Spring RTS Engine

Well, alantai worked out how to change the colour to just another colour, so I'd assume that it could be done as an offshoot of that...

An EGADS hovertank (or perhaps amphibious tank). How's it?

pretty freaking sweet.


(i wont be getting around to EGADS for a long time, so i'd probably be better if you made some MAG stuff)

Weaver, those blocks you made are great, but just a bit too small for the scale im using now...i've edited them a bit and made them more managable

bwansy, simple but brilliant!

*edit* Sheekel, any special MAG stuff you need done? *edit*

Some EGADS lvl1 structures would be great. Extractors, energy plants, radar, turrets, factories.

Shouldn't the bumps wait until there is bumpmapping?

Uhm, bumpmapping is only for the new map format. I dont think we'll see bumpmapping on units until Spring 2.0

(unless im wrong)

... and even if you used normal mapping (if Spring supports anything, it'll support that, because it's far better in a lot've ways)... you can't make a normalmap that sticks out that much anyhow. On the other hand, you could make a hex look like a totally round lego peg from almost all viewpoints. Kind've silly, considering the scale of the mod, but meh. I'd have to say that going ahead and "wasting" the polygons is probably OK for this mod, given that you're using very little texture space.

Is it possible to make ornithopters (flapping-wings aircraft) in Spring?

Sure. Just animate them that way. It's not like Spring cares about the physics of it all

since there isn't any flexable parts being used yet, scripting will just involve time. True you could break up a hose peice into sections and animate its movement, but the time required wouldn't be worth the final product.

I had debated about using 3do files, but I realized that after awhile you would have more textures then you would know what to do with. Thats why I was working on s3o. As for the stud topic, it wouldn't be wise to include them because it would cause unecsesary amounts of extra polys per brick. What we do need is normal mapping.

Oh and inregards to the nano spray, I know there is a patch that allows a modder to change it's color, but that will be implimented in the next version.

Normal mapping?


Also, i dont have that many textures. I think its like 20-30. I find it far easier than s3o (which i've tried, so its not like im making a blind judgment here)

There are also a number of annoying bugs with s3o's....but in the long run, it's probably a better idea to use them.

AFAIK, you could use tiny textures with s3os because it's going to be mainly block colours...

While I was looking at the Lego commanders I wondered: what likd of weapon(s) do they use? Brick Disassembler Gun?

*edit* likd = a serious typo when I tried to type "kind" without looking at the keyboard *edit*

The textures i have now are TINY.


what difference does it make whether the color is in 3do or s3o?

Do I need flares for engine smoke effects? Or are the emitter coordinates set in the script?

Trident Bomber -- The result of MAG attempting to put together anything they can find.

bwansy wrote:While I was looking at the Lego commanders I wondered: what likd of weapon(s) do they use? Brick Disassembler Gun?

Im not sure...its sounding like im going to have to redo most of what i've already done because everyone wants s3o, though i dont see the difference.