Spring RTS Engine

It's possible to create a "Settler"-Game with the Spring engine?

1. Create Persons
2. Create Ships
3. Create Houses (Mine, Living, Productions incl. Animation)
4. Transport of Materials (Stones to Build-House)
5. Change Persons to Fighter
6. Change Persons to Pioniers

silentx wrote:It's possible to create a "Settler"-Game with the Spring engine?

1. Create Persons
2. Create Ships
3. Create Houses (Mine, Living, Productions incl. Animation)
4. Transport of Materials (Stones to Build-House)
5. Change Persons to Fighter
6. Change Persons to Pioniers

maybe yes, but its a complete new game from the scratch and it will be last for years. so its easier to buy a settler game

The mechanics in lua would probably be the easiest part Most of your task would be setting up the map and the visuals, not to mention the controls.

But it is perfectly doable

I assume from your feature set you mean Settlers 3/4.

Everything looks possible and I think the lua would be reasonably straightforward. The only possible game mechanic issue I can think of is how Spring's pathfinder will work when many single units want to move in different directions. The pathfinding is probably avoidable though.

As AF said the hardest bit is the content. If you have already got content(which I doubt) I could take a shot at the lua for you.

@Google_Frog
Yes i mean settler 3.
And i don't have content at the moment. Because at first i want find an engine. Then i will start testing with this engine, and then i can begin
with planing and creating Contents. For the Contents i think i find also
persons to can help me, because settler 3/4 have a big community.

Know i will start to test the spring-engine.
When i have content i will ask here for help, when i have problems.
Thanks a lot for the informations

settlers 2 is the best

Gota wrote:settlers 2 is the best

nooooooooooooooooooooooo, u fail so hard - settler 2 gold edition is the best

Then to properly answer your question I believe I or many others could create enough lua to recreate Settlers game mechanics down to jumping up and down to level ground. Given the time and motivation.

The basic moving around while carrying things would be simple so would probably take a few dedicated days. Polish as always would take a lot longer. There would be a lot of work in animation though I don't really count that as mechanics.

Know i will start to test the spring-engine.

Unless you already know how lua works with the Spring engine you won't be able to test anything. I really doubt any coders will create anything testable until you show your seriousness with a little bit of content (as in 1 walking guy and a building). If you wait for what you want to do to be demonstrated to be possible you won't get anywhere.

What google is saying:make a cute settler than you'll get help.

Google_Frog wrote:Then to properly answer your question I believe I or many others could create enough lua to recreate Settlers game mechanics down to jumping up and down to level ground. Given the time and motivation.

Didn't they use shovels in Serf City (Settlers 1)?

Only real barrier I'm thinking of is that, let's be honest: humans look like crap in Spring. A lot of guys have tried really, really hard to work around the animation system, with mixed success. I mean, they work, but it took a lot of blood sweat and tears to get the animations that S44 and Gundam have now, and they probably would have looked twice as good in half the time with a better animation system.

lets have some legal issues for a change - although bluebyte is quite cool

If you want to play a settlers 2-like game, I suggest trying out widelands.

or visit http://www.siedler25.org/ its a remake of Settlers 2 with multiplayer over network/internet
at the moment the site is being reconstructed and it is buggy on some systems but multiplayer is already in and it uses the original gfx.

btw, Settler 2 ist OBVIOUSLY the best part, Wuselfaktor ftw.

settlers 2 and 3 were made of win id love to see a game like that on the spring engine.

knorke wrote:or visit http://www.siedler25.org/ its a remake of Settlers 2 with multiplayer over network/internet
at the moment the site is being reconstructed and it is buggy on some systems but multiplayer is already in and it uses the original gfx.

btw, Settler 2 ist OBVIOUSLY the best part, Wuselfaktor ftw.

Does the recent official remake not feature online play?

knorke wrote:or visit http://www.siedler25.org/ its a remake of Settlers 2 with multiplayer over network/internet
at the moment the site is being reconstructed and it is buggy on some systems but multiplayer is already in and it uses the original gfx.

btw, Settler 2 ist OBVIOUSLY the best part, Wuselfaktor ftw.

qoted for purefied, refined and undeniable truth. Also donkeys.

I have only played the first setlers, and the board game called siedler (i think it's only available in the german speaking world).

Settlers of Catan is available practically everywhere but it's not related to the game series.

KDR_11k wrote:

knorke wrote:or visit http://www.siedler25.org/ its a remake of Settlers 2 with multiplayer over network/internet
at the moment the site is being reconstructed and it is buggy on some systems but multiplayer is already in and it uses the original gfx.

btw, Settler 2 ist OBVIOUSLY the best part, Wuselfaktor ftw.

Does the recent official remake not feature online play?

i dont liked the remake (siedler 2 die nächste generation), i would prefer the original S2-look