About

About

Spring is a project aiming to create a new and versatile RTS Engine.

System requirements

Minimum

• 1 GHz single core CPU with SSE
• 512 MB of RAM
• 64 MB Nvidia Geforce 3 graphics card
• Roughly 200 MB of hard drive space, depending on how many maps and mods you download with the installer.

Recommended

• 2 GHz single core CPU or better
• 1 GB of RAM or more
• 256 MB Geforce 6600 Series graphics card or greater
• 2 GB of hard drive space to accommodate more maps and mods

For more information on system requirements see Requirements or for help see FAQ#Requirements.

Features

• Large battles limited only by the power of your computer; support for up to 5000 units.
• Large, highly detailed maps in which to wage those battles, fully 3D with deformable terrain, forest fires, dynamic and reflective water, and custom skyboxes.
• Several camera modes, allowing for anything to be viewed from almost any angle.
• Fully 3D combat in land, sea, and air, with realistic weapon trajectories (physics engine).
• Many different Games, made just for Spring.
• Complex 3rd party AIs, some of which are quite good.
• An extremely powerful UI, designed to minimize unnecessary micromanagement.
• Frequent additions and bugfixes.

Documentation

This page is an index of all available documentation on this web site.

Development

• Open source (GPLv2).
• Multi-plattform (Windows & Linux, MacOSX in progress).
• Written in C++, using OpenGL, OpenAL, FreeType2, DevIL, SDL, GLEW, boost, 7zip, Lua, streflop.