[krisvek]

already met a couple people, but i figured i might go ahead and post where i'm supposed to about it...

i'd like to get helping with the project if i can...graphics maybe, but coding is where i have some experience
i'm not a pro though!  so dont expect any mona lisa's out of me (...art-wise, and the coding equivalent...)

[WMCoolmon]

Well, new art is always welcome, though Lightspeed and DaBrain have had something of a monopoly on it.

As far as coding goes, do you have any example work? You don't need to be a dev to get the current CVS. The main site can be found at scp.indiegames.us and has instructions on setting up WinCVS, instructions with the commandline version of CVS can be found here. Those are for linux, but should be the same under Windows as well, obviously the compilation steps are Linux-only.

[krisvek]

no real examples, havent messed with anything as "big" as a game/mod project yet...just the typical classroom applications (computer engineering major....not as many programming classes as i want, but i've had a few)

where might i find the source code?  i like browsing through other people's work

also, i'll have a looksee at the cvs stuff soon....

[WMCoolmon]

The CVS is the source code. Since there are multiple developers working on fs2_open, what CVS does is let people make changes to the tree (using "cvs commit ") and keep their copy of the code up-to-date with changes other people make. (using "cvs update")

The repositories are:
fred2_open - FRED2 (with improvements)
freespace2_public - The original source release in CVS form, with none of the changes/improvements, along with FRED, too, I believe.
fs2_icculus - the icculus.org version of Freespace 2, basically the original source ported to Linux.
fs2_open - the main code branch, if you want to work on the SCP, this is what you should get.

If you don't want to install CVS just yet, you can browse through it online with this handy utility.

[krisvek]

awesome, many thanks