Spring RTS Engine

the BZFlag lua event handling code doesn't have to do named function lookups Instead of doing a widget["func_name"] lookup for each function call, the functions are registered into the ordered event lists. simplified iteration example: local node = eventlist.start while (node) do node.fun...

The problem has been known for a while. It's not only a problem with the lua event handling, it's also present in the C++ EventHandler. For BZFlag, I rewrote both the C++ and lua event handling to use lists instead of arrays. List iterators are unaffected by insertions and deletions of other iterato...

See the transportByEnemy unitDef tag.

local arg = { ... } -- do not trust #arg if nils are present
local a2, a3, a4 = select(2, ...)
local argCount = select('#', ...)

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.5.9
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-select

0k = 100% pyrite?

"an old test gadget"

Treat it as an example, not final product.

Ideally, you supply different display lists for different LODs.

Here's an old test gadget that I used while developing the lua based LOD feature. Instead of using different meshes for LODs, it removes parts of the unit the further away you get (IIRC). P.S. I have no idea as to the state that I left it in, or if it will work at all with the engine changes that ha...

When last I played with SpringRTS' Lua, it could manage the video, audio, user inputs, and send custom network messages. From those features, you should be able to write any game that you want. I'm not saying that it's ideal for an FPS style game (lock-step protocol isn't all that great for responsi...

If you want it to conform to the ground height
variations, you might want to use DrawGroundQuad()
(or use $heightmap, or whatever gets you the same
results.) You can use GL's texture generation facilities
to avoid computing the texture coords yourself (or do
the same with a shader).

Something that I didn't mention in the initial post is that you can mitigate the slope changes between segments by running a smoothing pass along the segment seams after it has been adjusted. The width of the smoothing segment would be determined by the slope adjustment that you can tolerate, and th...

As I mentioned in the initial post that demo'ed the Lua heightmap alteration routines, you can spread out the processing by adjusting the map in segments. As an example, you could split the map into 8x8 segments, and process one segment every X number of game frames. Tides don't move that quickly (e...

Spring.SetUnitLosMask() and
Spring.SetUnitLosState()
can be used to setup "selective" global LOS.

zwzsg makes with the fun.
zwzsg doesn't know how easy it actually is to setup the script.
from ignorance comes the hahas.

The 'keysym' uikeys.txt keyword can be used to
make the file more readable if you're using a lot
of hexadecimal keycodes.

From an external app's perspective (ex: modinfo), that
still wouldn't matter as long as the unitsync interface is
being used to gather the information (ex: lua2php).

I'd argue that OpenGL is "up" agnostic, it doesn't really care what the Xs, Ys, and Zs refer to. Note that it could be argued that OpenGL's default "up" coordinate is Z, if you consider looking down at the terrain as default view point (OpenGL's Z defaults to the axis that is nor...

TradeMark: i cant open .diff files, can you send the whole file link to me? if you cant, then forget about it The .diff file that I attached is a text file. I would think that someone with your obvious level of competence would be able to open a text file. What might be eluding you is the manner in ...

On a tangent, something that is missing from the modinfo
feature set is the ability to see what effects ModOptions.lua
has on the various definitions. It could get a little messy,
but I thought I'd throw it out there

What is it that you are trying to say?

Actually, it's you who doesn't seem to get it. The output from that program is in "static" form, it does not use any PHP scripting features other than to define the arrays. Maybe you'd better understand the concept if I took 2 minutes to convert it to output XML, TDF, or "static"...