Spring RTS Engine

Take a look at artillery units in S44. They have 2 weapons (HE and smoke shells), toggleable via UI button. And they use COB scripts. Any howitzer unit would do, for example gbr25pdr_stationary. Gadget responsible for the trick: unit_smokeshells.lua Relevant part is gadget:AllowCommand, it uses Spri...

From my work on NOTA Shard config, I also think something is wrong with idle unit detection. Maybe the engine can skip 'unit idle' event under certain conditions. Seems to happen to builders, but maybe happens to other unit types as well, with builders it's just more noticeable as they should normal...

We had to use invisible/unselectable units to emulate something much like this for binoculars function in S:44. It even works. Link to gadget (spotting unit is spawned on weapon hit, since the binoculars are a weapon). Of course our binoculars only reveal a small area, nothing like the full map, so ...

Probably in the past someone complained that mouse stopped working without any apparent reason, so they added this popup. That's how many annoying features get into software.

Not currently intended for S44, but might find it's way in if the naval game is ever finished:

Now they used some Unicode character (this one: ₪) to replace letter n. Those are humans, they can come up with new ways to fool the filter rather easily...

So is that like Drawf Fortress meets the Settlers, minus the military part?

As far as I understand it, adding LoS info to Shard itself would be better performance-wise. After all, engine already has all that calculated. Not sure if c++ AIs can get it though.

Yet another S44 unit gets a texture:

Looks like it's some kind of spambot making random responses in threads (search for it's posts and you'll see)

This model has no normal map. Some other models (tanks) do have them.

More S44 boats:

You can determine both incoming attack vector and current shield position in the same space (unit space in this case) if you control them from the defender's script . Basically units with shields should implement HitByWeapon, then GetPieceRotation/GetPiecePosDir of the shield and modify damage accor...

How I do it (using GIMP): 1. Draw the texture, save as png 2. Open in GIMP, do Colors - Components - Decompose, select RGBA 3. Paint the alpha channel black (don't touch other channels) 4. Colors - Components - Recompose, select RGBA. Image will appear invisible, that's ok. 5. File - Export, save as...

About edison-bulbs being illegal to manufacture: last year Russia banned 100W bulbs, so now they have bulbs rated at 95W (with a +/- 10% allowed error). Needless to say old 100W fit just nicely into that range, so they are the same bulbs, but rebranded. Another solution: the bulb can be named 'elect...

Same here. No starting units spawn in single player games, regardless if it's started from springlobby or from spring.exe directly.

NOTA 1.80, spring 95.0 on win7 64.

As far as I know current svn works pretty well with 95. Of course there i not much multiplayer testing (if any) these days, so there are probably still some bugs left.

Chat font: the settings seem to only apply to timestamp part, not the text. Example attached (chat font is set to Courier in preferences).

That's with 0.177, win7 64bit.

It may work if the prices are set in some 'real' currency and bitcoin is only used for anonymous transaction. Like so: you see something you want and it costs N$. You buy whatever amount of bitcoins that equates N$ this very moment and immediately make the transaction. The seller then immediately co...

I had to fix a similar problem with S44 recently. The tags were in:

- LuaUI
- LuaRules
- *defs_post

Maybe you missed one of the above.