Spring RTS Engine

Just my 2 cents: it is possible to use groupAIs to micro units, and it is possible to just make a group ai hardcoded to spam simple resource structures. but honestly, either you wont gain anything, or it will be blatantly obvious youre "cheating" if you know what youre looking for, especia...

Why is everyone so dependant on someone else hosting? If there were no games at all hosted, would you just sit in the lobby and not play? Maybe theyre behind a NAT (typically broadband router) or has something else blocking incoming connections so they cant host. i mean most people are on broadband...

The (B) variant seems to get occaisional play. I'm surprised how many players don't play the (F) variant, given how many people would like vehicles to be easier to get to. Overall, though, I see maybe 1 game in 20. [..] I havent played (F) because i didnt know what it was until now :P Occasionally ...

i believe theres nothing technically stopping transports from moving turrets, just that the ones in current mods have a lot of mass (for a while you could transport those lvl1 flamethrower turrets in AA)

come to think of it, terran barracks in starcraft can fly but not build while flying

its impossible to create a non hacked moving factory which doesnt do silly things with waypoints that was my thought too, since factories actually are ->canmove but with speed 0 (the waypoint out is when you command it to move) maybe base it on the principle in the combat con vehicles/kbots in xta/...

okay it was real weapons. hm. :S the insane ranges gives kai sick advantages, i gotta do some tweaking

the second attack range thing around all the cheapest drone units, is that some sort of radar thingy?

also just wanted to mention, kai stalls when trying to build something at closest build site of the Titan, because (im guessing) the unit script doesnt move it far enough to get it out of the area the building will be in (which is on top of the commander, since that was the closest spot). or maybe i...

Firenu wrote:Tournesol wrote how he thinks it would work if added to GetValue:

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Apperantly tournesol sent this tvo before going on vacation

for the parser i suppose it could be solved like in java strings. for instance \n means new line in a java string, so if you actually want to print \ and n, you do \\ because \\ means \ :P "moo\n" = moo then a new line "\\" = the character \ "\t" = tab would make it som...

thanks, AF =) atm generally i cache a unit list as a member variable, like in the header make int unitArray[MAXUNITS]; so memory usage and cpu time isnt wasted each time a version of getenemies or getfriendlyunits is called, just for allocating the array at least in classes that do these things a lo...

okay that was three lines, not one

Tournesol wrote how he thinks it would work if added to GetValue: The new GetValue function. Its in AICallback.cpp: bool CAICallback::GetValue(int id, void *data) { verify(); switch (id) { case AIVAL_NUMDAMAGETYPES: *((int*)data) = DamageArray::numTypes; return true; case AI_EXCEPTION_HANDLING:{ *(b...

Well whatever. I just want a const pointer to the already existing float array, and if it has to follow a specific interface, show me how. Its a one-line function in either case, afaik.

The map lines thing works nicely. Do you have a similar example of getting information out rather than in?
I dont see how getmaplines follows this interface

NTai has a slope calculation method that uses a similar if not the same method as spring to calculate slopes. So does kai, but every little difference between between our slopemap and the spring slopemap results in less than optimal performance. Theres also some issues about matching resolution (or...

Slopemap: Request for spring AI callback feature GetSlopeMap() During some of the work relating to the pathfinder we are using in KAI, we found ourselves trying to estimate the slopemap being used internally in spring. So instead of trying to emulate the calculation in an already existing spring fea...

also, the behaviour is different depending on whether youre zooming in and out. zooming out then in should leave you focused on the same position when you havent moved the cursor. but it doesnt unless youre pointing at the exact middle of the screen. (the point on the map under the cursor should sti...

does anybody know if it is possible to get that information using the ai interface? It certainly isnt in IAICallback* callback; It is however in the script.txt file that is generated before spring starts. [GAME] { Mapname=TEHPINK_hard.smf; StartMetal=1000; StartEnergy=1000; MaxUnits=4212; StartPosT...