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Mass Promotion Plan

Various things about Spring that do not fit in any of the other forums listed below, including forum rules.

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Caydr
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Post by Caydr »

Zpock wrote:Does supcom have any total conversion mods going at all? Ones with tangible progress?
There's a third party race in development, so I've heard. It's "not nearly complete", according to some random guy.

I'm very likely going to try to get GEM running on SupCom. The problem with Spring is that the hitboxes are nonexistant. Spheres... holy cow. Get with the century... Not to say Spring's not a great engine and all, but you're limited to units that have identical height width and length dimensions right now. It's basically suited only to TA. Which is why all we have are TA mods and weird things like nanoblobs... any grand project is technically impossible.
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AF
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Post by AF »

You're a little disconnected from the 0.75 release featureset, the gigantic featureset that promsies to allow arbitrary game mechanics via lua. An entire reproduction of supreme commander would be possible within spring.
trepan
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Post by trepan »

I think Caydr's right on this one, the lua changes are not likely to
provide the ability to use unit hitboxes (or provide any other means
to vary the collision detection). That's something that would need
more engine work.
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Zpock
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Post by Zpock »

For an RTS, more complicated hitboxes are just performance hogs I think. They don't add much really, for what it costs.
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jackalope
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Post by jackalope »

Zpock wrote:For an RTS, more complicated hitboxes are just performance hogs I think. They don't add much really, for what it costs.
plus sphere hitboxes provide a lot of reliability of what to expect from units.
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Fanger
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Post by Fanger »

*must you troll every thread?*
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Relative
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Post by Relative »

Fanger wrote:*snip*
I refuse. In fact I'm making my own mod, its called EE&E, a WIP. Currently I have the first two letters done, exand and exterminate. Right now I'm working on exultant.

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Comp1337
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Post by Comp1337 »

Who sent an email to swedish PCG about spring under the name Shump?
It got in :-)
Sure, its just in the user-sent-mail part but we got some attention \o/
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Neddie
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Post by Neddie »

I couldn't track down who it was.
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