Spring RTS Engine

PaK-40 is a 75mm gun, quite powerful (good against any tank found in 1943). There were smaller German AT guns: PaK-35/36 37mm, PaK-38 50mm. 37mm gun was barely able to damage T-34 (very specific places on the tank's hull had to be hit), KV-1 tanks ignored 37mm guns completely (but there were a lot o...

Railroads will be difficult to implement without engine support. First of all, trains CAN turn, but they require suitably shaped tracks for that. If a train will be made that cannot turn then we are stuck with straight line railroads. Second, wouldn't using yardmaps for rails make them impassable fo...

To Felix the Cat: no offence meant, but your T-34/85 model looks much more like the IS-2 than T-34.
I have a link to Soviet tank drawings which you might find useful.

I looked at the Mobile Torpedo Launcher model in 3do Builder and found this extra face there. It's clearly visible if you remove the groundplate face from the base object (preferably in Shaded view mode, I'm not sure if it has any texture), but it's facing down and so shouldn't be visible in most ca...

I noticed one more case of missing sounds. Rebel Fleet Trooper has this line in FBI: SoundCategory=REBTROOPER; But REBTROOPER soundset is missing from sound.tdf. Rebel's Mobile Medium-Repeater Blaster soldier and Bothan Spy also use this soundset (and so are silent, good for the spy, but strange for...

Kursk is a Russian city. The submarine was named after it, and the other subs of its type were (and most still are) named after other major cities. And your post makes it look like the Kursk battle was on western front. It was western only for Russians, for Allies and Germans that was eastern front....

I noticed a few problems with sounds in SWTA. First, Spring don't seem to read unit sounds other than first. Most of your custom soundsets have several variants of one action sound (select1, select2, select3, etc.), but only the first is used. Second, Imperial Droid soundset has these lines: select1...

As I understand it, the 3 numbers are coordinates of a vector which defines main firing direction of a gun. They seem to be in x y z order, so 0 0 1 is a vector pointing forward (all vectors originate from 0 0 0). 0 0 -1 will be a vector pointing backward. z axis is forward-backward, x axis is left-...

Do the same in RestoreSecondary() and RestoreTertiary(), then recompile. What happens there is firepoint switching script (QuerySecondary, QueryTertiary) expects gun_2 and gun_3 to have values 1, 2 or 3, but they are being assigned a value outside that range, so Query functuions return nothing. Then...

You need to change 2 lines in Create():
from
gun_2 = flare1b;
gun_3 = flare1b;

to
gun_2 = 1;
gun_3 = 1;

Then it will probably work.

MAX will require resource transporting between buildings, though, and 3 different recources (metal, fuel, gold). Remember those connectors? And one well-placed shot from Ground Attack Plane can destroy a connector and render half a base inoperable by cutting factories from Power Stations. Not implem...

The radar should at least be able to differentiate air targets from ground ones (and possibly naval ones). Even older radars did this, modern ones do this, so futuristic ones should as well. Also, let's suppose radar can track "blips" so that once a blip was identified as enemy (seen by un...

Don't forget to add DXF support. AutoCad can be very good for unit models if you have access to it (at work, for example).

How about this: calculate "scouting efficiency" as:
SightDistance*Speed*(1 if ground, 2 if flying)/(MetalCost+60*EnergyCost)
Then units with highest rating are scouts. No need to take weapons into acount, their presence/absence is not important for a scout.

Could this have something to do with Spring not reading 3DO object tree for features (corpses included)? AFAIK only the root object is shown, not any of the child objects, so, if the root object is a groundplate (usually not textured), the feature is invisible.
Edit: Gnome was faster with reply.

Wouldn't something like this work better? static-var isMoving; SoundControl() { while(TRUE) { if(isMoving) { play-sound("engine", 2); } //Adjust according to sound length sleep 200; } } Create() { isMoving = FALSE; start-script SoundControl(); ... } StartMoving() { play-sound("engine_...

Why not make it a switch then? (set in the battleroom, if all the players agree on it). Some people may like more realistic LOS, while other may like a simpler one, and if the game can do both, it will be only better (that is if new LOS can be handled by the CPU at a reasonable speed, of course).

What is needed is a way to "turn off" a repulsor. AFAIK right now this is not possible, this limits it's uses a bit since it interferes with your own artillery shots, too.

Hello, I tried to make a unit with Plasma repulser weapon, and it worked fine. However, I cannot figure out how to temporarily disable it so that my own artillery can fire accurately. I tried to jam the aim script (since repulsor is a weapon), I tried to make the unit on/off-able, neither of this wo...