Spring RTS Engine

I've created some missions for Zero-K, but it really needs an appropriate map specifically for the mission rather than using skirmish maps. It starts with the commander at the end of the tail of long crater, his ship having crashed. Making his way down the crater (the sides too steep to exit), encou...

This is Sean, i am afraid. He did this with Libre, and a couple other projects before.

Does this factor in self-d? That will make any player who ragequits or self-d's at the end of the game make all his units count, while a player who is winning will have a bunch of units that dont count. That is going to skew your stats, though I dont know in which direction. Anyway, we have been doi...

Amazing, great to see Zero-K being used in this way. This is what open source is all about, kudos. There are a lot of things you can do to the interface to break away from traditional RTS design. The first and obvious one is that you do not actually need two mouse buttons. You cannot select enemy un...

Can we get some pictures?

Ship design is not necessarily finalized, and wont be until we sit down and play it -a lot- to work out the dynamics (esp in relation to hover/gunship). But it has been fairly stable for a long time, and having good models is needed regardless. In the Shipyard , we need a new Hunter torpedo frigate,...

We could model swap the hammer and morty, and add a golden hammer. (Or ditch the hammer model entirely and find something else). It is so light and gets vulnerable to AoE so fast that a double-hammer is probably actually not a terrible addition to the game. If this isnt all just unnecessarily confus...

Unfortunately smoth, the morty shoots slowbeams now (Yeah, we are awful, ruined it, etc). Double slowbeam doesnt make much sense.

Every unit is -viable- and has a role in the game. Not every unit is -essential- or you'd have to build every factory every game. Most factories are balanced so that the units in it can counter any other unit from any other factory. Every factory has a riot, artillery, raider, etc. You can win with ...

We didnt put these mega-units in the 'Noob' factories for a reason. Noobs tend to rush to the biggest things they can get their hands on, assuming they are the 'best'. In truth, dumping your cash on a horde of ravagers is still one of the hardest things to beat in the game. Vehicles are out of vogue...

It's interesting how much effort ZK has gone to to fix most of these problems. Though some of them, like having the high aiming point on turrets meaning artillery misses, are kind of tradeoffs. ZK uses lua to manage its bomber refuelling which is why we dont have a lot of the problems with the engin...

The spherebot was designed with kitbashing in mind, its human-shaped, and so easy to change up its weapons or proportions. I also wanted to make a generic robot guy that could fit in other games, so i am just really delighted when i see it appear in things like that luarized FPS unit project, instea...

That is pretty cool actually. The kitbash ability is also nice, though obviously in the case as it currently is, its limited by what units actually do share the same texture. What do you think of manticore as recluse, on the topic? And kitbashing a few spiders from this and crasher? We're currently ...

They look really really great, behe! Glad to get my hands on finished versions of these. Even better than the t1 bots, lots of nice, crisp detail. I am wondering though why you put 4 models in each texture. It would make sense if you shared areas of texture, but in the case of the Dominator/morty/ad...

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Tracker
Falconer
Hunter
Archer
Skinner
Butcher
Minstrel
Weaver

Prettymuch the only good suggestions thus far.

Honestly, if we are sticking to the violent agent nouns, we can keep leveler, slasher, etc, call it homage. Weasel doesnt fit the theme though.

Did you UVmap it first? Shouldnt be hard, lots of large flat surfaces.

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Running out of time man.

Look forward to seeing them whenever though the normal maps are blowing my mind.

Im fine with Licho's scheme. The problem is, as lucky mentions, a lot of units might do with a rename from OTA, and others just have crappy generic names (Still not happy with 'glaive' for my beautiful spherebot, we have so many units named after polearms in all sorts of factories). Glaive is itself...

If you're looking for some singleplayer to try, click the singleplayer tab and try Skasi's missions (scroll down), Sandbox, Chickens, 1v1, 2v1, etc. You may want to give Economy Challenge a try too. Probably best not to bother with the rest of the missions, they are published mostly by random people...