Spring RTS Engine

For dummy range circles if shift is held down. Would be useful for units that don't have weapons but still have an applicable range, like jammers. If the color could also be defined, we could have several of them, each representing something different. On same scale as weapon ranges.

And before someone claims that can be done better by making jammer ranges visible, I'm using a dummy weapon to show the range of a refinery in GINTA. The behaviour is defined through a COB so Spring wouldn't even know that range exists.

'twould be great for things like nanotowers with a range that is un-knowable in the game.

Builder range could use a circle displaying it anyway... AFAIK +ranges did show that in OTA.

KDR_11k wrote:Builder range could use a circle displaying it anyway... AFAIK +ranges did show that in OTA.

And if OTA does it, why can't Spring?

but I'm thinking Cadyr's suggestion is still the best as it is more flexible for modders

Truth.

FizWizz wrote:'twould be great for things like nanotowers with a range that is un-knowable in the game.

This appears to already be there in .73, unless I'm dumber than usual today.

Good idea!Perhaps green for nanos, red for jammers blah blah..
VonGratz

It already IS green for nanos.

OOOOOOOOOOOOPs
VonGratz

Use custom weapons scripted to never finish their aiming.

That does slightly influence unit behaviour and doesn't allow assigning different colors to the rings, though. And workarounds suck.

KDR_11k wrote:That does slightly influence unit behaviour and doesn't allow assigning different colors to the rings, though. And workarounds suck.

Yeah, exactly... using that workaround (which I use extensively already), there's no way to have multiple rings or special-colored rings.

For instance, I might color-code a doomsday machine with a blue ring, a green ring, and a red ring, each showing how far its particular weapons can fire.