Spring RTS Engine

Forboding Angel wrote:Thanks to carrepairer this doesn't matter in evo but jsut as a general rule of *A mapping, mex radius should never be below 100.

Pointless rule is pointless

If this (awesome) map gets a re-release, I have a request: In gundam the "hill boost" units are able to zoom around on the lower parts of the cliffs, which pretty much breaks the map.

If you could maybe add a typemap or something? I have no idea, but some fix for that would make the map much more playable with GRTS.

Anyway yeah, super sexy map, plays nicely- great work! :D

It would have to be a damn extreme typemap and what will happen is units will go to path off the cliff then get stuck at 0 speed on the cliff, resulting in stuck units. Shit happened on that retarded Starcraft based map.

I wonder if there is some lua to play with the path finder and make it believe the area shoul be avoided?

Johannes wrote:

Forboding Angel wrote:Thanks to carrepairer this doesn't matter in evo but jsut as a general rule of *A mapping, mex radius should never be below 100.

Pointless rule is pointless

No, the general rule has a very good point. Mexes with a radius of 25/30ish (iirc that is the general radii of BA mexes) are much harder to place, it's even worse with moho mexes because they are twice as big so when placing them you have this little ring in the center of it that you have to line up.

If you will bother to remember, that is how all maps used to be before people like myself, muffdvr and various others finally broke the mold.

hoijui wrote:solid means, you have to extract the whole archive to get to one file.
so if the engine or unitsync for example wants to read the smd, it needs to extract the whole archive. now imagine unitsync scanning your 5GB maps folder with all of them being LZMA solid archives.
i personally would never use solid for anything that is being released. there is simply too little benefit for the possible problems it can cause.

Making the engine accept solid was a bad move. Before when the sd7 was solid, it wouldn't work, and so people never released solid archives.

I'll revise the map as soon as somebody writes me the fog lua as a widget that can be turned off ingame...

1) Open gui_dualfog_gadget.lua in text editor
2) Replace every instance of the word "gadget" by "widget"
(not manually duh! Use search'n'replace box in the edit menu)
3) remove if (gadgetHandler:IsSyncedCode()) then else end
4) Save in \LuaUI\Widgets\

Yes, I did test, it is as simple as that.

Great thx.

So it was simple, but took three times me to ask this before someone bothered to help...

zwzsg wrote:

hoijui wrote:solid means, you have to extract the whole archive to get to one file.
so if the engine or unitsync for example wants to read the smd, it needs to extract the whole archive. now imagine unitsync scanning your 5GB maps folder with all of them being LZMA solid archives.
i personally would never use solid for anything that is being released. there is simply too little benefit for the possible problems it can cause.

Making the engine accept solid was a bad move. Before when the sd7 was solid, it wouldn't work, and so people never released solid archives.

Is that why it sometimes takes me 2 minutes to get ingame and other times it just takes 2 seconds?

SirArtturi wrote:Great thx.

So it was simple, but took three times me to ask this before someone bothered to help...

you never asked me once.

i thought it was on purpose so you can not cheat by turning fog off.

knorke wrote:i thought it was on purpose so you can not cheat by turning fog off.

Why is that cheating?its not like its some uber heavy fog that makes u fail to see shit.

so I hear this is the best map ever, of all time

Revised!

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... 05#p459505

Yay, epic update. Finally I can play good battles and get good replays and still be able to watch them back and get good screenies with fog. <3

Epic bump I know.

I love this map but it's way broken atm, not just the fog;

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... ne#p526420

But also feature hitvolumes are fubar.

Any chance it can be restored to its former glory?

It also breaks random widgetry.

Could use the updated lua metal widget.

Great map indeed. Would love a fixed version.