Spring RTS Engine

that should be doable.. but it has lots of micro, meaning its to expensive for new players, and can get quickly exponential out of hand with experienced and gadget-gimicky players! micro is certainly my concern. This is supposed to be a faction easy for noobs (and the AI, my AI skill is not great) ...

Is there a way to make one unit morph into multiple units? I was thinking maybe of this one "Swarm egg" structure that, once built, you select one of multiple "platoon" options (think Basic platoon, Air platoon, Artillery platoon etc), and then the egg transforms and turns into t...

Most factions in most games produce units at factories, and they have builders that produce turrets and factories and mexes, etc. I've got one faction in my game that does this. However, I'm looking for something more creative and interesting for the other faction in my game. This faction does not h...

luckywaldo7 wrote: 'hoping their customers are stupid enough to sit still while being vigorously shafted'

in fairness, they usually are.

just determined the crash was due to corrupted maps. nvm.

I just upgraded my Ubuntu machine to 12.10 Quantal, then went back into software sources and re-enabled the spring PPA because those sources get turned off on upgrade. Well, apparently my springlobby is now version "1.47-1" (i think it was 1.44 before?) annnddd.... it lacks the ability to ...

All the graphics are on lowest settings. It's also worth noting that it runs fine under Linux on the same machine.

So I'm running spring standalone on a fairly new workstation that has Windows and an i5 processor with integrated graphics (no discrete graphics card). When I try to start up spring, it gets to the "loading maps" phase, then crashes, saying "access violation". (Possibly relevant ...

Ok, cool!

But in order to prevent duplicate orders from stacking up in the drones' order queue, I'll need to wipe their order queue before copying all the orders from the host into the queue. How do I wipe a unit's order queue?

so I'm assuming i should iterate through the host's command queue... then use... ?

BaNa wrote:eh, this topic is so 2010


ZK is out of the TAIP

There are about 5 TA models left in the game, though. Almost there...

I'm currently writing an improved CarrierDrones gadget called SwarmDrones that allows for, among other things, multiple swarm types per host. I want to set it up so that orders given to the "host" unit (move here, attack this, fight, guard, etc.) are also given to all his (unselectable) dr...

Has anyone here ever made a game where units were controlled in "squads" rather than as individuals, where whole squad was controlled almost like a single unit? Like the Dawn of War II games? I'm interested in doing this for my game and don't know if it's been done before.

how do i get it on rapid? I'm currently using Git for version control.

Also there will be a second faction eventually.

Or the drones in THIS. whatever happened to THIS? anyway, now I've got a second problem. I've got the lua gadget: -- $Id: unit_carrier_drones.lua 3291 2008-11-25 00:36:20Z licho $ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------...

I recently picked up the old Conflict Terra codebase and began working with it. My goal is to collapse the former 3 factions into two very different, highly robust, interesting factions. Right now the only faction I have working is the Locusts, whose icon is a square inside a square (not four diamon...

I'm modifying the old CT codebase into a new game and I've got this CEG. Now I want to scale it up to give it an explosion that's about 8x bigger. What numbers should I modify? --ct_impact_beamshot_green_big --Bigger impact CEG for green beam weapons (Drone) --by Sanada return { ["ct_impact_bea...

Beherith wrote:Look at the carrier in ZK.

found the unitdef. What am I looking for here?

Edit: I found a few lua scripts that appear to operate the drones: unit_carrier_drones.lua and drone_defs.lua

So I have this one flying drone unit with pre-programmed unitdef/attack patterns/behavior/everything, and currently it's built either the boring old way in a factory, or built on the battlefield by a constructor (ever played ZeroK? think about how the Athena builds things). But then i've also got th...