The Spring engine is inspired by the game "Total Annihilation" (TA) by Cavedog Enterta
Stefan Johansson started the Spring project within the [[SY]] clan that had already made the [[XTA]] mod for th
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=Building Spring=
* [[Building Spring on Windows|Windows]]
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...ly recoreded for every game you play in Spring.<br> They are saved to your Spring\demos\ folder.
2) Drag & and drop the replay file onto Spring.exe
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...er to provide a bot-controlled automated hosting enviroment, available for Spring.
*[[Hosting Spring/Autohost|How to use Springie]]
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For the sake of maintainability the Spring wiki is currently English language only. Non-English language pages '''will
[[Spring:Community Portal|Back to the Community Portal]]
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This page describes the gameplay of TA-based games on the Spring engine.
The Spring engine can run a wide selection of [[Games]] and thus this text does not ap
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'''Spring Tanks''' started as an experiment.
[http://springrts.com/media.php?tag=game%3A+Spring+Tanks Some screenshots] can seen be in the media section
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== Spring MT ==
The Spring MT 94.11 release is
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To get people somewhat started into the mass of spring engine code, here is a small "walkthrough" of the game process.
...building it in debug mode, setting a breakpoint at some place, and running spring. When it breaks on that point you'll be able to see full call stack which i
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===Content download websites for Spring===
;https://springfiles.springrts.com : Nearly all spring related files can be found here, files avaiable there are also downloadable
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If you already played a lot of RTS Games, this is a fast guide to Spring and it is useful for OTA players.
If you are new to RTS then you should read the [[Spring guide!]].
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...ice: as of the next engine release, this tutorial will be discontinued, as Spring will be available as a standalone Mac OS X .app bundle (so will SpringLobby
* Spring: 0.82.7.1
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Spring:1944 uses the AI C.R.A.I.G., which stands for Configurable Reusable Artific
It is a skirmish AI written in Lua, and works in Spring:1944 and Star Wars: Imperial Winter.
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[[Engine_Development|Development]] < [[Building_spring|Building Spring]] < {{FULLPAGENAME}}
To compile, you will have to install some development packages Spring depends on. These vary from distro to distro and may also depend on your sp
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[[Engine_Development|Development]] < [[Building_spring|Building Spring]] < {{FULLPAGENAME}}
If you only want to produce your own Spring game and not contribute to the core engine, compilation is not necessary. C
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** Spring needs the dos2unix tool to build, which is not installed by default. Use th
...t choosing for it to do no newline conversions tends to work the best with Spring :)
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= The Complete Guide to Making a Spring Game =
by PTSnoop. Everything you could want to know about making games for the Spring engine, all on one page.
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=Building Spring=
* [[Building Spring on Windows|Windows]]
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...available [http://www.renpy.org/ here]. It can be used in conjunction with Spring to provide a singleplayer experience with narrative, dialogue, images and v
== Using Ren'Py with Spring ==
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This page lists the efforts of advertising Spring RTS and collects the resources used for such purposes, when possible. Multi
* [[http://www.springfiles.com/spring/other/poster-advertising-spring-made-firestorm A4 poster by Firestorm, made in GIMP]]
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Mandriva has Spring in the official Contrib repositories, follow the instructions at [http://e
<code>su root -C "urpmi spring"</code>
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===Content download websites for Spring===
;https://springfiles.springrts.com : Nearly all spring related files can be found here, files avaiable there are also downloadable
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...ollection of publicly known and readable code repositories for established Spring games. The intention being to provide a wealth of examples to all game deve
[https://github.com/KingRaptor/air-raid-spring Air Raid]
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Spring:1944 uses the AI C.R.A.I.G., which stands for Configurable Reusable Artific
It is a skirmish AI written in Lua, and works in Spring:1944 and Star Wars: Imperial Winter.
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{{deprecated|this page is deprecated, spring already has many ai interfaces}}
...emic projects to study Artificial Intelligence. This project could enhance Spring's attractiveness to developers and teachers wanting to explore or teach abo
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All existing Spring interfaces (lobbies) are either difficult to customize for game developers
...ed with customization and control in mind, using Lua scripting and reusing Spring codebase when possible. For the lobby itself luasocket could be used and it
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'''[[Engine Development]]''' Information regarding the source code of Spring.<br><br>
...]''' Lots of information about developing Skirmish, Unit and Group AIs for Spring.<br><br>
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...re map size is related in pixels and in spring map size. 2x2 MapSquares in spring are equal to 1024x1024 Pixels. Texture maps mus be in multiples of 2. I.E.
Spring Map Edit (Does not work on 64bit machines)
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springignore.txt is a file in the root directory of a Spring archive (game or map)
Tells Spring which directories and files to ignore within an archive when calculating ch
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..., many references to it might and will be present. Overall most documented Spring API and tutorials are compatible with Recoil since they are based on the 10
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== Spring MT ==
The Spring MT 94.11 release is
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The Spring engine is inspired by the game "Total Annihilation" (TA) by Cavedog Enterta
Stefan Johansson started the Spring project within the [[SY]] clan that had already made the [[XTA]] mod for th
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This page lists urls of interesting spring related news/reviews and a bit info about its [[history]].
= History of Spring and its games in the press =
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"EvoTA 1.0" changes Spring from XTA to more closely resemble classic TA gameplay, with the addition of
The Evo Models were cool in TA but look silly in spring. I say stick with the xta models and download the OTA patch...the xta model
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There are numerous people and groups involved in the Spring project, from development to content creation. This is meant as a cumulativ
=== Spring: 1944 ===
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This page lists all common Lua libraries that can be used in Spring game and map archives.
* [https://github.com/gajop/liblobby LibLobby]: Spring Lobby protocol library
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...fferent extensions for Spring. Here's a list of all filetypes supported by Spring; a higher read order means the contents of a file of that extension will ta
The best tools to use to view the contents of a compressed Spring file, and
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