Spring RTS Engine

Can you play bots without having an internet connection? If so, how?

When I try to host, it asks me to log in, which of course, is not possible without internet connectivity.

Best way is to download SpringSP, its like a client for offline games. Downloadable off of Unknown Files, Search for it there.
If you dont have this, go into the spring folder and fire up Spring.exe directly. You'll be able to choose mod, map and ect from there.

SpringSP works really slick, you should get it. It does exactly what you want to do.

I think AF made it.

Thanks for the help everyone. I got SpringSP and will play around with it a bit later, at work atm.

In case you were curious, I do have an internet connection, but would like to be able to play while not online. Translation: Family vacation + 3 hour ride = Boring without TA to play.

SpringSP is outdated, it won't recognize the new AI folder or sdd format (unless there was a new version I haven't heard of).

Oh no! Man, that's a bummer. I wonder if he's going to update it, or if he'd be willing to let someone else get a copy of the source and update it. We should bug him about it.

/castbyrank(Summon AF;Rank 1);

you can still create a singleplayer game using the lobby-server (look into the downloadarea here). in the wiki is an easy-to-understand tutorial

Well, yes. But still, SpringSP was a nice tool.

And of course if all else fails there's the direct method of using Spring.exe. It may not be smoothed out much, but it works.

There's a new version of SpringSP that works with the most recent version of spring.

And AF didn't make it; I believe Android did. But AF includes it with all his AI releases.

Android_X made it, and there's a Spring SP on Unknown-files.net that works with 0.73+

Failing that there's UnityLobby, running spring.exe directly, creating script.txt by hand, or running tasclient with the LAN server.

Is there a UnityLobby release for windows users?

SpringSP was close to a v0.8 a while ago with minimap preview and other stuff but i havent heard from android for a while. I'll email him and see if hes still working on it, he was gonna stop until i showed him how to do some stuff with unitsync which made more things possible.

Is there a lan server for the current spring?

Yes, under the download section, named "Lobby Server":

http://taspring.clan-sy.com/dl/TASServer_031.zip

I've tested it, it works fine with taspring 0.74b1

PS: it's a little a shame not to have packaged it as a jar and the proper manifest file, to permits to launch it by simply clicking on it (windows users would appreciate it I suppose). I can do it if you want.

T'would be nice, but if you could point me to a tutorial to do the same that'd be good to.

Ok, here:

1. extract the content of the zip file in one directory

2. go inside this directory, for ex say it's name is TASServer_031

3. create a manifest file, indicating which class is the entry point. Reading from the readme.txt (and from the .bat exemple) we see it's TASServer.class

This file is a plain text file, we name it "manifest.mf". You put inside this single line (minimum for our needs):

Main-Class: TASServer

(You need to put an empty line at the end of the file)

4. use the commandline tool "jar" provided by Sun with any of their JDK package

jar cvfm manifest.mf taserver.jar *

(it will store the manifest file as well, which is unecessary ... but it's not realy a problem, and it would be more difficult to explain the process otherwise ...)

5. Now you have a taserver.jar, that run the server when you double click on it ...


BUT ... I've made the test ... and unfornately, it use by default the command "javaw -jar", that means, it works, but it doesn't open a window ... so you are a little blind ... I had to look at the processes to see that it had worked ... well ... the server writes some logs in files under directory "notifs".

I had to say it's not so practical as I supposed .... especially when you want to close it ... you have to kill the right process ...

PS: If you don't have installed a JDK, but a JRE instead, you don't have the "jar" executable ... in this case ... you can create the jar file with zip (or patch directly the orignal zipfile if you have a software that allow it, like TotalCommander :p). But the you have to create manually one additionnal directory "Meta-inf", and inside the file manifest.mf

Here is the hierachy needed for the zipfile:
Thats all ... then rename your file.zip in file.jar

Some people may think it's easier like this, but I wanted to show the real process form Sun also :)

hey, i downloaded spring sp 0.7 and since i'm a noob i don't know how to get it running...i extracted it all into my Spring folder but when i click on SpringSP.exe (well the only icon that could be SpringSP.exe) it goes into windows picture and fax viewer and says no preview available...help please!

I think you're probably trying to open the .ico file containing the icon. If so, that means that SpringSP.exe has no icon. Or you need to do something else, explained in the post above yours. I'm not really good with any sort of code, so I can't really follow it myself :)

Strategia, if u speak about my post, it was just an attempt to simplify the thing ... but it failed .... it's really not easier.

To use TasServer, it's better just to unzip, and run tasserver.bat instead :)

(u need java installed)