Nah, I don't even see something about FOnline before 2009 or 2008. Nobody writes how it was started in 2004 and so. I know it isn't important but I would like to read that kind of dev diary. And what I mean, well actually people from outside community don't know that FOnline is more than one server. Maybe you don't see it but sometimes when I find somewhere infos about FOnline, people think that there is only one Fallout Online etc. - they don't realize about the whole community. So that's why I would like to see more detailed history about our FOnline community.
Rotators wasn't involved in FOnline before 2008. We started development in late 2008 / early 2009 after OBT2. I think you'd have to ask cvet to get a complete picture of the years before that, but basically the original project was started in 2004 (maybe?) by Oleg "olegmmm" Mareskin and cvet was one of the contributors. Sometime after that everyone else except cvet stopped working on it, so he "forked it" and started working on it as closed source.
Here's the original source code, it's very different from the current source code, only has DirectX8 rendering and doesn't really work... but some of the base for current engine is there.
About tutorials, ihmo most of these tuts are cursory and not detailed but it all depends on people's skills and if they really want to do sth. But generally for people who aren't in community what would you like to give? There aren't any further detailed docs or manuals, everything "is fine as it is". Slowhand's and 2238's short manuam tuts are nearly good but ihmo they should be expanded in both directions - advanced and simple detailed ways.
Yes, agreed, but it takes a lot of time to write good technical documentation that is understandable by everyone. I think Slowhand has done a very good job, but sadly the way to learn after doing his tutorials is still to just download the source, try to decipher various things on this forum and then experiment. It's very steep, but it's better than a few years ago when a lot had to be translated from russian.
If you or someone else feels like doing some work with guides/tutorials, we will absolutely highlight it on the frontpage
I don't know but as you can see it's good to think about it. Let's see 7 years and we are slowly dying...
Community is just the sum of its parts, stuff doesn't happen of itself as no one is paid to do this and while we were doing 2238 it was almost a full time job for us, with server management + constant development every single day. I'm not complaining as it was tremendous amount of fun and I've learned a lot, just saying as it it.
