It is now Christmas yet again. We have had many troubles in improving the hive. And it seems that most of it works. We can still talk though and that's the most important thing.
I hope that you all will have a good Christmas with all the presents and love you need.

I don't really know anything else to say..


Merry Christmas from the staff

Perhaps some of you have noticed this announcement in the JASS forum, but as very few people visit it, I will turn this into a global announcement. I am initiating a project that will help people on this forum to learn JASS from scratch, step by step, so that everyone can follow the different phases of learning, and be able to write advanced codes faster than by following a tutorial and then improvising.

So, what does this project actually consist of? From time to time, I will post a class (or lesson) in which I will explain certain aspects of the programming language. We will start from the basics and as lessons grow in number, the difficulty grows too. For each lesson you will receive a homework you may send me via PM (this means that you can improve your code by actually practicing and receiving feedback). After each homework, I may include a grading system too, but the goal is to actually learn something, and grades are to motivate you in doing so. You may also ask questions after a lesson, based on what you've already learned there, and you will receive your answer. Keep in mind that the process may take some time, but I assure you that it will be much more efficient than a classical tutorial.

What happens to those who miss classes? Well, they can read the lesson at any moment, ask questions in the specific thread, or send me their homework. However, the beauty of being in the initial generation that actually follows the course is that from time to time, I may start challenges based on what we've learned up to that point. Winners of the challenges will probably receive some kind of reward on their profile and reputation. I hope that many of you are interested and that this will prove a benefic action which will actually lead to production of better spells and codes for Warcraft 3.

So if anyone is interested, just post into this thread with an affirmative reply. If atleast 10 persons have an affirmative reply (and could actually benefit from this course), I will initiate this project. Keep in mind that you do not need any coding or programming knowledge to follow this course. It is a fresh start for all those willing to learn JASS (or become better coders).

~Daelin

For those of you who have heard about Darkfall and look at the Darkfall Forum we have here, you will probably know that me and several other members are going to form a clan in that game, a Pirates Clan to be exact!

I have just finished and released the web site for the clan, which you can find here.

You have probably noticed all the new forums which suddenly have appeared on the forum index. They're imported from Wc3sear.ch in case you'd like to know.

Note; that all the threads and posts within each of the imported forums will be "mass-moved" into our own forums.

That means for example, that all the threads and posts which were in the "Skins" forum back at Wc3sear.ch, have now been moved into our "Skinning / Texturing" forum.

As you can see, there are still some of the forums from Wc3sear.ch which havn't been "merged" yet. The content of those forums havn't been moved into their new respective forum category yet, but we're working on it.

On another side note: all the tutorials which were originally submitted at Wc3sear.ch has now become a part of The Hive Workshops' tutorial section and we're currently moving those tutorials to their fitting tutorial categories so they fit for our sections.

However, beaware of that we have to sort out all those tutorials who's "non-needed" and as you can see in the Tutorial Submission board, we have a lot of work to do.

So stay tunned.

Cheers,
~Archian.

Today ragingspeedhorn accepted to be the moderator of the Map Development forum. Congratulations raging.