Spring RTS Engine

It's a nice game, been playing it a lot lately. Plays and looks like the original x-com from 1994 or so, but multiplayer! http://ufo2000.sf.net It takes a while to learn. Works best when playing against an opponent of your own level. There are of course some new weapons and extensions. Anyway, the b...

Doesn't build land mexxes in Expand & Exterminate 0.173, builds floating ones though.
I thought I'd mention since it's actually one of the AI:s that work with E&E.

I posted a list of suggestions in the unit differentiation thread, I still think that red tanks on flamer mechs and some kind of plasma canisters on the plasma bots backs would help. If you need a mock-up I could do one. Sounds like a great idea to me on the unit distinction front. I think the late...

It is a very interesting question and a hard problem to design so many units and factories and have them look distinctive but still have a consistent theme and some semblance of realism and functionality. I played some EE way back, and the units were in consistent theme but it was hard to disginguis...

Well, considering light speed is 300,000 km/s, it takes about over 0.12 s to go to geostationary orbit, which is at 36,000 km. And same back. So maybe 0.3 s extra lag, or 300 ms. I don't know what else then too on top of that, ie at your end or where the signal is relayed to. 4 times a packet has t...

Well, considering light speed is 300,000 km/s, it takes about over 0.12 s to go to geostationary orbit, which is at 36,000 km. And same back. So maybe 0.3 s extra lag, or 300 ms. I don't know what else then too on top of that, ie at your end or where the signal is relayed to.

he might have meant that you have to upscale the heightmap before importing it to L3DT, otherwise it looks bad when you render.
dunno. he's so dense.

umm, Lordmatt is right. Most people need to see the metalspots when moving units or building defences etc... Automatic F4 mode doesn't solve that. Well, some people play in constant F4 mode, which kinda just adds to the point that seeing the metal spots all the time (and not just when placing mexes)...

Read forboding's tutorial sticky for map making. Most of other stuff is hopelessly outdated.
Also, post stuff in user mapping section.

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it looks shallow in the perspective view compared to the minimap...

I find the easiest way to scroll is with mouse3 and drag. Or if you want fast, hold mouse3 in the minimap and drag.

afaik real radars either see or don't see an object. If you get a return, you know the bearing pretty exactly and the distance is known from the lightspeed delay. But I'm no expert on this of course.

toeland
riverpasses

Well the shaders are in the shaders folder, I think some dev said that trying out your own stuff is encouraged. Streaming illusion could be possible with that. Of course if different water levels in different parts of the map are wanted, it's possible it requires changes in very many places, I'm not...

Heres some on transparent backgrounds that I posted a while back: http://www.unknown-files.net/index.php?page=browse&dlid=1579 Bump for mappers (this could even be sticky)! And since UF renewal, the url above is at http://spring.unknown-files.net/index.php?page=browse&dlid=1579 It'd be usef...

A radical proposal, you don't have to do it. :)

How about if you ditch the energy aspect completely as a needless complication?
Just make everything cost metal.

Then there's two choices: either no metal makers (you are forced to expand) or very weak metal makers (slow exponential growth)

Dash, that's great!

Hey, looks nice! Have you been tuning the slopes for the gameplay you have in mind, trying in the mods with f2 accessability map? There is a thread with metal spots but it'd be indeed cool if someone make a big square metal spot texture that you could cut your own metal spots from and then put on th...

couldn't you try the blendmaps things quickly in photoshop / gimp with two (or more) layers?