Spring RTS Engine

abma wrote:where is the list of donations? (i liked the transparency)

I asked Licho the same question. I've heard rumours that the list is now part of a secret project..
(He ran off with all the money)

PicassoCT wrote:Its from the guys who made that lua ide.

They open sourced it..
http://unknownworlds.com/blog/lua-ide-d ... en-source/
Only for Windows, at this time.

WOW! Tim, you now own my left kidney! Paying half year of server cost is a MASSIVE help, thank you very much! :-) Both my kidney's are still fine, but I will keep it in mind. Now if I added up correctly you are about a € 100 away from turning this donation thing into a profitable enterprise. I coul...

4th post in a row, but who cares, I just like to post about this. They made 2.330.220 million dollars, including the paypal backers. Still have to pay Kickstarter (5%), Amazone (5%) and income taxes (don't know, 8%?). More or less 2 million. They can put in some more money (600.000?) as they will se...

Shiny new open source (mit!) game engine
Backed by profitable company with employment opportunities

Anyway, I'm really happy to see people think about the "what do we want Spring to be when it grows up". I don't expect that we will get to a real shared vision of the future, but it's always good to know what others think. There are a lot of posts.. I'm just going to pick a few things. So ...

Made a new topic for the speed/readable/abstraction discussion.

Just to split out the discussion. .. i summon the grand jury! Sure, let me resolve this for you guys. First off, your think speed optimisation and readable code are nice things. And Kloot/jK think that abstraction is a good idea in itself. Most of the time it's perfectly possible to have the cake an...

tl;dr: Had contact with Jon Mavor from Uber. Uber Entertainment will not open source the PA engine. The to be developed PA engine will be more advanced than SupCom's "moho" engine which had about the same design as the Spring engine. So, now what? Had some discussion with Tobi, Licho, Klo...

Congratulations! It's a real pleasure to see Spring growing up with time passing.

Tested the registration with FF 3.6.24 and Chromium 15.0.874.106 both old browser versions and both work. Chromium didn't show the div at first but after a refresh it did. Retried several times and the captcha was visible every time so I think it was a one off (network) error. The captcha did also s...

You can use http://test.springrts.com/ to test code before it's put live.

This post is a joke, don't read it if you are interested in the test/benchmark topic. .. or in other words, you would just start doing it, and if you are half done you may know how much time it would need, or that it is not (reasonably) possible. That's one way of doing it.. but I have a formal edu...

Just to make things a little easier, the thread at Phoronix links to a feature request on this forum: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=22604 The suggestions there were using a replay or using the save/load system to have something that works across Spring versions. And there is a ...

As claimed by http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com : The Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available that provides an extensible framework for which new tests can be easily added. So I was browsing the Phoronix forum and came across the following discussio...

That's actually a cool idea. An algorithm to balance units. Something along the lines that you set some fixed characteristics (the role) that makes that unit unique and the algorithm balances the values relative to the other units. Then you take a supercomputer, let it run 5000 AI v/s AI test games ...

Spring was never a Direct X app I'm not sure.. I would have to dig up the source from that time. Spring was not only a result of that tutorial. As I understand it SJ used the existing ta demo recorder as a base and TA demo was a DirectX application. You can still download the source from http://www...

Maybe because a lot of the open source guys are linux and many of the devs are? Why are we using GL instead of DIRECTX? I honestly can't say. Because Spring was described by SJ as an OpenGL tutorial that got way waaaay out of hand. Spring actually was a DirectX game. The tutorial SJ used was about ...

Hm, firstly, I have to complain that seemingly everybody (of course it’s just a few people, the exaggeration should emphasize it’s annoying nature) accuses me of being a troll. What am I doing wrong? I think your complaint is valid. Try to understand that the guy that started this topic (not you) m...

People here and especially the engine developers understand what serialization is. I didn’t look into the source code yet, because I don’t think I will have the time to contribute in a useful way at all in the next few weeks anyway. I just wanted to suggest an approach to fix saving (and to show tha...