Total Conversion Inquiry

[mrdr]

Hello there, I’ve been playing with the idea of making my “own” RTS for some time now, designed to be played on school/uni-spec computers and which does not require an installer. The TC would have a fixed camera similar to the one in the early C&C series, and the emphasis would be put on smaller battles. Had my eyes on the Spring engine for a while, but that engine has too high requirements, so now I’m here. Thing is though, that I had the idea of using a “backup” system similar to the one in World in Conflict to ship in units instead of creating buildings to manufacture them in, but I do not know to what extent that’s possible in the WZ engine. Would that be possible?

[Zarel]

You could probably ship in units using scripting, but it's going to be a fair amount of work on your part. :/

Everything you mention is possible, but may require a lot of work (and maybe even messing with the source).

[Buginator]

Hello there, I’ve been playing with the idea of making my “own” RTS for some time now, designed to be played on school/uni-spec computers and which does not require an installer. The TC would have a fixed camera similar to the one in the early C&C series, and the emphasis would be put on smaller battles. Had my eyes on the Spring engine for a while, but that engine has too high requirements, so now I’m here. Thing is though, that I had the idea of using a “backup” system similar to the one in World in Conflict to ship in units instead of creating buildings to manufacture them in, but I do not know to what extent that’s possible in the WZ engine. Would that be possible?

All this could be done in the scripts, in fact, check out CAM_3A script, and you will be on a good start.

[alikkon]

This sounds a whole lot like Ground Control...