EngineChangelogForContentDevs

About this page

This page holds informations about engine changes that are relevant to game/map makers. The idea is to replace the "make your game ready for next release"-threads with a wiki page because unlike a forumpost, everybody can edit this. So if you find a thread (or mantis post etc) that explains a fix, please add it here. Back-link to forum. Use for bumping.

Spring 95.0

NOT COMPLETE: interessting changes from 25 Aug backwards to Aug 09, 2013

• new folder structure: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=30044

• the folder "mods" isn't supported any more: 7d3830a0

Lua:

• change to weapon indexing in lua gadgets: ba9721b4 (likely to cause index out of bounds errors in any gadgets using weapon related API calls) ALL weapon API functions are 1-based now!

• .moveData has been removed, use .moveDef instead 4e58b8b0 (detecting what type of unit a unit is, isCommander etc)

• Spring.GetUnitNearestEnemy doesn't return neutral units anymore

• add Spring.GetUnitWeaponCanFireunitID, weaponNum 66117e4c

• add LuaSyncedCtrl: add callouts SetFeatureVelocity and SetFeaturePhysics 765994b4

• add callins FeatureDamaged and FeaturePreDamaged 85779b57

• add Spring.GetRadarErrorParams 475828d8
• add Spring.SetRadarErrorParams see above

• add Spring.SetUnitPosErrorParams 0f4ed485
• add Spring.GetUnitPosErrorParams see above

• add SetProjectileAlwaysVisible 9435ac70

• 90c89739
• add Spring.SetFeatureBlocking
• add Spring.GetFeatureBlockin
• add Spring.SetPieceProjectileParams
• add third return-value to Spring.GetUnitBlocking

Misc:

• load only image formats which work on all platforms, current supported image formats are:

PNG, JPG, TGA, DDS, BMP  (note: no more .jp2)

• make Gaia the default feature team, not -1/0

Sim

• sweepfiring beamlaser works (someone test?) b0295a72

Someone check if relevant: https://github.com/spring/spring/commit/66a2b96f71ff7f1e8838038f0aeb0d5f45990c22 something with startmoving/stopmoving?

https://github.com/spring/spring/commit/e4dc43a3f1d622168a5634030842d6e609a5b30d something startposition bla

Spring 94.0 (or 93, or 92)

• gadget:UnitPreDamaged has a new projectileId argument inserted in the middle, so attackerID, attackerDefID, attackerTeam shifted position
• Bomb weapons need a range, or they won't be fired
• Spring.AddUnitDamage requires a weaponDefID (may be a bug, may be corrected for 95) http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=3841
• QueryNanoPiece is called much less often

Spring 86.0, 87.0

• movedefs: depthmod is now a subtable.
• toairweapon tag has been removed, use onlytargetcategory instead

• ERROR_TYPE in WeaponDefs __index when looping over WeaponDefs - causes several fails.

mantis 3019
fixed in next release.

• builders stop reclaiming sometimes.

fixed for next engine release: http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=3012
want it to work right now: use a gadget as workaround

Spring 0.83, 84.0, 85.0

• Make your game ready for the next release!
• instant infolog.txt

• Changing of unit's max velocity is no longer possible
• Announcement: game end condition moved to Lua
• Announcement: gui_buildspacing & minimap_startbox removed (0.83)
• To Game-Devs: The "n" entry in array-like tables was removed
• AttachUnit obeys cantbetransported http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=30468

Spring 0.82

• Engine will stop spawning start units and resources. Now needs a Lua gadget.