Spring:CategoryStructure

Use this sitemap to show changes in structure you'd like to see.

Go to the CurrentSiteMap to work on the Sitemap we want to have!

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Shortened version for better illustration purposes (not saying to drop the subpoints of course!):

• About
• Games
  • Free/Open Source
  • Proprietary
  • TA-derived (must own a copy of "Total Annihilation" to legally play)
  • No longer supported/abandoned
• Engine Development
  • Latest information (changelog, new features, beta versions and so on)
  • Mantis (reporting bugs)
  • Compiling Spring
  • Github
• Game Making/Content Creation (use "Mod Development" ?)
  • General Info
  • Unit Development
  • Weapons, Explosions & Misc
  • Map creation (use "Map development" ?)
  • Lua Scripting
  • AI Development
  • Mission Development
• Help
  • Installing Spring (Windows)
  • Installing Spring (Linux) (might be related to "Compiling Spring)
  • First Steps
    • Introduction to singeplayer frontends
    • Introduction to multiplayer lobbies
  • Advanced Setup
    • Using AIs
    • User Interface
    • Lua_Widgets
    • Custom Interfaces (ICE UI, Lolui)
  • FAQ (I don't know what to do with this one - in its current state it's pretty much an unorganized repitition of the standard info pages...)
• Download

K, hope pretty much everything is back in - I left out the Strategy guides on purpose, because I don't think they have a place in the "public face" of the Spring site (don't care if they're hidden somewhere). The reason is, the site is about the engine - I think it makes sense to also showcase which games are using it, but explaining those games is better left to the games one homepages, that's my opinion. Seanheron 12:20, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Maybe we should have a more general discussion of what should displayed by the site/sitemap ? Related to this is what should go in which of our "top-bar" pages. I would suggest:

• Present Spring as an Engine (currently About)
• Present Games that use Spring (Games)
• Enable people to install and use spring (Download for installation, FAQaka Help for usage, ??)
• Support improvement and work on the Engine (is in Source Development)
• Support work on content and games (This is also in Source Development, but I think it should have an seperate page)

That would cover everything I think the Spring site should be about / display visibly.

I've split Engine Devving and Game creation, cause I just think it's two very seperate things (just look in the forums!). A different possible split might be: Coding <-> Artwork

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Longer version (for reference)

• About
• Games
  • Free/Open Source
    • Kernel Panic
    • Spring: 1944
    • etc..
  • Proprietary
    • P.U.R.E.
    • Gundam RTS
    • The Cursed
    • etc..
  • TA-derived (must own a copy of "Total Annihilation" to legally play)
    • BA
    • CA
    • NOTA
    • etc..
  • No longer supported/abandoned
• Development
  • Engine Development
    • Latest information (changelog, new features, beta versions and so on)
    • Mantis (reporting bugs)
    • Compiling Spring
    • Github
• Game Making/Content Creation (use "Mod Development" ?)
  • General Info
    • Introduction to game development (features a brief overview which elements make things work in Spring, how to zip a modfile and so on)
    • Resources
    • Tools (needs to be rewritten)
  • Unit Development
    • Models 3do
    • Models s3o
    • Unit animation / scripting
    • Unit definitions - FBI Files
  • Weapons, Explosions & Misc
    • Weapons - TDF files
    • Explosion generators (CEG)
    • Misc (this is about all the little topics like cursors, sidepics or radar icons)
  • Map creation (use "Map development" ?)
    • Guides / Specifications
    • Tools
  • Lua Scripting
    • Introduction & First steps
    • Available functions (Interfaces)
  • AI Development
  • Mission Development
• Help
  • Installing Spring (Windows)
  • Installing Spring (Linux) (might be related to "Compiling Spring)
    • General guide
    • Additional info for distribution X
    • Additional info for distribution Y
    • Additional info for distribution Z
  • First Steps
    • Introduction to Spring (what is Springsettings.exe, Spring.exe and so on for & giving an overview of how to add games/mods and maps) -> this might be good: Getting_Spring_Content_and_Links as Link source)
    • Introduction to singeplayer frontends
      • Springlobby Frontend
      • whatever else may come...
      • Using AIs
    • Introduction to multiplayer lobbies
      • TASClient
      • Springlobby
      • QTLobby (it might turn out great and currently is one of the few that work ;) )
      • Using AIs
    • User Interface
      • Default keyboard layout
      • Default key combinations
      • Explaining advanced controls (like building stuff in a line)
      • Lua_Widgets
      • Custom Interfaces
        • IceUI
        • LolUI
  • FAQ (I don't know what to do with this one - in its current state it's pretty much an unorganized repitition of the standard info pages...)
• Download