Spring RTS Engine

Improved commands fx widget is here
- rounded start/end of the line + line gets a little thinner while fading away
- textured lines
- disables unit highlight at 8 fps, lines at 4 fps



NOTE:
- made spring default lines a bit less visible
- scaled default queue cmd icons down

EDIT: turned off in cfg:
- a small pulse ring effect, but only for the units you have selected while giving an command.

How does this work out performance wise with lots of units selected and lots of orders?

Wonderful work on all your widget projects! All these little polish touches really add up to a big difference!

I havent tested endgame 8v8 yet, but the results so far were good.

All detail has been provided with textures instead of lots of vertexes.
It's just a little more expensive than the version that is currently shipped with BA, but not much.

edit: just tested and with large orders given (like big fighterscreen orders) it 'll became the heaviest widget in use for a short period.

update:
- made the texture more visible
- more consistent texture speed
- added crosshair as target
- 25% of original line texture size 16x16 instead of 64x64

NOTE:
- made spring default lines a bit less visible
- scaled default queue cmd icons down

Looks wonderful, all your widgets make me cry happiness. Zero-k needs this love!

An idea would be to make ghost commands that are normally green, teamcolored.

That's a bit much, but whatever, looks fugging fantastic.

- lines have a faint little outer dark edge
- smaller lines, and enlarged distance between each 'stripe'
- duration is longer
- reduced glow alpha
- disables unit highlight at 8 fps, lines at 4 fps

(when you reach this lowfps... its the pathing/projectiles calcs that cost a lot, not the widgets, they usually even have less to do because of low fps) That said using gl.Unit() for the highlight does cost much.

Floris wrote: (when you reach this lowfps... its the pathing/projectiles calcs that cost a lot, not the widgets, they usually even have less to do because of low fps) That said using gl.Unit() for the highlight does cost much.

Yup, but that's partly because because when you only have 8 fps, the draw only gets called 8 times / s. When you have 60 fps it gets called 60 times. At least this is how I understand it.

gl.Unit and gl.Unitshape really have a huge cost. It's what makes ghosted radar/site widgets very expensive.

So good !!!
What is the next surprise I will discover from you ?

He is working on temporary orbital zoom, meaning, you can play orbital, and with one keypress hold (space) have a closeup window where the mousecourser is, you can micro as normal as possible, then release the spacebar, and the window closes
no more cam moving, no more zooming in and out, no more minimap..



Its Either that or he is redoing his RainbowSix Synchronized Attack Widget (utilizing wait)
Ask him himself.

One of my favorite games (really): Orbital Eunuchs Sniper