Spring RTS Engine

When playing earlier, I noticed that the original reflective water (NOT the advanced OGL wave-shader) actually IS a geometry deformation, causing waves. In light of this, could one of the developers make a patch so that each user could adjust the wave height/intensity per MAP, or even via Config pro...

[edit] Removed early-morning bitchyness [/edit]
This looks like great work Buggi, keep it up man.

Guys, guys! Back ON TOPIC please! Go to the OT forum to flame!

Has anyone ELSE ran a friggin huge map on the new map-test-beta, with an Nvidia OR ATI chipset?

I just loaded up a 64x64 map in Spring... I used the default Dry.sm3 data for textures, so I didn't post any screenies, but it was unplayably slow on full viewradius, and I got some weird artifacts in the shading. I have a suckass computer, and I know that at least 128x128 maps are entirely possible...

[offtopic] Do you only post when you're drunk? [/offtopic]

Why thank you VERY much! Very appreciated for those of us who can't compile!

Could one of the ppl with an actualy working toolchain please compile a (Windows) SVN version for testing? Hosting shouldn't be a problem, and I'd love to see if there's any way I can contribute new content for the new features before they're stabilized. Thanks! 8) How about doing this every once in...

Ok, I think I've got the style narrowed down now... Take your pick! These are not the final res/tex, I'm just trying to get a good Arm style going. http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/3339/screen015js8.jpg And BTW, I'm making all the decals HI-RES, so even on steep cliffs they still look good. ( I ha...

Ok, quick update... I think this is pretty much a final right here. 2 sizes of decal, sized and calibrated for dropoff. http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/5834/finalcorexf5.jpg Not all buildings have a decal yet, some never will. I was trying to keep it balanced and realistic to the story. I'm still...

Scince this is a totally new map format, is there any more thought being given to multi-layer mapping or pathed bridge-features?

Yes, you can do Alpha Blending, as the next shot will show. I'm pretty much settled on that Core texture. Looks good to me, I'm down with it. I've got the decal settings about right, perhaps make them a little smaller. Here's a WIP of the Arm texture... They'll have 3, one for Factories, one for wea...

I think it's most balanced with most buildings having small decals, factories having fairly large, then Mexes and Mohos having a large decal that never decays, and Metal Makers having a smaller one. This screenie is more what I envisioned for the Core. The Arm could just have a concrete that just gr...

Taken with XTA-PE (Modified) and What's-his-face's ground decals... Can we get these standard on next version's XTA? Each building's size is different and dropoff time for non-main-base building decals is very fast. Now all we need is a good road decal for Arm, and to use the dark metal for the Core...

I play prefer XTA because it seems more realistically balanced. It doesn't have direct counters, but every overall battle plan is balanced. That and I think not letting missle trucks fire at ground units is stupid :roll: +1 to all of the above. This is why I stopped playing AA, and only sometimes p...

Is this the new map format? Sure looks like it... If so, what image formats are you using?

What tools are you guys usiing to convert from-to RAW? GIMP won't open it...

Thank you!

I followed the sticky instructions for MingW, and I get this error at Scons configure
Any ideas?

WinXP home, DevCPP

Cabbage wrote:i tried virtualdub, just couldnt get the hang of it :p

Then stop. Stop now. The only other one free I've found that's as easy as Vdub is called MediaCoder; I'm too lazy to fetch a link.

Seems to me that it's time for multi-mode shadow solutions, just like we have with the water. Why not have the faded-round style shadows as a software-rendered backup? Just cast one down from every unit, size depending on yardmap size, switchable with the hardware shadows in the Config program. It's...