Content Contribution Guide

The Unreal Archive currently consists of three main content types:

• Game Content: Automatically categorised and indexed user-created game content for Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2004.
• Articles/Documents: Help, guides, and reference articles for the games.
• Managed Content: Content or updates which cannot be automatically classified, for example patches or alternative renderers.

All of this content is defined within YAML files and stored within a dedicated Git repository at https://github.com/unreal-archive/unreal-archive-data.

The process is currently somewhat technical, with no handy submission forms or rich text editors. The goal of the project is to create something easily (relative to many years of continued maintenance) maintainable and expandable, so the focus is currently on getting those underpinnings workable. Any editors and uploaders are considered transitive and may change with the times, but should always be able to be applied on top of the base functionality described here.

Note: As of this writing, the unreal-archive tool has only been tested on Linux environments. Please refer to the project's README document for information on running it on other platforms.

Setup

You will probably need a local copy of the content repository, so begin by forking and then cloning the unreal-archive-data Git repository.

Game Content

Adding new maps, map packs, skins, models and mutators requires a local, packaged (zip, rar, 7z, umod, etc) copy of the content to be added, as well as use of the unreal-archive command-line tool.

Before you begin, you will need the following:

1. Java 8 JRE
2. Download the unreal-archive tool
3. Clone the unreal-archive-data git repository

$ unreal-archive scan <path/to/something>
$ unreal-archive index </path/to/something>
$ unreal-archive edit <hash>

Articles/Documents

Managed Content

• TODO adding game content
• TODO adding written content/articles/documents
• TODO editing and fixing metadata
• TODO code changes