Spring RTS Engine

I have sene the light! A screenshot fo tanks (bulldogs) but they've left tracks on the terrain!!!!!!!!!

so i'm guessing this is a feature that was kicked out due to tge system requirments...?

Facinating...

ooh! cool! nice and low CPU power taking uppering :) i wonder how the ground looks after my 100 flash/stumpy army marches past! i'm checking this out!

I dunno, I sent SJ a message and he went off, so i checked the screenshots at the top randomly and there it was...

That means...IT'S A NEW FEATURE!!! ooooo....

so how does TA deterimine what draws the tracks and what and what not draws tracks?

That's cool!
And does kbot leave footprint?

im so impressed right now

when will we see "marks" on the ground i mean the exlosion marks

Hehehe, now people can shit their pants as they see a huge line of tracks slowly making their way through the fog of war to their base.

How does it work? does it modify the original level bitmap or does it draw in a decal on top of it?

How do the treads work? Do they disappear after a little while? Or do they not disappear? Or do they disappear very quickly after the tank has been there?

Totally cool! I once again compliment the SY's for having a seemingly bottomless pit of inspiration and... cool-nes. And such!

YES!!!! AWSOME! And this might also mean that explosions tint the ground

Cool - I've wanted this for a bit. Now when somebody raids you and runs off out of radar coverage to recover from damage/wait for reinforcements... you can follow their trail =)

Will this work with all graphics cards, or is it going to be like shadows?

Nice work =)

Munch

PS Did any body else notice before? I've only just noticed bulldogs don't have an arm logo on top!

cool...

hm if its too much for slow pcs... maybe u could replace the grafics on the ground with SLIGHT terraforming ones which creates a similar effect

this would be less perfomance killing


omg sry for my bad english 8[

You know , that looks realy realy cool...

aGorm

The tracks will dissapear quite soon (5-30 sec depending on your settings and unit size) and be turnoffable. Also they will only be created for units you already have los to. The ground heightmap is not high res enough to simulate tracks i think.

Terraforming effects affect entire 64x64 squares, so they cant have the same effect on anythign smaller than megalithic units.

Yes the tracks fade away, look at the stumpy thats zoomed ahead of the rest, the tracks it leaves fade, though slowly.

So it is likely a decal. hhmmm *goes to cvs*

Wait wait wait wait! Can a gargantuan unit with 64 by 64 squar sised feet (or larger) create massive foot prints into the ground! That would be so cool, cause we could make huge units and have one of their disadvantage's be "Reveled via Footprints"

Yes but the method of doing that would be to fire a weapon on the sole of its feet when ti stepped, which would likely cause damage to the unit itself. However perhaps this could be used for a jumping unit of sorts.