Spring RTS Engine

Losing anything while saving is not good enough for replay save/load. However, it may be good enough for standard save/load if your players aren't trying to exploit anything.

It seems to be trying to sell itself as scalable to huge numbers of units and possibly players in each battle with people joining mid-game (not sure if any of it is actually true). The midgame join works. I tried it out and my test game attracted another player. Here are some new pieces of informat...

Here is a relevant metaphor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSbyCI32CH0 The roadmap for better replay controls looks something like this: Engine save/load (feasible but extremely involved). Optimization of save/load to allow for brief autosaves (probably impossible). Integration of autosaves into r...

I'm interested.

https://springrts.com/wiki/Springsettin ... crollSpeed can be negative. Mess with it and related settings, I am fairly sure what you want is possible.

I agree with the four problems highlighted in the OP. I would add the distinction that fighters suffer the most, followed by bombers, and that gunships can be designed to avoid many of the issues if you're careful. Air poses design issues that transcend technical issues, such as cylindrical LaserCan...

I've found SetUnitCOBValue to be unreliable for this purpose. Use SetGroundMoveTypeData. You should have a look at this gadget and do something like it: https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K/blob/master/LuaRules/Gadgets/unit_attributes.lua I would do the changes inside the unit script. The script call...

Some tips: Keep each bug report ticket/thread focused on a single topic. Make new topics for distinct bugs. The reader should only need to look at the OP to know what the thread is about. Err on the side of supplying too much information. Bug reports are frustrating when you need to tease out every ...

Can you explain the discrepancy with the previous profiler? For example, yours says that priority is around 1% while the previous profiler says 2.7%.

'/reloadcegs' reloads all the CEG particle effects.

To do '/luarules reload' you need to first do '/cheat' because this command would easily break a multiplayer game.

Can you attach a game with 3k unit that you think ran well so I can look at it for profiling?

These cliffs are too bright when they are inside LOS.

The metal in the center could be improved as it is currently just a uniformly distributed spread of spots. There are no mex spot textures so I could mess with this myself.

The group name is probably a UnitRulesParam, I don't know much more though.

The visuals are only half the solution. How are you going to prevent players from probing the default UI to explore the black area? Things like waypoint location, structure blueprint placement and camera hight will reveal the terrain. This may all be solvable by initializing the unsynced heightmap t...

To get the same zoom behaviour as other games you need to set ScrollWheelSpeed negative in springsettings.cfg. I have 'ScrollWheelSpeed = -25'. A warning, for Zero-K you do not need to make this change as it comes with good defaults and a settings menu. Touching a config file manually might break so...

This is in the engine now and works.

https://youtu.be/HJ-zYJhVPNE

Maybe this does what you want https://github.com/spring/spring/commit ... fa5f56d9ee.

Your method looks reasonable. Are you effectively just making your weapons call AimWeapon at a high rate? It feels like this should be a parameter in the weapondef if you are going to go to this much effort to hack around it. An alternate solution would be to use Spring.GetUnitWeaponTarget and Sprin...

This is how the ZK menu deals with button clicks (or key presses for hotkeys). https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K/blob/master/LuaUI/Widgets/gui_chili_integral_menu.lua#L555-L590 It handles factory queues and terraform. What you want should be this cut down version: local function ClickFunc(mouse, c...

NeOmega I feel like you would benefit from giving the Zero-K campaign a look (just run this http://zero-k.info/Wiki/Download). This is what gajop means when they say "use LuaMenu". The Zero-K campaign runs in a single instance of Spring and has a mission selection screen (or strategic map) from whic...