Spring RTS Engine

You can control the rotateable overhead (ctrl+F4) camera ingame with a little bit of helper crud around it(python script using pygame to query gamepad and forward it to a TCP server that game can connect to via LuaSockets):

https://github.com/Beherith/camera_joystick_springrts

Reminds me of the AR-Cam, i used a cellphone to controll the camera:

https://github.com/PicassoCT/Journeywar ... _arCam.lua

Needed a modfied version of engine to work:
https://github.com/PicassoCT/spring/com ... 2ace9b167e


You could move the spring camera with a cellphone. Never worked out how to drop the frame of the spring world though, so you could vid-stream spring to the device and have spring as a tabletop. Good times.

So you now can control spring cam via joystick.. now it needs a virtual joystick. center of screen. and the players head as the joystick. Seasick madness ensues..

Works like a charm now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNZuNodgVT8&t=10s

Looks awesome, like drone-cam footage. All you need now is replays and a "heavy battle fast-forwarder" and you got a CC Generals like main screen..

Ive toyed with that idea, but the loadtime overhead is too much ( youdont need to fast forward replay anyway :)