Spring RTS Engine

behe made the lava map that explodes!

also lava highground

car repairer made a pizza map; marinera sauce is similar to lava :)

Hobo Joe wrote:Speaking of lava maps, are there any in Spring? If there are they must never be played because I don't know of any.


Those were my favorite TA maps.

Problem is we don't have a way of making lava feel realistic.There is only the water shader but it does not fit lava.

Take a look at mercury_v1 with bumpwater on, its the closest one can get. Or just fast forward the game to 13 minutes on that map :)

Gota wrote:Problem is we don't have a way of making lava feel realistic.There is only the water shader but it does not fit lava.

why dont you just take the OTA lava texture and use it as water texture with zero transparency? oh wait, some people use bumpmapped water etc that fucks everything up

Take a look at mercury_v1 with /water 0.

Thats mercury and Argh's lava animation

i dont see animation needs .gif

Beherith wrote:Take a look at mercury_v1 with /water 0.

how about /water 1,2,3,4,5 ? if it fucks up in any of them, its useless piece of shit

It fucks up in neither.

TradeMark wrote:

Beherith wrote:Take a look at mercury_v1 with /water 0.

how about /water 1,2,3,4,5 ? if it fucks up in any of them, its useless piece of shit

truth.

Glad your utilizing this wonderful opportunity to its fullest extent, trib.

I dont understand? This doesnt look good on other waters.

Did you even test? Which one did you not like?

The bad water, apparently.

is som1 gonna post the actual animation or wat

Sausage wrote:is som1 gonna post the actual animation or wat

no just dl the map and press + a bunch

the eruption is pretty sweet, could also be used for a geyser effect, but is not damaging to units which i thought odd

the lava water looks good but i have some ideas...does a negative waterabsorb value work to make the deeper water brighter?

if not, it should! watermincolor and watersurfacecolor should just mark the colors of shallow and deep water instead of watermincolor specifying the "darkest" the water can be, because what if we want deep water to be bright lava?

what i'd want is something like
watersurfacecolor = 1 0 0
watermincolor = 1 1 0.8
waterabsorb = 0 -0.01 -0.005

so shallow lava is pure red, and deeper lava turns to a bright yellow/almost white over gradient.

this would be combined with a very light sand texture for everywhere underwater (underlava?) with NO lightbaking at all