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Posted: 28 Jan 2007, 14:55
by radoslav
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.
Posted: 28 Jan 2007, 15:18
by Abokasee
Posted: 28 Jan 2007, 16:40
by SinbadEV
Posted: 28 Jan 2007, 18:44
by radoslav
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 !!!!
Posted: 28 Jan 2007, 19:11
by KDR_11k
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.
Posted: 28 Jan 2007, 19:41
by jcnossen
Posted: 28 Jan 2007, 23:12
by rattle
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.
Posted: 29 Jan 2007, 22:27
by radoslav
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. :)
Posted: 29 Jan 2007, 22:41
by manored
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...

Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 00:57
by SinbadEV
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.
Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 17:25
by Abokasee
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
Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 20:01
by rattle
The entire world!
Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 20:05
by smoth
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
Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 21:17
by KDR_11k
To proprly use Spring you should start TASclient.exe or grab SpringSP.
Posted: 01 Feb 2007, 19:22
by radoslav
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?
Posted: 01 Feb 2007, 19:26
by radoslav
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.
Posted: 01 Feb 2007, 20:38
by rattle
Eh... Spring.exe :P
Anyway turn off reflections, shadows, clouds, set water to basic water, then try again.
Posted: 02 Feb 2007, 00:50
by Das Bruce
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine is a driver issue, update them.
Posted: 02 Feb 2007, 11:33
by radoslav
Thanks for the suggestions. However where to update the driver? I haven't seen for now driver with this name.
Posted: 02 Feb 2007, 12:35
by Masse
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
