Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 8:31 pm Post subject:
Relevant community sites?
Since we're in a discussive¹ mood recently, here's a question for you all:
What sites and forums relevant to RA2YR editing are left out there?
The background of my question is two-fold:
For one, I've been thinking about establishing a community search engine for a while. While Google is powerful, domain-specific and site-customized spiders are more powerful when it comes to finding very specific pieces of knowledge.
For that, I need to know what sites would potentially be worth querying.
Secondly, I'm old. When I joined the community, I first registered at RA2 Mod Makers, then DeeZire, sites like RADEN and CNCDEN were big and Revora wouldn't exist for years. If you didn't notice the pattern: Three of those five sites are dead by now². There have been half a dozen different incarnations of Editing Source in my time, and YR Arg has been dormant or alive more often than I cared to count.
Quite frankly: I have no ztyping idea what's currently available and what isn't.
What is the current state of the RA2YR editing community in terms of available/usable sites?
Feel free to categorize your responses:
C&C/RA2YR news sites
Map downloads
Mod sites/mod downloads
Tutorials
Assets
Depending on the count and quality of answers I get, I'll edit this post to include the list of suggested sites, so this can act as a quick overview for newbies (and geezers like me).
¹ That is totally a word.
² In fact, RA2MM turned into CnC Mod Makers, which is dead, it belonged to Planet CnC, which is dead, which belongs to GameSpy, which is dead. So it's quadruple dead by now. Depressing. _________________ #renproj:renegadeprojects.com via Matrix - direct link QUICK_EDIT
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Well it goes without saying that C&C Guild and it's forums are good to know about. The forums don't seem to be quite as active as PPM sometimes, but it hosts popular mods like Mental Omega, and it has lots of public assets available.
Might as well explain the rest of my C&C bookmarks since I find them useful.
I have ModEnc bookmarked in case I need to look up a tag I don't know about. I also have Ares' website and it's documentation bookmarked, but that's not something newbies would want to jump on immediately.
In addition, I'd recommend listing OpenRA's site. If you want to mod a pre-TS game like Red Alert, it is far more flexible and easier to mod then the original game, period. QUICK_EDIT
Well it goes without saying that C&C Guild and it's forums are good to know about. The forums don't seem to be quite as active as PPM sometimes, but it hosts popular mods like Mental Omega, and it has lots of public assets available.
Might as well explain the rest of my C&C bookmarks since I find them useful.
I have ModEnc bookmarked in case I need to look up a tag I don't know about. I also have Ares' website and it's documentation bookmarked, but that's not something newbies would want to jump on immediately.
In addition, I'd recommend listing OpenRA's site. If you want to mod a pre-TS game like Red Alert, it is far more flexible and easier to mod then the original game, period.
wow... That seems to be just about the same as everything that's in my bookmarks... For some reason I find this amusing QUICK_EDIT
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