Spring RTS Engine

As requested in This thread over in General Discussion, I have made a basic Mod Unit Web Page Generator Thing. Yea, it needs a better name I know. Anyways, for those to lazy to read the thread I pointed out, this program takes a .sd7 file, unzip's it, reads in the build tree and unit files, and outputs a HTML file for each unit in the game, all cross referenced with who builds what. It is still in Beta, so many things are not yet implemented, but im getting there. One major thing that is not yet implemented is support for Download.tdf's. That will be coming in the next release, but I was to lazy to do it yet. Download it to have a look.

http://maelstrom.niiil.com/files/ModWeb ... 20v0.1.zip

For a sample of what it produces, have a look Here(Arm commander) and Here(Core commander), or download all the pages at once Here



Known bugs:
None (yet), but as this is the first project I have made of this scale, there is sure to be some bugs in there somewhere.

Missing features/Stuff im to lazy to do yet:
Proper Open window for finding your mod.
HTML Templates so you can make it look good.
Adding in Weapon.tdf and other goodies.
Support for Download.tdf's.
The Status thing flickers horribly.
Processing of other HTML files, besides unit files.

Note that if you use this once, and want to make use of the 'Use Lasy unzipped mod' option, you have to quit the program and get back into it to enable the option.

Because Download.tdf's do not work, you cant (yet) use it with all the mods. However, I know that UH version 1.3 works perfectly, as that is what I was testing off. Later versions (if there is any) will probably work as well, but I dont know for sure.

Please leave any comments, suggestions, ideas, bugs, critisisms, or anything, as everything is good and will help make it better.

Just needs one thing - wait, two things - ability to pick up unit buildpics and hardcoded flavour text for 'known' units.

Same-page support would be nice too.

All the same, looking good! Call it 'Maelstrom's Unit Stats Utility'. Or 'Maelstrom's Web Generator'. Or 'Maelstrom's Build Tree Compiler'. Any of those will do.

Im looking into the build pics. I just have to work out how to convert the multiple supported formats to something nice, like jpg. I think I might have found something I can use, but i still have to work out HOW to use it.

Multipage stuff will be coming. Eventually I will have it so it reads in a file from the html\ directory, examines it, and replaces special tags with either a value, or a loop of values. So you could replace {MOD_Name} with your mods name automatically. And with loops (will take alot of work on my part), you put {LOOP LoopName} and have some loops defined in a seperate file, such as: When {LOOP UnitLoop} is found in an HTML template file, that loop is printed. This will take alot of effort on my half, so support for Loops will be many versions away but HTML templates or units should be out next version, with custom HTML files (like an index page) should be ready for the version after. We will just have to wait and see.