Spring RTS Engine

As you can see Spring is listed on the content manger Crosus by the Isotx team. Crosus is a mod, map, game, etc. manager for a large number of commercially available games. It also contains standalone games and modding/mapping tools to a limited degree.

Now clearly the description, pictures, and even the name are not really representative of what Spring now is... So, I'm asking peeps here to collect a set of 4 screens (only one from a TA mod as I'm sure anyone dling Spring will have no trouble finding the rest) and to read over the description I've written below, so that I can submit them to the Isotx team to be put in place for the current ones (changing the name to Spring as well).

Description:

Spring is an open source project to create the best RTS ever (no joke). Having completed the initial goal of having Spring run Total Annihilation content, the development team is now focusing on its two other main goals:

1. Improving stability & performance and fixing bugs .

2. Supporting the mod community with new features.

Being entirely open source, players can add to the gaming experience by creating maps, mods, units, LUA scripts, AIs or even new engine code if they put in the time and effort. Join this constantly growing and changing community at the link below.

j5mello wrote:


As you can see Spring is listed on the content manger Crosus by the Isotx team. Crosus is a mod, map, game, etc. manager for a large number of commercially available games. It also contains standalone games and modding/mapping tools to a limited degree.

Now clearly the description, pictures, and even the name are not really representative of what Spring now is... So, I'm asking peeps here to collect a set of 4 screens (only one from a TA mod as I'm sure anyone dling Spring will have no trouble finding the rest) and to read over the description I've written below, so that I can submit them to the Isotx team to be put in place for the current ones (changing the name to Spring as well).

Description:

Spring is an open source project to create the best RTS ever (no joke). Having completed the initial goal of having Spring run Total Annihilation content, the development team is now focusing on its two other main goals:

1. Improving stability & performance and fixing bugs .

2. Supporting the mod community with new features.

Being entirely open source, players can add to the gaming experience by creating maps, mods, units, LUA scripts, AIs or even new engine code if they put in the time and effort. Join this constantly growing and changing community at the link below.

Interesting. It has also been listed on the freeware steam clone Vapour, which to me felt like vapourware, but that's a whole nother issue.

EDIT: Wait, what the hell? Is Crosus Vapour or Vapour Crosus????

EDIT2: Oh, ok. So the Vapour project has turned into Crosus. Guess it isn't vapourware afterall.

j5mello wrote:Description:

Spring is an open source project to create the best RTS ever (no joke). Having completed the initial goal of having Spring run Total Annihilation content, the development team is now focusing on its two other main goals:

1. Improving stability & performance and fixing bugs .

2. Supporting the mod community with new features.

Being entirely open source, players can add to the gaming experience by creating maps, mods, units, LUA scripts, AIs or even new engine code if they put in the time and effort. Join this constantly growing and changing community at the link below.

I wouldn't say the main goal is on fixing bugs and improving stability. It may be true, but when you read it, it makes you think that it's unstable and buggy, which I think isn't so true. I'd focus more on point 2, with maybe a mention of sm3 maps, custom explosions and particle effects etc.

Well, for a kick off now I have released the tree map, we can use an up to date screeny of it. Insted of the realy realy old one.

If I find time I might go take some nice new glam shots. Even this sites screenshot section is out of date again.

aGorm

hey guys,

I know this thread is a bit old, but I only recently found it. I'm working on crosus, which is a project merge between vapour and modtoaster in case you're wondering where it came from.

If there are better screenshots that we should use on crosus instead of the ones we have, please send me a note and I'll get them updated asap.

as you can see the community has jumped all over this chance at improving our image

i'll through some together during the week. Is there anywhere in particular they should be sent?

Don't change the name to just Spring instead of TA Spring. It dosn't work as well to search after.

as true as that may be nearly all the aspects of Spring that had TA in the name have stripped it out so i see it as only fitting that it be advertised without TA as well.

(all we need is for someone to fix the banner at the top and we would be good)

Call it Spring RTS then.

And isnt there some sort of "tag" functionality to add search tags to the description? I mean like you get on youtube and other content hosting sites.

I've been using their ModToaster (Generals/ZH) for ages and Crosus left a rather good impression.

Spring RTS is the perfect name.

see this is what i wanted...

(it just took you guys around a week and a half only because a crosus dev posted, to actually do it )

Thanks for the nice feedback rattle!

As for new screenshots or images, if you email them to me at valtrain at gmail dot com I can get them posted up there.

As far as naming goes, should we keep TA Spring or do you guys want something else? Spring? Spring RTS?

Spring RTS. If you could showcase games on the engine which do not derive heavily from Total Annihilation, that would be ideal.