Spring RTS Engine

Made easy with two new LuaUI call-outs, and a LuaUI call-in:

Spring.SetCameraOffset(posx, posy, posz, tiltx, tilty)
Spring.SetExplosionThreshold(power)
Explosion(power, dist, dx, dy, dz) -- call-in

http://trepan.bzflag.bz/spring/shake.avi

changing magnitude with distance and everything...that is awesome.

Damnit, I lack the 'MEncoder MPEG-4 Video (FMP4)' codec, and because Microsoft are a pain in the arse, they tell me I need it but don't actually know what it is. Apparently, neither does google. *strangles WMP10*

VLAN works. Media player doesnt. hmmm

Nice video. (Don't know what I did but for me mplayer works also)

Hehe awesome!

will you release the script publicly?

yes, it will be a default lua widget (initially disabled).

how hard would it be to convert a widget to a modlua rule?

I placed these commands in LuaUI for a reason

Media Player never works.

Noruas wrote:how hard would it be to convert a widget to a modlua rule?

Forcing everybody's screen to shake would be utterly horrendous.

+noshake

Could we have a shake intensity bar similar to that of volume widget, higher it goes move extreme the shakes would be.....MADE OF WIN I TELLZ YA!

yes, it will be a default lua widget (initially disabled).

Whats the problem for those of you who dont want the shakes back? Its going to be OPTIONAL.

I think the shakes getting less as you zoom away si the onyl real fix here.

In OTA the shakes shook the screen just as much looking at the explosion as being on the other side of the map. Also the shakes where too powerful.

A little tuning and the fade out over distance would fix all that.

At average zoom levels I expect shakes to be as small as a single pixel or less, and at most zoom levels so small they make no visual difference.

However at FPS level zoom theyd be much greater. And this is how it should be.

AF:
Not unlike what is shown in the video.
(Peet also mentionned it quite clearly in the second post).

The power is actually adjusted using 1 / (dist * dist).

The current calls allow for adjusting a distance offset,
culling explosions by area-of-effect, and culling explosions
by power.

just DL the k-lite codec pack, ive not come anything i cant play since ive used it. and with it this vid will work in media player fine..

Yha, I think its good in your video, but could be just a little less shaking to be perfect.

For some reason, I thought this was already possible...but it will definatly give Spring a much needed touch of realism. Great job!

PS: If you ever have a problem playing anything audio/visual, I reccomend VLC. It comes with its own plugins for codecs, so it can run everything without having to install anything else.