Spring RTS Engine

Some genius combined a sandbox, a sensor, and a digital projector to create real time terrain shading. It even does water if you dig down below zero. http://imgur.com/gallery/9TQnT

I'm currently working on a rewrite/fork of the old central-build-AI widget, and one of the features that I want to add is an area-select tool for bulk removing jobs. Old? (checks forums) I guess 2009 is pretty old now. It seems like just yesterday. Central Build AI was my first and only major Lua p...

NoobFish wrote:i had the same Problem. While Pressing Ctrl + MouseB 5 the Game would crash. Turning off the "BA Waypoint Dragger" widged solved the Problem for me.

I had the same problem with XTA 9.728 and turning off the widget fixed it for me.

Just FYI, this map stopped working for me with SpringLobby some time back. It would no longer show up in the list of maps. I got it to work again by deleting the file mapinfo.lua from Mars_V1.sd7 using 7zip.

That certainly sounds like my Central Build Lua widget, a replacement for the old Central Build Helper AI. At least one version uses control group Q to match the old Helper. You can disable it with F11 if you aren't using it, or edit the Lua to use a different group. http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewt...

Somewhere around here I've got a Lua script that marks metal spots. From what I remember, it first scans the map to get an idea of the "average" metal content, then uses that value to find areas of higher than average metal. It starts with a fairly fine scan grid, but switches to bigger st...

Sorry, but I haven't been keeping this updated. I haven't played a real game with Spring in ages. I've just had too many other things taking up my time. I released it as public domain or GPL, I forget which, so whoever wants to take my work and improve upon it is welcome.

Oh, good. I thought I was the only one who had that problem. Makes nano towers pretty much useless for the moment.

This game is entirely too addictive. And scary, too.

If anybody other than me is interested, fix a couple of minor sound issues as outlined in this post . To summarize: In 9.6, Arm Pacifist uses Core kbot sounds, which could be corrected to use Arm kbot sounds. Aside from that, the Core Commander uses the same "under attack" warning sound th...

The infolog is your friend. It's hard to debug Lua without it. The important line from the infolog is this one: Failed to load: spacerock.lua ([string "LuaRules/Gadgets/spacerock.lua"]:24: ')' expected (to close '(' at line 23) near 'end') This tells us to look around lines 23 or 24 for a ...

Path:GetEstimatedPath ( ) -> nil | { [1] = { x,y,z }, ... },{ [1] = startIdxOfDetailedPath, [2] = startIdxOfDetailedEstimatedPath1, [3] = startIdxOfDetailedEstimatedPath2, } GetEstimatedPath() returns 2 tables: 1 table with the waypoints and 1 table with 3 indices (in the waypoint table) when a new...

Tada! http://springrts.com/wiki/Lua_PathFinder I'm aware of that page and have already corrected a couple of minor mistakes on it (a couple more to go). If that page has all the information I'm supposed to need, then I need a remedial class or something. I've learned more from my own experimentatio...

Can Unit X get from Point A to Point B? Or, at least, close enough to Point B to accomplish its assigned task? If there was a function to easily determine that, my Central Build AI wouldn't try to send construction vehicles off to build on distant islands, or construction subs to build far inland. I...

In XTA 9.6, the Arm Retaliator (Nuclear Missile Launcher) damages itself and nearby units with every launch.

Is that an xtaid unit? Don't know it. I thought it was standard, but apparently it's in the "Xtaids" Unit Pack. I always play with that enabled. 415 paci Pacifist - Paralysis Kbot, built by the Arm Kbot Lab. It has a beam weapon called the ARM_Parlay (sic) which paralyzes units. The paral...

Maybe I'm crazy, but when most Arm units are attacked, I hear Sounds/WARNING1.WAV, but when the Arm Commander and Pacifist are attacked, I hear Sounds/WARNING2.WAV. Edit: Found gamedata/sounds.tdf which says that most Arm units have underattack=warning1; with the Arm Commander being an exception. Al...

Jools wrote:Is the warning sound when commander under attack not same as for other units? At least I think this, as I have often lost commander when idle and not bothered to follow up on warning.

The commander under attack sound is shared by the Arm Pacifist, I think.

Competition eh? Maybe. Right now my Lua AI is just in the playing around stage. It's more a stub that builds stuff and turns it over to the half a dozen or so Helper AIs that I use when I play anyway (auto skirmish, auto harass, auto retreat, auto commander d-gun/capture/reclaim, modified factory g...

Actually, it was playing around with Shard that inspired me to start working on the old Lua scripts again.