CollectionOfStuff
At least a million widgets and gadgets have been done in Spring. But alot of cool things are lost because the game vanished or the idea never made it into a public release. Many items from Monthly_Topic_Rotation are actually done or could be done.
It also annoyed me that there are often forum threads where somebody explains in detail how to do something but its just lost in spam. So here is a collection of random things:
Linked Units: if parent units dies, child units die too
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=25435 pseudo code + working gadget
Widget+Gadget - CEG Spawner
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=24499 working widget+gadget with chili ui
picture in picture screen
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=24485 working widget
Tower Defense
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=22816 ideas how it could be done
cover system / units taking cover behind features etc
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=24820 ideas, code to check if unit is in cover
Unit path tracer
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=23584
Ingame hitbox editor
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24882 dynamic hitboxes, reading button presses from keyboard
Teleport areas (for units entering them), wrap around map
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=24611 working map with gadget
Posing units ingame by moving/rotating pieces to create keyframes or w/e
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=25104 hackish but working widget,gadget,unitscript brew
non clumping aircraft
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24811 tags that make aircraft not clump
Multiple parts units, targeting parts of units (ie head or turret)
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24590 discussion
different resource names (ie "wood" instead of "metal")
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=24771&p=462461&hilit=wood+metal#p462461 an ugly widget
Units that die after a specified life time
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=25461 different ways to do it, working example
