Spring RTS Engine

ignoring the rail stuff for the moment, just focusing on making trailers... so it would require "drone" units that cannot be selected, actually, since you might want to turn them on or off in the case of a radar or to load or unload units in the case of a transport/bunker or use them to co...

is it possible to create units on linux? i can create models using blender and textures using the gimp but upspring and cobbler seem to be windows only, is there a multi-platform solution for creating units? a few other thoughts: is there a reason (other than historical ones) that spring uses cob, t...

I don't think this is currently possible or has previously been suggested, (please correct me if i am wrong) 1. the ability to create trailers for vehicles, (ie a truck cab unit which can connect to various trailer units (eg. cannon trailer, transport trailer, rapid fire trailer, radar trailer, etc ...

perhaps spring should use physicsfs: icculus.org/physfs/ then it'd be easy to set up multiple directories/packages for maps and other data. have the main install data in $PREFIX/share/spring or $PREFIX/share/games/spring and then other stuff can go wherever else you please such as in your home direc...

i think all non user specific spring data should go in $PREFIX/share/spring/
and any user specific stuff should be in ~/.spring/
when loading data it should check first ~/.spring/ and then $PREFIX/share/spring/ so that the user can update things over the top of the base install

there have been a few other posts about small fonts being unreadable especially on low resolutions, suggestions have generally been to increase the resolution, but this is unneccessary and will keep out people with slower computers/gpus. a better solution is to load the font once for each different ...