Spring RTS Engine

For #1 (in uikeys.txt):

aegis: coffee much?
(w.r.t. viewtopic.php?p=332434#p332434)

Ah, sorry, your second post certainly helped clear up the question. Ya, using '...' to get input arguments also works, but I prefer the 'WantConfig' method because its purpose is more clearly defined. Note that you could also scan source code or byte code for that string pattern to determine in adva...

lurker:
Ya, you're missing something. Reread my post, paying
special attention to why the 'if (WantConfig) ...' pattern
is better.

The BZFlag project is all LGPL, all the time, so don't thank me :) You'll probably need to tweak it some to get it to work with Spring. As an example, the Spring lua rework (that I never committed), had each call-in tagged with a control loop type (ex: BASIC, FIRST_TRUE, FIRST_FALSE, SPECIAL, etc......

Seems as though you've forgotten the
third and fourth characters in the play.

1. cake is food
2. all cake is tasty

all food is tasty?

Something to consider now that ModOptions and MapOptions are being more frequently (and with the advent of EngineOptions). The BZFlag version of widgets/gadgets uses the pattern that I'd started before bailing on Spring. It goes a little something like this: if (WantConfig) then return { name = 'Wid...

Yall might also consider modifying the unitDef sensor radii
(something that globalLOS doesn't do, as far as I know).

If a map-maker wants to set their own MapOptions.lua, and you don't agree with the provided options, you have two options: 1. play another map 2. edit the map file and redistribute (if the map maker's license allows you to do so). Note the caveat on #2 (and the irony :) The original use for MapOptio...

As I'd discussed with some springers (fairly sure quantum was one of them), one of the better ways to do randoms maps would be to setup a separate lua script with call-outs tailored to that particular task. I'd actually started down this path at one point (which was also combined with a new map form...

A key point that hasn't yet been mentioned in this tread: if a default MapOptions.lua file is created that allows end users to configure map parameters, and a particular map- maker doesn't want that capability for their map ... the map-maker can add their own MapOptions.lua file that overrides that ...

easily, depending on your approach :)

My old SmoothScroll widget provided an example of how you can use FreeCamera + Lua to control the camera however you please. It looks like that widget is still in svn/git (camera_smooth.lua). P.S. The one caveat being that Spring does not support 'roll' (from yaw/pitch/roll), at least not while I wa...

One plan that I'd discussed with tvo was to setup a lua script that would be used to display the loadscreen. It would have the gl/GL functionality, but limited access to the rest of the libraries. Some information that you might want: - mod name - map name and specs - player name list - player teams...

Inkscape is a nice OSS SVG editor.
http://inkscape.org/

Add SVG image support with a host of scaling options
(pixels, screen percentage, maxspect percentage, etc...)
The cursor feature should naturally fall out from that :)

did you know that lua can easily swap cursors dynamically?
check the screen size, swap the cursors ...

sounds like a good candidate for ... luafication?

It's already in Spring, you just need to write the lua and shaders (or copy it from the work that I'm doing for BZFlag). P.S. One thing that BZFlag does better than Spring (imo), is that they use X/Y for the ground plane. That might affect how some of the code would work. The other adjustment I made...