Spring RTS Engine

http://www.cockos.com/licecap/

Best thing ever after true love and cough drops.

abma wrote:also in the second replay, AAI was used, sadly it is known to cause crashes

Should AIs that are known to cause crashes be included in the engine? It's a bit of a noobtrap.

... i know, its not very attractive for getting donations :-| That's the big problem with donations, you can't get donations for things that aren't "sexy", and once donations start, issues with bounties get priority over things without bounties (a worse scenario is that nothing gets done ...

@gajop +1 During game development I've had to look in the code quite a lot which made me familiar with certain bits (lua, defs, command AI, etc.) that can be "understood" in reasonable time investment. Hacking those shouldn't require you to understand in detail how the rest of the engine w...

nearly*: With the exception of those that fail to build due to build errors Unacceptable! Not having executables of failing builds is the main obstacle for improving the spring experience for windows users. :P Seriously though, spring behaves wonderfully on Windows, building is quite straight-forwa...

Looks wonderful! did you consider sorting the results (based on load/alphabetically)? IIRC capability was already there, just commented out (although I may confuse it with the gadget profiler). https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html#Spelling Even though I prefer British spelling when writing, co...

a) The difference between 37 and 34 is indeed insignificant, I agree, but these are the values on your machine which is pretty powerful. The difference is both more significant when it's 12 instead of 15 and also may be larger on slower machines. b) If you compare lengths of slow frames, the differe...

smoth I recorded some sounds for prototype/jam games of my own, while not very high quality they're really fun to make, so I'll suggest that you just try to create an effect or two yourself and see how that goes.

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I hope this won't be relevant because the "recent discoveries" will indeed be integrated into the engine *nudge* *nudge* .

That just means that the real devastation will come from small nano bots who sneak into the control rooms and turn humans into a moderate pile of gibs.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15dq0EuuhB29ezifaOQIu2PMpR9T7hbpeGGmgqMPGACI/edit#gid=2064064053 (look at the CritSection sheet) I've profiled both the dev version and the dev version with locking commented out. There's a noticeable improvement, but it's still significantly slower (Gameframe ...

Have you tried building SDL2? it's pretty straightforward on windows&linux, may work on your setup as well.

relevant #sy discussion: [23:29:49] <ashdnazg> I'll leave this here http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=32922 [23:30:11] <ashdnazg> [LCC]jK your feedback is appreciated ^ [23:35:50] <[LCC]jK> when you claim something you always have to say what you did [23:37:18] <ashdnazg> what did ...

The tests were conducted on a machine with a decent CPU (i7 2760) and a crappy GPU (Intel), so graphical operations take a long time. Using ZK's Benchmarker which lets 12 AIs duke it out, the average fps for both 91.0 and patched 98.0 was ~12, while for unpatched it was ~6. Update took ~50 ms in all...

After some profiling I've pinpointed the main cycles hog to be the lua mutexes, but apprently the worker threads don't run any lua, so is there a need for these mutexes at the moment? Their removal results in significant performance improvement, and from some tests I haven't seen any desyncs (even i...

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Spring.LoadMap("DSD") Actually IMO it'd be more versatile to reload based on a script and not on a map (maybe players will change, maybe we're in Chililobby and want a different game etc.) btw, that raises another issue of bounties/donations/payment. EDIT: I would pay at least $500 to fix...

I sometimes have same issue with Intel HD graphics.

I'd have given less to the GUI in S44, but I can understand Code_Man's point of view. In S44 the GUI just has less relevance, for instance way less buildings than in ZK/BA for instance means no need for fancy build menu. So a very basic GUI actually frees more screen space for other things, like man...

The discussion has already advanced beyond that since years. Sorry, I but there is no use to argue those same misunderstandings again and again. They discussion may have advanced, but the situation is pretty much the same as it has been 7 years ago (except some improvement attempts by ZK/ZKL). It's...