Spring RTS Engine

It looks like this project can open and save SM3 maps directly... but I can't find a SM3 map it can open.

I also assume that you can't save a SM3 map until you open one...

Is there an SM3 map I can start with?

Yes please :) Sounds like a fascinating game

This AI is awesome! Very entertaining to watch it battle itself, it uses all sorts of strategies. It's also a good way of learning how units can be used in mods, as it uses units effectively.

It's a real person, but they are doing a bot's work. Website link seems like a hacked google results page (it's all text ads).

I hereby dub thee a humbot (human bot).

Link?

I have compiled a version for people to have a play with.

Find it at http://www.unknown-files.net/index.php? ... &dlid=2026

Not sure where to post bug reports, so here it is: Sometimes, the AI gets stuck right at the start of the game, often after building a couple of solars. This is very apparent on Mars with 4 AI players - the two on the left always seem to get stuck. Is there anything that can be configured to minimiz...

Current Status: The code currently exists as a patch to the core of TASpring, requiring a recompile to use this feature (it is not a groupAI or anything like that, mostly because careful control of the camera is required). I have been busy with exams, and have also been waiting for a stable version ...

Although there is a simple method of avoiding hash spoofing (salt values), I agree that cryptographically strong anti-cheat methods are not effective and incredibly difficult to get right (I can't think of any examples, even commercially - look what happened to Valve). Salting: The easy way to block...

Nearly there. This version is quite usable. Now implemented: - An interest map that does four tesselations (uses an average of 0.1% of CPU at normal speed, less at higher speeds) once every second or so. - A method of drawing that interest map: Ctrl+Shift+i (implemented using BaseGroundDrawer) - A c...

You could have overlapping interest blocks. (You could think of it as one layer of tiled squares, and a second layer of tiled squares offset by half the square length in each dimension.) So every unit is actually counted twice, but it prevents "border separation" issues since a mass will ...

Here's the 1.2 patch. To try it, press Ctrl+Shift+i to enable the interest mode drawing. There is also a Cinematic camera mode that will follow the most interesting square if the mouse is at the right of the screen. Code is probably awful; I've never tried serious C++ coding before. At the moment, &...

My steps to compile using VS8 (I just tried this today): 1. Install Microsoft DirectX SDK (August 2006) and Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003. (Big download). 2. Get the source. 3. Open the VS8 project file in rts/build/. Change the project properties: 1. under Configuration Properties ...

It's starting to work!



(Screenshot at Stage 1.2 of the Interest map drawing mode. The red square represents the most interesting square; the whiter squares show more interest. At the moment all it's doing is summing health. )

Thanks everyone for your comments. Argh: It won't run by default. I was planning to have it recalculate areas of interest every 5sec. Hopefully it would not be a particularly intensive calculation anyway, apart from possibly detecting units that are close to opposition units. Maelestrom: Hystersis s...

I have been experimenting with the TASpring code and would like to implement a feature. I thought it was best if I asked first, for suggestions. Here is my proposal: Spring Cinematic Camera Mode Aim: Create a new spectator-only camera mode that automatically follows the most interesting parts of a S...