Forums:

Why Forums? Well they are the best place to find the information you need. The better forums for map makers are: the Project Red: Engineering forum, where a dedicated Mapping community exists, the author as well as most of the contributors can be found in there and also in the Relic Forums. The Relic Forums are the longest existing and most popular forum where most members of the homeworld community visit from time to time. Absurdly popular, there will always be help available here and I can't recommend it enough.

Brand new and growing rapidly is the Barking Dog Forums, these forums are moderated directly by the BD staff and so where better to ask question when your stuck and so on.

Finally the Sierra Forums are worth noting in that they deal with homeworld and cataclysm and they are haunted by the Cataclysm developers who may or may not come out of the shadows to answer any questions you may have. Word of warning though, if you are not a regular member with post counts in the triple numbers and up, then it will be quickly pointed out. A new Mods section has opened up and this may prove to be more helpful as long as the spammers stay away, but I would still recommend the PRED or Relic Boards.

Two other forums well worthy of note are the Clan boards for the Old Men Online (OMO Forums) and the Drunken Pirates (DP Forums). Smaller and more intimate, these forums are haunted by clan members and are usually pretty quick to reply to any questions and never with a "Use the Search Engine you Gimp" flames. The author can be found on the OMO boards along with a growing number of accomplished map makers, specifically Aged, Beltemall, Geritol and Senility at the time of writing. The DP Forums are home to Overkill, Teelan, and Medamanx so you will be in good hands there.

 

 

mIRC:

Real time help can always be found on mIRC, if you don't have it, go and download the Relic Board mIRC program (its free and small, a quick download). RBmIRC has the added benefit of connecting you direct to the Homeworld community, but if you are using the normal version of mIRC, then join irc.Telefragged.com and look for the #Homeworld, or join Austnet and seek out the #Relic and #Cataclysm rooms. Classic mIRC can be found using a search on any search engine, I got mine from a local tucows server.

 

 

E-mail:

You can contact the author of the Primer at: hwprimer@ntlworld.com I will try to answer most of your questions concerning editing, alternately, if MissionMan is your thing then you might want to drop a line to Medamanx at the Homeworld Screenshots Archive who is one of the best authorities on the subject.

 

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