Spring RTS Engine

some music would keep the game going (when you hear nothing, its kinda boring)
it would also keep new people in the game and not end up leaving
i dont know i guess i just dont like all the dullness of hour's spent not hearing anything

of course the music need's to be made by the dev's
there are several tools that can make a tune without breaking any copyright

Your new so before someone tells you.

This is what we call a "MTR" or Monthly topic rotation.

It is a feature request that many users frequently make but has yet to be fullfilled. I do also wish for this feature but it has not been granted yet.

Also, what drives players off is the current desync problem. The developers of spring are working on fixing it as we speak and I am confident that we will see more players stay once that is fixed.

although as always I am going to give this request a +1 because I still want it also :).

Ditto. Desync is still the absolute top priority, but I'd love to see music as well - just to let mods totally complete their mood.

well of course, i hate the desync.
the good thing is that if these post's keep coming ever so once in awhile you might just get what you ask for eventually...

But not every other week...

I'm worried about the bloat in filesize music would introduce to mods...

make it optional

We modders can include it in an optional d/l (a mutator type thing)

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I run winamp in the background thank you.

If the music is made as a mutator, that will create some problems. For example, let's say some mod has version A (w/o music) and a mutator A-mus (with music), everything else in both versions is the same. Then games A vs A and A-mus vs A-mus are possible, but A vs A-mus is not (mods are considered different), so in the end either everybody has to download the music version or everybody must play with no music (like now). Not much optional choices.

that depends on how it's implimented... if Spring was told to ignore missing MP3 files or something it would be fine... meanwhile I had a great idea... or half an idea... anybody can tell me if/how to get lua to display a mini-web-browser or otherwise communicate with a web server?

It wouldn't be using MP3 either way because that format is patented and Spring wouldn't be legal in the US if it could decode it (you have to pay royalties I think).

Just include the music + playlist in the mod as a separate download for use with music player of choice?

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I run winamp in the background thank you.

Which has its obvious issues. Two volume controls to worry about as opposed to one. No way to make it change according to situations. If you want to make any modifications to the playlist, you'd have to set hotkeys or alt-tab (which can cause problems). Having to set up the media player before starting the game and after exiting it.

Also, what drives players off is the current desync problem. The developers of spring are working on fixing it

Uh, I thought they were working on resyncing, which is a different thing than fixing desyncing :P

btw winamp uses to much ressources -> phail for non-highend comps.

Yes, there are thin players, but as ZellSF already mentioned, uncomfortable to use.

And in addition, lua ist the perfect tool, to manage the player, which could use the open format ogg (which already was mentioned 58684385 times yet)

And an integrated lua (scripting) player wouldn't lag your comp to deathl?

no, didnt think of a player, written in lua, just with an interface that can be accessed through lua.

Caradhras wrote:btw winamp uses to much ressources -> phail for non-highend comps.

Winamp eats your ram, the older versions up to 2.92 (?) or something don't, though. Volume control is a minor issue, I think most players have globally available hotkeys (winamp does with a plugin or out of the box, dunno). Ingame music support would be nice none the less.

rattle wrote:

Caradhras wrote:btw winamp uses to much ressources -> phail for non-highend comps.

Winamp eats your ram, the older versions up to 2.92 (?) or something don't, though. Volume control is a minor issue, I think most players have globally available hotkeys (winamp does with a plugin or out of the box, dunno). Ingame music support would be nice none the less.

My issue wasn't with lack of volume control at all, but with separated volume control.

In other words, an issue Winamp has no way to fix.

Caradhras wrote:btw winamp uses to much ressources -> phail for non-highend comps.

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