Spring RTS Engine

Did anything come of the talk of violation flagging? I think the engine devs have the strongest case since http://total-warfare.com/cont/ likely includes everything from a spring game.

I don't know how well BA is packaged. It may include the widget but have it disabled by default. Maybe the widget was enabled by default and subsequently broke. Maybe the widget has never been in the game and was always added by people running it locally. The area mex widget appears to be in BAR (an...

You can say "still no acceptable explanation for the decision has been given" all you want, but the fact remains that no serious engagement with any of the explanations has been given , especially in light of all the posts saying that the question itself is incoherent. It just sounds like you've eva...

I still haven't hear a single rational argument for why this ban should remain in place. Some people seems like they're bending over backwards to make excuses for it. It wasn't hurting anyone and the BA community was better off on the official server, before someone handed BA to Mando on a silver p...

I am still waiting for anyone to give evidence for how/why it benefits anyone (except the engine devs) to force these restrictions on the user-base. You spent many posts asking how the restriction was intended to help BA players, or the community, or whoever, but then concede that the restriction i...

And here I was thinking that artists would become obsolete after programmers.

Interesting.

You don't need to look at editing or extending the Spring engine for these features. Instead, you would implement these things as lua scripts in your game. https://springrts.com/wiki/Lua:Main https://springrts.com/wiki/Lua_SyncedCtrl I disagree with Forboding Angel on points 1 and 2. You want a smoo...

It's cool that this sort of stuff can be done in screen space.

Lots of people here seem to live under the impression that every _player_ here automatically also is a spring game developer or can become one within 15 minutes. This is not the case. Do you contribute to every open source project you are a user of? Do you test nightly builds and give feedback of a...

My council just set me another letter saying that they have decided to go ahead with the power interruption after all. That kills most of my Sunday so I am back to not being available for a big chunk of the jam.

I did something in the last LD (I think LD43?) to remove LOS. If I recall correctly I toggled globalLOS and reduced the LOS resolution significantly.

You can't run most games on develop because of the graphics rewrite. Most non-engine things won't draw correctly, and there may be other related bugs. If maintenance is fine, I run ZK on maintenance engines with a standalone ZK. Put Zero-K.exe (the chobby wrapper) in an empty folder. Run the wrapper...

The planned power interruption was canceled, so I should be back in.

My street's power is being shut off for maintenance for about 9 hours on the Sunday, so I don't know whether I should participate.

I don't know details. Apparently this change fixes it: https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K-Inf ... d5a512be17

It looks like singleplayer was broken for 6 hours, during which we received about 60 crash reports. It would be nice if repository names didn't change around.

Spring shadows may not have existed at the time. There was definitely a time where shadows could not be used at the same time as LOS view.

A baked shadow in the context of maps is a map with shadows drawn as part of the map texture. Here is an example: https://zero-k.info/Maps/Detail/9766

I agree that there are many game designs that are better suited to simpler engines than Spring. A 3D city builder does not sound like one of them, given our experience, however I am not so sure that a LD city builder needs to be 3D. I think one thing to do prior to this LD is to work on good WSAD th...