Spring RTS Engine

Hoi wrote:Uh, yeah alpha maps are supported, I thought you splitted the turret and base up into 2 seperate uv's or something

i dont think it *has* a turret. seems to have been inspired by the Sturmtiger.

bleep bleep <3

Anyway, before pulling through with the portable RTS thing, I'll be needing a really super cool story writer, so, if YOU *points finger* happen to be one, or think you are one, call.

SPRKH wrote:Anyway, before pulling through with the portable RTS thing, I'll be needing a really super cool story writer, so, if YOU *points finger* happen to be one, or think you are one, call.

Ok... I'll give it a shot. I admit that I'm basically stealing this from the free boardgame "Counterspace" by Stephan Beal but I think he's ok, now as I've credited him the story theme...


(START of potentially supercool story)

"Somewhere in the universe, intelligent life has managed to develop an advanced telecommunication technology... to interconnect machines with each other... to allow machine users to interact all over their world. On this highly advanced network, users are totally absorbed while they participate in a frantic game of all the destruction, devastation and nightmares of WWII-inspired warfare...

...and this world... is known as... 'PORTABLE RTS THING'"

(END of potentially supercool story)

And that's pretty much enough of a supercool story for ME to participate in this game, whatever it's final name . Maybe other ppl need it to be a bit more fleshed out though.

Ok, gonna crawl back under my stone again...

Ilvil, isn't that jjust the PURE storyline with a few words switched around?

as to my own talents, I thought up a story that made floating pieces of wood that fight alien robots seem reasonable!

Seems more like the story from Wargasm (I shit you not, its a real game)

MidKnight wrote:as to my own talents, I thought up a story that made floating pieces of wood that fight alien robots seem reasonable!

I am intrigued.

Long ago, the planet the Ancestors called "Earth" was not as it is now. It was covered in steel and steel trees that touched the outermost gases of our atmosphere. One this planet lived the Ancestors. unlike us, they were warm. Unlike us, they were absorbed by fate, and disrupted by others of their kind.Unlike us, they had to fight absorption, and they had to disrupt their own kind and others like them to prevent getting disrupted themselves. After many years, however, they finally learned to calm their anger and stop their disruption, and worked together to halt absorption. At last, A time came when the Ancestors were happy. That is, except for one thing. In a time long ago, the Ancestors had created a device that destroyed the very atoms that form the universe, a device that ripped matter apart and transformed it into massive amounts of heat, light, and darkglow. These devices were feared by all of the Ancestors, for heat and darkglow disrupted them as much as it nourishes us. Sadly, these devices were very hard to destroy. Once made, there was little one could do to diffuse their power, short of detonating them. After many months of talk, the Ancestors decided to send all of their devices to what is now called Darkstone, and destroy them once and for all by detonating them. they thought they had finally achieved perfection. How wrong they were.


One device didn't land where it was supposed to. It was a very small error, so small it was not noticed. However, when the devices detonated, rather than leaving Darkstone whole, they blew large parts of it into Darkdust, which then fell into the Earth and disrupted every Ancestor on its surface. Earth became a barren husk of a world.


However, while the Ancestors had been disrupted, the energy with which they thought was still whole, and the energy of every Ancestor was sucked deep into the Earth. there, they drained the heat of our planet, and joined to make the Great Life. The Great Life sent out seventy small pieces of itself to explore the world around it. Each of these Small Lives found one thing or group of things that they found interesting, an projected themselves inside of it. As soon as they did this, they found out two things. Firstly, that they could not leave the object they were in, and secondly, they became aware that their energy was being absorbed, slowly but surely leaking into the formless energy in the air. Those Minor Lives strong enough to move realized that energy, especially Darkglow, gave them strength, and quenched their hunger for energy. They found the less fortunate Minor Lives and gave them the Darkglow, and began exploring their world. They soon realized that, although they couldn't return to the Great Life again, if they consumed enough Darkglow they could form a "packet" of concentrated energy, and send it back into the Great Life. With each packet sent, the Great Life became stronger, and eventually reached out to encompass all of Earth. The Great Life sent many more Minor Lives out, and each projected into an object and began their exploration. All was well.


One day, the Great Life felt heat in one of its star-tendrils. The Minor Lives looked up to see what it was, and discovered a ball of light racing towards them. As it came closer, the ball slowed down, and revealed itself to be a gigantic steel machine. It entered the Earth and opened up, and many, many steel figures came out. The figures found the Minor Lives, and shot at them with balls of light which disrupted them. At first the Great Life was puzzled, but then it became angry, and used its power to make the Earth disrupt the steel figures and turn them into Darkglow, which the Minor Lives absorbed, and used to transport themselves to Darkstone, where they formed the second Great Life. One day, however, more steel figures appeared, and this time on a newly colonized planet, where the Great Life wasn't as strong. It is up to us, the Minor Lives, now, to disrupt the steel figures, and claim this planet as our own!


If you didn't get it, the humans had achieved world peace, so they fired all their nukes at the moon, but messed up and caused half the moon to turn to radioactive dust and fall back to Earth, where it killed everyone. But everyone's nervous system, powered by the radiation, went to the Earth's core, where they became one big energy thing, which sent out little energy things, which possessed stuff like bits of wood, and fed off of radiation. then alien robots, attracted by the giant nuclear explosion on the moon, arrived, and the "great life" absorbed them, and the rest should be pretty clear.

MidKnight wrote:If you didn't get it, the humans had achieved world peace, so they fired all their nukes at the moon, but messed up and caused half the moon to turn to radioactive dust and fall back to Earth, where it killed everyone. But everyone's nervous system, powered by the radiation, went to the Earth's core, where they became one big energy thing, which sent out little energy things, which possessed stuff like bits of wood, and fed of radiation. then alien robots, attracted by the giant nuclear explosion on the moon, arrived, and the "great life" absorbed them, and the rest should be pretty clear.

Your tldr was too long.

CarRepairer wrote:Your tldr was too long.

TLDR

interesting

I can write, but I can't commit. My heart was broken by a wild lass and may never mend.

What precisely do you desire in a story?

lot of poetry inspired by only one picture of halfscaled model :
that was a lot of release in plastic model kit with planes and perso having accurate design but all dimension halfed:
enjoyed only those having knowelge of the historic vehicules or of the anims etc...
i dream about mechwarror,ota,etc halfscaled models
ontoppic: yur model is great and i hope yu release lot of this quality for spring ...if yu need the files for adding to yur 3d+textures then i can help a bit

Eheh, chibi mechwarrior would be cute.

SwiftSpear wrote:Eheh, chibi mechwarrior would be cute.

it seems its fat dwarf proportion (or baby)
for it just open and scale evry part at *0.6 of the tall dimension and maybe *0.8 of the second dimension : for a plane that scale lenght0.6 and large0.8 and not height1 ...
the tank intoppics seems in this ranges ..
if i made this i fear to read about stole and sue ...

What happened to SPRKH?

I'm here, sometimes.

SPRKH wrote:I'm here, sometimes.

Well, I hope to see you here, more times. Bring all your friends as well.

neddiedrow wrote:

SPRKH wrote:I'm here, sometimes.

Well, I hope to see you here, more times. Bring all your friends as well.

I have no friends, kind sir.

Also on the project, I want to do it some day, but the animation system is just balls.

What's giving you trouble, man? Simple tanks are simple, and there are a lot of people that would help if you needed something specific.