Spring RTS Engine

EMPTY base after install

Hi everyone, I am having problems starting Spring, I got the (kind of) famous [sounds/button9.wav "cant find wav file"] error, I of course checked the wiki (http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Ubuntu_install)

But I checked my ~/.spring/base/ folder for something and its completely empty so... logically speaking... Why do I need a empty folder? (it could be created anyway at need-time), so I am guessing that a lot of things are missing.

> I installed Spring from apt-get, everything was OK
> Then I create the needed directories. OK
> I installed the CA MOD, everything was OK
> I skip OTA Content (I did that because it says it need to XTA, AA, BA and I got CA)

According to the wiki:
could not open file: gamedata/defs.lua
Make sure your ~/.spring does not contain an outdated version of base/springcontent.sdz because a new version of this file is distributed with spring. If you do, just remove it.

sounds/button9.wav "cant find wav file"
Same problem as above.

But.. that didn't help since my base directory is completely empty.... any help? anything would be really appreciated

CA is a TA based mod... needs the OTA content installed...
http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtop ... 11&t=14322

"Whenever I join a game in the lobby, there is a red 'no sync' icon next to my name!" or "Whenever I start a game, I get a 'missing default cursor' error!"
This is almost always caused by a lack of OTA content packages in your /base/ folder. Put the contents of this zip file in your Spring folder, overwriting your current base folder.

The reason you got the missing sound error instead of the missing cursor error is because CA overrides the default cursors.

Thanks a lot I installed the OTA Content and everything goes OK now...

But... did I miss understand or the wiki is wrong?

From wiki:
├óÔé¼┼ôMods that do not require this file are at least NanoBlobs and Kernel Panic. The CA mod is also working on phasing out the need for OTA content by re-doing the models.├óÔé¼┬Ø

"working on phasing"

Its not done yet.

I thought it was pretty clear that it needs it atm, but they're removing the need

Glad you got it figured out though!