Spring RTS Engine

Starting with version 0.12.29, SPADS now supports Python plugins (with either Python 2.6+ or Python 3.2+). So it is no longer required to write a single line of Perl code to extend SPADS functionalities through plugins :-) Like Perl plugins, Python plugins support hot reloads and the entire plugin A...

is this in the stable channel? Spads reports to me that there is no update available for stable release. No, changes are integrated in the "stable" release only when they have been extensively tested in the "unstable" release and then in the "testing" release. It can t...

Fixed in SPADS 0.12.21

abma wrote: ↑02 Jan 2021, 06:45 it seems spads has a hardcoded 32 bit windows: i guess because when this code was written, the win64 bit executable didn't exist

Exactly. This is already on my todo list btw, it's just that it wasn't the best timing for me but it should be fixed soon :)

I have made quite some updates in SPADS recently, which were mainly done to prepare and improve the efficiency of a new plugin that I was working on: ClusterManager This plugin is now available (as seen on the official plugins list ) and I think this plugin is important enough to deserve its own pos...

New SPADS plugins available:

AutoRegister - automatically registers the lobby account used by SPADS if needed
ClusterManager - turns a SPADS instance into a manager of clusters of SPADS instances

glibc 2.29 was released 2019-01-31, ubuntu 20.04 has glibc 2.31 , debian 10 is to old, debian 11 with an up to date glibc will be released in early 2021. On which distribution / version did you currently test? Tbh my system is irrelevant, I don't personally need the static build of Spring engine to...

the new static builds will fail on a lot of systems because they require GLIBC 2.29, so I guess it would be a good option to put back build 1553 online as afaik it is the last build which doesn't require GLIBC 2.29. Is that an issue related to getting spads to use the new engine build? I don't know...

While new maintenance builds are still broken, please restore the 1553 maintenance build files on the https://springrts.com/dl/buildbot/default/maintenance/. Yeah, the new static builds will fail on a lot of systems because they require GLIBC 2.29, so I guess it would be a good option to put back b...

I have updated the SPADS configurations templates (used to build default configuration when installing SPADS) so that they now contain a few presets, for the main game modes: team, duel and FFA. This means that new SPADS installations will now have these basic presets already defined by default.Thes...

Since SPADS 0.12.20, it is now also possible to share preferences data between multiple SPADS instances, by adding the "preferences" keyword to the list of shared data (see previous post). For example, to share all supported data you need to start SPADS like this: perl spads.pl etc/spads.c...

Experimental support for shared dynamic data has been added in SPADS 0.12.19 (only in "unstable" release for now), for following data: Map start boxes Bans Trusted lobby certificates When shared data are used, the data files are stored in the "varDir" directory (shared between mu...

Preset inheritance TL;DR: It is now possible to make a preset inherit settings declarations from other presets, just by adding the list of inherited presets between "< >" in the preset declaration line in the configuration file. For example, for a "duelProOnly" preset inheriting...

Configuration settings overrides TL;DR: It is now possible to override settings configured in SPADS configuration files by passing command line parameters when starting SPADS. For example to override the "lobbyLogin" global setting and the "port" hosting setting: "perl spad...

I have introduced 2 new functionalities in SPADS 0.12.17 to ease configuration management: configuration settings overrides and preset inheritance. I will explain them in following posts.

Jools wrote: ↑20 Nov 2020, 16:41 Would it be possible to build a version of spads also for Arm (armhf)? Did I already ask?

If you have all the requirements listed in the first post of this thread on your system, there is no reason SPADS shouldn't work.
Did you try ?

A small update concerning multi-hosting (concurrent SPADS instances sharing same binaries, i.e. started from same installation directory): Starting with SPADS version 0.12.12 (only in unstable SPADS release for now) it is no longer a recommendation to have the autoUpdateRelease setting set on only o...

Also, what should loglevel be set to? my spads.log files are getting very large :D For normal operation, you can keep the default log level which is 4 (information). lobbyInterfaceLogLevel:5 autoHostInterfaceLogLevel:5 updaterLogLevel:5 spadsLogLevel:5 simpleEventLogLevel:5 Here you are using the l...

No it's not normal.
Can you find which step exactly is taking that long by taking a look at SPADS log file (spads.log) ?

FYI I tried again to experiment a bit with the bridge bot interface and autohost, but it seems there are still issues: lobby clients which don't support the bridge bot interface will not see the bridged messages because they are relayed by the lobby server using the "__battle__XXXXX" chann...