Spring RTS Engine

Absolute Annihilation has been converted to full Spring compatibility. Get it here:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-a ... p?download

21 Megabytes

Install to your Spring directory.

This may or may not be compatible with Zwzsg's OTA patch.

Known bugs/issues:
Spring is not yet fully functional, and as such not all units animate as they would in TA. All units work properly as far as I can see. Exceptions are transports and paralyzer units, which have been either removed or had their weapons removed, as Spring does not currently utilize paralyzer-type weapons. Also, unit-specific damage has not been implimented yet in Spring, so this impacts gameplay to some degree.

Absolute Annihilation homepage for news and additional information: http://www.planetannihilation.com/aa

Yay, just what I was wasiting for.

I have now tried it, and it works fine.
Gonna go play it in Mp right now.

Unit specific damage is in, check armor.txt in the install folder for more info.

Ahh! Great SJ, thanks, I was wondering what that file was for.

It's in, but how do we use it?

what about to have mod folders
and / or options to enable / disable certain mods for MP / SP on wish ...

Just install it to your Spring folder and it'll automatically become the default for all future games until uninstall.

and thats the problem ...

so

either i must have THREE different TASpring installs for now (AA, OTA, XTA) + each new mod

or just CAN have ONE TASpring install and 3 mods directories in \MODS\ ...
or st. in this way ...

please try keep KISS scheme (keep it stupid simple) ...

also i would like to see archive type distributions of mods (non executables or it will turn into ideal ground for viruses, trojans, whatever malware) ...
ideally opensource 7-zip archive (can be self extracting) http://www.7-zip.org

I am also for MOD folders. After startup you can simple choose your MOD and start playing. If not its to troublesome for some ppl to fuss around with file copying and the like. But i think the SY will find a good solution anyway

Well, the ideal solution would be to go with UT's approach - no mods at all. Instead, you just treat each piece of content as atomic (each unit, map, texture, etc) and simply have the server configure what content is going to be used (such as loading a mod-script) in Spring, and then clients must download from the server (or p2p using a torrent-a-like, or an http-redirect) until all players are sync'd.

actually MODs (main engine modifications) in Unreal Engien are standalone dirs ... (mainly due to major changes done and size)

mutators and maps/textures/sounds/models etc are downloadable with engine itself

Mod folders would be a great idea. A switcher is a moderatly simple undertaking. I could probably fashion a rudimentry one in Python, but an integrated solution would be much better.

Bump

This mod is great, but it does not seem to work in multiplayer for me and my friends.
The is always out of sync from the beginning of the game. And your opponent does not seem to be active.

Its called lag

AA doesn't seem to work in multiplayer at all, if a player joins the game crashes immediately

Out of interest, what did you do to make AA Spring compatible?