Spring RTS Engine

Although there has been a fair amount of talk about the theoretical Spring Skirmish AI, how to make it build, determine targets, move groups of units etc, no actual coding can be done until the SY's give us 2 things 1. An interface to receive information about the game environment and 2. An interface to send units individual orders.
Not knowing the specifics about how the engine operates, I can not tell how it should be done. If there is little or no computation done client side, it may be sufficient to simply release the networking protocol. If not, they will probably need to take the client, find the logical break in the code between game computations and UI, and release an interface (or 2 or more) to handle all of said function calls. If/When this happens, we can begin writing sensible AI code. Before, we can only talk about the abstract.

There exists both of those. Please refrain from n00bzoring up the forum.

Where? I was unaware.

Alantai And Triaxx have both emailed the SYs for info, as has napalm as far as i know. They have (or at least 1 of them has, according to jorm and other SYs posts) receved the necessary info for a basic construct.

Napalm has the data needed, I have been given ti but havent had time to go over fulyl yet and establish thoughts, I ahve yet to send to triaxx2.


I am aware that this ahs not been previously announced ont he forums, and I believe that it would be unwise to release this information without prior consent from SJ that what he has given is available to the entire world.

I will not accept that you will all start posting your grievances about how unfair or how preferrential or how we should release what is not ours to release. If you have a problem with ti PM the SY's with your reason for having the informatio or wait for them to release them.

Ahhh, confusion decreasing. I was wondering why Napalm was jumping on me because I had seen no reference to the existence either requested item. And I can fully appreciate the desire to not give away someone else's property.

Please let me be the first to apologize for Napalm's childish behavior.

And let me be the first to cordially invite you to the forum. You sound fairly intelligent, which is something needed around here ^_^

Welcome.

Napalm was joking, ILM Titan welcome to forums? Is it me or have you been here a lot longer than a few days or is real lfie messing ym head up

I've been around for a while, but have only posted in any significant fashion more recently. Also, I have an avatar now.

Since Novermeber 13, 2004, so I'd say he has been here a while. So I'd suggest getting 4 hours planned, extra sleep next time an opportunity presents itself.