Spring RTS Engine

gamedata/messages.lua will be removed.

Behaviour is readily replaced with a widget, or do your own.

Another thing: aircraft acceleration and brakerates need to be recalibrated for new air movement. Aircraft with hoverattack=true need different attention to others.

(As I understand it, the old engine behaviour didn't match what it was meant to do here so it's really a bugfix :p)

Another one - partially submerged stuff with its aimpoint below the waterline is not hitable by land weapons, because the weapon fires at the aimpoint and the water absorbs the weapon before it reaches the target.

This gadget fixes it for stationary water stuff and for ships (provided you use SHIP as a modCategory, else you'll have to identify ships some other way).
http://imolarpg.dyndns.org/trac/balatest/changeset/1838

edit: after https://github.com/spring/spring/commit ... fe02fc5c25 that gadget won't work but I can't see a way to fix this now.

It's been fixed in spring+git :)

Are you sure that is a new problem? I think land based weapons have always fired at the aimpoint. The difference is that torpedoes used to be smarter.

I'm sure that units aimed at the aimpoint in 91.0. I know because I had to move some aimpoints upwards on amphibious units to prevent them from being able to fire on land without retribution.

Are you sure that is a new problem? I think land based weapons have always fired at the aimpoint.

Yes - 91 is too long ago for me to remember now (sorry) but in 94 if you near-totally submerge a very large unit (e.g. corkrog) and get a laser to fire at it, the laser will fire at at the join between the model and the watrer, even if only the krogs head is above water. In the same situation in 95 & 95.0.1-35, the laser won't fire. I assume the same thing happens on all units but its most noticeable on large ones.

Wow that's a nice feature. I want it back.

FLOZi wrote:gamedata/messages.lua will be removed.

Behaviour is readily replaced with a widget, or do your own.

There is a bug in this game_messages.lua, around line 36-44:

• msgArray has gone out of scope when it's stored

I suggest to move luaMsgs[label:lower()] = msgArray just above the end (and also fix indentation).

Also, my old messages.tdf had only a single label, [Team%i(%s) is no more], which matches neither of the death message of that widget.

Lastly, this version assumes all teams are played by a single human.

So I changed it into: http://pastebin.com/7sUqv9iS which correctly handle the cases of:
- Shared team control
- A.I. bots

[redacted]

(i.e. player has placed commander on map but not clicked ready)

You can detect this with AllowStartPosition (I think maybe also from GameSetup but haven't got time to test right now).

FLOZi wrote:

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    .floater

This one is replaced by .floatOnWater for the protocol.

Jools wrote:

FLOZi wrote:

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    .floater

This one is replaced by .floatOnWater for the protocol.

If you write such things into randoms thread you might as well not write it down at all.
Put such things in wiki please: http://springrts.com/wiki/Lua_UnitDefs

I cannot edit the wiki so I put it here instead. If someone edits the wiki it should be put here instead imo: http://springrts.com/wiki/Gamedev:UnitDefs

Jools wrote:I cannot edit the wiki so I put it here instead.

What do you mean "cannot"? You need to login specifically to the wiki at this page: http://springrts.com/wiki/Special:UserLogin (linked from the bottom of any wiki page).

I cannot because one of the moderators blocked me from it. Anyway, this is the thread in which the changes were announced so I think it belongs here as well.

You have a 1 week block for dragging ridiculous drama on to the wiki. It was issued on the 5th, so tomorrow or Friday you can edit again.

I agree it should be put into the special part of the unitdef tag as other lua accessing info is. tbh knorke is probably right too and it should be cross posted; really that page needs a new full example.

There is no drama, it was satire.

Jools wrote:There is no drama, it was satire.

And completely inappropriate and inaccurate information to put on the wiki.

FLOZi wrote:

Jools wrote:There is no drama, it was satire.

And completely inappropriate and inaccurate information to put on the wiki.

I agree. I regret I put it there. But it's also the truth.

Jools wrote:

FLOZi wrote:

Jools wrote:There is no drama, it was satire.

And completely inappropriate and inaccurate information to put on the wiki.

I agree. I regret I put it there. But it's also the truth.

then you put it in a talk page or a thread. The wiki is there for INFORMATION.