Spring RTS Engine

suffice to say build tree makign and editing should eb a lot easier now:
where each bit in quptes is a unitname, here the commandr would build a dfence, then a mex then either a solar or widn depending on which si better, then a mm, then a factory then a mex.

If there's only 1 energy facility and not oenf or solar/wind you cna use SetEnergy("Energy producer");

BuildTree(5){ starts the build tree off, the 5 represents how many frames after the unti si built that tig ets the order. For a commander it's near instant so it's 5. A construction kbot would have 150, because that would be 150/30 = 5 seconds after it was created, which is enough time for ti to walk out of the kbot lab.
If it's a unit not a commander then you'd put SetUnit at the end and not SetCommander.

And that's all there is to adding to the build tree in NTAI 0.29, just remember to keep a list of all the attack/scouters unitnames you're going to build and which ones are factories and I'll fill in the rest.

be warned, defence is spelled defense in American english, and the catagory is defensive not defence/se

I'm just curious - is there an ETA of any sort on getting a version of TAWD playable on multiplayer over the lobby? I and everyone else who I have talked to about it are unable to get "sync" through the lobby. I'd love to play WD - I like "modern" warfare rather than the far-in-the-future TA stuff - on multiplayer, but it doesn't work .

Thanks for the info!

I really need to force my self to do some testing and release a new version...but BF2 has sucked me in....it wont let go of me!

Please G-Z, please. I love WD and I so badly want it to work in Spring.

By the way I am a 6ft tall tanned Australian model chick who likes to travel.

Ok, not really, but I bet you'd work harder if there *were* some wanting to play WD.

GrOuNd_ZeRo wrote:I really need to force my self to do some testing and release a new version...but BF2 has sucked me in....it wont let go of me!

**takes GZs flag** try and play now! with no spawn point MWAHAHAHAH **cough cough** errm. yes any progress on WD would be nice.

I'm a little bit ashamed to release WD without the Bling-Bling factor, the tanks fire ugly projectiles, I noticed If I give them high-trajectory missiles (with trajectory set not so high),

The effect you get is a nice tracer which I really want, but you get a smoke trail, doesn't look too bad, artillery use it too now due to the high-trajectory and wobble for inaccuracy.

Spring is inhibbiting my creativity...and it frustrates me, last night I perfected my Abrams model so I might be able to release the new WD with a S3O of the Abrams so people can see what the rest will look like in the future.

G_Z, WD has enough gameplay to render bling meaningless. Please, have pity on its fans and get a working version out first, THEN give it bling.

Don't make me beg.

Hi, should I make a real wheel on tanks, or would you prefer a simple, non moving tank wheel bitmap ?
problem, tankwheel means additional 70 poly
btw how many ppl got slowdown with WD Spring and when ?

Same as with XTA, when there is ALOT of different units, actually most processing power is expended with pathfinding.

Polygons do little to affect performance in Spring AFAIK.

I will add roadwheels my self since I have seen how great they look.

Getting those new abrahams out soon?
Cant wait for the next version

I'm working on the model, it's very time consuming to skin the beast, LithUnwrap is a poor tool to UV map tanks with, it's hard to keep things in proportion, i.e. no easy way to really unwrap a piece of thread so it looks perfect and not like one piece is stretched further than the other.

Here are some screens of the S3O'd Abrams, I will likely do the texture/UV-mapping all over again however since i'll be adding alot of other things...and I screwed up my 3DS files...

current bugs include inproper piece movement, possibly due to scaling them.

Nice...

Turret looks too far back tho!

here is somethin to measure ur tank against. like flozi suggested use it as a background for ur modeling software to check measurements.

http://www.is.lt/atas/tankai/m1a1siluet1.jpg

Yeah I think you are right, it's mainly upspring's fault (or rather the 3DS file system) since it doesn't support TA style model hiearchy, I do use linedrawings such as that as background for my units, but I had to rearange the turret's position and too little care on my part when into setting it right...

but the point is, you get the main idea

I expected you already would G_Z.

Here's an example for others, N.B. that I have re-chopped up the image and re-applied it to the backgrounds, so it's not as perfect as when I did it. Infact I'm not entirely sure it's the right one.

Also note that the barrel and searchlight are supposed to be different as its a different mark of the tank.

GrOuNd_ZeRo wrote:
Here are some screens of the S3O'd Abrams, I will likely do the texture/UV-mapping all over again however since i'll be adding alot of other things...and I screwed up my 3DS files...

current bugs include inproper piece movement, possibly due to scaling them.

Very very nice! Do the parking lights work?

they are just in a perpentual state of on-ness...lol

M60 Patton. I can't actually remember wether this is in WD or not, and don't know if it can be used for TACW, but still, PM me if you want it Flozi /GZ /whoever