Spring RTS Engine

Pressure Line wrote:The game ENGINE was released by Voilition, afaik the CONTENT belongs to Interplay (or whoever owns them now)

Its an important distinction.

Anyway, gl buddy :)

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Damnit, you're right! >.>

I guess I'll just get permission from the FS2 community to use fan-made models.

@PressureLine: The game has been open-sourced, though.

Damnit, is there any economy system that HASN'T been used? QQ

I'll try to think of something more original.

@Argh: That is a very good point about the economy. What if I made it so you could "un-summon" a unit, which gives you back part of the resources spent on it? That way, if you over-spend and your resource gain rate gets too low, you can just "un-summon" a few units. "Un-summ...

Nah, I'll stick with the FreeSpace models.

S:TDW is a mod featuring pure space combat and an unusual economy system. As the mod is set in space, traditional RTS concepts such as terrain and choke points are absent. Also, the concept of a base is also absent to an extent, because there is no real advantage to building structures close togethe...

FreeSpace (and FS2) use a special format called POFs. However, POFs can be converted to a normal format using a program called POF Constructor Suite. (You need to extract the models using VPView first, though.) I'll convert all the models in FreeSpace 2 and release them as a graphics pack. EDIT: FS/...

... I'm not at all saying I can't do Lua. I'm saying I haven't learned yet, and that methods of learning that work for most people don't work for me, at least not well. I'm trying to learn. So how about we STFU? Also, don't try to out-emo me. I'm not going to elaborate, but I go through shit that ma...

Okay, I think I've gotten most of this stuff figured out. I just need to know how to actually let the player give a custom order to a unit and I can figure the rest out.

@smoth: But it's true. >.> I was born with a still yet unknown nervous disorder that causes frequent and sometimes disabling hand tremors... yet I can model and do art and illustration. It is an excuse, don't use it as a crutch move beyond it. I've learned several programming languages. I don't use...

@smoth: But it's true. >.>

@above: Uhm, so what should I do now? It would really help if I had some code snippets. All I really need to know is how to create custom commands, like the "place nydus canal exit" one I mentioned above.

Ah, it turns out I can rip the models from the game FreeSpace 2. (It's been released as freeware, so I can do this legally.) Sorry for posting this when I didn't need to.

Anyone up for working on a mod with me? I can do all the technical stuff, but I model like a retarded limbless kitten. In other words, I need someone to make models for me. The mod has 10 units and 9 structures per race (three races), all of which are space units (so they need very little, if any, a...

So I should just look at Kernal Panic and Compete Annihilation's Lua scripts? That works, thanks.

Thanks for all the help, but I'm not finding it that helpful. I have a learning disability that makes it nearly impossible for me to learn from tutorials like the one linked to here. However, I can easily extrapolate from examples, meaning if someone gives me a few examples of how to do things, I ca...

Woah, fast reply. ^________^

Anyone have a guide to creating these "gadgets"? (I'll check the wiki ofc.)

Thanks, guys. <3

Hi there. Thanks for taking the time to help me out. I am very new to this engine, but have modded other games before. For the most part, I stick to an RTS game called StarCraft. In StarCraft modding, there is a technique called "plugins", where you inject custom C++ code into the game. As...