Spring RTS Engine

I have some old units in ufo format and I am trying to port them in spring. I have a bit of a issue with the weapons.

I consulted this page: http://springrts.com/wiki/Units-WeaponDefs
to find what are the valid types and strings for weapons. I am getting a bit confused to what corresponds to the old TA weapon types (http://units.tauniverse.com/tutorials/t ... weapon.htm).

In TA there used to be these types:
laser, modelled, not rendered, dgun, plasma shell, flame, bomb, lightning

How do these correspond (do they? even loosely) to spring's:
AircraftBomb, BeamLaser, Cannon, Dgun, EmgCannon, Flame, LaserCannon, LightningCanon, Melee, MissileLauncher, Rifle, Shield, StarburstLauncher, TorpedoLauncher

There are some apparent ones:
dgun = dgun
flame = flame
lightning = lightning cannon

and some not so apparent:
bomb = aircraft bomb (and torpedolauncher?)
laser = lasercannon (or beamlaser?)
plasma shell = cannon (and emgcannon?)
modelled = starburst ?

Is there is some documentation that I am unaware of?

Yes bomb = aircraft bomb, torpedo launcher = torpedo launcher, starburst is nuke style missile (named after an unused OTA weapon def 'starburstmissile')

LaserCannon is the OTA style laser bolt, Beam laser is a continuous beam like star trek phasers. Cannon is ballistic plasma whereas EMG is line-of-sight (like Gauss, EMG wepaons in OTA).

Shield is a shield, rifle is terrible don't use it. Melee is melee which OTA didn't have.

Weapons have a greater divorce between visual effect and behaviour than in OTA so there's not always a 1-1 relationship between OTA and Spring tags.

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=11922 may be of some use to you.

IMO, 'how to convert from OTA' does not belong on the wiki.

Thanks that post is quite helpful.
The validation that there is no 1-1 translation is even more helpful!

A lot of things have already been done by other projects, like xta, ba and bota. Maybe some more even. Tell us if you need help with something else.

FLOZi wrote:(named after an unused OTA weapon def 'starburstmissile')

The term was actually used in the manual as well.