Spring RTS Engine

That metalmap error was throw because metalmap is traditionally the red channel of 8bit rgb bmp e.g metalmap[row,col][0]. Use 8bit rgb metal map instead of 8bit greyscale.

Is this deprecated or just outdated?
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I see there have been recent advancements w.r.t. lua mapdefs, lua metal spots, geo widgets, custom shaped startboxen, dynamic player start positions, and anything else I may have overlooked. I plan on updating a few of my more popular/outdated maps, and I would like for someone to link me to a map t...

Nope, purely my own.

Check edger.py in this zip (like 700MB) , license: PD

http://imolarpg.dyndns.org/spring/alter ... onghold.7z

Let me leave this here. Post if you want the code that does it.

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Anyhow, this is how far I got with the changes, as i feel it is better to share results than to let them bitrot on my hdd.
(tweaked splats and lighting, more tweaks since last screenshot)

http://imolarpg.dyndns.org/spring/enceladus_1.sdd.7z

I was never able to put my finger on why I found BA to the best RTS for me, or why Ive spent several thousand hours on it. But you make some interesting arguments.

Added the license.

Found a really nice technique for making efficient and pretty foliage for regular trees.

The trick with the normals is superb :)

Silentwings, I dont quite understand what you mean. Could you elaborate?

I tried to match the screenshot. Better/worse?

Masterful use of specular on your side :)

Excellent looks. However, your DNTS configuration is very strange to me. Do you mind if I take a shot at it?

Indeed, the license is now clear. Sorry for not changing it earlier, but I had plans without time or energy to follow through.

Both, two available LODs are better than one. Just one thing, while creating the trees, i found it marginally better to have 3 separate models for the foliage types. Would it be much better if I focused on making just a single model for all textures, at the cost of a minor amount of overdraw, or ca...

Forb, could you link me to an example map where you use this? Or a screenshot?
Are the models/textures in spring features, or in evo?

Jools, the reason the old AD-0 trees were so bad is mostly because of overdraw. This is especially apparent when zoomed into one, or when many are on-screen. Forb, your approach is also valid, but this addresses two things, 1. Better model than old 0ad tree, with better performance to boot (feel fre...

I like the pine trees we use from 0 AD, (usually named ad0_pine****), originally posted in the feature resource thread. http://beherith.eat-peet.net/stuff/screen226.jpg But after a couple of years of use of them, I started to become annoyed with some of their issues: -They suffer from massive overdr...

Could you please post more information on what visual you would like to achieve? Its not apparent to me from your post..

In my experience, the engine can reasonably push a few million tris per frame at 60fps, and the related perf is more dependant in how many models/draw calls that this amount is split over than anything else. If you want more exact numbers on draw calls and this, i suggest you use geDebugger with spr...