Spring RTS Engine

Mathematically speaking, the angle between two vectors a and b is: arccos( (a dot b)/(|a||b|) ) (a dot b) is the dot product (a1b1+a2b2+a3b3 etc), and |x| is the magnitude function (the length of the vector, sqrt(x1^2+x2^2+x3^2...) So for your two-dimensional example, the angle between the vectors <...

Yeah... meltrax and I are trying to develop the system to be as flexible as possible. We pretty much have everything you described implemented in actual code, windows just don't snap together yet. The only other thing we don't have implemented is the "layout" regions. The objection I have ...

No one is willing to comment on this? At all?

It might not be as interesting as some of the other proposed gameplay features, but it would make interface development a lot easier. I thought at least trepan would comment on this.

SVG is an open specification for Scalable Vector Graphics. It is quickly becoming a standard in interface design, mainly because it is entirely scalable (you could probably guess that from the name). For us poor LuaUI developers, in-engine SVG support would be a major improvement over the current PN...

For anyone wondering about the future status of this project, Meltrax and I have been talking over the Spring client PM system and have decided we will merge our projects for the future. I appreciate all of the support and comments here, and both Meltrax and I are working to ensure that the future w...

This post is going to be a volume in and of itself, skip to the end if you find yourself bored (not you Meltrax, you gave me a ton to read, now you must read what I have to say :twisted: ) Meltrax, I agree with ~90% of the things you say. I think we need to work on some sort of merge project, as it ...

I actually want to move the debug window to a separate widget... the problem is atm I have no clue how to communicate between two widgets (i.e. send debug text from the camera widget to the debug window widget). If someone (looks at trepan) could enlighten me on how to do this, I will move it to an ...

AF, it wouldn't be too hard to add a setting like "MAX # of shadowmaps" to the settings dialog. Then it would be user-configurable. The only thing that concerns me is if this many shadowmaps would be too large of a performance hit to create a good coolness/performance ratio.

Good catch Brain Damage... I should have noticed that. Trepan: If and when you read this: How hard would it be to have .svg support in the engine? It would make scalable interfaces look a ton nicer. There are tons of open source projects that display .svg online. I'm sure you can find at least one t...

I honestly didn't think I'd ever get around to releasing an update, but here it is :-) . Copied from README: ==== FEATURES ===== - scalable windows with child windows - speed and responsiveness - acts as any other widget; no need to overwrite the general widget manager - window manager to handle mos...

Sure tim, its released under GPL v2, so modify it to your hearts content. Unfortunately, the OTHER good RTS (supcom) has captured my interest currently (just bought it), and I'm not sure how active I'll be in the future. While I'm by no means signing off, I'm not sure how much more programming I fee...

I'm still around (kinda). After some consideration, I realized that I was more or less doing the same thing that several other UI authors were attempting. I'v decided that barring any sudden surge in interest, I'm going to stop development of this project. It seems that Meltrax already has made a lo...

I hadn't gotten around to creating close/collapse controls yet. Right now, windows do not have title bars by default, nor is there any easy way to add them. I was going to put them in the next release, and when I do I'll add the ability to enable/disable them. Does anyone know how to have one lua wi...

AF, do you mean adding high-visibility debug window borders to all controls (using a color that stands out, like fluorescent green or purple)? Cause this would be trivial, and I've already considered doing it. You could just set a variable like dbgBorderColor, and you would be able to see the exact ...

MelTraX-> Just tell me what you want/have already. I'm open to any suggestions for improvement. To create the camera widget, I took the source from your playerinfo widget and modified it until your name was pretty much the only thing left (and that was an oversight). Enjoy snowboarding, I just went ...

Thanks Matt. I'm new here so...

I've seen several people on this forum talk about creating a general window system for the Lua UI, but haven't actually seen it materialize. As I've had a ton of free time recently, I decided to give it a shot, and actually am somewhat proud of the result. FEATURES (v0.1) - easily create scalable wi...