Spring RTS Engine

Google_Frog wrote: 1. Spring.SetProjectileMoveControl, basically control the projectile yourself.

Actually, this would work pretty well:

Could you post a wireframe Smoth? I'm curious as to how you did the hands.

(and all the rest of it because holy wow but mostly the hands)

I kinda like 'em actually.

That tank is ludicrously awesome.

That said how on Earth are you going to animate that coat?

Found no absolutely use-killing bugs, but there's a few quirks people should be aware of: All the pieces need to be Editable Meshes You MUST Reset XForm on each piece before exporting or they won't be in the right place (their origins will be; pieces less so). Also be aware that, annoyingly, Reset X...

MidKnight wrote:So guess what.
I had 4 whole hours of free time today.

HUZZAH!

So apparently ZK needs new superweapons.

How's this look?


Unfinished, of course.

Obviously it is a catapult for launching rabid badgers.

Feeeeeeeeeet

Finally getting off my arse and working on this thing.



Anyone have any advice on the best way to animate walkcycles / animate Spring units in general?

The inner cylinder could work with less segments and the fans would be better as an alpha masked plane, but otherwise I kinda like the chubby retro look! I'd also advise either collapsing the nose poly or by cutting down the verts in your cylinders where they get smaller (if you've used a a side-cou...

The idea is that: The unit acquires a 'primary target' - this is what it decides is the biggest threat for whatever reason, or is the location/unit the player has ordered it to attack. Unit evaluates the target and picks the most appropriate weapon.* Unit then aims with this weapon, rotating stuff a...

I've run into a slight snag when scripting mechs. By and large, most have weapons on either side of their body, which can only aim 180-ish degrees left/right respectively. The problem arises in that the body of the mech - which these weapons are attached to - can rotate independent of the legs, whic...

Ironically it may be the zoom that does that. TA has 'epic scale' and insanely long ranged artillery, but a fixed zoom, so the ants issue never comes up.

Having a single / fixed amount of zooming solves a lot of problems, when you think about it.

MidKnight wrote:If people wanted realism, they could play real life.[/b]

I disagree on this point though. Hands up everyone here who is a military general commanding forces in a war.

I'll help. I kinda need to brush up on my Spring-fu anyway.

Seconding the rolling, those things look spectacular.

Set all the legs to point in the same direction (ie forwards) in the s3o, rotate in Create function. Then you reuse the animation over all three legs.

Isn't there an fbi > lua conversion script around somewhere?

Unless of course you just do this, which is asking for trouble.

Or just use the final pose after it's fallen down as the corpse. Also you can hide the unit/corpse swap with particles and dust etc.

Yes, because WWII was totally caused by the video games that didn't exist yet.