Spring RTS Engine

I am known in TA circles as Wotan - for some reason I had problems with that sig when I signed on originally. Anyway, I am just getting my feet wet with Spring Proper after years of work in the TA Community. At the moment I am looking for the most basic of maps. I don't know much about map making in spring and have limited access to the needed tools to do so. So if anyone is willing, all I need is a map that includes the following:

- The map is one color (as close as possible to TA's light blue transparency color)

- The map is 100% hard - no change in terrian when damaged

- The map is perfectly flat with no water at all.

- The map is at least 16x16 in size.

- That's all :)


Why am i doing this? I need a map that will allow me to test units converted from my TAWP mod in TA for Spring. I also want to take advantage of the background color of the map to improve/record explosions in Spring for the TA version.

As always any help is greatly appreciated.


Thanks!

we already have that

download wide open combat.

Wide open combat has...

- Gray metallic texture (I'm looking for a solid color background - no texture)

- Hills (I need flat)

- Dark lighting (I should have mentioned also that I need standard light settings that match TA's sun position).

I really meant it when I said the map is simple

What color?

Ask and ye shall receive.

http://www.fileuniverse.com/?p=showitem&ID=3444

Acctually, I just did the hard part... If someone can post an SMD for a solid hard SMD with "OTA" style lighting... I'll update it.

Cool and thanks! With the OTA lighting I'll be set

Once you go spring you never go back.

Hi there Wotan.

Heheheh, I see what he's doing. He's making a fake-texture. Put it on units or features to really confuse people.

no... what is seems to me he is doing is attempting a "blue screen effect" so that he can record animations from spring and use them in his TA mod as sprite animations... so I can make the map again (or really anyone can... it's dead easy to make maps) whatever colour is best to use as a neutral color, turn off the detail tex and you've got basically a flat, matte surface to work with... let us know what exact color you want cause I don't know what this "neutral blue" you speak of is...

Reminds me of my whiteout map ages and ages ago, a huge totally flat map that was a solid white colour, like an 80's video.

just set the hardness in the smd to like 90000

There is a tag for no map damage, but iirc it doesn't really work.

Sinbad is correct!

I am working on a mod and want to improve explosions in TA. I also want to begin converting to Spring as well as making mods.

Here is the color, with a downloadable BMP...





http://www.planetannihilation.com/taan/ ... A_BLUE.zip

Snooky wrote:Sinbad is correct!

I am working on a mod and want to improve explosions in TA. I also want to begin converting to Spring as well as making mods.

Here is the color, with a downloadable BMP...

That will not work out how you think it will. Ta explosions do not have levels of transparency. They have gif-like transparency.

Like this:


Get gundam annihilation and you will see what I mean,

That is ok. As long as the explosions can be recorded and transferred to seperate BMPs to form a GIF like anim I will be fine. I will likely have to set speed to -9 the explode, pause, screen print a few dozen times. I can clean up in Photoshop and import into GAF builder from there.

It will take a lot of work to clean it up. I recommend a black or maybe grey color.

using colors like blue will cause a lot of bleed over. If you use grey or black it is easier to deal with.

That's a shockingly clever idea, I really mean it.

Let's go with Gray then if that will work better. Black always leaves artifacts that are hard to filter out - unless some one has a better work around. Regardless, I will have to convert all explosions to use that blue color background in the end.

well, you can try red or orange etc.