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YHCIR
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I had to disable LUAshaders to fix a bug in spring, but since then, my startbox widget in CA doesn't work, it just disables itself if I load it. (I can see startboxes on the minimap, but not on the map)
The same widget in BA works fine though.
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YHCIR wrote:I had to disable LUAshaders to fix a bug in spring, but since then, my startbox widget in CA doesn't work, it just disables itself if I load it. (I can see startboxes on the minimap, but not on the map)
The same widget in BA works fine though.
Can you make a ticket on http://www.caspring.org please
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Who needs modinfo.adune.nl? The guy who runs it is a drunkard and a hack. Complete Annihilation has a complete Unit Guide as part of its Manual. The Unit Guide includes everything you need to know about combat units without useless stats to fill up the screen. It stays up to date as the game changes (usually only updates upon a stable revision) so you can always check out the trac differences to see what changes were made. Now with less errors than ever.
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CarRepairer wrote:The Unit Guide includes everything you need to know about combat units without useless stats to fill up the screen.
Lies. The most useful thing I used on modinfo were unitnames so I could set up my uikeys and special damage info. The CA unit guide shows neither of these.
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Every stat about a unit, including ratios like HP/cost, DPS/cost, and resource payback time etc is displayed ingame through the Unit Help offered by CA gui (though its a bit bugged since a couple spring versions ago).

UnitGuide could do to contain more stat information actually. I wish it were as comprehensive as the Unit Help. The Unit Guide also needs to be made linky etc with a table of contents.
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Hey guys who cares I just did this as a bump. Post suggestions in caspring.org :P
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Units list in Disabled Units is empty. WTF?

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As in subject. Some time ago (about 3700) I could disable gantries for AI (this made computer play a lot more sensible). Now (3809 stable) I can't add anything to this list.
Disabling units works with BA, so I think that this is CA related.

Could someone enlighten me ?

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Re: Units list in Disabled Units is empty. WTF?

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YamroZ wrote:As in subject. Some time ago (about 3700) I could disable gantries for AI (this made computer play a lot more sensible). Now (3809 stable) I can't add anything to this list.
Disabling units works with BA, so I think that this is CA related.

Could someone enlighten me ?

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Which lobby are you using? I have never in my lifetime seen Tasclient work with disabling units in CA, but Springlobby always could.
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I don't think TASclient has support for lua unit files. The ability to disable units was lost when CA switched from tdf to lua
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OK, thanks guys.

Now I have problem with starting springlobby under windows XP 64. I'll post it in help & bugs section as I found topic with similar problem there.

Anyway thanks for help.

cheers
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El Capitano wrote:In the 57th season of Robot Wars, entrants had started entering robots that could learn from their losses, self-repair and improve themselves. Quickly the robots realised that 2 robots is better than 1. Millions of years later, long after the war had accidentally resulted in the destruction of the human race, only 2 "teams" remain. Since the refbot was destroyed by an off-target nuke long ago, there's nobody to call an end to the round, thus the teams are destined to fight forever.
Best background story ever! :lol:
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less blah blah more OOH AH SHINEY
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Doxs wrote:
El Capitano wrote:In the 57th season of Robot Wars, entrants had started entering robots that could learn from their losses, self-repair and improve themselves. Quickly the robots realised that 2 robots is better than 1. Millions of years later, long after the war had accidentally resulted in the destruction of the human race, only 2 "teams" remain. Since the refbot was destroyed by an off-target nuke long ago, there's nobody to call an end to the round, thus the teams are destined to fight forever.
Best background story ever! :lol:
I believe this is a British show (or am I thinking of Robotica?). In the American release of the background story we'll have to change it to Battlebots.
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1) Where can I get the outliner shader?
2) Is there up-to-date documentation out there somewhere? The wiki is pretty crusty.
3) While CA is probably the best looking mod out there right now, there's one place where effects are kind of missing - a good explosion is needed to hid the moment when a plane turns from a plane into a wreck. The sudden flip from plane into wreck is pretty jarring.
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I originally had planes only leave debris and it wasn't reallya problem, but zerg decided to use the wreck models.
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I really like the wreck models for aricraft! Actually seems like you killed soemthing worthwhile when you see its corpse :)
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Acidd_UK wrote:I really like the wreck models for aricraft! Actually seems like you killed soemthing worthwhile when you see its corpse :)
I like the wreck models (particularly since it puts air units back into the wreckage economy), I just don't like the sudden transformation. Needs an explosion (and possibly some trailing crap for the wreck itself).

Either way, anybody got a good guide? I heard the comms get a dgun when you mutate them? Huh? Where can I find this kind of info?
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smoth wrote:less blah blah more OOH AH SHINEY
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Pxtl wrote:
Acidd_UK wrote: Either way, anybody got a good guide? I heard the comms get a dgun when you mutate them? Huh? Where can I find this kind of info?
There's a user's guide at caspring.org :-)

@smoth:
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what type of ooh ah shiney?
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Pxtl wrote:Either way, anybody got a good guide? I heard the comms get a dgun when you mutate them? Huh? Where can I find this kind of info?
See the Manual.

It doesn't contain details of the wacky morphing comms, however. Midknight, feel free to add that in to the game options page since you work on those comms.

http://trac.caspring.org/wiki/GameOptions#AdvancedComm
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