Opening a new issue? Please read ISSUES.md first.
Want an introductory guide for creating game content? You might want to read the Guide to adding new content to CDDA for first time contributors on the CDDA wiki.
Cataclysm:Dark Days Ahead is released under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license. The code and content of the game is free to use, modify, and redistribute for any purpose whatsoever. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. This means any contribution you make to the project will also be covered by the same license, and this license is irrevocable.
Most of the Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead game data is defined in JSON files. These files are intended to be easy for you to edit, but there are some pitfalls. Using Windows Notepad can get you into trouble, because it likes to insert a special character called a BOM at the start of the file, which CDDA does not want.
If you're going to be editing JSON files consider getting a more fully-featured editor such as Notepad++.
Summary is a mandatory one-line description of your change that will be extracted and added to the project changelog. If the summary is invalid, your PR is unable to get merged.
The format is:
#### Summary
Category "description"The categories to choose from are: Features, Content, Interface, Mods, Balance, Bugfixes, Performance, Infrastructure, Build, I18N.
Example:
#### Summary
Content "Adds new mutation category 'Mouse'"Or, if you want it treated as a minor tweak that doesn't appear in the changelog:
#### Summary
NoneSee the Changelog Guidelines for explanations of the categories.
Contributing to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is easy — simply fork the repository here on GitHub, make your changes, and then send us a pull request.
There are a couple of guidelines we suggest sticking to (see #Example Workflow):
- Keep your
masterbranch clean. This means you can easily pull changes made to this repository into yours. - Create a new branch for each new feature or set of related bug fixes.
- Never merge from your local branches into your
masterbranch. Only update that by pulling fromupstream/master. GitHub has a button to update the master branch of your fork, so you do not need to know how to use git for this.
Code style is enforced across the codebase by astyle.
See CODE_STYLE for details.
The translation of Cataclysm: DDA is done using Transifex. Look at the translation project for an up-to-date list of supported languages.
See TRANSLATING.md for more information:
Extensive documentation of classes and class members will make the code more readable. New Doxygen comments for existing classes are a welcomed contribution.
Use the following template for commenting classes:
/**
* Brief description
*
* Lengthy description with many words. (optional)
*/
class foo {Use the following template for commenting functions:
/**
* Brief description
*
* Lengthy description with many words. (optional)
* @param param1 Description of param1 (optional)
* @return Description of return (optional)
*/
int foo(int param1);Use the following template for commenting member variables:
/** Brief description **/
int foo;Helpful pages:
- Doxygen Manual - Special Commands
- Doxygen Manual - Standard Markdown
- Doxygen Manual - Frequently Asked Questions
- Doxygen comments should describe behavior towards the outside, not implementation, but since many classes in Cataclysm are intertwined, it's often necessary to describe implementation.
- Describe things that aren't obvious just from the name.
- Don't describe redundantly:
/** Map **/; map* map;is not a helpful comment. - When documenting X, describe how X interacts with other components, not just what X itself does.
- Install doxygen
doxygen doxygen_doc/doxygen_conf.txtfirefox doxygen_doc/html/index.html(replace firefox with your browser of choice)
(This only needs to be done once.)
- Fork this repository here on GitHub.
Note: Fork is different from branch, branches are covered later.
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Clone your fork locally.
# Clones your fork of the repository into the current directory in terminal $ git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/Cataclysm-DDA.git # Alternatively if you don't want to clone an entire big history (5GB!) $ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/Cataclysm-DDA.git
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Set commit message template.
# Changes the active directory in the prompt to the newly cloned "Cataclysm-DDA" directory $ cd Cataclysm-DDA # Set commit message template to the custom one in the repo $ git config --local commit.template .gitmessage
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Add this repository as a remote.
# Assigns the original repository to a remote called "upstream" $ git remote add -f upstream https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA.git
For further details about commit message guidelines please visit:
- Make sure you have your
masterbranch checked out.
$ git checkout master- Pull the changes from the
upstream/masterbranch.
$ git pull --ff-only upstream master
# gets changes from "master" branch on the "upstream" remote- Note: If this gives you an error, it means you have committed directly to your local
masterbranch. Click here for instructions on how to fix this issue.
- Pull new tags from the
upstreamremote repo.
This step is not necessary to compile or contribute, but skipping it can result in outdated version numbers on your builds.
$ git fetch upstream --tags
# gets new tags from the "upstream" remote- Optionally, push the synced master state to the
origin/masterbranch.
$ git push origin master
# push the synced master state to your fork-
Update your
masterbranch, if you haven't already. -
For each new feature or bug fix, create a new branch.
# Creates a new branch called "new_feature" and switches to it
$ git checkout -b new_feature- Once you've committed some changes locally, you need to push them to your fork here on GitHub.
# origin was automatically set to point to your fork when you cloned it
$ git push origin new_feature- Once you're finished working on your branch, and have committed and pushed all your changes, submit a pull request from your
new_featurebranch to this repository'smasterbranch.
- Note: any new commits to the
new_featurebranch on GitHub will automatically be included in the pull request, so make sure to only commit related changes to the same branch.
