Spring RTS Engine

Enough teasing with the vanilla TA version already! :)

WD FTWzor!

Only mod with Flankers = best mod.

'Area attack' exists in XTA and WD; it's used to get ground attack aircraft to paste an area indiscriminantely. Mmmm, B-52s....

Caydr, the texture problem has not recurred. It appears my puter was just having a bad day. :)

'Too many textures to fit in 2048x2048'. Deadly crash of the unlimited error dialogs.

I had fun, though

Ugh. More capable and much cheaper. Just ugh.

Again, an effective nuke volley can destroy targets capable of stopping conventional assaults, like Vulcans. In cases like that, the expenditure is worth it, simply for destroying such a high-value, powerful target and allowing the conventional attack to succeed. I haven't seen the video referred to...

As Noize points out, any vaguely realistic system of detection would be utterly non-TA. We should be thankful they don't make us uncover the terrain of the map like many RTSs! :) However, Spring is about a 3d engine, and it IS ridiculous to be unable to see something that the player can establish - ...

Is it possible to have structures float properly, ie being able to drive under it? I imagine the spherical collision box might prevent that (among other annoying side effects of the sphere), but in FF it'd be nice to see true hovering structures.

Course, someone will have to remodel them first

It's worth remembering that few people build overlapping BMD. Four silos with one nuke each will penetrate a single BMD system with ease, and be more effective than a single silo with ten nukes. Of course, this will hardly win the game for you. But that's why nukes are a part of combined arms: poppi...

That raises a very interesting concept for LOS: changing it from a distance, to what size a unit has to be for your units to see it. it'd be like LOS=(unit-los-constant)(size of target's collision sphere)/(distance to target) if the LOS value is over a certain number, you see the target, if not, yo...

That's a good idea. It's increasingly ridiculous that units still have their 'five square' view radius, even on perfectly flat maps. Perhaps the 'fuzzy' LOS area could be quite long, to allow a K-bot to spot the HUGE PLASMA CANNON on the TOP OF A MOUNTAIN even when it's outside the view range? If a ...

The flipside of that suggestion is you put effort into designing, and implementing whole teams that are totally useless by themselves. Splitting along defence/offence is even worse, since long range weapons are a mainstay of modern defence. The C&C thing was interesting - although I'd point out ...

I have been pwnzored! Thanks :)

Is it possible to use the sp scripts through the lobby? I use a local server to let me pick teams etc, but AFAIK it's not possible to play a CORE game against the 'random AI' script.

Call me nuts, but the top left square is for 'move map'. The top right maximises it, which isn't what I'm after.

At least I'm not the only person who doesn't like moving groups requiring so many clicks. So long as they're working on it I'm happy. :)

Thanks for the update. I read the Ground Zero had tweaked your AI to avoid the crash: I guess there are many other problems which stop it working anyway. Good luck on your exams! :)

It would be good if the resizable minimap could be set to hold its aspect ratio. Enlarging it to get a good look at something and shrinking it back down almost always ends up with a distorted, almost useless map. A simple option could force the map to retain its actual aspect. Ghetto EDIT : While we...

Nukes work well as tactical weapons as they are. As an attack goes in, setting some nukes on the defence line (or strongpoints) usually obliterates the lower-end defences and makes it much easier to get in. They simply aren't 'blow everything to shit' weapons - they're extremely accurate artillery, ...

TAWD is reason enough to play Spring by itself. I'm less interested in yet another remix of TA than using the engine to make something interesting. WD and War at Sea are the mods for me. Don't sweat the fanbois, GZ! :) Ghetto EDIT: And never let anyone tell you there are too many planes in WD. A pla...