Basic RTS Prototype

[Roland_Yonaba]

Thanks for catching that problem guys. I've updated the library and credited you, Roland.

Do appreciate that

By the way, your website in your signature should use HTTP not HTTPS, since the latter doesn't go anywhere.

Thanks pointing that out, fixed.

As for path finding, or, collision avoidance, that's a tricky thing. The only way I can see it being done in Lua is by checking everything unit with every other unit, which is obviously a very inefficient thing to do when you get larger numbers of units. You might be able to use a quad tree or something, but I've no idea how they work. I might have to resort to love.physics to resolve the collision between units. We'll see what happens.

That could be a solution. Well I'm not experienced that much in love.physics, hence I can't state on the possible inconveniences of doing this.
However, I do remember a couple of very inetresting lectures I found while (back in the days) I was working on it. Seems that these algorithms can be implemented, but I didn't even tried, as I found them too complex. Anyway, you may catch something from these links:

• Coordinated Unit movements (by Dave Pottinger)
• Implementing coordinated unit movements (by Dave Pottinger)
• Cooperative pathfinding (collection of papers)
• WHCA
• Steering behaviours

But, that's just technical jibjab. I'll suggest not to focus too much on what I am saying and keep working as you planned, as it maybe unrelated to your objectives.

I've created a new repository which you can find here: https://github.com/BlackBulletIV/rts-prototype

I'll check the repo, once github is back, thanks.

[BlackBulletIV]

No worries.

I gave the links you mentioned a brief look. I've decided I'm not going to tackle this problem just yet. A more important issue right now would be how to select a more efficient position for units in groups when changing formation.