Welcome¶

Welcome to the #openttdcoop Development Zone. We offer hosting for every kind of TTD related stuff, especially so for newgrfs with a free license. If you're interested, please contact us on IRC or create a ticket: here.

Guide¶

• Welcome
• Guide
• Licenses
• Last (and least;-)

• official Redmine user guide (Translations: French, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish)

• Guide for Windows users (using TortoiseHg and setting up a compile environment)

• Using a Makefile
  • Organizing your newgrf

• Making a release

• VCS
  • Mercurial
    • hgignore
  • Writing Commit Messages
  • Encountering A Merge

• Tips&Tricks
  • Common NewGRFs Tasks
  • GIMP

• Configure DevZone Settings
• How to handle issue states

• Manager

• Managing the Compile Farm (CF)

Licenses¶

Every project hosted here must have a license which allows the community to continue the project without express permission by the original authors. The licenses listed here are recommendations, there are numerous other free licenses around which might be more appropriate to single projects.

recommended as 100% compatible with OpenTTD. Credits must be given, source code also of published modifications must be made available on request.

2nd best: you're credited, but others are free to extend and modify as they see fit as long as they credit the original author(s). But no source code must be provided.

you're credited and others are free to extend and modify as they see fit as long as they credit the original author(s) and also use this license. No source code must be provided.

Last (and least;-)¶

• Obsolete topics which might be interesting for other purposes still:
  • Setting up SSH
  • SSH (ssh is not required anymore)
  • Getting started on Windows
    • Installing Mercurial
    • Configuring TortoiseHg
    • Using TortoiseHg
    • Setting up a Compile Environment
    • FooBar's Note-To-Self

• Clones
• Suspended and / or obsolete projects:
  • Giraffe