Spring RTS Engine

buildings should have cement or metal or whatever from around them, to add a more industrial look to the game.

We already have ground decals on buildings, this is a mod issue not an engine issue. It doesnt always look as good as you'd think though

alright, someone move this topic then. but what about in supreme commander, it had all that gray shit around the buildings, it looked real cool.

there're things like that in BA under factories.

ohooli wrote:alright, someone move this topic then. but what about in supreme commander, it had all that gray shit around the buildings, it looked real cool.

the only cool thing about it was the glowing wires when buildings were adjacent, otherwise it looked damn awful

ohooli wrote:alright, someone move this topic then. but what about in supreme commander, it had all that gray shit around the buildings, it looked real cool.

http://cs.selu.edu/~ssmith/BB/download.php?id=1181
ground decals.

How do you do it then?

Tags in the FBI. Read the changelog.

Ground decals, they have been in gundam since I think 1.0.

BUT rather then make you dig in the wiki or gundam:


UseBuildingGroundDecal=1;
BuildingGroundDecalType=fstor.tga;
BuildingGroundDecalSizeX=4;
BuildingGroundDecalSizeY=4;
BuildingGroundDecalDecaySpeed=0.01;

the grouddecal image goees in the unittextures folder.

have fun


CRAB BATTLE!

For anyone wondering, the Decay Speed is how fast it disappears after the unit dies.

O RLY...

U SHURE?

So alpha gets reduced by 0.01 every frame?

I doubt it's per frame, in Gundam ground decals stay for quite some time.

Hmm... then it might be decay each 32 frames. Do they stay about 2 minutes in gundam?

By default, the number of ground decal is set to 0.

You have to go to the folder where you installed Spring, run settings.exe, then pull up the "Ground decals" slider. Btw:

Dear Devs, would you be as kind as to make it so the next Spring installer set that max ground decal bar a bit up? Many unsuspecting newbies have missed that awesome future, simply because it defaults to zero. Yes, for the few to non-existents people who really consciouly set that bar to zero, there would be the very minor annoyance having to put it back to null once after running the new Spring installer. But that is really nothing compared to the myriads of noobs who ignored the very existence of that feature and will suddenly be dazzled by that greatness of the ground decals. Pretty please?

Also major note: Ground decals DO NOT rotate with the building i.e. they always face south.

Isn't that on the large list of things to be changed eventually?

Sorry, someone called Crab Battle, and I was compelled.

are you talking about zwzsg's or my commment neddie?