Spring RTS Engine

Posted: **20 Mar 2006, 11:54**

i like darkstars new design its very simple and pretty...
and now alantai just need something that automatically spell checks post's he does on hes new nice site

Posted: **20 Mar 2006, 13:49**

Masse wrote:i like darkstars new design its very simple and pretty...
and now alantai just need something that automatically spell checks post's he does on hes new nice site

This is my fault :) AF will make spellchecks later on.

Posted: **20 Mar 2006, 14:00**

Funness wrote:
mongus wrote:Hey alantai, your ai is a porcing master, look how many guardians, and a buzzaw!!

and were have the forums go :/

Er.. wrong topic?

Welcome to the forums!, what you mean?

e:that page is supposed to be about ntai, pics and all.

btw alantai, the first of your installers had good shot in it, maybe use that?

And what is that logo ├é┬ín your page? ntai's logo?

Posted: **20 Mar 2006, 18:10**

moth3r wrote:
Masse wrote:i like darkstars new design its very simple and pretty...
and now alantai just need something that automatically spell checks post's he does on hes new nice site
This is my fault :) AF will make spellchecks later on.

Impossible. AF and spellchecks do not mix!

Posted: **20 Mar 2006, 20:21**

There's a php based spellchecker, i see not why eventually my words cant be spellchecked. Maybe just a javascript addon but thats all subject to speed and page loading time considerations and wetehr moth3r thinks its a good idea or not...

I'm happy with my new spick and span site, I just miss my forum =(, but I'm told that'll be up too! ^_^

Posted: **20 Mar 2006, 21:24**

moth3r, you may want to check out this thread, which was mostly about planning a new front page:
New front page for Spring!

Fnordia wrote:... I guess one problem is that the project name is not completely clear.. We use spring, taspring, springrts, etc. pretty interchangeably. :) There is a very well known open source project called Spring also, so it might be good to finalize something like "x spring" or "spring x". ...

Without consideration for that other open source project named Spring, i was going to reply to consider Spring as the name of the project which had 2 major parts at the moment:
- SpringRTS, the name of the engine.
- TA Spring, the combination of the SpringRTS engine and the modified content from the original TA.

But since you may not want to have it called Spring, it can be:
- SpringRTS, the name of the project and the name of the engine, having Spring be officially just an abreviation of it's full name.
- TA Spring, still the same.

From all i've heard of references to the project, i don't think those would contradict any common usage that the names Spring, SpringRTS and TA Spring had in the past.

Posted: **20 Mar 2006, 21:26**

I dont think spring should be called Epic engine, because that would interfere with Epic (my next AI project after i finish off NTAI)

Posted: **20 Mar 2006, 23:35**

AF wrote: ...I'm happy with my new spick and span site, I just miss my forum =(, but I'm told that'll be up too! ^_^

Darkstars has comments thx to WP so feel free to use the site from that. We did not make this site for us.. it's main purpose is to serve community. The site from design can be great but it's not so great if it is used only for downloading. Maybe to have an another item in menu like bug report posts. Post some opinions to have some feedback.

Posted: **22 Mar 2006, 14:57**

SwiftSpear wrote:It's bad design to crush a site into 640 pixles.

When will you hax web disigners learn to make sites functional? Websites should be able to stretch to accomidate multiple aspect ratios.

Hay!!! Mine did strech! Don't label us all the same!!

aGorm

Posted: **23 Mar 2006, 00:48**

aGorm wrote:
SwiftSpear wrote:It's bad design to crush a site into 640 pixles.

When will you hax web disigners learn to make sites functional? Websites should be able to stretch to accomidate multiple aspect ratios.
Hay!!! Mine did strech! Don't label us all the same!!

aGorm

I wasn't, my post was right under moth3r's for a reason. I'd still love to see your concept finished, it looked extreamly promising.

Posted: **30 Mar 2006, 09:03**

moth3r wrote:..I was inspired with design that Relic did on Homeworld.

Another question not directly connected to this thread is GUI. Maybe would be nice to see unites represented in GUI without textures only by flat, shader models. Than you can have them all in particular style or color so general look will be clean & unified. On that way they will represent a 3d blueprint of what you can build in factory or by bot, commander. This is completly compatible with design that Relic used when they were making concept art, gui for Homeworld. Anima style.

Nice work and great ideas!

I was just thinking for my self that your designs reminded me of Homeworld, and thats a good thing since Homeworld was and still is one of the better designed games to date imo. The whole package was nice and smooth, UI, ships and the game concept all helped deliver a nice experience.

Posted: **30 Mar 2006, 10:03**

moth3r wrote:New site for AF (NTai) lunched. http://darkstars.co.uk

Wordpress powered.. completly CSS. Rotational pics in header. Future plans involve gallery, forum etc. Wordpress suits just well. Easy and plain simple administration with great comment system etc. Design is pluged in via theme system etc.

But i am not gonna use WP for curent Spring site. I said before what i will use and in near future you will see how. Expect something functional, generic and plain simple packed with latest technology ...and this is not flash. If you want flash consider these project http://kartegradova.co.uk Vector map of my country Croatia ...new design comes in two weeks too. http://www.moth3r.net/christiana singer page.. (on this page, try clickin on TV bottom :)

i have another suprise too. It's not concerning design as i m not working on it. So i hired a guy. He is good, you can believe me :)

If is someone interested it can be worked together. As i was not intereferened with "AF" , there was just nice coperation. There is lot of work to do: Lot of content to write, manuals, tactics, help, engine help system etc. Some standards to standardise.. Is it called TASpring, SpringRTS, Epic engine as description etc? Then wrote all that down so discussion over this is over, one time for all.

Even looking at it on a 1400x1050 resolution I must say that it still looks good.
Reading overly wide paragraphs will make your eyes hurt, therefore I actually like the simple and not so wide look of the site.

Good work, keep it coming!

Posted: **30 Mar 2006, 22:58**

Posted: **31 Mar 2006, 00:49**

o,O
wtf?

Posted: **31 Mar 2006, 01:05**

I swear that bomb looks like a tree of some kind.

Posted: **31 Mar 2006, 03:04**

LOrDo wrote:I swear that bomb looks like a tree of some kind.

Heh I think thats the idea.

Posted: **31 Mar 2006, 10:08**

i think whatever it is for...is actually cool haha

Posted: **31 Mar 2006, 13:14**

It was for laughs :P

Posted: **31 Mar 2006, 21:03**

Just remember spring engine as in 'spring forward' not 'spring is coming, cover your windows'

Posted: **02 Apr 2006, 19:40**

AF wrote:Just remember spring engine as in 'spring forward' not 'spring is coming, cover your windows'

:wink:

Spring RTS Engine

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