Spring RTS Engine

In BA it is possible to make units that use shields to deflect plasma bombardments What mechanics does the game rely on to make these hollow shell spheres? (I canÔÇÖt find a gadget or widget that seems to do this job) And further more can I utilize this mechanic to make my own custom shapes with cus...

No. And it is a wonder you can get any code working at all with such a fluctuant spelling. sorry about that I will start spell checking my English before I post thanks for letting me know about the spelling now I can fix it :) I do have one more problem though Problem: have been trying to link my c...

currently I am trying to understand what it takes to add custom command buttons to a units menue so far I am failry certain that I understand almost nothing of what is envolved in praforming this process but I have been looking at unit_mex_upgrade as a refrance and trying to make my own random butto...

Hay I have a general question

is it possible to make units that are being carried by a transport free to shoot at units on the ground? like in supreme commander?

or would I be better off trying to create my own transport gadget with adustible varibale like that?

1. Do NOT put a UnitDefID in your file. That can change at any time. Use something like UnitDefNames.armsub.id 2. That's strange that it's not finished. What unit are you trying, in what game? oh hmmm... I must be supre lucky then because the UnitDefID has been the same unit everytime... the only t...

hmmm in that case I am deffenetly doing something simple wrong Probibly I am missinterprieting the spring sites info on this command here is my code function gadget:GetInfo() return { name = "CUTests", desc = "creates units", author = "zwzsg (and then horribly ruined by Void...

aaaa I see

I guess I jumped the gun and thought there was something more too it than that

I dont have one last question though

when I spawn the unit it is un built

how do I make units spawn finished like the commanders at the begginging of a game?

in my quest for making Spring.CreateUnit() work I was told that I need to incorporate GameFrame() my scirpting in order to keep the "attemtp to make unsafe chagnes" error from showing up unfortunetly I am haveing ALOT of trouble finding more info on exaclty what I need to do with the GameF...

with this spring creat unit stuff I was hopeing to make a gadget that would make a specific unit on a specific part of the map when I hit a key on the key board so far my code looks like this function gadget:GetInfo() return { name = "CUTests", desc = "creates units", author = &q...

Though, it would be more safe to create units in GameFrame! Or are you saying the safety is useless? I see I did not realize that the game frame was the missing componet I will look into that now thanks for pointing me in the right direction :) and thanks for letting me know about the possiblity of...

I have been playing with the Spring.CreateUnit() command in the following script function gadget:GetInfo() return { name = "CUTests", desc = "creates units", author = "zwzsg (and then horribly ruined by Voidranaut)", date = "not sure", version = "1.0"...

aaa I see

wow I must be excited or I would have cought that

will try to slow down

thanks for the help

lastplayed versus lastPlayed sorry for my ignorence but I dont fallow are you saying I should change the if() stamtent to include something more to do with lastplayed? sorry but I really dont fallow your remark EDIT: also as I have played with it I found that if ( ( Spring.GetGameSeconds() - lastPl...

wow thank you all for all the awsome info :)

especially zwzsg thanks for taking the time to go over it all in such detail your explination really helped ALOT!!

I am currently working on the following script -- $Id: snd_noises.lua 3171 2008-11-06 09:06:29Z det $ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- file: tests I need to run -- b...

OMG thank you

ya 1 in fbi was considered a stirng... wow I honestly did not think to try that good call :)

hay can you type cast in lua? like if I needed to set something up later were I need the number to be used in an equation would be be able to cast it into an int or float? or boolen?

Then you probably have a issue with your FBI, it should look like this if you're using Lua (and you should be): customParams = { ProvideTech = "tech1", ProvideTechRange = "500", }, aaahhh ya that was something I was deffenetly missing thanks I did not realize my fbi needed the c...

hmmm well the syntex you gave me is deffenetly right but it still is returning nil in the echo (in addition to not calling my audio) the spelling between the widget word "merciless" and fbi "merciless" is the same (I copy pasted and double checked) in fbi it says merciless=1; ......

I have made a widget with the following function inside of it function widget:CommandNotify(cmdID) echo( "got here" ) local unitID = Spring.GetSelectedUnits()[1] if(not unitID) then return end local defID = Spring.GetUnitDefID(unitID) local Nature = UnitDefs[ defID ]["merciless"]...

thank you

I did not know i was posting in the wrong spot sorry

I dont want to clutter up the forum with the same quesiton in two spots is there a way to just move it all? or should I just repost on a new thread?