Spring RTS Engine

Hey @abma , we've got a good numbers of new players trying to play TA Prime after its release, but failing hard due to some SpringLobby issues. Players in Asia and Russia some times don't get the validation e-mail, sometimes it takes more than a day and then there's no way to re-open the 'enter code...

Welcome to the TA Prime (TAP, for short) forum. Feel free to discuss balance, bugs and feature requests here. I’ll also share news on new versions (including changelogs) and tourneys. Right now version 1.01 is under works, fixing a couple minor incompatibilities with the latest Spring maintenance en...

https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?id=10952 Celebrating TA Prime’s (www.fluidplay.co/taprime) release week, I’m also releasing my first Spring map, Hourglass. It was designed with TAP & BA economies in mind, and extensively play-tested on many matches during TAP’s beta development, b...

https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?id=10947 'Travel 2000 years to the “past” of Total Annihilation days, and engage on hard-fought battles with forgotten technology and special attacks. TA Prime is a fan-made prequel to the 1999 smash hit RTS, elected by GameSpy as the best Real-Time Str...

As long as something reasonably sane was chosen, I doubt it's worth agonizing over precisely what prior is best. What matters is if the proxy metrics for player skill can actually reflect the long term reality of who wins & loses more often. I didn't mean the former, much rather the latter :) W...

Have you thought of a way to collect the required data (killed/lost units ratio or destroyed metal / lost metal ratio) from matches? This would be relatively trivial to do in a gadget, like the Awards gadget, then submit to SPADS - either natively or through a plugin, there's a callback to override...

Hey guys, I'm considering the development of a new plugin for SPADS replacing the (now obsolete) TrueSkill by the new TrueSkill 2 calculation. Given it's an official MS thing, I just thought that maybe it should be an update (or option?) to SPADS itself, instead of a plugin. What do you think? My pe...

Beautiful, height/vertex blend is amazing. It's worth mentioning that in Ivand's PBR terrain implementation you're not limited to 4 materials as in the standard splats technique, you're only limited to the amount of max textures at once - 24, if memory doesn't fail me. So you can have, for instance,...

I can confirm the result of the commit I got is the exact same visual appearance as what I get in Substance or Sketchfab. Truly amazing, Unity for instance has some hard time getting the proper final look in a PBR-textured model. Animated gif from the final effect: https://media.giphy.com/media/5bb7...

I've been collaborating with Ivand to get this working, mostly from a technical artist point of view - model & textures also provided, they're for a WIP new Spring game. Amazing job so far Ivand, I can't tell you how happy I am with what you accomplished! :) This is the #1 graphical breakthrough...

Good job! Hey Silentwings, do you know if there's a way to place a decal with normals?

Next video topic could be "porting a user-submitted GLSL shader to Spring".
I'd be the "user-submitter", of course

Balance by committee is bad, balance by deaf ears is even worse. It's obvious the huge experience and knowledge of the game some of the BA devs have, but using that as a quick trigger gun to dismiss the users' complaints is a terrible attitude and could only lead to this kind of scenario. Even if th...

The latest I could find :) Forboding Angel has added it successfully to a recent EvoRTS release. My current dev version also includes morph pause (must have!) and a powerful morph queue, with which you can queue units/structures to be morphed and they're morphed one at a time, to prevent stalling yo...

Hey Picasso, if you got any say on this, please try and make PBR (Physically based rendering) shaders possible in Spring. Like this, in ShaderToy: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4sSfzK That's what all high-end engines and professional art pipelines use and it makes a world of difference in terms of ...

@jamerlan no luck making mocaccino running with the older/more mature 'Lua' plugin. Not sure if I missed something. Anyways, it's nice to install the lua plugin first so IntelliJ also finds/autocompletes the lua standard libraries. Then you disable it and enables EmmyLua. Again, you can probably do ...

How to setup Spring autocomplete in IntelliJ IDEA (community or Pro): Download the zip and extract the SDK folder from: https://github.com/PicassoCT/SpringLuaMoccacino Within IntelliJ, go to settings, install or make sure the EmmyLua plugin active Project > External Libraries > <LuaJ> > RMB > Open L...

I doubt you'd get anyone to do it, since - from what the engine guys said - it would require a complete overhaul of the graphics pipeline, or having it run on Metal which would be even less probable considering the amount of OSX players. 105 theoretically will have enough meat to allow it to work on...

Not sure if I should post it here or in a new thread, but here it goes. I've cooked up a new version of unit_morph.lua with the following improvements: -- Default buildtime, buildcostenergy and buildcostmetal is now the difference between original and target unit values -- Accepts and prioritizes de...

Hi Methuselas. The first 3D package I used was Imagine on the Amiga, then I started on Lightwave beta (there was an e-mail list where the devs actually replied back then!) and stayed in it for more than a decade. These days I use Maya and Modo for almost everything, still visiting Lightwave from tim...