Rotatable Buildings - yet again.

Sean Mirrsen · Post by **Sean Mirrsen** » 01 Jul 2006, 23:12

Yeah. Only now they need testing - http://edf.tauniverse.com/spring.zip. :D

Add

bind '<' spinbuilddir
bind '>' unspinbuilddir

to uikeys.txt. That way you'll have to shift-press a key to change orientation, but at least it will work while queueing orders.

I post this in GD because I need testers, not only developers, and the relevant thread in Dev is rather disused now.

Post feedback here, any bugs you find, anything. I need to know if it works in net games, because I can't test it myself. I don't even know how to test it - because I doubt you can connect through the lobby with this version.

[edit] - oh, and somebody mirror the file - I don't know what limit does that ftp have now.

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 02 Jul 2006, 00:32

It seems to work ok. Nice work!

But you might want to post the patch somewhere, so that the devs can have another look at it.

"(un)spinbuilddir" isn't very intuitive; I would suggest "leftrotatebuilddir" and "rightrotatebuilddir". I'm not too keen on the info->AddLine messages you've thrown in; I can see for myself that I've rotated the building direction.

If aynone want to test it online you have to make sure everyone who joins the game has the same exe. I would recommend backing up the original one :P.

As for your bandwidth limit: compress the exe next time. It saves you aprroximately 1.5 mb.

Sean Mirrsen · Post by **Sean Mirrsen** » 02 Jul 2006, 01:01

It won't be much work to remove the messages or change binding names (which is kinda unrelated, since you normally don't see them). My primary concern is whether or not it works in netplay - I have no means to even play Spring on our local net, let alone test anything.

Rafal99 · Post by **Rafal99** » 02 Jul 2006, 02:31

It doesn't rotate ground decals under buildings!

But great job anyways, thank you for it!

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 02 Jul 2006, 02:33

Rafal99 wrote:It doesn't rotate ground decals under buildings!

Aha! I saw this one coming a mile away. Doesn't *really* break anything, but if it'd be possible to rotate the decals as well that'd be superb.

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 02 Jul 2006, 04:01

Works fine by the looks of it, but it seems to rotate the wrong way.

esteroth12 · Post by **esteroth12** » 02 Jul 2006, 05:12

then bind it the other way

Slamoid · Post by **Slamoid** » 02 Jul 2006, 05:18

I want to mention somthing that it seems most people overlook:

An MTR/DTR (Daily Topic Rotation) issue was just addressed and fixed. For this alone, I think SM deserves 3 things:

1: A cake.

2: A beer.

3: A "hoe". (No offense intended to any culture, race, sex, or garden implament by the use of the word 'A'.)

Words cannot express my grattitude for putting somthing this "simple" yet complex into a game that everyone can enjoy. Well done.

esteroth12 · Post by **esteroth12** » 02 Jul 2006, 05:23

omg!! you forgot cookies!

e: updated the MTR part of the wiki

AF · Post by AF » 02 Jul 2006, 05:40

I am the cookie King, I ahve a special cookie for sean

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 02 Jul 2006, 05:49

Ok, done trying it, you need to rotate the grounddecals.

*Edit* and you need to turn the unit also. While it might seem like no big deal because the south has the units already turned around the the units get lost in the factories less often.

Fix that it would be the NICE * End edit*

Sean Mirrsen · Post by **Sean Mirrsen** » 02 Jul 2006, 08:16

Rafal99 wrote:It doesn't rotate ground decals under buildings!...

O_O
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>_>
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I KNEW I forgot something! :headbash:
Ok, will try to fix it.

Regarding units - you mean units getting built like buildings (like in nanoblobs) or units being built by factories? In the latter case, I think they are properly rotated... I mean, the buildings are placed as if they are mere units turned to a certain direction, and since the built units orient to the nanopad piece's direction, it should even theoretically work fine.

As for the offerings - I'll accept the cake and the cookies, for my b-day was merely some 2 weeks ago and I can still use 'em, but I'll reject the beer - I don't drink, though it's strange for a russian, and not the hoe - being frequently taken to a place of ultimate terror, exhaustion and humiliation (referred to as "dacha", which basically is a countryhouse with some small vegetable field attached), I've seen quite enough of those.
And yes, I am aware of the implied alternative meaning of the word "hoe" :)

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 02 Jul 2006, 08:51

the funny thing is... I think he missed the intended meaning of "hoe". Either that or I read it wrong

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 02 Jul 2006, 09:15

If you build a base pointed north, the unit is still pointed to the default... south.

Sorry.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 02 Jul 2006, 18:00

I guess he hasn't tested with AA.

I'll explain: in Absolute Annihilation, i've disabled unit rotation since it could commonly add anywhere from 1-5 seconds to the buildtime of any unit (and for things being built with assistance from constructors, that could very well be doubling the built time). It also causes traffic jams in one-way-exit factories.

The thing that needs to be fixed is the rotate piece that the unit sits on has to turn 90 degrees or whatever on creation. This is how I fixed it in OTA:AA for multi-direction factories, but I'm sure you can come up with a better solution, o great and wise developing one.

If you can't fix it, the multi-direction factories, in AA (played by more than 3/4 of the community according to the last time server stats were available) the tweak you've done will unfortunately be useless, since the units will still have to turn to go anywhere, eliminating most of the benefit if I understand correctly.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 02 Jul 2006, 19:35

Honestly, you should develop your mod around the engine, not expect the engine to be developed around your mod. If rotatable factories work with other mods, I'm sure there's a way to make them work with AA.

Sean Mirrsen · Post by **Sean Mirrsen** » 02 Jul 2006, 20:24

No, actually the problem here lies with the engine. The system just assumed the factories were all facing one way, and set the unit heading to piece direction - despite the fact that the relative direction is hell knows where. I fixed it now. Works fine in AA. Link in first post updated. Now working on rotating building decals.

Slamoid · Post by **Slamoid** » 02 Jul 2006, 23:39

Sean Mirrsen's filehost wrote:Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Apache/1.3.34 Server at http://www.edf.tauniverse.com Port 80

There is poop. Lots of it. Could this be some sort of lamers' attack on TAuniverse? Or just devs being too good?

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 03 Jul 2006, 16:22

He must have one crippled quota... I'll fix it when I'm back on my PC later.

[edit] Or now. What the heck do you have on there that's using over 2 GB of bandwidth in 3 days, Sean?

[double plus edit] What the hell is that crap? Who else has access to your ftp? I see one file in particular that's grounds for getting the whole damn thing nuked, it's a certain 160 MB zip... you might want to delete it asap.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 03 Jul 2006, 16:35

NEVER give someone access to your FTP. This lesson I've seen learned the hard way many a time.

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