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Spring is a project aiming to create a new and versatile RTS Engine. It features: | Spring is a project aiming to create a new and versatile RTS Engine. It features: | ||
* Large battles limited only by the power of your computer; support for up to | * Large battles limited only by the power of your computer; support for up to 10000 units and up to 250 players. | ||
* | * Hundreds of large and highly detailed maps in which to wage those battles, fully 3D with deformable terrain, forest fires, dynamic and reflective bump mapped water, and custom skyboxes. | ||
* Fully 3D combat in land, sea, and air, with realistic weapon trajectories (physics engine). | * Fully 3D combat in land, sea, and air, with realistic weapon trajectories (physics engine). | ||
* Many different [[Games]], made just for Spring. | * Many different [[Games]], made just for Spring. | ||
* A full featured lobby client to easily play multiplayer games with hundreds of players just waiting for you at any time. Including automatic game and map downloading, chat, friends list etc | |||
* A lot of third party widgets to improve the gui, the gameplay and the visual. | |||
* Complex 3rd party AIs (Bots) that can work very competently in many cases with multiple Spring engine games and mods. | * Complex 3rd party AIs (Bots) that can work very competently in many cases with multiple Spring engine games and mods. | ||
* A powerful GUI designed to minimize unnecessary micromanagement that is easily extensible via a Lua API. | * A powerful GUI designed to minimize unnecessary micromanagement that is easily extensible via a Lua API. | ||
* Frequent engine additions and bugfixes. | * Frequent engine additions and bugfixes. | ||
* Several camera modes, allowing for anything to be viewed from almost any angle. | |||
= System requirements = | = System requirements = | ||
Revision as of 05:32, 19 July 2009
About
Spring is a project aiming to create a new and versatile RTS Engine. It features:
- Large battles limited only by the power of your computer; support for up to 10000 units and up to 250 players.
- Hundreds of large and highly detailed maps in which to wage those battles, fully 3D with deformable terrain, forest fires, dynamic and reflective bump mapped water, and custom skyboxes.
- Fully 3D combat in land, sea, and air, with realistic weapon trajectories (physics engine).
- Many different Games, made just for Spring.
- A full featured lobby client to easily play multiplayer games with hundreds of players just waiting for you at any time. Including automatic game and map downloading, chat, friends list etc
- A lot of third party widgets to improve the gui, the gameplay and the visual.
- Complex 3rd party AIs (Bots) that can work very competently in many cases with multiple Spring engine games and mods.
- A powerful GUI designed to minimize unnecessary micromanagement that is easily extensible via a Lua API.
- Frequent engine additions and bugfixes.
- Several camera modes, allowing for anything to be viewed from almost any angle.
System requirements
Minimum
- 1 GHz single core CPU with SSE-Instructions
- 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
- 1 GB of hard drive space to accommodate more maps and mods
For more information on system requirements see http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Requirements or for help see http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/FAQ#Requirements.
Documentation
This page is an index of all available documentation on this web site.
Currently in Development
- Features, Tweaks, Performance improvements and bugfixes
- Many different Maps, Games, and AIs.
- New AI interface, supporting multiple programming languages and other native compilers then MinGW.
- New Missions for both single player and multiplayer, as well as a mission editor.
Other plans not on any roadmap =
- Monthly Topic Rotation
