Spring RTS Engine

You can install demo files and some other third party resources from the stable repository: deb http://downloads.ta3d.org/binaries/linux/apt/ stable main If you have backup images from your disks you can also install resources files from it using the ota_resources_installer.sh script. PS: I've just ...

Can you be more explicit ? What happens, does it display an error message or something ?

Same as OTA (same as TNT format + same as COB limitations if you use COB scripts).

There are recent packages for Ubuntu (both i386 and amd64, built for Karmic ) in our repository:
deb http://downloads.ta3d.org/binaries/linux/apt/ testing main

I can play TA3D on my netbook (GMA950), it runs fine and there is a benchmark script which simulates a huge battle if you want to see that yourself. I haven't done much benchmarking with Spring so I can't really compare both I can only say you don't need killer hardware to run TA3D with most setting...

I think I'll have to set up a new windows in a virtual machine I'll reserve to build 3DMEditor for windows ... I have 2 compilers installed on the same windows there may be a conflict somewhere

Of course the external Lobby is still there :) I've just released a new version of 3DMEditor2 (with all required DLLs ... normally) with all the features I added last week (you'll probably be interested in exporting to S3O format which is what we're using for unit models) : ftp://downloads.ta3d.org/...

Probably stupid question: Would it be possible to add Spring's Luaui to TA3D? :?: I just thought that TA3D has almost the same gameplay as Spring... If yes then TA3D's biggest 'problem' would be solved... Currently TA3D's in game UI is only driven by OTA data/interface, but TA3D UI engine is alread...

there is an ftgl binary for mingw32 shipped in the source tree (but FTGL includes are not) ... it is planned to add those headers soon (I don't have any problem with that on my Linux system but windows users do so let's integrate everything :) ) What did you have to fix in CMakeLists.txt ? There are...

There are several internal changes between 0.5 and 0.6, mainly 0.6 now uses SDL instead of Allegro/AllegroGL, soon FMODex will be replaced with SDL_mixer and HawkNL with SDL_net. Also it can be fully scripted : AI, units, game behavior use the same scripting interface (currently COB and Lua are supp...

We provide a package containing the files from TA demo for Linux in our repositories (look for tademo) and Doors has made packages for windows containing those files from the demo.

I have currently a few ideas to improve that water shader, mainly adding a height map texture to allow depth effects and having real waves :). In order to fix the squary look of the sun blinks I'll have to rework the model a bit ... it looks like a precision problem, and maybe this can be optimized ...