Spring RTS Engine

Looking at the battle from a unit's point of view is awesome, especially if you've lost in a multi-team match and you just want to roam around with your last unit. However, it's a pain in the ass to control units. Here's three feature requests, in order of importance:

1. Option to turn off inverted mouse Y axis
2. Option to change mouse sensitivity (FPS view)
3. Otion to make the unit turn where you aim

I know FPS view is probably at the bottom of the to-do list, if it even is on it, but It'd just make it soooo much better even only with the first change. Inverted mouselook FTL.

You know, there is a settings program and if you search a little, you will find that the points 1 and 2 are already possible.

Oh I didn't notice them, now I see...

I think the the more important is making the weapons shot freely, winhout being limited by the fact that there is nothing/allied stuff where they are aiming. (Maybe this already exists in that "free shooting mode" that aparear then you hold down the right mouse button but it never worked for me so I guess its not working yet...)

JJ45 wrote:Inverted mouselook FTL.

I thought the same thing at first. Now I'm used to it (esp. with aircraft!) and I don't want anything else. Heck, I've even switched to inverted Y axis with Halo 2 on Xbox.

How anyone can play an FPS without inverting their mouse is beyond me

Others ideas :
-A key to re-align the 'turret angle' (the blue arrow) onto the unit angle (the green arrow).
-Use the weapon's name (defined in the tdf) instead of 'weapon1/2/3/...' for the weapon's status.

Use the weapon's name (defined in the tdf) instead of 'weapon1/2/3/...' for the weapon's status.

If i could figure out where the classes are that deal with the fps view, i'd take a crack at this.

Fluid cursor motion that doesn't snap to an invisible grid would be nice.
It's easily the most annoying thing about fps mode.
Also a jump button, and a strafe button, and....
oh screw it i'll just go play quake...

Great idea! someone make a quake mod.

Than no one can claim that Spring isn't the best RTS engine.

I think strafe (and probably also jump) is very hard (read: not possible) with the current engine.

And anyhow we always have quake '). I agree there could be some improvements to FPS mode but still do not forget this is a RTS. Otherwise the next thing people will want will be an ingame text editor and mail reader and....

You could probably jump with a hacky workaround, such as a weapon that has a firing arc that allows it to fire only straight down...it does no damage but has a lot of impulse force.

You mean with current scripting it isn't possible. Your rocket jump idea won't work because of fall damge being quite excessive.
However both could be coded - though strafe would be delayed by the turn rate. (turn toward strafe direction while simultaneously turning torso to maintain aim).

FLOZi wrote:

Use the weapon's name (defined in the tdf) instead of 'weapon1/2/3/...' for the weapon's status.

If i could figure out where the classes are that deal with the fps view, i'd take a crack at this.

Needs a little tweaking and foolproofing, but, tada.

Do we have the same level of flexibility with FPS mode vision in terms of LUA scripting that the rest of the interface offers?

If that's the case, then some EXTREMELY amazing things could be done...

So why wouldnt it be possible to create some sort of transparent graphic, place it on the screen with lua, so that we could have a sort of 'cockpit view' ?

It's probably possible but noone wants to bother with it because FPS mode is little more than a toy or debugging feature (helps with detecting aiming code errors).

I believe this feature to have HUGE potential. Maybe I should quit school, learn C++ again and then make a patch. D: RAaaagarg.

Cabbage wrote:How anyone can play an FPS without inverting their mouse is beyond me

How anyone can play an FPS with inverted mouse Y-axis is beyond me. Flying planes with inverted Y-axis feels normal, though.