Spring RTS Engine

Has anyone written any kind of "is that a blob of enemy units & radar blips? if so, where is it headed and will it hurt me?" algorithm? So far I've got each enemies' movement vector average over the last ten seconds (and therefore its predicted position). I was going to just check all ...

that's really lovely

oops, forgot to include the texture for that blue circle in the screenshot. see above for link to zip.

An evolution of the blob guard widget. Numbered groups assist and repair other members as needed. Also reclaim, resurrect, repair, and assist anything close by. Combat units form a protective ring around everything else. If the whole group is ordered to move somewhere else, the fastest units will wa...

and now i learn that Jools already made something similar for XTA (but without the protective aspect, i think).

Jools wrote:-- (Why are you even reading this, go out in the sun and play with the kids.)

how's this?

Made some updates (visual indicators, blob merging). Adding a custom command is wonky. Is it possible to modify the guard command to accept either ICON_MODE (1) or ICON_AREA (4) parameters, like reclaim or attack?

By popular request two years ago , I made a widget to do an area guard of multiple units. Guards that can assist and/or repair will do so as needed to any units within their guarded blob. Combat unit guards that are fast enough surround the guarded blob in a circle to protect it. download GitHub pro...

Complete rewrite of ancient widget! Places guards in a circle unless there are only one or two guards, who go in front and (the second goes) in back of a moving unit. Only takes effect if the guarding units are faster than the unit they're guarding, can attack, can't assist, and can't fly. guard_all...

I'm guessing it needs to be used in a game that uses Chili? (this is in BA unreloaded)

AF wrote:I believe the true source of the problem lies in the get friendly units APIs.

what about get enemy units? you just added the handling of enemy unit deaths, i see. before you made those changes, did the enemy unit objects ever get deleted?

also, thanks for working on it

AF, looks like there's a typo. The line that registers enemy unit deaths... edit: there's a pull request fixing the typo

AF wrote:They're removed from the unit map and then deleted

it did seem to be crashing from posthumous unit accesses before i made some lua changes to prevent those. but now of course the question is what does stick around in memory?

PicassoCT wrote:Seriously.. there are c++ dlls who basically do garbage collection.. its unsynced anyway so why not.. get yourself free (;)

Seriously.. i not that smart

If you had another team, without units in stasis, governed by shard, and on memory-demise transfered the units.. lol. don't forget, transfers the units and then starts another instance to wait for the next memory demise for posterity, here's a link to the other discussion of this problem: http://sp...

It's a combination of two things: First, the Lua code I wrote for Shard to play BA is pretty ineffecient. Second, as I understand it, the Shard-Spring interface keeps certain data in memory forever. (AF, who wrote Shard, understands this better.) My Lua code for BA accesses those kinds of data more ...

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fix #4200 (secret)

try the Shard dev AI when 96.0 comes out, i've been configuring it with the intention of playing cooperatively against it on maps with mixed terrain. http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=31035

also i agree with Silentwings, KAIK is a big improvement over AAI for compstomp

the latest BA test version (at http://imolarpg.dyndns.org/svn/trunk, i'm assuming) indeed does not mess with start positions chosen before game (including AI start positions) for me. thank you for fixing that! who or what is thorium?