Spring RTS Engine

fixes hard map edge issue, adds lots of cool new strategies.

What I'm suggesting is repeating the map, as on a real planet, with infinite panning, where, for example, a unit could climb up whats normall the top edge of the map and appear at what's normally the bottom, but since the map is tiled, that isn't apparent.

Well, first of all, that will emulate a very strange torus-shaped (like a donut) planet. Second, amount of code rewrites needed for that is, well, large. And third, most of the current maps aren't really suited for that - if bottom ('south') of the map is sea and the top ('north') is land, how the top-to-bottom wraparound would look like?

Well, torus topology doesn't really mean torus shape, especially when you consider that a torus is much larger along the outside ring. It's just a nice simple physics-violating map.

There was a topic about this before, and the conclusion was, if you want planets, go play spore

I heard you like MTR

I'm proposing an option, so that mapmakers could develop maps especially for this, and point that out to the engine.

I didnt put this in main post so as to not spark an sm3 debate.

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CONFIRMED

well,I just figured out what MTR means

But I'm not suggesting entire planets(!)

endlessly tiling the map (with the obvious anti-lag measures) and carrying unit position/info over to the other side of the map would take significantly less code than bona fide planets, no?

Populous 3 maps where donuts IIRC, combined with a hefty amount of visual trickery to give the illusion of a spherical world.

cant you make a global lua just move a unit that gets to the edge of the map to the opposite edge?

MidKnight wrote:I'm proposing an option

Get your code and custom engine build on the table!

bobthedinosaur wrote:cant you make a global lua just move a unit that gets to the edge of the map to the opposite edge?

how would you path or fire across edges?

lua stupid thats how.

no

well actually... if you'd write a new engine in lua, in spring

no