New Developers.. ?

Bryan Grossman · Post by **Bryan Grossman** » 20 Oct 2006, 03:43

Now I know I am a new member and this is my first post.... Heck I just found Spring today. I am totaly blown away by the quality of the engine and the gameplay. I miss the old TA and Cavedog days and I want to know what would it take to be involved in development of this project. I have developed in .NET C# since beta 1 of Visual Studio. I have deleveloped in Delphi for 8 years before that. I hope I am not making a Faux-Pas here. Thanks!!

Bryan Grossman

Theotherguy · Post by **Theotherguy** » 20 Oct 2006, 04:45

1. Find something you don't like in Spring, and fix/improve it
2. Release a patch
3. Gain the favor of the SY's
4. ????
5. Profit!!!

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 20 Oct 2006, 04:57

I'm not sure C# or Delphi are in such hot demand.

Bryan Grossman · Post by **Bryan Grossman** » 20 Oct 2006, 05:28

From what i hve seen this application was written using Linux MONO and Visual studio and C#..... Delphi... I am just listing that as experience in OOP... I know its a dead language...

BG

FoeOfTheBee · Post by **FoeOfTheBee** » 20 Oct 2006, 05:42

Bryan Grossman wrote:From what i hve seen this application was written using Linux MONO and Visual studio and C#..... Delphi... I am just listing that as experience in OOP... I know its a dead language...

BG

I believe the windows client is written in Delphi. The engine is C++.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 20 Oct 2006, 05:59

Theotherguy wrote:1. Find something you don't like in Spring, and fix/improve it
2. Release a patch
3. Gain the favor of the SY's
4. ????
5. Profit!!!

ROFL! (anyone else get that reference?)

Bryan Grossman · Post by **Bryan Grossman** » 20 Oct 2006, 06:44

I could have sworn it was using C# ... oh well.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 20 Oct 2006, 06:56

The re-written engine will be in C# apparently. Site is here: http://www.osrts.info/

Bryan Grossman · Post by **Bryan Grossman** » 20 Oct 2006, 07:53

I knew I read it somewhere!!

Dragon45 · Post by **Dragon45** » 20 Oct 2006, 08:01

Felix the Cat wrote:
Theotherguy wrote:1. Find something you don't like in Spring, and fix/improve it
2. Release a patch
3. Gain the favor of the SY's
4. ????
5. Profit!!!
ROFL! (anyone else get that reference?)

Its a Slashdot meme borrowed from a popular episode of South Park - not exactly unknown

PauloMorfeo · Post by **PauloMorfeo** » 20 Oct 2006, 09:18

Bryan Grossman wrote:From what i hve seen this application was written using Linux MONO and Visual studio and C#..... Delphi... I am just listing that as experience in OOP... I know its a dead language...
...

As said, you must have goten it from the expected re-write, not Spring.

Spring is .. C++ only, with the exception of the lobby which is server in Java and client in Delphi(?).

And .. . . if you expect profit .. ... you better think again. I really doubt it.
Unless as "profit" you mean a curriculum vitae adition that will help you earn a job.

Bryan Grossman · Post by **Bryan Grossman** » 20 Oct 2006, 16:08

I am looking for experience with graphic engines and AI's. I am so heavy into business and web applications that I think I need to expand my horizions. Grouth is life.

Bryan Grossman

Post by **Tim Blokdijk** » 20 Oct 2006, 17:12

Well, you can find the Spring svn reposetory here: https://taspring.clan-sy.com/svn/spring/
There are loads of things that can be improved. Air plane flight behaviour was a topic recently I believe.

FLOZi · Post by **FLOZi** » 20 Oct 2006, 17:27

What is the motivation behind using C# for the new project?

Post by **jcnossen** » 20 Oct 2006, 17:45

It's just for scripting, not for the entire engine. I would like to use it for more, but the rest of the team prefers C++.

FLOZi · Post by **FLOZi** » 20 Oct 2006, 18:09

Ah, thank goodness!

Bryan Grossman · Post by **Bryan Grossman** » 20 Oct 2006, 19:00

I wish people would look into C# and not discount it so much.... Since we are using the latest version of Visual Studio and we are using C++ are we going to be developing win32 or a managed code version? Because when Vista comes out (if it ever does) Win32 binaries will actually run slower than managed code... I hope you all realize this.....

Bryan Grossman

Post by **jcnossen** » 20 Oct 2006, 20:40

no managed C++, as with most opensource things, we rely on linux programmers as well and mono doesn't support C++/CLI yet.

It probably doesn't run a lot slower.. I assume this speed difference is caused by not being able to do "JIT" optimizations for binary exe's. IE: Optimizing for a specific CPU isn't possible... ?

Bryan Grossman · Post by **Bryan Grossman** » 20 Oct 2006, 21:58

It's due to the kernal changes being planned... .NET right now runs under Win32. In Vista it will be flipped... Win32 will be running under .NET!!!

Bryan Grossman

delaneya · Post by **delaneya** » 20 Oct 2006, 22:56

am a .net programmer and as much as .net is great for web apps i would never dream of writing a gameing engine with it, it would just be slow. as well as issues getting the multi platform working.

Spring RTS Engine

New Developers.. ?

New Developers.. ?

Not in hot demand???

Re: Not in hot demand???

My Bad....

Thanks...

Re: Not in hot demand???

Not looking for profit....

C# is more powerfull than you know it seams...

No not that..