Spring RTS Engine

0.5.5 changelog:

• added support for arbitrary shapes (not just circles), and included rectangles for buildings
• thusly renamed to UnitShapes instead of UnitCircles
• fixed an error involving unitdefs
• fixed bug where newly created units wouldn't instantly have a circle
• reduced highlight brightness by half
• plays better with other opengl code by using push/popattrib
• uses GetVisibleUnits instead of GetAllUnits

Interesting. Most interesting.

0.5.6:
fixed a possible widget crash

I love it.

wow thats awesome and a superb evolution

Epic win!

I'm really liking this widget. Are the shapes user configurable? I preferred a round shape for buildings as sometimes they are placed in a marginally imperfect grid and the rectangles exaggerate the odd look sometimes.

Can you disable drawing a shape if object is not visible?

well .. That conflicts with some other idea
I wanted the circle to be allways visible
( it should not be clipped when a unit climbs up a hill )
This results in that you can see that effect when
units are hidden behind some worldgeometry too

if my engine patch gets accepted/added, I'll update this to show ally selections

MisterBenn wrote:I'm really liking this widget. Are the shapes user configurable?

well, you can edit the widget yourself
it's not hard to find where shape is set to circle or square

I preferred a round shape for buildings as sometimes they are placed in a marginally imperfect grid and the rectangles exaggerate the odd look sometimes.

isn't this due to the building's vertical location? maybe I could smooth it out...

aegis wrote:if my engine patch gets accepted/added, I'll update this to show ally selections

bad luck
I saw this (that selections are broadcasted by the engine) and already tried to remove it, but it seems to be a bit more complicated (trepan's wait commands make usage of it). So I couldn't remove it yet, but it clutters the code that much that it will be removed sooner or later for sure.

what? spring requires you to know a player's selected units when commands are issued that affect selected units (selections currently only get sent when commands are issued to units)

so I really have no idea what you just said.

aegis wrote:what? spring requires you to know of all players' selected units when commands are issued that affect selected units (selections currently only get sent when commands are issued to units)

That only affects trepan's wait commands and they are integrated in a very unclean way ...

:/

cleaner SelectionChanged for allies isn't a priority at all? (CA currently uses a selectionsend widget to accomplish exactly this via luamsg)

aegis wrote:cleaner SelectionChanged for allies isn't a priority at all? (CA currently uses a selectionsend widget to accomplish exactly this via luamsg)

no, also lua can do it much better (compressing it etc.)

and by polling!

This widget need fix for 0.82.3. When I play earlier vesrion of Spring Engine ( BA ) all works good, but now my fps decreased from 100 to 1-3fps with this widget :/

i7 920
GF GTX260
Last drivers

Are you using spring.exe or spring-multithreaded.exe?

It does not matter which ... On both works poorly.

pretty sure I remember playing fine with 0.82.3 on my 240m