Spring RTS Engine

I updated the debs made by Cyril Brulebois (the candidates for inclusion in debian) to Spring 0.74b3, and made them available in a repository.

To use, add one of the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: Then apt-get install spring, or use Synaptic/Adept/aptitude/you name it.

More instructions will follow tomorrow if I remember

One bug already spotted by det is that LuaUI doesn't work.
If you find other bugs in the packaging (not spring itself!), please report them here.

OMG!! I LOVE YOU! I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES!!

where do i place the maps ? :D im lost in folders :D

Masse wrote:where do i place the maps ? :D im lost in folders :D

Same

It runs, but where the hell are folders kept? Also, is a lobby client included in this .deb?

i went throught all the common folders where usually games are installed and found no spring :/ crap i have to wait till i can beging testin

i did found the AI folder :)

this is the best thing ever happened after the first release of spring :D

found the folder... odd that i didnt see it there before
/usr/share/games/spring

i'll try adding maps folder there = works
then i'll try making mods folder = works tried with absolute annihilation but error appears cannot open wav files

btw i would be awesome if there were few other repos too like non-free where u got the copyright issue mods and then the free one's

Masse wrote:found the folder... odd that i didnt see it there before
/usr/share/games/spring

i'll try adding maps folder there = works
then i'll try making mods folder

Two questions.

So I just create a "maps" folder? Also, how do I give myself write permissions in this particular folder permanently, so I don't have to go through sudo terminal commands to add or remove everything.

u can just go "sudo nautilus" and then go to the "/usr/share/games/spring" and make the "maps" folder and copy ur maps there :)
and u are able to give write permissions to all when u just right click the "maps" folder and give write permissions to all.

Masse wrote:u can just go sudo nautilus and then go to the /usr/share/games/spring and make the maps folder and copy ur maps there :)

Thanks

"maps" and "mods" folders are ok now, as are folder permissions. But now I have encountered a bug >.<

error message: Same as yours Masse?

its the same... and i believe its unable to open it cause it doesnt exist, but im not sure

Tobi, where the hell is the fanfare!?! Seriously, the Linux side of things needs a larger spotlight.

yes the sounds are missing... now im gonna add the sounds folder and add there all the missing sound files and im gonna dig the windows version to get those files

Masse wrote:yes the sounds are missing... now im gonna add the sounds folder and add there all the missing sound files and im gonna dig the windows version to get those files

That's what I was thinking, but I just looked and there is no "sounds" folder or a button9.wav file in the windows version.

Edit: As there are no sounds I'm creating dummy .wav files to take their place. It's working.

hmm... i did make this button9.wav from some absolute annihilation wav file :D so i cheated a little... but there really is no sounds in win spring ? theyre probably in some packages ? i hope

:edit: beep4.wav beep6.wav button9.wav
:edit: i have no textures in AA and cursor is invisible

It works!!! For now, just create dummy .wav files to take the place of the missing files. Also, I'm guess this is the GPL version as I'm missing Ta textures?

Running air combat test, BA 4.5 @ 150 FPS!! Woot!

Well, as promised, here are more instructions. Still didn't get around to putting them in proper wiki format, but at least I stripped of the useless pieces of the chat log I copied this from

1) make an extra data directory in your $HOME: 2) instruct spring to use it: 3) download maps and put them in ~/.spring/maps/

4) download mods and put them in ~/.spring/mods/

5) (for mods depending on OTA content):

Guys, this is a GPL package. You need the OTA base content files if you want to play a non-GPL mod with it.

WORKS ! oooh thank you !

Which you can install by performing step 5