CollectionOfStuff

At least a million widgets and gadgets have been done in Spring. But alot of cool things are lost because the game vanished or the idea never made it into a public release. Many items from Monthly_Topic_Rotation are actually done or could be done.

It also annoyed me that there are often forum threads where somebody explains in detail how to do something but its just lost in spam. So here is a collection of random things.

Some of the stuff might be outdated or rough "proves of concept":

1 Linked Units: if parent units dies, child units die too
2 Widget+Gadget - CEG Spawner
3 picture in picture screen
4 Tower Defense
5 cover system / units taking cover behind features etc
6 collecting data from spring games
- 6.1 Unit path tracer
- 6.2 build order visualizer
- 6.3 unit movement, destruction, building placement
- 6.4 unit effectiveness by reading XP on destruction
7 Ingame hitbox editor
8 Teleport areas (for units entering them), wrap around map
9 Posing units ingame by moving/rotating pieces to create keyframes or w/e
10 non clumping aircraft
11 Multiple parts units, targeting parts of units (ie head or turret)
12 different resource names (ie "wood" instead of "metal")
13 Units that die after a specified life time
14 3D drawing library, weapon ranges in 3D, animated water
15 finite/limited metal
16 maps with lava
17 multi touch interaction
18 game mode: score points by dealing damage to a neutral unit
19 neat animations
20 tech tree
21 seperate players by a wall & timer
22 colored text
23 How to make a ballistic weapon arc just a little
24 melee combat
25 peace time to seperate teams before they can attack each other
26 CEGs and unitDefs
27 noobs coming to mod spring
28 creating new units in unitdefs_post.lua
29 Turret rotating independant from unit chassis
30 units avoiding enemy units
31 nicer map edges
32 Spring with 3D glasses
33 AI Ladder "SpringGrid"
34 Moving Metal Extractors (Mobile Mex)
35 fun with factories
- 35.1 mobile factory
- 35.2 Multiple build pads possible?
- 35.3 building multiple units at once
36 web lobby in browser
37 chat about engine trees
38 BA with "Red Alert" eco
39 can I force a unit to shoot allies?
40 forest fires with Lua
41 sharing variables across widgets (and making sure they all get them)
42 pixel shaders with Lua
43 railroad / train units
44 benchmarking spring
45 Lua Lobby
46 "Mini Games" with Lua
47 Camera at fixed height
48 Lua IDE
49 common Lua mistakes
50 (mapping) Good way to generate detail texture distribution
51 visible LOS / fog of war
52 third person controlling a unit
53 Lua weapondefs with inheritance
54 Multiple unit/feature/weapon defs per file
55 texture size and atlases
56 scale a unit bigger in gadget:DrawWorld

cover system / units taking cover behind features etc

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=24820 ideas, code to check if unit is in cover. is now in spring tanks and evoRTS

collecting data from spring games

Unit path tracer

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=23584

build order visualizer

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=26360

unit movement, destruction, building placement

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22571

unit effectiveness by reading XP on destruction

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=26092

Ingame hitbox editor

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24882 dynamic hitboxes, reading button presses from keyboard

Teleport areas (for units entering them), wrap around map

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=24611 working map with gadget

Posing units ingame by moving/rotating pieces to create keyframes or w/e

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=25104 hackish but working widget,gadget,unitscript brew

non clumping aircraft

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24811 tags that make aircraft not clump

Multiple parts units, targeting parts of units (ie head or turret)

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24590 discussion

different resource names (ie "wood" instead of "metal")

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=24771&p=462461&hilit=wood+metal#p462461 an ugly widget

Units that die after a specified life time

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=25461 different ways to do it, working example

3D drawing library, weapon ranges in 3D, animated water

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=17935 zip file with various stuff

finite/limited metal

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=26026

maps with lava

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=25517 nicer lava with shaders: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=26698

multi touch interaction

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=25865

game mode: score points by dealing damage to a neutral unit

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26241

neat animations

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8864&start=7962

tech tree

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=20680

seperate players by a wall & timer

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=26570 map with working gadget

colored text

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=26341 some info about colors

How to make a ballistic weapon arc just a little

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26660 different ways to do it

melee combat

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=14373 ideas, some pictures, script pieces

peace time to seperate teams before they can attack each other

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=26570 a map that does that

CEGs and unitDefs

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26612 some other way to do it

noobs coming to mod spring

collection of "hi iam new" threads http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26642 http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26604 http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26519 http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26216 http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27739

creating new units in unitdefs_post.lua

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=26078

Turret rotating independant from unit chassis

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26727&p=499627 example script pieces

units avoiding enemy units

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=26811 widget based on a paper

nicer map edges

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=26732 discussion, "endless texture"-widget on page 2
several versions from different people now in various games