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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Kobrar44 on February 15, 2009, 07:43:38 am

Title: Design doc-what is this?
Post by: Kobrar44 on February 15, 2009, 07:43:38 am

Well... I've got one, big question.
What is this design doc? What should it include? How should it look like?
Please, help:P

Title: Re: Design doc-what is this?
Post by: Mobius on February 15, 2009, 08:09:04 am

:welcomesilver:

Welcome to the HLPBB! :D

What are you refering to? Has it anything to do with modelling? :)

Title: Re: Design doc-what is this?
Post by: Raven2001 on February 15, 2009, 08:35:01 am

A Design Doc is basically the whole planning document of a mod\game

In there you have plot description, the assets (ships, weapons etc) you will need, mission outline and detail, gameplay description (not really needed for a freespace mod, unless you're planning on a brand new gameplay feature or whatever), among others.

The idea of writing this document is to:
1. The designer get his ideas in place, organize them, etc
2. Be compreensive enough so that the other team members, by reading it, understand the whole thing and vision of the mod.

So obviously images, graphs, whatever may help to get the idea across.

Hope that helps

Title: Re: Design doc-what is this?
Post by: Kobrar44 on February 15, 2009, 09:04:11 am

Thx!