Spring RTS Engine

I saw a lot of ffa where people keep attacking their neighbour whereas someone has conquered half of the map. An option where you can see all (like the spec view) could add another gameplay.

as much as i would dislike this myself for most games, i can see it being fun for playing chickens, as well as for training noobs... if i can see his base, i can tell him what to build, and if he can see my base, he knows what im up to.

+1 if its not difficult to implement.

KaiserJ wrote:[..]+1 if its not difficult to implement.

Should be easy.
Simply give units "infinite" line of sight (meaning they can look far enough to cover the whole map).
Only problem with this could be the hills/mountains...

Ahh, someone will find a solution to this

/cheat
/globallos

Not calculating the LOS map would also increase performance significantly.

Would not increase the performance alto, as the LOS map is still calculated

Auswaschbar wrote:

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/cheat
/globallos

Would not increase the performance alto, as the LOS map is still calculated

So is it fixed in SVN?

Its not "fixed" in GIT.

Pendrokar wrote:So is it fixed in SVN?

It's not "fixed" because globallos was set up to be easily reversible. Don't claim something is broken unless you know all the details plz.

So could there be an option to start Spring without an LOS map?

I think you can skip LOS updates by setting units' sight distances to a nonpositive value. Then you can set all units to be alwaysVisible. Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to make all CEGs alwaysVisible at runtime.

Alternately, you can put a high-LOS unit really high in the air.

Out of curiousity - is the fog-of-war supposed to be invisible? By which I mean - no visible way to discern which area is FoW and which area your units can currently see. In TA FoW areas had a light-grey mist. Is that in spring but just disabled in the mods I've tried? Because it'd be nice to see what area I can see.

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. . . ua.... for the rest of peet's post.

This is one of those easy to lua things and it would be pretty fast to add as a mod option.

This doesn't belong in the engine, I hate to say it but it really doesn't

moriarty wrote:Out of curiousity - is the fog-of-war supposed to be invisible? By which I mean - no visible way to discern which area is FoW and which area your units can currently see. In TA FoW areas had a light-grey mist. Is that in spring but just disabled in the mods I've tried? Because it'd be nice to see what area I can see.

The l key enables line of sight view which is used to view sight distances.

smoth wrote:

moriarty wrote:Out of curiousity - is the fog-of-war supposed to be invisible? By which I mean - no visible way to discern which area is FoW and which area your units can currently see. In TA FoW areas had a light-grey mist. Is that in spring but just disabled in the mods I've tried? Because it'd be nice to see what area I can see.

The l key enables line of sight view which is used to view sight distances.

Peet wrote:L

CA's menu has a button for enabling for of war.

Evil4Zerggin wrote:Alternately, you can put a high-LOS unit really high in the air.

No.

I tried.

There is a limit to how far a unit can see, no matter how high a sight value I write in the FBI and how high in the air the unit fly. And that limit is not even enough to see a small map entirely. Unless I increase dramatically the LosMipLevel thing which would bring a whole new level of issues.

Peet,smoth wrote:Lua

Lua could make all units visible, but what about the shots, explosions, nano, and everything else?

Lua could make all units visible, but what about the shots, explosions, nano, and everything else?

That's a good point. Most of it's limited by AirLOS.

if this was an option most nubs would use it
better its not an option