Spring RTS Engine

actually yeah... I was 17 when I started and that was ok but now I'm 21...

dunno if you knew but spring is not just a forum. the forum is probably full of old farts but the actual game is probably mostly young ppl

tbh (edit : ALMOST) everyone who i've been in contact with in the lobby has revealed their age is at least 21, and for the most part, they are over 25.

but that's just in my own experience, you may well be right

In my mind I always pictured spring players to be mostly 16 year old girls. Don't ruin this for me

a/s/l

16Fcanada

29MCanada

edit: wait, were we being ironic....

19 to 25/Yes/Anywhere You Want It

16 F Your neighbour

SinbadEV wrote:29MCanada

edit: wait, were we being ironic....

19 to 25/Yes/Anywhere You Want It

lets make a children

I find 19/F/Finland the most common response.

A word on-topic.


Spring was designed to be a TA-like RTS engine. Any other attempts to make it non-TA are greatly handicapped and require a lot of effort to distance themselves from the TA-like features.

2 resource limits, renderer mostly optimised for the crappy TA models (there is little work done towards implementing and refining modern features that most RTSs have) And all other aspects will obviously force most of the spring mods look ugly.

Even pure, SW, or gundam, looking miles better in comparacent with BA, are still on the lowest side of any modern RTS, and even a few old RTSs that I have seen.

If spring was really ever to become a powerful engine for not just only *A mods, it has to be re-written with generality in mind, and not having to force mod developers to use dirty hacks to change the engine behaviours.

Miranda, a multi-protocol chat client, was initially written for ICQ, had hundreds of modules (read - lua scripting) and was a complete MESS to work with. It took them several years to kill all ICQ "features" and make the general client engine generic for all protocols, while leaving specialisation to the modules. I see a similar thing happening with spring.

Maybe all the TA players/devs will jump ship to TA3D and leave us to our own devises.

Hobo Joe wrote:But show people this and tell me what their reaction is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mKhQD2SVqw


I've shown it to like 20 people and they all say the same things: old, ugly, bad, etc.

What makes this game really look very old is the standard UI this is why I use IceUI.
(Standard UI looks really like from the 90's)

I dont need a really good looking gfx engine I prefer it when it runs smoothly when I have a lot of units on the field.
That is something that supcom just CANT, the game runs slow on processors that were good at the time the game was released.

Machete234 wrote: That is something that supcom just CANT, the game runs slow on processors that were good at the time the game was released.

aegis wrote:I tried supcom 2 beta but it said I needed two more processors or three fermi cards to run. I did meet the 3-monitor minimum spec though.

A word on topic? Yes.

Yeah right, the majority of Spring players are preteen girls.

I think the average player is significantly older than for many other games. When you no longer have the reflexes to pwn in counter-strike you turn to Spring.

zerver wrote:When you no longer have the reflexes to pwn in counter-strike you turn to Spring.

haha

Machete234 wrote:

Hobo Joe wrote:But show people this and tell me what their reaction is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mKhQD2SVqw


I've shown it to like 20 people and they all say the same things: old, ugly, bad, etc.

What makes this game really look very old is the standard UI this is why I use IceUI.
(Standard UI looks really like from the 90's)

I dont need a really good looking gfx engine I prefer it when it runs smoothly when I have a lot of units on the field.
That is something that supcom just CANT, the game runs slow on processors that were good at the time the game was released.

yay yes this is exactly what im talking about.

try zooming in on any of the models in BA and you'll see the answer to this thread

Sausage wrote:try zooming in on any of the models in BA and you'll see the answer to this thread

I agree. BA models up close = Spring.