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radoslav · Post by **radoslav** » 28 Jan 2007, 14:55

Hello All !!!! I am new in the games programming, and I was fascinated in that there is an open source good RTS Game. I want to ask you how to make mods for it. Can pleas some who is further to explain me in which language is made the game, where to download the source and how to make mods? Thanks in regards to all who will write me. Bye for now.

Abokasee · Post by **Abokasee** » 28 Jan 2007, 15:18

Read the wiki

http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Mod_and_ ... evelopment

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 28 Jan 2007, 16:40

http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Simple_Mod_Tutorial I like this one... I made some of it...

radoslav · Post by **radoslav** » 28 Jan 2007, 18:44

Thank you people !!!! SinbadEV you have made a nice tutorial :) However I still experience difficulties to download the main game - Total Annihilation. Is there a direct link to it? Thanks in regards !!!!

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 28 Jan 2007, 19:11

TA is something you buy, not download. Though it isn't necessary to make Spring work (and in fact I doubt it helps). You can just grab any of the mods.

Post by **jcnossen** » 28 Jan 2007, 19:41

This is all you need to get started:

Installer:
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/dl/spring_0.74b3.exe

Source:
http://prdownload.berlios.de/taspring-l ... b3_src.zip

You dont need the source to mod though.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 28 Jan 2007, 23:12

KDR_11k wrote:TA is something you buy, not download. Though it isn't necessary to make Spring work (and in fact I doubt it helps). You can just grab any of the mods.

You have to own a legal copy of TA however if you want to play any of the TA mods, or your computer will self-destruct itself within 5 seconds.

radoslav · Post by **radoslav** » 29 Jan 2007, 22:27

I downloaded and installed Spring. However when I started it, it was not a game, bus something else, maybe a mod maker. Where I can download and a game to test my mods and how to use the program Spring? Thanks in regards. :)

manored · Post by **manored** » 29 Jan 2007, 22:41

rattle wrote:
KDR_11k wrote:TA is something you buy, not download. Though it isn't necessary to make Spring work (and in fact I doubt it helps). You can just grab any of the mods.
You have to own a legal copy of TA however if you want to play any of the TA mods, or your computer will self-destruct itself within 5 seconds.

Not really because someone somewhere in the world must have lost one TA cd, what means that it is now neutral, what means that it is from everone since we are at a world where neutral things are from all...

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 30 Jan 2007, 00:57

radoslav wrote:I downloaded and installed Spring. However when I started it, it was not a game, bus something else, maybe a mod maker. Where I can download and a game to test my mods and how to use the program Spring? Thanks in regards. :)

I'm sorry, I am not mocking you but if you only knew how funny that was you would be laughing too... Spring is pretty much only multi-player out of the box... run the Client program that was installed.

Abokasee · Post by **Abokasee** » 30 Jan 2007, 17:25

rattle wrote:
KDR_11k wrote:
You have to own a legal copy of TA however if you want to play any of the TA mods, or your computer will self-destruct itself within 5 seconds.

When you say self destruct, do you mean the units or the actual PC

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 30 Jan 2007, 20:01

The entire world!

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 30 Jan 2007, 20:05

manored wrote: Not really because someone somewhere in the world must have lost one TA cd, what means that it is now neutral, what means that it is from everone since we are at a world where neutral things are from all...

Yeah, keep it up mate do what ya want cause' a pirate is free, ya-da, ya-da, enjoy that party van.

radoslav:
http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6015

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 30 Jan 2007, 21:17

To proprly use Spring you should start TASclient.exe or grab SpringSP.

radoslav · Post by **radoslav** » 01 Feb 2007, 19:22

Thank you all who try to help me, however maybe I am very dull because I still experience dificulties and I am still at the step for collecting the needed software to get started with the mods :) . Here are all files that are executables and that came with the installation of Spring:
TASClient.exe -> the file that I mistook with a mod maker software.
Uninst.exe -> the uninstall aplication.
Settings.exe -> some setings.
SelectionEdition -> again not the start game.
Spring.exe -> maybe the main start file. However when I try starting it apears the following message:
"Needed extension GL_ARB_texture_env_combine not found".
I downloaded again the installation file:
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/dl/spring_0.74b3.exe
and installed it again, but the same problem of starting Spring.exe persists. So, please what I must do to get the GL_AEB_texture_env_combine?

radoslav · Post by **radoslav** » 01 Feb 2007, 19:26

P.S. following the sugestion of KDR_11k I installed the SpringSP. It appeared that I miss the visual basic dll file - msvbvm.dll to get started, I downloaded it from:
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-f ... l?msvbvm60
and managed to start SpringSP correctly, however SpringSP still needs the main String.exe to work properly, so the problem persists.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 01 Feb 2007, 20:38

Eh... Spring.exe :P

Anyway turn off reflections, shadows, clouds, set water to basic water, then try again.

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 02 Feb 2007, 00:50

GL_ARB_texture_env_combine is a driver issue, update them.

radoslav · Post by **radoslav** » 02 Feb 2007, 11:33

Thanks for the suggestions. However where to update the driver? I haven't seen for now driver with this name.

Masse · Post by **Masse** » 02 Feb 2007, 12:35

what is your graphics card...
if its nvidia goto http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
if its ati goto http://ati.de/support/driver.html

and remember every month or 2 check for new drivers

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