If you file a PR but you're still working on it, please make it a Draft.
This will tell the reviewers that you still intend to add more to the PR and we don't need to review it yet. When it's ready to be reviewed for a merger, just click the Ready for review button.
Please convert all your existing PRs with [WIP] in the title to Drafts.
This can help speed up our review process by allowing us to only review the things that are ready for it, and will help prevent merging in anything that isn't completely ready.
If you are also looking for suggestions then add a [CR] before the title text — "comments requested". Feel free to remove [CR] when you feel you got enough information to proceed.
It is not required to solve or reference an open issue to file a PR, however, if you do so, you need to explain the problem your PR is solving in full detail.
Make sure your PR description is still relevant every time you change your branch after discussion or additional thought.
When your PR should close an issue, please include closing keywords:
- close
- closes
- closed
- fix
- fixes
- fixed
- resolve
- resolves
- resolved
Various tools are available to help you keep your contributions conforming to the appropriate style. See DEVELOPER_TOOLING.md for more details.
These guidelines aren't essential, but they can make keeping things in order much easier.
Remote tracking branches allow you to easily stay in touch with this repository's master branch, as they automatically know which remote branch to get changes from.
$ git branch -vv
* master xxxx [origin/master] ....
new_feature xxxx ....Here you can see we have two branches; master which is tracking origin/master, and new_feature which isn't tracking any branch. In practice, what this means is that git won't know where to get changes from.
$ git checkout new_feature
Switched to branch 'new_feature'
$ git pull
There is no tracking information for the current branch.
Please specify which branch you want to merge with.In order to easily pull changes from upstream/master into the new_feature branch, we can tell git which branch it should track. (You can even do this for your local master branch.)
$ git branch -u upstream/master new_feature
Branch new_feature set up to track remote branch master from upstream.
$ git pull
Updating xxxx..xxxx
....You can also set the tracking information at the same time as creating the branch.
$ git branch new_feature_2 --track upstream/master
Branch new_feature_2 set up to track remote branch master from upstream.
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Note: Although this makes it easier to pull from
upstream/master, it doesn't change anything with regards to pushing.git pushfails because you don't have permission to push toupstream/master.$ git push error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA.git fatal: HTTP request failed $ git push origin .... To https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/Cataclysm-DDA.git xxxx..xxxx new_feature -> new_feature
There is a suite of tests built into the source tree at tests/
You should run the test suite after ANY change to the game source.
An ordinary invocation of make will build the test executable at tests/cata_test, and it can be invoked like any ordinary executable, or via make check.
Running tests/cata_test with no arguments will run the entire test suite; running it with --help will print a number of invocation options you can use to adjust its operation.
$ make
... compilation details ...
$ tests/cata_test
Starting the actual test at Fri Nov 9 04:37:03 2018
===============================================================================
All tests passed (1324684 assertions in 94 test cases)
Ended test at Fri Nov 9 04:37:45 2018
The test took 41.772 secondsIt is recommended to habitually invoke make like make YOUR BUILD OPTIONS && make check.
If you're working with Visual Studio (and don't have make), see Visual Studio-specific advice.
If you want/need to add a test, see TESTING.md
Whether you are implementing a new feature or whether you are fixing a bug, it is always a good practice to test your changes in-game. It can be a hard task to create the exact conditions by playing a normal game to be able to test your changes, which is why there is a debug menu. There is no default key to bring up the menu so you will need to assign one first.
Bring up the keybindings menu (press Escape then 1), scroll down almost to the bottom and press + to add a new keybinding. Press the letter that corresponds to the Debug menu item, then press the key you want to use to bring up the debug menu. To test your changes, create a new world with a new character. Once you are in that world, press the key you just assigned for the debug menu and you should see:
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Debug Functions - Using these will cheat not only the game, but yourself. │
│ You won't grow. You won't improve. │
│ Taking this shortcut will gain you nothing. Your victory will be hollow. │
│ Nothing will be risked and nothing will be gained. │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ i Info… │
│ g Game… │
│ s Spawning… │
│ p Player… │
│ v Vehicle… │
│ t Teleport… │
│ m Map… │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
With these commands, you should be able to recreate the proper conditions to test your changes.
If git pull --ff-only shows an error, it means that you've committed directly to your local master branch. To fix this, we create a new branch with these commits, find the point at which we diverged from upstream/master, and then reset master to that point.
$ git pull --ff-only upstream master
From https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
* branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting.
$ git branch new_branch master # mark the current commit with a tmp branch
$ git merge-base master upstream/master
cc31d0... # the last commit before we committed directly to master
$ git reset --hard cc31d0....
HEAD is now at cc31d0... ...Now that master has been cleaned up, we can easily pull from upstream/master, and then continue working on new_branch.
$ git pull --ff-only upstream master
# gets changes from the "upstream" remote for the matching branch, in this case "master"
$ git checkout new_branchAssuming upstream is CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA and origin is your fork, do the commands:
git reset upstream/master
git push --repo=origin --forceFor more frequently asked questions, see the developer FAQ.