new features; sets; ramblings

[enetheru]

hmm look like i may have to illustrate this...

soo... at the moment there are a bunch of variables in the feature defs in the springfeatures archive that aren't strictly necessary....

lets take the feature ad0_pine_1_l.lua and strip out all the known stuff

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	world				="All Worlds",
	category				="Vegetation",
	height				=30,
	hitdensity				=0,
	featurereclamate				="smudge01",
	seqnamereclamate				="tree1reclamate",
	customparams = { 
		randomrotate		= "true", 
	}

none of these variables are detailed in:
http://springrts.com/wiki/Units-FeatureDefs
or https://github.com/spring/spring/blob/9 ... andler.cpp

so do I just ignore them?

[smoth]

just ignore them, put your categories tag in customparams and continue with your life.

[FLOZi]

If it's not on FeatureDefs wiki page -> almost certain to be OTA junk, except the customParams.

[Jools]

Don't bother with microthings such as flowers, grass etc on maps. Most maps are played in such a scale that you wouild never see those things.

[Anarchid]

Don't bother with microthings such as flowers, grass etc on maps. Most maps are played in such a scale that you wouild never see those things.

Nooo don't listen to this guy. If you start listening to things like that we'll never have good things in this engine.

[Forboding Angel]

^^ This. Details matter, even the tiny ones.

[PicassoCT]

Know that the human attention is a shy animal though, always racing to the next big thing happening, so it would be good to have the beauty (animals, plants, and stuff) cramed into the first 15 mins of a game, where you have actually time to look at stuff.

[knorke]

The nonsense tags are important for placebo effect research when people try to tweak them.

imo for features it is good to do something like this:
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26888