{"id":2893,"date":"2013-02-14T14:08:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T19:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2015-12-17T23:15:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T04:15:34","slug":"spring-engine-open-source-rts-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/spring-engine-open-source-rts-game","title":{"rendered":"Spring Engine : Open Source RTS Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just played some Planetary Annihilation and it&#8217;s pretty&#8230;\u00a0 but when it comes to an RTS, I&#8217;m looking for smart controls&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 and that pretty game didn&#8217;t cut it.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard of Spring Engine, I recommend watching this feature video and you&#8217;ll start to see what we&#8217;re talking about when we say &#8220;smart controls&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jUcqY4GfRpI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SqlWCNseimY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Was inspired but some <a title=\"NOTA : Dot Wars\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/hWrl3C2tPRY\">recorded matches<\/a> of Spring RTS, an open source real-time strategy game, so I recorded a big match that I played versus an AI opponent.\u00a0 Wanna play?\u00a0 Well Spring is free, so <a title=\"Sprint RTS (Official)\" href=\"http:\/\/springrts.com\/\">go download it<\/a> (or just grab it from the Ubuntu Software Centre).<\/p>\n<p>I will be performing some screen captures on Linux in the future (video tutorials of a 3D animation package), so I wanted to find optimal methods for recording 3D at full HD (1080p).<\/p>\n<p>Settings for recordMyDesktop on Ubuntu 12:10 using Gnome 3:<br \/>\n<code>Video Quality 100<br \/>\nFrames Per Second 30<br \/>\nEncode on Fly: OFF<br \/>\nZero Compression: ON<br \/>\nQuick Subsampling: OFF<br \/>\nFull shots at very frame: ON<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Game was running at 10x speed, and I then doubled it again in my video editor, OpenShot (open source video editor).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"mix on SoundCloud\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/meshdiggity\/the-diggity-house-mix\">DJ mix is by meshdiggity on SoundCloud.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>*note:\u00a0 Remember to switch to HD 1080p!\u00a0 Make those little dots nice and crisp.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just played some Planetary Annihilation and it&#8217;s pretty&#8230;\u00a0 but when it comes to an RTS, I&#8217;m looking for smart controls&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 and that pretty game didn&#8217;t cut it. If you haven&#8217;t heard of Spring Engine, I recommend watching this feature video and you&#8217;ll start to see what we&#8217;re talking about when we say &#8220;smart controls&#8221;. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,93,96,398,626,136,145],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-linux","tag-music","tag-open-source","tag-rts","tag-screen-capture","tag-techno","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}