Spring RTS Engine

I must say, this is the stupidest idea ever I don't see how you can judge it at all. I think the emotional side speaks too loud here. I mean, when you like something, you don't want it to vanish in oblivion. And yes , usually starting from scratch has a very high failure rate, since the hidden cost...

My point is, OSS software is not commercial software; commercial software has deadlines and Bad Evil Management who can tell programmers " IHMO, that's exactly the difference between good OSS software and soon-to-be great OSS software. [ HURD anyone ? ] Producing software that has a little mor...

Snipawolf wrote:Yeah, is there any way to keep people from spreading my game if I were to sell it?

That would depend on the external game, it's AFAIK not a feature that would be in the engine.

next comes the guy with a p300 who want to run it in software mode. :roll: Dont reduce the enjoyment of everybody only to let some cheapscates with antique machines be able to run it. I certainly don't want to cut the "enjoyment of everybody" [ Hey ! i'm also in everybody :oops:], but why...

I have an old PC that has a i815 chipset inside. It doesn't seems to support "GL_ARB_texture_env_combine". But would it be possible to deactivate the usage of it ? I don't really care about eye candy, since i think that the main interest in Spring is the gameplay . I would be nice to lower...

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Yup, it doesn't even compile

SF CVS is horridly slow

It would be nice if the purpose of the linux fork was to be integrated into the official thing. Just be portable, and hide all the non-portable stuff in a plateform layer.

BTW, which source should some pick from if some would like to help ?
I count 4 differents sources :

• source package (0.51b1 right now)

• SourceForge CVS (The official from SY's ?)

• OpenSVN CSIE SVN (The first linux port)

• lolut SVN (The second linux port)

Check if you included both the Visual Toolkit include directories and the Plateform SDK include directories.

I made a patch file, which makes it compile with C::B if someone is interested.

There is no sound support, and it still doesn't manage to compile the resources (.rc file)

I almost managed to compile with C::B & VC++ Toolkit. I have a problem with dsound.h [ seems that i have to D/L the DirectX SDK :( ] that i bypassed with undefing USE_DSOUND. I still have many errors about not finding a good template for std::max() like : Builder.cpp(290) : error C2782: 'const _...

Ok. Thx a lot for all your answers !

Now, time to :

1. Get TA:Spring to compile
2. Understand how CGameServer and CNet works :idea:
3. Ask more questions

First, thx for the fast & accurate reply :-) 1. Ok, I see. Yeah, the 1000+ objets is actually a whole new world of gaming 8) but that triggers another question : how do you recover of a sync offset ? Can use the hardware accelerated float operation ? [ Since i always thought them as a non-IEEE i...

1. Sync vs UnSync The developpement guidelines assert that Spring runs synchronized on all computers. The common idiom in online gaming seems to have a server that does all the calculations, and then sending it to all the clients with a timestamp (like Quake). However since I'm from the IT side of ...

Zaphod wrote:The free toolkit has a lot of missing headers

I think if you download the Windows Plateform SDK it should be ok.

Actually, would it be possible to compile it under Code::Blocks + Microsoft Visual C++ Free Toolkit 2003, which are both freely available ?

Why has the terrain to be terraformed ?

Just allow construction on unterraformed terrain (with respect to MaxSlope), and that way no more "mountains digging cheat".