Spring RTS Engine

Short version:
1) Downloading within the lobby is broken (this is common?).
2) Directions say to put mods in ~/spring/mods/ - this does not work.
3) Putting mods in /usr/share/games/spring/mods/ *does* work.
This is in spite of the fact that the spring directory is configured to ~/spring/


Long version:

Went to: http://spring.clan-sy.com/
Clicked: Download.
Clicked: Linux Setup Guide.
Clicked: Ubuntu.
Installed via: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/spring/ubuntu gutsy main
Verified I have an up to date ubuntu gutsy install.
This installed: SpringLobby 0.0.1.10136

I downloaded a couple mods manually and put them in:
$ ls -l /home/darxus/spring/mods/
total 28268
-rw-r--r-- 1 darxus darxus 14582133 2008-09-16 21:19 BA632.sd7
-rw-r--r-- 1 darxus darxus 14319117 2008-09-17 04:52 Supreme_Annihilation_V155_1.sd7

I run springlobby.
Click okay (I had it remember my password).
I'm at the chat window, logged in successfully.

I click Single Player.
When I click to select a mod it doesn't list any mods.
So I click Options / Spring, and verify, yup, Spring directory = /home/darxus/spring/
This was not the default, so I also tried the default of /home/darxus/.

I click Play Online.
If I right click on any game and click "download map" or "download mod", I get icon in my web browser that says "PHPERROR!" and nothing else.

copied mods to /usr/share/games/spring/
got default cursor error
copied ota content to there as well

I'm getting the message:
"Please update your SpringLobby. A severe bug has been fixed that might cause desyncs in games."
The package in the Ubuntu deb source needs to be updated.


So I did in the end get to play single player Balanced Annihilation last night, and one of the the AIs actually worked, and I got to work two hours late today. I really appreciate all the work that has been put into this. I still have TA (from the commander pack) installed under windows. But this thing is still really user hostile.

There just aren't that many Linux users, unfortunately, so the Linux side doesn't get the loving it deserves. How about you feed that info back into the Wiki?

I hadn't gotten around to checking if that page was editable. I will.

(Also note apparently to myself: I had to copy the OTA content over to /usr/share/games too.)

~/spring works fine for me, as do all other data directories I configure.

Darxus wrote:Short version:
1) Downloading within the lobby is broken (this is common?).
2) Directions say to put mods in ~/spring/mods/ - this does not work.
3) Putting mods in /usr/share/games/spring/mods/ *does* work.
This is in spite of the fact that the spring directory is configured to ~/spring/

Are you sure its configured to use ~/spring/ and not ~/.spring/?

spring-installer is in the Ubuntu repo now. It will prompt you to install your mods and maps to the correct dir when you double click on them (or in some cases, it will be directly opened by your web browser). To install spring-installer do:

This installed: SpringLobby 0.0.1.10136

this version is pretty old, not only it risks to make you desync in game, it also had different user data folder path

the correct folder for you would have been ~/.spring

the instructions are correct for more recent versions (you shouldn't use that anyway)

It has worked fine for me for ages, it will most likely use ".spring"

I made that change, I should know how it works?

the change to ~/spring is only for new users, old users still have ~/.spring as default, if you switch lobby version the path doesn't change so if it was ~/.spring for you it remained the same