Spring RTS Engine

From my experience messing with Shard building placement (see Shard for NOTA), spacing seems to be in some fixed units, not in building footprints. Maybe it's just because most buildings in NOTA are of similar sizes. There is some strangeness going on with Shard and buildings, it seems sometimes Bui...

Main remaining problem wrt 94.1 is flying inf: when unloading from a truck, inf can be sent flying all the way across the map. Can't find the cause of this.

wtafa, your first post doesn't make it clear if you're going to use Spring engine for your game or not.
People just assume that you're one of 'I have this great idea, now let's find who will do all the work' guys. And this causes the reaction you see.

KKnD 1 units looked like plastic toys. If that's serious style, then what the childish one would be?

I think I found what exactly causes the error. It's the cloak visuals.

Steps to reproduce: build any cloakable unit, make it cloak, see the error spam.

New build. - 1/3 of bombers will be carpet bombers if possible - yet smarter target selection for bombers (if friendly planes were shot down attacking the target, that sector's priority will be lower for some time) - ARM T2 bot choices redone - some bugfixes Known problems: the bot is indecisive in ...

In my experience, this happens in NOTA when something explodes on the screen (not anything at all, but something that is used by NOE quite often, since I see a lot of those error spam), so may have to do with CEGs or lups.

Ships would be hard, since AI needs to detect if this water body is large enough for them or not. My bot can use hovers however, so attacks from water are already possible (hover lab can be built if map has water, but it's a low-priority lab for AI so not 100% of games will see it) I'll probably cha...

New build.
- better bomber target selection
- both ARM and CORE will build T2 bot and veh (before CORE built only T2 bots, ARM only T2 veh)
- T1 veh labs will build Indian/Bulldog if T2 veh prerequisite is met
- T1 air plants will switch to carpet bombers if prereqs are met

New build. Now can use bombers (but not fighters). Will build some more long-ranged units when it controls more than half of map (to lay siege to enemy base).

Thanks, AF! That did it. Now my bombers work. Working code is as follows: function BomberBehaviour:BombPosition(position) local CMD_ATTACK = 20 local floats = api.vectorFloat() -- populate with x, y, z of the position floats:push_back(position.x) floats:push_back(position.y) floats:push_back(positio...

Doesn't initialize without api as well: Would it be possible to add an Attack(Position) to IUnit object instead? It only has Attack(IUnit).

Should api.new_vectorFloat() work in Shard included with 94.1? It causes an error. What I'm trying to do is this: function BomberBehaviour:BombPosition(position) local CMD_ATTACK = 20 local floats = api.new_vectorFloat() -- populate with x, y, z of the position table.insert(floats, position.x) table...

S44 has no 'group' (swarm, squad, etc.) units currently. Some units are built as squads, true, but they are controlled as individual units once complete.

syncedctrl functions can (and will) change the game state, syncedread can't.

Now at least it's obvious that's a drill, not a giant machinegun. I like new variant more.

As for color, this one is closer to yellow which is the color mining/construction equipment often uses, so that's also better IMO.

So it's the drill. Are they meant to look like these?

That was in Nanoblobs (first Argh's project), not PURE.

New version.
- AI can build floating mexes
- AI builders start to retreat to base if damaged (doesn't seem to help them much as most attack units can outrun them)
- some bugs fixed, as usual (and probably some new ones added)

With Spring 94 I sometimes (about 1 game in 10 or so, can't find what exactly causes this) receive this: [f=0030508] Warning: AI for team 2 (ID: 2) failed handling event with topic 3, error: 102 Infolog gets spammed with it, and some seconds later this appears: [f=0030509] <SkirmishAI: Shard dev (te...