Spring RTS Engine

Tried it; decent timewaster. Once I got in with a group of speedrunners, it was awesome: < 2 minute missions FTW, though we never quite got the achievements. They showed me the fine arts of flame-and-flee and PDW/Chainsaw door-busting.

I would turn the barrel forward on the model, and turn it backwards in Create() and RestoreAfterDelay().

I'd really like to see the whole "experience" system junked- if people want to boost stats for kills or hits or whatever, let 'em do it with Lua, all of the tools are there. It's just another hard-coded thing in the engine that's irrelevant and a waste of CPU because it's so inflexible as...

Currently weapons get hardcoded bonuses to accuracy/sprayAngle with XP. Specifically, spreads can be reduced to: BeamLaser: 70% bombdropper: 90% Cannon: 90% DGunWeapon: 50% EmgCannon (not used IIRC): 50% FlameThrower: 20% LaserCannon: 70% LightningCannon: 50% MissileLauncher: 50% Rifle (probably not...

In general this cannot be done in a simple graph. But in my opinion the damage dealt graph gives something to go on. I don't know, even this is a bit of a crapshoot. In exponential-econ games it rewards the player who econs in the back while his allies in the front take repeated beatings for the fi...

It's fixed at one spawn per frame. You can cheat by giving the smoke some forward velocity (thus decreasing the apparent distance between particles), or by spawning multiple particles and having them move forward/backwards at various velocities.

I'd love to, but unfortunately my computing/available time situation is going to be erratic for the next few weeks. Plus like Spring I've kind of been sucked into the coding side.

Playing HoI3. Current game: link

HoI3 has problems but at least I can lol at them.

My game would be Navy Versus Pirates. It would have ridiculous upgrade levels ranging from classical-era Galleys to futuristic spacecraft. Most units would probably have at least a dozen weapons. All the navy units would have various outrageous national accents, and all the pirates would of course b...

Even cruder--screencopy to texture -> TexRect with shader.

Yeah, there's a lot of variations that could be done; night goggles, greyscaling, sepia toning, etc. etc.

I've started mucking around with GLSL, and I made this widget: http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/4210/obamashader.png Disclaimers: 1. Yes, I know it's kind of crude. 2. It's not supposed to be a political statement or anything, I just thought it was funny. The widget: http://spring1944.svn.sourcefo...

I was referring to the "all matter" scenario. Biological systems are far from consuming all matter--I believe less than 1 part per billion of the earth's mass is alive, not to mention how long it took to get here.

I'm pretty sure the gray goo scenario violates the laws of thermodynamics. care to expand upon the matter? I realize this is rather informal, but I see turning a piece of unstructured material into a collection of self-duplicating nanobots as a rather extreme decrease in entropy; the laws of thermo...

I'm pretty sure the gray goo scenario violates the laws of thermodynamics.

BaNa wrote:does the mit license mean you actually attend?

No, it's just where the license originated.

Inspired partly by some LoS performance discussion here, I decided to make a specialized heightmap raytracer for a computer science course: http://code.google.com/p/cs294-13-heightmap-rt/ It's got a good deal of flaws (artifacts, only single-threaded CPU-based rendering), but it can render good-size...

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The last version I programmed took the firing position from roughly the center of the unit. There is a GetWeaponVectors callout; however, when I last tried it, the position returned tended to jump around the unit. Unfortunately I'm rather short on time ATM so don't expect much from me in the near fu...