TA3D

Various crashes have been fixed, lag in menus is gone. Several data structures have been optimized (mainly hash tables since TA3D now uses Google's sparsehash), thread synchronization code has been rewritten.

This beta 5 brings lots of tweaks everywhere so there are lots of testing to do .

As usual you'll find it there:
ftp://downloads.ta3d.org/binaries/windows/dev/0.6/

NB: this is package has been built in release mode with GCC 3.4 (unfortunately GCC 4.4 crashed before finishing the build , I'll try later with another GCC 4.x)

Yes, it works flawlessly. Commander sometimes stack around vechicle plant, but it`s much much better, than it was with old pathfinding

Will do some tests and post detailed report soon. Thanks Zuzuf, Milipili and all who help to make Ta3D better

Finally launched the game. Reclaiming is not working. Default unit action for a building is GUARD. Currently not working.

Command "spawn 0 any 500" (any above 50) cause crash. Can this bug be reproduced?

Balthazar: I can reproduce the spawn crash, it's a bug in some internal function used for rendering radar/sonar/visibility maps.

slogic: indeed some orders are buggy, units aren't ordered to get close enough to their target so they keep looking for a path they won't be given because they're already almost there. Can you give us more details about how to reproduce the GUARD action bug ?

zuzuf wrote:Can you give us more details about how to reproduce the GUARD action bug ?

Sure! Let assume a unit is selected. MOVE command on a building (or any other unit) should be translated into GUARD (if the source unit can GUARD clicked unit). Also you can even improve gameplay without breaking OTA idea: allow GUARD command on unfinished unit. So I can build a fab & queue one more command to assist this fab with a unit which currently is building this fab. In OTA you can't queue orders on unfinished buildings. This is a big (but not major, major is unit non-shooting bug) flaw .

GUARD command (as well as all other commands that makes sense) can target unfinished units, so only MOVE -> GUARD translation is lacking when cursor is pointing some interesting unit

Hm, I have to point smth. For builders MOVE action on not finished buildings/units translates to REPAIR in OTA. What was absent in OTA is that you can't queue GUARD action on a unit which is being built by a builder (in human terms: assist a fab when you finish it). So, you may translate MOVE action into GUARD for a builder which already is working on this unit, but only if SHIFT is pressed. Otherwise it translates to REPAIR action which is what he is doing (so, actually annualized). Hope it was clear & you get the point

GUARD command (as well as all other commands that makes sense) can target unfinished units, so only MOVE -> GUARD translation is lacking when cursor is pointing some interesting unit
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