Spring RTS Engine

abma wrote: ↑

02 Dec 2018, 18:10

thats by intention:
- privacy

How does it improve privacy? Sounds like an argument in favour of having the upload-to-forum option, but not against having an host-out-of-forum option.

I think multiple Gaias (in general, extra allyteams not specified in startscript) would be useful. Example: in ZK we have chickens and zombies who are two types of environmental hazards hostile to all players that would each, separately, make sense to be Gaia. But we still want them to fight each ot...

1 s == 30 frame

elmo/s² == elmo/(30 frame)² == elmo/frame² / 900

For example, standard map gravity seems to be 120 elmo/s² which means the equivalent for weapons is 120/900 == 0.1333 elmo/frame².

Map gravity is defined in elmo/s² while weapon myGravity is defined in elmo/frame².

#gamedev? Be serious, that channel is #weed_and_lidl

Here's your problem. Team ID is not player ID.

Forboding Angel wrote: ↑

03 Sep 2018, 05:42

cylinder targeting combined with the tag that allows for nearly infinite vertical range. Unfortunately, that tag only applies to beamlasers

I believe the tag does apply to everything except burnblow weapons.

canRepair = false? Shouldn't affect building (the tag for that is canAssist)

(doublepost since I can't edit)

...because it made it look precisely as if you just broke up a larger post. If further microposts happen regularly every now and then (instead of being stockpiled and dumped all at once) it sounds like a decent improvement for activity though.

I think by dumping all the micronews at the same time you completely ruined your attempt to convey what the purpose of the micronews is.

Engine source says 2 is "reserved" and it doesnt seem to be used, I don't think Spring supports optional archive loading. As a temporary measure you could have users dump the music in their local sounds folder (similar to how local user widgets are "installed"), though this is not a general solutio...

You can sell a game but you also have to provide the content sources for free for anybody (Edit: anybody who bought the game) and wants them (which means that what you're really selling is whatever service your game server provides).

also in this discussion often is missed that changes in the engine or bug fixes already change balance! I think it was missed because it is usually fine: an engine change / bugfix can always be followed by numerical tweaks to emulate previous behaviour. engine changes / bugfixes usually have some b...

What are the meaningful differences between content and engine from the PoV of a player that warrant special handling for one but not the other?

Bots are handled quite differently in the engine so it makes sense that the Lua interface reflects this. It might take a lot of effort to modify the engine and such change could break backward compatibility. It's probably easier to poison your callouts: local AIs = {} do local teamList = Spring.GetT...

Here's a gadget that should make damage fall off linearly to the value specified in the weapondef. function gadget:UnitPreDamaged(unitID, unitDefID, unitTeam, damage, paralyzer, weaponDefID) if weaponID <= 0 then return damage -- environmental damage, no weapondef entry end local weaponDef = WeaponD...

Poison your `GetModOptions` calls at your lua entry points. Here's an example for filling in missing defaults, stuff like checking correctness is left as an exercise to the reader. local modOptions = Spring.GetModOptions() do local fileMO = VFS.Include("ModOptions.lua", VFS.MOD) for i = 1, #fileMO d...

why hasn't anyone thought to do this before? SupCom 1 did, as did CA. See http://draginol.stardock.net/images2015/Revisiting-Supreme-Commander_7F36/image_3.png and http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p315/Saktoth/zkt1.png The net value is colour coded and it is much larger and prominent compared to ...

That you asked for that is a testament to how well the new one does it's job without alienating users who are used to the TA/*A way of displaying resource bars.

I think it's rather a testament to how it's actually the same as the old one except without income/pull.

So what kind of math could we do vs Spring.GetPlayerInfo pingtime in order to get the actual latency to the host? As said earlier: The value of 'n' is not constant but the result of many dynamically adjusted factors and can not* be controlled by users. Means you cannot learn the actual latency from...