User:BurgerBB

A guide written by a filthy contributor.

How to Contribute
So you want to contribute to Aurorastation? Good. The server could use all the help it could get.

There are many ways of contributing to Aurorastation. Sprites. Sound. Bug fixes. Feature additions. Maps. Grammatical errors and fixes. Making your own wiki page. Updating the existing wiki pages. Generally anything is welcome if it improves the server in some way, and there are no blatant issues about it. But before you get started with making things, you might want to do the following things:


 * 1) Sign up for github.
 * 2) Download github.
 * 3) Learn how to use github.
 * 4) Read the rules on submitting pull requests
 * 5) Download the coderbase.
 * 6) (Optional) Join the discord and ask nicely for help if you need it in the code dungeon.

What to Contribute

 * Grammatical Error Fixes (Very Easy)
 * Grammatical and spelling errors are easy to fix. All it requires is changing dealing with github. It's easy for these to get approved as they are such simple changes that just involve modifying lines of text. Not every much code knowledge is required.


 * New Sprites (Difficult)
 * Aurorastation uses old baystation sprites, which may look ugly or outdated. If you think you can create better sprites for something, then you're going to have to learn how to sprite with BYOND. /tg/station has an excellent guide for this and it is recommended that you read that page there.
 * New Sound (Easy)


 * Replacing existing sound is quite easy, as all it takes is creating the sound file, converting it to .ogg, and then replacing the already existing one. Replacing bad sounds with better ones is rarely done, despite being quite welcome.

Tools to Use

 * Map Editing
 * Use Dream Maker. Dream maker comes installed with BYOND.


 * Code editing
 * Use Dream Maker, as it is useful for finding objects, however you may want to use something more robust like Notepad++ or Sublime Text.


 * Sprite Editing
 * Use Dream Maker, as it has a built in sprite editor tool, however it is clunky and I recommend using an external paint program like paint.net or GIMP[https://www.gimp.org/


 * Sound Editing
 * I recommend audacity for managing, editing, and converting sounds to .ogg file format.