[simspark-devel] Documentation and wikis

[Drew N. <dre...@ya...>]

Hello all,

I'm new to these lists, having only discovered the 3D Simulation League in April after visiting the Japan Open RoboCup event in Osaka.  Since then I've spent countless hours learning what's required to make my own agent.  Great fun.


I found that there was some room to improve the public documentation of SimSpark and RoboCup 3D.  I have made a bunch of edits to various wikis and would really appreciate if people more experienced that me would review them for accuracy.

Firstly, the Wikipedia page RoboCup Simulation League exclusively covered the 2D sub-league.  I moved that content to a new page and created another for the 3D sub-league.  The previous page now links to these two new pages.  I also fleshed out the SimSpark page.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCup_Simulation_League
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCup_2D_Soccer_Simulation_League
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCup_3D_Soccer_Simulation_League
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimSpark

On the SimSpark wiki I created a new page devoted to agent authoring.  It contains a table of open source agents and base-code libraries.  Please add any that are missing.

* http://simspark.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Agents

In programming my own agent, I kept a list of where the SimSpark user manual was confusing, incomplete or possibly wrong.  There's a new section beneath the User Manual download link on the wiki that lists these points:

* http://simspark.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Users_Manual

Please take the time to review these pages for accuracy.  Please make any changes directly, or discuss ideas for improvement on the relevant article's discussion page.

For a full list of the changes I've made (there are other minor ones not listed above), see:

* http://simspark.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/Drewnoakes
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Drewnoakes

It is my hope that these additions to Wikipedia and the SimSpark wiki will help extend the reach of these great projects as well as make it even easier for people to start programming their own agents.  My sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed to SimSpark/rcssserver3d.

Kind regards,

Drew.