Spring RTS Engine

Well I've almost got the waypoint system working, and the creep spawner working.

Problem is, when I try and run both at once, only the spawner works

Ill upload them for every body once I've sorted it out.

AF wrote:If we could modify the sm3's internals via lua and then writ them back to the FS we could make an ingame sm3 map editor.

I do believe thats your queue trepan

Lol I go to school for the day, come back, and it almost been made without me! :P Ive already written an upgrade script for SWS, so we can have multiple upgrades per turret type. Something like: Basic gun -Faster machine gun --Fastest machine gun ---Continuous fire laser --Faster machine gun, double...

http://beta.epi-log.com/TDclassic.jpg Yep this was exactly the type of map I was thinking about :-) If we place good path point , air units can't cut dirctly to finish point. Look at example : *img* What would be the advantage of air units, if they couldn't cut straight across the map? Maybe we hav...

Try about a 6x6 for now, see how that works. The path should be something like this: _____ _____ ^ \ / | \__ __/ | ^ \____/ | | ^ | | \_ Water for the creeps to walk along | | | \_ Tower build space, accesible by creeps | \_ High ground, inaccesible by creeps Just a couple of straight corridors wand...

For starters it could just use TA units while we model the rest, the actual models used can be discussed later. For now, we need Lua Scripts! Actually, we don't need that many scripts at all really, just a spawner (easy to make), a redirect thing (fairly easy), an upgrade system (already made), and ...

Would be nice if LUA work was started by someone now ;). I would if there were other people willing to join a team and make it with me? I can do basically everything except balance, and design cool models/textures. So, someone that knows their way around a tower defense game, and someone to either ...

I dont see how tower defense would be a problem for pathing. Most tower defenses i know of use a fixed path, with, towers along the sides of the path- though there is the maze-type tower defense, which allows you to build towers (partially) blocking the path of the enemy. Springs pathfinding is rel...

Try downloading this: http://spring.unknown-files.net/file/1725/All_Mapping_Tools_V3/ it has a few useful mapping tools in it, including some things to help you with the water height. Use Water Height to work out where the waterline would fall on your height map, choose some good values, then use SM...

Would it be possible to change it so that all units display it (for balance testing)? Unfortunatley you cant access enemies damage while playing (otherwise it would be easy to write a widget that showed enemies health bars). You have to use replays or lots of .cheat team switching in sandbox mode f...

OK, I worked out the problem. It has two parts. First, global functions can not have more than one argument. If you want to pass more than one argument to a global function, you have to use a table. Secondly, the global function has to return something. What it returns isn't always guaranteed to ret...

Im having a problem with this. I can call and execute functions in other Gadgets successfully, but what ever function called Spring.LuaRules.event() stops executing. I have the following code: onUpgrade = function(oldUnitID, newUnitID, _) Spring.Echo("Trasnferring HQ " .. oldUnitID) if (Script.LuaRu...

Even easier, use the Rotate->Chart To X/Y to rotate things exactly.

Another way, split the model in half right down the center line. Delete one half. UV map the remaining half, and mirror the object to make it whole again. Perfect mirroring.

Like the title says, I need some way of communicating from one LuaRules Gadget to another. Can this be done, and if so, how?

Goolash, sorry I didnt get back to you earlier. A few things that differ from my initial concept: The middle and edges should be high, impassable mountains. There should be no way of getting across them, save by air. Then you cant cheat and sneak across the middle into the enemy's base :P The slope ...

Thats where the corpse variable comes in. Im not sure exactly how it works, but I know that it can do exactly what your asking for. If one of the more competent scripters who know about the corpse tag can come explain things? This can all be done with out LUA trickery.

Like the subject says, I need to remove the selection rectangle around units. Unfortunately, I cant just copy trepans method of doing it. The error is: LUACOB-MAIN (GADGETS) LUACOB-DRAW (GADGETS) LUARULES-MAIN (GADGETS) error = 2, LuaRules/draw.lua, error = 2, LuaRules/gadgets.lua, [string "LuaRules...

smoth: Yea thats a problem, it would basically be a lvl1 only game. Someone needs to make mobile factorys! Alternatively, you could play Nanoblobs or something on it, which doesnt have bases as such at all. AF: That problem is avoided by the shape of the hills. If you notice, they are hills on one s...

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8586/ringmapcp4.th.jpg This would be an interesting map to try. Basically, the way the hills are set out not only encourages, but forces nomadic gameplay. Each hill would be in range of the majority of the next hill for longish range guns (eg. guardian), so theres...