Spring RTS Engine

Thanks AF. Great time for this, as I'm in the process of making myself take a break from lobby work, hopefully to make progress again. Ivand left me with a couple pointers about debugging last time I spoke with him, hopefully I can put them to good use. My first goal is to see what I can work out; s...

BATTLEOPENED sends channel as a sentence. In all channel-related commands, it's handled as a word.
Also JOINBATTLE is sending the channel argument, even though it appears undocumented in the protocol.

Seems simple enough that lobbies understand they need to send their battle status when they join a battle. Afaics in the Uberserver implementation it would take 5 seconds to remove the command. Is there some reason that other lobbies depends on this? It doesn't cause any problems for the command to ...

Thanks for the clarification, Forb. :)

Silentwings wrote: ↑09 Dec 2019, 07:33 Something simpler like "launch lobby and insert user into battleroom, leave user/lobby to do the rest" might be possible & might be less work,

I'm not sure what "the rest" and what this is "simpler" than? Guess I'm not thinking big enough.

People have heard I'm working on a lobby and have been asking questions about it. Here's a screenshot of current progress. (As you can see, there's still a lot to work on.) Source code is on github . Currently this is Mac-only and mostly a project I'm working on to experiment with a couple new codin...

ThinkSome wrote: ↑29 Nov 2019, 00:31 I think I had asked something similar a month ago...

Ah yes, viewtopic.php?p=592371#p592371

Haha, I should have known that existed – I even replied!

Thanks very much. :)

I heard someone say that Spring-dedicated can run maps that aren't downloaded on the host, and that got me wondering whether it needs the game downloaded also, and why. There seems to be no Spring-dedicated page on the wiki, so if someone who knows more than nothing could put up a bit of information...

… Each Level up on a slot improves the power of the skill within that slot. Why would this not work? The game's dynamic would shift fast and the players would be scrambling for the best skills they can try to get to first before the other team until the game just becomes a moot point like League of...

Thanks Silentwings, my code is now fixed and it finds my downloaded files! Solution was to call UnInit before Init when reloading. That hadn't worked for me the first time because I had another error elsewhere, but understanding what to expect made it easier to track that down. Off by one errors… :r...

Hey guys, I've integrated downloading into my lobby and I'm trying to get Unitsync to recognise the new file. I've triple-checked the file has been moved to the correct location in the data dir. Just asking for map count again doesn't work (somewhat predictably), but calling Init() and then getting ...

really like the crazy ideas, pity they have problems, but if you come up with anymore I'd love to hear them!

@Forb, what was the other MOBA? How did that go?

Here. You'll find most help in #sy
Note that #sy on discord is bridged to #sy on matrix, #sy on the Zero-K discord, and can someone confirm whether it's bridged to #sy on the Zero-K lobbyserver?

ICE wrote: ↑17 Oct 2019, 05:35 But still not working.

In which way?

The concept has a lot of merit, could use some refinement but with random WIPS I'm not sure refinement is the point? :D
The three on the right look really pretty too. A bit of deviation in style between them (and green v.s. red colouring could use a pattern). But I like where you're going with this.

From what I gather, the only reason you can't is because the current setup doesn't allow for it? Or, well, never being "I think no one's silly enough to try"? (Spoiler: I quite possibly am). Why do you say never, what am I missing? What would be necessary (however difficult?) Positives are...

Closely related would be hosts hosting development versions. I think for the sake of the average user, these test hosts should be hidden – and an option added to preferences (or something) in SL for them to be shown. Would require an extra flag added to the lobby battle protocol, and changes to host...

Hi I have a problem with the win64 spring 104.0.1-1390-gd493f2d. When I try to play with a Java AI it crashes and gives me an "Access violation" error. infolog.txt (for NullOOJavaAI): https://pastebin.com/CruMCv9a I also tried HughAI, but I've got the same result. I need this because I wa...

Bla wrote: ↑19 Sep 2019, 01:54 It worked fine for me, springlobby just had to download seperate executables for windows and linux

Technically not sharing, then, but an effective way of keeping all your stuff in one place

This is starting to come together really nicely! Thanks for sharing the growth of this project, and for putting in all the effort to produce this wonderful eyecandy for us :)