Spring RTS Engine

On linux/ext3+, at least, filesystem writes *are* cached--by the OS. I imagine Windows does something similar. It's not Spring's job to worry about that sort of thing.

This solved the problem for me too. I think I know what's going on here; springlobby is including a version of OpenAL.dll that's incompatible with current spring in its update package.

c2d E6420, GeForce 8600M GT, 2GB RAM, fresh Windows 7

Awesome! Played several rounds. Very fun. I'm looking forward to a KotH mode, too.

FreeBSD generally uses Xorg for graphics, just like most linuxes. In theory this means identical hardware support, but because most vendors don't release driver source code, that tends to fall apart in reality. Luckily, nVidia supplies proprietary drivers for 32-bit x86 FreeBSD, and I expect that on...

Any of the lobbies which work on Linux should (theoretically) work fine here, too; iirc, SpringLobby works without any changes. Now all that remains to be done is multiplayer sync testing of the new code.

Dragon45 wrote:BSD is black magicz

its a historically important OS that's not supported by most popular things.

BSD is a long dead piece of history. FreeBSD is a very much alive and well supported modern unix.

Er, maybe you don't understand the nature of systems like FreeBSD. A skilled admin generally installs everything by either A. compiling from source, B. compiling from ports, or C. installing a binary package compiled by the FreeBSD people from ports. An installer of any kind would probably never be ...

That is pretty cool, nice work fella, looks like the wiki will need updating soon for FreeBSD setup as well :D I dunno, it should be pretty much the same procedure as for Linux, once both the build system and source code patches are applied. O_o SMOTH IS MAJIK!!! /me rubs smoth MAEK BLOOM FILTER NA...

Your wish did its job.
http://spring.clan-sy.com/mantis/view.php?id=934

I'm interested in getting spring working on FreeBSD. It's similar to linux in many respects, so in theory very little should need changing; it's an astronomically simpler prospect than windows -> linux, for example. However, in beginning this effort, I've run into problems straight off; the build sy...

I would imagine that 'backwards' would be fairly easy on the pathfinding system; just have it be another 'forwards,' except in a different direction. Some intelligent code to pick which one is most appropriate to use at what time, and you're good.

Is it just the orders given by players? If so, how are randomized things like innaccuracy of some weapons prevented from modifying the outcome? Is a seed saved? Would replays work normally if more nondeterministic (unpredictable) elements (such as more advanced/complete physics simulation) were adde...

Artificial restrictions like that would only anger people. In practice, the prestige gained from beating (or even challenging) a large number of opponents with a smaller alliance, or even solo, matters more to people than some artificial 'win' condition. By your logic, we should have world peace.

Sounds like an improvement to me.

That's great, but what about multiplayer, and what about allowing the AIs to choose their own locations?

AF wrote:This is not somethign AI devs have just 'left out'

AI developers have no way of implementing this AI side as AIs arent even created till the game starts after the positions are all set.

Which is why I posted this here, instead of another section more appropriate for AI development.

Host starts game with pick starts game loads host does: .cheat (starts cheat mode) .team # (computer team) (pick start) (repeat .team with each player) .team 0 (host player team) .cheat (turn cheat mode off) (click ready) (play) :wink: That'll be a great holdover for when I'm playing with trustwort...

This is looking really cool and high quality. Good luck!

This doesn't have to be particulariliy advanced. Just choosing something near a metal patch within the host-defined spawn box would suffice. Me and my friends frequently play team vs. bots, and it's extremely aggrivating to have to restart the game constantly until random start positions get everybo...