As the engine is in the pre-release phase now, where we will not change major stuff that would require you to adapt again, and testing should be done now, it would be good to have games to test with.

Please test your game with the latest engine test release and report errors in the Help & Bugs forum or on mantis.
When you did all the necessary changes to your game to make it work on this version of spring, it would be nice to have a release so we can engage in more wide-spread testing. The changes should all be backwards compatible (no guarantee, but also no contrary reports so far). If you do not want to officially release, at least make an archive or rapid tag, to make it publicly available (for example by posting in this thread). testing with multiple players with SVN versions of different games is not feasible.

important changes

• removed n's in array-like Lua tables
• game end condition moved to Lua
• IGNORE (will be fixed engine side) 3do solid colors appear as black (see Kloot's comment)
• Spring.SetUnitLineage() and Spring.GetUnitLineage() do not exist anymore ("who's ya daddy?" - "dunnu! ")
• you may only use mono sounds for anything that is played in 3D space. for example unit or explosion sounds, in contrast to ambient music, which is allowed to have more then one channel.
• you may want to set a custom Icon & Caption for your game

TODO the above list is most likely incomplete. please PM me if you have something to add.

playing sounds seems to be more strictly now.
I get messages like
[f=0000238] [Sound] Can't play non-mono "sounds/yea.wav" in 3d.
that I do not get in current version. (I guess fixeable by converting all sounds to mono, must have missed some)

Beside this and an issue with unit scripts Spring Tanks seems to work in 0.83, hooray. (at least in SP)

Widget DB
very_bad_soldier replaced all ".n" usages with #, where appropriate, for all widgets on the Widget DB and updated some to newer versions (fetched from games). So they should now be spring 0.83 ready!
He also made a wiki page about the DB, and linked to it on the Lua dev page. here it is:
http://springrts.com/wiki/WidgetDatabaseFAQ
(he also fixed the web interface for certain low tech browsers like Konqueror)

Spring Tanks
knorkes problem with unit scripts seems to have been a configuration glicht, as can be seen in the mantis report, and is now fixed too.
I do not know if this is available as an archive or on rapid already.

Zero-K
The latest version (0.8.8.2) should be spring 0.83 ready (good work KingRaptor), except a problem with game-end, which results in the game never ending. Get it through rapid!

Fixed all the .n crap in grts(oddly I never used it, I always # as per standard lua) you need to ping z most of my .n fixes were his code and I am not home to ping him.

Have not had any sound issues yet but only had time to fix the .n crap

To do: game ends, test stuff, play more dw:g3

The widget "Start Point Remover" isn't needed any more, i removed the start point in the engine, the minimap event isn't shown too.

i've also added a widget, that readds that function: https://github.com/spring/spring/blob/m ... marker.lua

What is the replacement? because this is used with a lot of commander spawn code


because the above change breaks game_spawn? or another reason? because I get a comm fine.

that's 82.x already
It was like that already, it now just prints a warning message (duno if it is visible by default, or if you need to enable a log subsystem).

pretty much seconding jk here. Unless there is something new. I don't want to chase wild gooses, what is the source of the no comms claim?

thanks jk, i did not remember that anymore (even though i sure got lots of complaints back then :D).
abma, with the widget you added there... if it is in this location, doesn't that mean it is again used by all games by default, and so nothing really changed?
what would game devs have to do to change the default behavior (whether it is used or unused by default).

the sound log-subsystem is enabled by default anyway, and i saw this message quite a few times already, from people that i am sure would not go enabling log-subsystems manually.
anyway can not hurt to mention it, so people are again more likely to notice and change it.

abma's new widget is default disabled

As of 0.83.x CEG definitions (tdf or lua) can now be loaded from the 'effects/' folder as well as the old 'gamedata/explosions/'.

https://github.com/spring/spring/commit ... 711c5e9b17

This was already possible if you had your own gamedata/explosions.lua or gamedata/explosions_post.lua but it is now supported by the base springcontent.sdz.

No change required, but I felt that following the CA model makes more sense than having them with the unrelated files in 'gamedata/'.

If you want to make your game MT compatible, read this:

http://springrts.com/wiki/Spring_Multithreaded_Lua

The "xyz is being attacked" warning was removed from engine. That also means the "commander under attack" sound.
get it back by making some Lua.
Thread: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=26963

Spring seems more strict about resouces.lua/resources_map.lua
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=27236&p=506719
(mappers might care)

removal of some Lua *defs such as canDGun and isBuilder:
https://github.com/spring/spring/commit/1c411a882423b3b5014900f8c855c8f90ee08097

---------------from here on changes for > 85.0------
toairweapon tag is deprecated at long last:

https://github.com/spring/spring/commit ... 75a3516358

Did someone change the scale of MoveCtrl commands? My jumpers in Cuberor and the fighter in Air Raid move at insane speeds.

See http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=2886

Bug in SetRelativeVelocity, fixed in 86.