am
Hello,
(Wesnoth 1.14.4 on Ubuntu 18.10)
I am designing a map in the map editor . When starting the scenario, an error appears Unknown tile in map Wwg^BaB\ . If I replace the sandstone bridge with either Bp (plank) or Bh (hanging), the map is accepted and all runs finely.
PS: I searched for this...
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Last post by doofus-01
January 20th, 2019, 12:59 am
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WML syntax tree analysis
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Ravana » June 1st, 2017, 9:24 pm
Repository:
I am creating a tool, that can read addon folder, and return information on where certain defined WML patterns exist. My first use case is finding events without id.
I use wesnoth -p and wmlparser3.py.
Idea for this is from
Nothing works correctly yet, but it has already been...
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Last post by Ravana
January 12th, 2019, 6:11 pm
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Tools development
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LovCAPONE » December 6th, 2018, 3:45 pm
Hi, in 2014 I was accepted in the development team of Battle for Wesnoth but unfortunately, I couldn’t do a lot of work for the project because of a contract. Now I have time to allocate to work on this project and I was wondering if there are tasks/features that must be done concerning the tools....
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Last post by Ravana
December 11th, 2018, 10:43 pm
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Has anyone tried actually creating the "less random combat" mod?
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Facehunter » November 4th, 2018, 3:15 am
Now let me start by saying I have read Dave's post and understand his decision to include high variance. Apparently the topic gets brought up so often they banned it from the ideas forum(also understandable; after it's brought up the first time, they're really just begging other people to do the...
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Last post by Facehunter
November 4th, 2018, 3:18 pm
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Did you succesfully solve transparency problem with SDL2?
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AlBo » September 11th, 2018, 2:06 pm
Hello,
I'm sorry to come here for my own problem not regarding Wesnoth in any way but I'm currently fighting with SDL2 transparency processing and I've read some quite old posts here talking about this problem when you migrated from 1.2 to 2.0.
It's also why I'm coming here. I cannot find answer...
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Last post by GunChleoc
October 3rd, 2018, 6:18 pm
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lexical_caster overloads
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josteph » October 2nd, 2018, 10:56 pm
Commits c57a175fee701b4d19c09653a5c9445b778d139e and a7e1ff85ed10fa56512583648727155a54a2b0cd made the following change:
Isn't this a bug? The patch enabled those overloads for the case that From is char , butthe body of the operator() won't compile in that case.
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Last post by josteph
October 2nd, 2018, 10:56 pm
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AI based on Deep Learning
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milwac » April 11th, 2016, 7:20 am
I don't know if this is the proper forum to discuss this, but lately, after noticing all the great advancements in the field of machine learning, especially deep learning, I was wondering whether anyone has thought about the 'Writing a Wesnoth AI is hard' statement in a different light....
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Last post by Dugi
September 21st, 2018, 7:21 am
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Level 5 plus
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MotherNight » September 17th, 2018, 2:51 pm
Just a quick question: Would it currently cause any issues, to have units in the game that are level 5 or more? Is there a set limit to levels that units can hypothetically reach, in the code? Or is this open, safe territory?
I know that it would, in theory, affect the experience such units would...
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Last post by josteph
September 17th, 2018, 7:52 pm
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Two version lines in replay savegames
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josteph » September 16th, 2018, 2:49 pm
A replay savegame has two version= 1.14.5 lines. What's more, sometimes they have different values.
savegame::write_game() writes the first version= line and calls write_general_info() which calls game_classification::to_config() which generates the second version= line.
I'm not sure if this is a...
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Last post by Pentarctagon
September 16th, 2018, 3:27 pm
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New tools to make running Wesnoth MP server easier
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fstltna » June 16th, 2018, 3:34 am
Hello! I have been a member here since 2010 and was one developer of the iPad version of Wesnoth back in the day. I am now back in the scene and have some tools to make running the Wesnoth MP server easier. For example it lets you start the server at boot time, and restarts it if it should crash. I...
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Last post by fstltna
September 12th, 2018, 4:23 am
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How does wesnoth tiling system work?
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dagnelies » June 2nd, 2018, 8:01 am
As an experiment, I attempted to display wesnoth maps in the browser. As I was doing this, I was surprised by the involved complexity. This WML graphics with all its macros look crazy! ;P
What I don't understand though is why some tile transitions are border based , like most terrain. While others...
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Last post by dagnelies
June 2nd, 2018, 7:48 pm
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Wesnoth's stable binaries for linux as appImage?
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lea » May 28th, 2018, 5:44 pm
are there any plans to release Battle for Wesnoth as appImage?
appImage is packaging format similar to flatpak except it also does not require installation and (typically) contains all its dependencies (except linux kernel and drivers) inside appimage file itself.
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Last post by shadowm
May 28th, 2018, 10:12 pm
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In-Game help (encyclopedia) - Feedback
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shevegen » May 25th, 2018, 10:28 pm
Not sure if this is the (a) right place to put - if not, please feel free to move this to a corresponding entry.
I have noticed that the in-game encyclopedia is quite nice; in particular clicking on stuff to get more information.
I noticed that there is no explanation for a Zone of Control .
In...
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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
November 14th, 2018, 4:45 am
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Developing an AI using C++
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milwac » December 21st, 2017, 4:51 pm
Hi all,
I have been trying to develop an AI based on deep reinforcement learning and have had some interesting discussions regarding the same on this thread.
Right now I am trying to get some basic debugging stuff working - display game state information and deciding on what input features would...
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Last post by shevegen
May 25th, 2018, 10:30 pm
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MultiplayerServerWML bot creation
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Ravana » March 26th, 2016, 9:43 pm
I have been writing simple mp server bot (python3) for last several hours. It manages to join lobby as guest and send messages.
However, I couldnt manage to figure out how to create The hashed password, created from the password and salt received from the server .
The pdf file by norbert did not...
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Last post by Ravana
April 30th, 2018, 12:59 am
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Optimisation Discussions Advises Experiences Ideas Etc
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enclave » June 8th, 2017, 9:35 pm
Some of us have created eras or modifications. They work.
But there may be not obvious problems.. The code is working fine! But...
Maybe you can not reload your saved game because save file code is taking too much space..
Maybe your random map generator takes ages to generate map and most users...
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Last post by gfgtdf
April 29th, 2018, 4:50 pm
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Random map generator utility (beta)
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batoonike » December 24th, 2017, 6:50 pm
I made a small random map generator that works with templates. Templates are text files that have a list of commands. Combining these will allow you to create all kind of random maps with predictable structure. The result will be a scenario file that you will put into...
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April 24th, 2018, 8:21 am
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