Spring RTS Engine

Version 4.0 is out, with up to 10x improvement in speed! - Multithreaded compilation is now super fast (windows only) - Add mapnormals, splatdistribution, and specular map dds compressors via nvtt_export.exe in a separate process (windows only) - Also generate minimap preview jpg, and thumbnail png ...

Wouldnt it be nice if a widget would automatically detect changes to the code of a widget, recompile it and apply it upon success? This code checks the shader sources every 0.25s, and tries to recompile it. So you can have Spring open in one window, your editor in the next, and just have to hit save...

I think that there may be an advantage running a Lua AI on the unsynced side, so that in theory, only one person's CPU has to do calculations, and could maybe even leverage compute shaders. This obviously comes at the cost of having to send commands over the network. Im wondering what kind of API or...

Ah yes, pandaro is right, that is the correct way :)

You probably need to use a widget to do this.

Depends on which engine version you want to use.

Absolutely, many of us wouldnt be using it if it werent. It is best suited to RTS type games, as the name implies.

You can PM me with further details of this issue here, or in the lobby, or on discord.

See: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Be ... eller.lua

Also note the amount of changes regarding this exact behaviour :D

Yes, its only rebooting if there are security updates to be installed, which is quite sensible, and doesnt impact games in progress.

SpringRTS also hosts quite a few great games on its official lobby.

Thanks for keeping it up to date and secure!

Thanks Silentwings, that is very good info for a gadget-side engine one. Ive written a similar callin into barspring for AllowUnitCaptureStep() . But I needed a purely Lua widget-side one: Watch The Fort and Sprung/Sprunk assisted me in this one: Beyond-All-Reason.sdd\luaui\barwidgets.lua 174: 'Lang...

I have a widget that does a bit of management of what units are visible at any given time. This is just a few hundred lines of code, that check wether they are truly drawn, and tracks them incrementally. I would like this widget to implement a few new widget:VisibleUnitAdd, widget:VisibleUnitRemove,...

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A nice big 28x28 up to 16-way FFA map for your enjoyment. GL HF!





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It seems that one cant use the 'debug' library from synced or unsynced gadget code, because it doesnt even get loaded into those lua environments. The engine has some references saying that the debug library is not sync safe. Besides being able to set upvalues and locals from other scopes, is there ...

The new engines are x64, that naturally consumes more ram :)

Did you run it with /luaui disable, out of curiosity?

I have added it to Chobby's Spring.Utilities.TraceFullEcho()

BAR has it as Spring.Debug.TraceFullEcho()

You can freely add it anywhere :)