Spring Engine
Formally known as TA:Spring which was developed by Swedish Yankspankers (SY) whose initial goal was to have a open source 3D RTS with some elements from Total Annihilation, but now since the Swedish Yankspankers are not developing it anymore, it is maintained by a few other programmers, whose goal is to make Spring Engine a generic RTS engine instead of being specially aimed for Total Annihilation.
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Pros:
- FOSS, a jew free experience.
- Multi-platform, Linux and Windows are supported, Mac support is not always guaranteed.
- No knowledge of programming is needed, all you need is a text editor and a modelling program.
- It is easy to create new assets for it.
- Assimp support: .3ds, .dae, .lwo, .blend, .obj.
- Legacy support: .3do (used by Total Annihilation) and .s3o (Springs own model format).
- Lua scripting support, which allows you to do a lot of things which wouldn't be possible otherwise.
- Maps and Games can have options settings which can be changed in the lobby program such as Spring Lobby or TAS Client.
- Support for AI and making your own AI program.
- Projectiles have actual physic properties and thus doesn't act like a magic bullet i.e a Artillery Shell can collide with the terrain.
- Several weapon types such as: Laser beam or bolt, Cannon, (Homing) Missiles, Torpedos and Vertical Missiles.
- Support for Energy Shields.
- Several weapons can act as interceptor.
- Vehicle types support: Tanks/Car, KBot (Mechs with legs), Hovercraft, U-Boat, Ships, Airplanes, Gunships.
- Terrain is height map based and can be deformed by scripts or projectiles.
- Particles support (Called CEG: Custom Explosion Generator)
Cons:
- Pathfinder is broken, units sometimes get stuck or forming as a clump of blobs. Which hasn't been fixed for several years.
- Community is relative small and thus the player base is small as well.
- No skeleton support, Organic units such as Infantry are stuck using per-object animation.
- No out of the box mission support or campaigns in general.
- Particles cannot have animated sprites.
- No bridges support.
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