Spring RTS Engine

One of the fantastic things about TA was that the variety of maps related to the variety of units in such a way as to make different maps like entirely different games.

To the mapmakers: teh love. Keep doing your thing!

I like symmetrical or semi symmetrical maps for no reason I can figure out.

[K.B.] Napalm Cobra wrote:Yay for alphabetical ordering, AA rules.

AAAAARGH! Run! Flame war incominggggggggggggg.....

http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/ First-person shooter + RTS + evolving aliens (a bit). Highly recommended. It's a half-life mod. In this case, the rts/fps crossover was achieved by utterly hacking the RTS elements into the venerable Half-Life FPS engine- a work of genius. Playing it gives you an ide...

Not a request? I imagine you'll be coding it then.

Couldn't the spring config control the number of particles shown?

Okay, can you instruct me in how to get it working? Use small words :)

It's the value of the franchise that matters to Lucasarts, whereas the games are Blizzard's bread and butter. I think they're being silly about it, but I can see WHY they're being silly about it. Essentially the units and names are artwork, and that artwork is copyrighted. If you own TA it's like yo...

Not many games support dual monitors at all. THey can still be handy for chat windows etc but even that doesn't always work :)

Obviously there needs to be an ongoing series of grudge-matches where valkyries are banned and both players take the same faction. Perhaps a play-thru-the-maps grudgematch where victory is assigned only after every map has been played (for which we need more maps)? Finally, the vote was based on a r...

So make a buncha models and wait for word on the possible revamping of hitboxes.

If there were a unit cannon, would someone models and animate a cow?

You haven't lived till you've hurled cows at the enemy.

I'm on too many fora already. I voted weapon TYPE because (to my way of thinking) it is critical in some cases. Maybe not always, but hey.

You gotta either estimate the distance, hit "destruct" and charge, or hide behind something important in his (your opponent's) base while it counts down.

Does anyone leeter than me, whos actually pulled this stunt off more than once-or-twice, have any tips?

Replace sucks with kicks. Just IMO. But some folks hate anything but OTA, others hate AA specifically, some hate caydr... it's a tangled, tangled web.

Why, why, why do people have to clutter up threads with utterly gratuitous claptrap about how someone else is "obviously a porcer"??? The guy gave a list of what he liked in a map, and why, and the gameplay consequences as he saw them. (And you flamed him. Nice one.) For example, my opinio...

Metal maps exist for porcing. "Hmm, rushing is leet and all, but I feel like a change in pace. Let's play metal!" etc.


On the other hand, more metal = more units = more destruction. Yeah.....

The "AIs" are essentially a queue of units that will spawn at certain locations and come hunting for you. Fun!

But when someone uses the wrong word, misspells it, and puts it in the wrong place in a bad sentence with horrible syntax AND doesnt use paragraphs, and does so repeatedly:

i thnik pureg dem OK!!!!!!!!!!! wit mebmers! an no moer teh forums!!!!

I very, very much like the increased Line of Sight in minispring, but nothing else strikes me as hugely beneficial yet; I'll play a few more games first before I pass further judgement. "Crappy shiaaaaaaaat" doesn't even count as an opinion Masse. Please try present a reasoned statement. Y...

Zsinj has a point.

I'd personally be happy if Line of Sight could be extended and zoom-out extended in regular Spring. Minispring still has its own problems, one of which is that the unit walk animations are all screwy.