Spring RTS Engine

Although the tooltip tells you what you are about to select,
there isn't a good visual indication in the viewport. This widget
was written to fix that (it also highlights features).



P.S. It onlys works with SVN code, so I won't post it yet...

Not bad, looks pretty helpful.

Have you tested it with s3os, too? The current plugins that draw stuff in 3d have inverted normals on s3os.

http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtop ... ing#176683

That screenshot comes from a version that uses color inversion,
face windings do not apply as culling is not enabled.

that looks mighty handy. thank you!

is there any reason for the number above the image? because wont the mouse always be showing only 1 unit?

other than that... cool :)

That's a different widget (SelectionButtions).
The highlighting widget only highlights objects
in the viewport, nothing more.

ah, right... my bad :)

didn't notice that

even cooler now that i get it!...

It'd be nice if the model was tinted using team colour, is that possible?

Yes, that's possible. The first version that I posted in #lua in the lobby
actually used red/green/yellow for enemy/ally/feature. I just played with
a different setup using gl.LogicOp(GL.SET) and color masks that seems
to be better for highlighting then plain tinting. Using the following:

red: enemy
green: ally
cyan: my unit
yellow: feature

A silhouette approach might be cooler, but I have others priorities at
the moment. The main thing that I wanted to demo with this widget is
the ability to draw a unit exactly the same way as the engine does for
a given frame.

Always wanted something like this. Nice job.

trepan wrote:A silhouette approach might be cooler, but I have others priorities at
the moment. The main thing that I wanted to demo with this widget is
the ability to draw a unit exactly the same way as the engine does for
a given frame.

So we can make those move path thingies the templar from SC have? Or the trail from castlevania games?