Spring RTS Engine

Western Frontier by me. 18x12 size, for 5v5 battles. Trees by SirArtturi.

http://www.springfiles.com/show_file.php?id=2579

nice! that looks like a fun map

Great work!

Looks good. I'll give it a try

I love it! The layout looks absolutely great, Ill load it up right now.

Edit: the smd params have a slight bug: Colors should be between 1 and 0, I believe the engine clamps or normalizes to 1 on load.

Good stuff fc <3

Please define at least 2 start positions in SMD so map can be launched without lobby.

I like the simpleness of it but theres just so much plain flat greeness you should at least plop some trees around the place maybe

Beherith wrote:I love it! The layout looks absolutely great, Ill load it up right now.

Edit: the smd params have a slight bug:

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		CloudColor=1.5 1.5 1.5;
		SkyColor=0.4 1.2 2;
		SunColor=2.0 2.0 2.0;

Colors should be between 1 and 0, I believe the engine clamps or normalizes to 1 on load.

Beherith wrote:Please define at least 2 start positions in SMD so map can be launched without lobby.

Ok, fixed and reuploaded. Thanks.

nice design!

can bots climb the hills?

and what did you use for texturing your map

KaiserJ wrote:nice design!

can bots climb the hills?

and what did you use for texturing your map

Yeah, bots can climb the hills whereas vehicles can't. I used WiCEd for the texture.

Edit: Beherith, could you please load the updated file? Thanks in advance.

looks cool, but lack at some details/features (from what i see at the pics)

I like the basic layout of the map very much, while the textures do need more variation. And the sand/pebbles should not be that uniformly grey.

Beherith wrote:I love it! The layout looks absolutely great, Ill load it up right now.

Edit: the smd params have a slight bug:

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		CloudColor=1.5 1.5 1.5;
		SkyColor=0.4 1.2 2;
		SunColor=2.0 2.0 2.0;

Colors should be between 1 and 0, I believe the engine clamps or normalizes to 1 on load.

According to the wiki spring neither clamps nor normalises those values. I couldn't confirm that though.

The updated file worked as advertised; and the grass texture needs some variation, or some features.

did u played it yet or gave it some players to test it? i think the narrow river (between the 2 mountains) could lead to some porcing. also how deformable is the map, i mean is it possible to build stuff on the mountain, then destroy it and then build bigger stuff on the same spot, that could lead to some long range turrets at the hill. btw i think a smaller version of the layout could be a good 1v2 or 2v2 map

Just fyi, if you re upload with the same name, then it will fail on springdler and on autohosts. Every time you update a file it must have a different name.

Ok, I added the fixes and SirArtturi's trees and uploaded the file as V2.

too many trees, the trees are nearly the same color as the grass, and they are taller than your mountains

i bet the first version played well...good incentives for both tanks and bots. bots get over the hills easily but tanks are best when behind enemy's front lines

For a first map you did a really good job.

What it needs is, more color variation, more height variation, and probably better usage of features. For a good contrast, you might try using sirartturi's birch trees.

IMO you dont nessesarily need more color variation but the big flat parts feel a bit boring dont they?