Spring RTS Engine

Found this comment from someone who worked at NVidia.
So it turns out it's great to be a big AAA studio - NV will fix your errors for you, driver-side. ATI does the same. Kind of explains why opensource ATI driver is not up to proprietary one in games department.

S44 has this - when selecting a transport with units, you get their buildpics (grayed out to distinguish from regular selected units) in the bottom of the screen. 1. Transport with some units inside https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/104214519/screen00003.png 2. Transport and some regular units, tr...

This might get into one (or more) of S44 maps.

In my experience Opera classic was unable to open spring forum ever since it moved to https (probably some certificates in Opera need updating, not going to get done since classic is not supported anymore), so new phpbb is not to blame for this one. I find new forum looks to be worse than old. It's ...

raaar: trust me, infantry alone does not dominate. Try your mass infantry vs someone going infantry + light vehicles, see your inf masses suppressed by MG from vehicles (especially Soviet BA-64 are good at this) and then picked off. Minefileds can protect your base from raids, but not your field army.

It was (and still is) called Pepakura designer.

Textures are transparent because Spring uses alpha channel for teamcolor, in an inverted way. So textures with no teamcolor (like on most features) will be fully transparent. If using GIMP, you can see the texture like that: open .dds, do Colors - Components - Decompose, select RGBA mode. Then you c...

If you're going to try some S44, use the dev version. Latest 'released' one (1.7) has some bugs like not working snipers, while dev has those fixed (and new ones added :D ) and has 2 new factions as well.

Join s44 autohost to auto-dl the dev build. Or you can use rapid to get it.

CRAIG is fixed now (at least that one bug)

Well, it's most probably either switch to OO unitdefs or spring 98 that caused this (because those two were the biggest recent changes in S44 and CRAIG used to work before them). I don't understand CRAIG internals well enough, will have to take a look at them (in 2 days or so). Maybe FLOZi will have...

Hi submarine, long time you haven't been active :)

Thanks for noticing the bug, looks like no one was playing vs CRAIG lately.

First error is most likely because no modoptions are available - run via springlobby SP mode and it should go away. I seem to remember there was something like that if run via exe directly. Additions to main.lua were my hacky way to spawn multiple starting units (that was before engine starting unit...

Those guys check opensource projects quite often (and post results to advertise their product of course). Their blog (linked to in jamerlan's comment) contains a lot of such check results. I've read it before and I'd say it's a very useful source of information, despite advertisement purpose.

From their page it's obviously a commercial product (499 EUR).

Springlobby crashes when trying to change player's faction in singleplayer tab. Maybe something is wrong with sidepics (faction icons)? One of them has a space in file name.

Outpost style trucks do not need to be 2 units. The cargo box just needs to be a separate model piece that is animated to move 'underground' and then back when in dock. The loading/unloading is a single non-interruptible procedure, trucks cannot move out of docks without cargo 'trailer' (which can b...

How to see what robot command center does: bulldoze a long road, set some vehicles to move near it. With RCC enabled they will use the road (turn a bit from the shortest route to travel the road which is faster). With RCC disabled they just go the short route, even if it's not bulldozed = slower. Th...

As far as I know Outpost II (I played quite a bit of singleplayer in it), it's perfectly doable in Spring. Most required features have already been done by one spring game or another, and the rest look simple enough. The only thing I don't see how to replicate is the Robot Command Center. Basically ...

knorke: enough of those piece-variables are actually used in the script that I decided not to remove all the ones that aren't. Tables are used too (as arrays), and code duplication is less than it seems (any less would be more reflection than I like). But yes, it's a loooong script, unit has 32 inde...

Not sure this will help, but here's the full LUS for a large ship: link . I've made that years ago, but the unit is not in S44 (since it's too large) and naval submod never got much development. Pieces are referenced by names here (actually those are variables which get values from piece() function,...