Spring RTS Engine

2) extend gl.CreateTexture with cubemap support (easy-ish), then dynamically replace the skybox by your HDR environment cubemap via Spring.SetSkyBoxTexture (currently deadweight)

Both screenshots look correct to me. The specular cubemap (top image) basically just stores C * pow(dot(N, L), e), where C is the sun's model specular color, L the sun direction and e the specular exponent. This is going to be black for most N's. Ravaged's skybox contains green near the horizon and ...

In my understanding, the game host server runs its own copy of the simulation No, the simulation(s) exist(s) only on the client side. and computes a checksum of the game state every tick Clients do this. So each player sends a checksum of his game state to the server, and the server checks if this ...

The server regulates game speed based on (by default) the average CPU usage value of all clients, which means players with slower-than-average CPU's will fall further and further behind the reference time but can stay ingame with increasing order latency. Eventually (though in practice never, since ...

Did I miss something

Nope, I did. Coordinates are available in 686-g3fbba69.

No need to make reports for ancient versions, test only the most recent (104.0.1-708-gedbecc7) maintenance build. Either false sharing or excessive lock contention (or broken affinity management) could be good candidate explanations, but I expect other shenanigans since a performance degradation thi...

i don't know how to tell the compiling process to use that tag You would either have to hack the FetchSpringVersion macro in rts/build/cmake/UtilVersion.cmake, or set the core.abbrev value in your .gitconfig file to 7. Your git client (which is invoked by FetchSpringVersion) appears to be using a l...

Keep the cumulative resources-produced graphs so you can show exponential economic growth (or lack thereof).

git describe --tags --abbrev=7

GL version : 3.0 Mesa 17.2.8 GL vendor : X.Org GL renderer : AMD CAICOS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.13.0-46-generic, LLVM 5.0.0) Your GPU driver is probably not configured with DDS / S3TC texture (de)compression support. There should be an option to enable it in driconf, but check the output of glxinfo for &qu...

Could you please run the following minimal example widget on either Core Platform or Incandescence? This should have obvious effects if it works. local ssmfEmissionTexHandle = "" function widget:GetInfo() return { name = "Spring.SetMapShadingTexture", layer = 0, enabled = true, }...

Is [DOES NOTHING] by design or just an oversight?

Neither, gajop's copypasta snippet visibly kills the default emission texture (as it should) for me on Core Platform.

Which map(s) are you using to test this?

this is how stuff looks like to me: https://i.imgur.com/9m3ILiB.jpg I'm going to guess your SpringData dir points to the wrong basecontent sdz's (only way I can replicate your screenshot), although that should lead to all sorts of errors. Add DebugGL=1 and DebugGLStacktraces=1 to springsettings.cfg...

I expect/hope most of those are uniforms in disguise.

re: PS: upgrade to GLEW 2.1.0 (or hack away the version check)
re: PS2: pr-downloader's fault, it doesn't respect PREFER_STATIC_LIBS

probably completely unusable

For most UI code, removal of display lists has been the only major API breakage to occur so far and is easy to adapt to.

That said, sticking with maintenance is a wiser course of action for the time being.

To coin an old phrase: Lua{Menu} it.

Feed the startscript generated by springlobby to the engine manually (using a command prompt: "spring.exe script.txt") and check what happens.

If that also works normally, forward your issue to https://github.com/springlobby/springlobby/issues.

Isolate the bug in a minimal standalone widget with one of the default cameras and report it on mantis.

Yes and no, Metal/Vulkan are just the result of the AAA game industry (where people *want* the ability to write what are essentially mini-drivers) pushing for more control over performance.

Hobbyist projects don't dictate tech developments.

Apple dropped OpenGL like a rock after 4.1-core in favor of their Metal API and we don't exactly have the resources to implement a nice abstraction layer that can speak both dialects.

The only thing to do is wait or contribute code.