Spring RTS Engine

Ref: ingame video


This lua allows you to chop up a video and play it in spring, locally or across the network. In the future it'll also be expanded for ingame content delivery.

I don't have a lot to say about it at this point; I'm posting it because it's pre-alpha and I haven't looked at it in a few weeks; I need some more pressure, and because today is the most confusing day to release it.

This package might be enough to make the sample video work; I'm not sure. No time to test as I'm on a strict deadline of April 1. If it works, the command sequence is /luaui auth, wait for confirmation, /luaui send, wait a bit, /luaui execute. I'll probably rename the topic to something less silly once I make a proper release, probably using a dll instead of a hacked spring to run the external commands used to preprocess the video.

I would have made a fancy fake-sounding post instead of just the topic, but ran out of time.

I think I'll make a package tomorrow that's just has a BUTTAN for a video, minus most of the Project Overlord code. And a good video too. But this serves as an announcement of overlord, mostly. The video is just to draw in eyes.

Got off my butt and made the sampler.
http://evolutionrts.info/~lurker/Video.zip

Lurker, I cannot fathom how i can express my love for you in english, so when i log into spring im going to pm it to you in french.


This is going directly into my game. Cheers mate!

If you mean that sample vid, then don't forget to grab the code from the first zip that makes it bounce around the screen and not be toggleable. It's in plan.lua

Lurker this is awesome.


Is it possible to open up a connect to a non-spring-host server for streaming video?

If you want to be restricted to windows-only or anyone that can compile a luasocket .so, yes, but at that point you might want to bring in some real video-rendering code.

lurkey, you are epic :D