Spring RTS Engine

you need to have the exact same version of the mod on all machines participating in the game. if the .sdd folder contains cache/temp or hidden files for example, it is considered different. in other words, pack the folder contents into an sd7 or sdz, move the sdd folder out of the data dir, and use...

To make my fights last longer is it smart do just quadruple the armor values of all my units or, would that not be a good way to go about things ? If by armour you mean health go ahead. If by armour you mean a damage reduction thing you would be better off using health as tooltips can read DPS and ...

What do you mean by "for some reason I then have to download my own mod" ? What's your nickname in lobby ? ah well for clearaty , I'm testing this on one machine. I made an account alphadomination that is used by the SPADS bot. Next I logged in as sunspot in the lobby and I tried joining ...

K I got it sofar that the server starts, and the bot appears in the gamelobby. But for some reason I then have to download my own mod , that well ... doesn't download ... So do I have to configure the filelocation of my mod and declare it as something downloadable ?

Hum that's weird, your post didn't appear in the "Last post" column: http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3039/bugaf.jpg yeah the forum is acting weird the last few hours. Hmmm I used the filename of the Map though, so I need to look for some metainfo on the map somewhere to get the entries r...

Thanks that did the trick, but heu does this mean the unitsync.dll of the Spring installer is outdated ? No, it's just that a non-backward compatible change has been made in a minor Spring version (0.82.7.1) . This problem will disappear with next Spring release... k thanks got , well now I'll need...

bibim wrote:Can you try replacing the unitsync.dll file in your Spring installation directory with this one: http://planetspads.free.fr/spads/unitsync/unitsync.dll ?

Thanks that did the trick, but heu does this mean the unitsync.dll of the Spring installer is outdated ?

As written in the original post of this thread : ActivePerl "Windows ( x86 )" must be installed It seems you're using version "64-bit, x64": [...] at C:/Perl 64 /lib/DynaLoader.pm line 201, <STDIN> line 1. [...] k my bad , I'm used to installing 64bit releases.... Well I got the...

I tried installing Spads but after updating the installer I get following error C:\Spring\spadsInstaller>perl c:\Spring\spadsInstaller\spadsInstaller.pl stable NOTICE - [SpadsInstaller] Components are up to date, proceeding with installation... 2/10 - Please enter the Spring installation directory [...

small question, how much TA units have you converted this way ? Any chance you have these done somewhere :) armmar, armpw, armrad, armstump, armbrtha, armcom, armflak, armguard, armhlt, armjamt, armllt, armmakr I really like the style you are forging your units in, and would love to use them in my s...

Well I found sollutions for most of my problems now - constructions don't decay, so the metal won't come back into the pool ever - I've put collidefriendly = 0 on my weapondefs, so that units will always fire, which didn't seem to be the case - I've given up on letting things cost just 100 metal sin...

Why even used the engine energy and metal? You could lua your own resources Thats something to think about for my next iteration of coding. But if I would do it this way, I believe I would write a generic script that could work on any game then a specific one. Letting people use their own resources...

I'm not sure if this is easly done in the current master code. But can an interceptor (callin ?) be created before metal or energy gets added to the pools ? example: I don't want , once an incomplete build times out to have it's resources refunded. Then I could do somehting like this gadget:unitdest...

so I start building units and get to 0, then I try building another unit and bang all of the sudden , full metal bar ??? you get the resources back if you cancel a construction. maybe its that? Well maybe, but my unit is only 100 metal ... how would getting those resources back fill a 2000 metal ba...

The number displayed in cost= tooltip is just for display. If you have metalcost=100 and energycost=0 it should really only substract 100 metal from your storage. Well, how big is the difference anyway? Just 1 (then Id say rounding error in the resbar) or more? Did the unit get damaged during const...

does it really cost more metal or is it just the tool tip? the tool tip "cost=xxx" is something like cost=metalcost+energycost*60 so not very reliable. It was the real cost, I took notice of the metal bar, thing is I don't use energy cost so thats 0. That means the real cost is 100+(0*60)...

I've checked out the SPADS thing, and it seems to be my ideal choice for the server. Now for the gameplay ... I've put my units at 100 metal cost each ... and for some reason it costs more if I build one ... how does the engine deal with metal costs ?

You could have bot-teamembers handing over there stuff once a new player re-joins, and retaking it once he leaves. Sounds like a dirty workaround then a sollution, but might have to be considered it seems. Unless there is a way to force a map to have only 2 alliance teams, maybe in a map_info.lua o...

zwzsg told me yesterday there is something as a dedicated server. Yay exactly what I need but ... what about this. Is it possible to start a map, where there are only 2 alliance teams ? I want my players only to be able to join team a or team b. But they are completly free to jump into the game at a...

But domination.. that puts you in the middle of the list... under balanced annhi, under anything...why do you think aa, ba and zerok rule the world? Same reason why everbody puts important stuff in the first and last two sentences of a speach.. nobody cares about the middel.. Thats why my modname s...