Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Add support for other games?

2019-09-28T09:59:49+02:00

Axle wrote:
In the meantime ... I just ported SCTA to work on FAF and uploaded to the mod vault. Enjoy!

got a thread with any videos or images about it?

Statistics: Posted by MrTBSC — 28 Sep 2019, 09:59

Re: Add support for other games?

2019-09-28T06:57:40+02:00

In the meantime ... I just ported SCTA to work on FAF and uploaded to the mod vault. Enjoy!

Statistics: Posted by Axle — 28 Sep 2019, 06:57

Re: Add support for other games?

2019-09-27T00:09:59+02:00

I have been looking a bit around, as far as I can see it is totally possible. The most important part is probably http://taguide.tauniverse.com/pages/commandline.htm .

I don't see a reason in FAF though. The FAF infrastructure is not built in a way to support this, it can easily be used for doing the exact same thing to TA, but it cannot be used for running both of them at the same time.
This is gonna cost a lot of time, so if somebody (the TA community) is interested in doing this, they should just fork FAF. FAF is build in a way everything can be easily applied to TA, the major change is probably in the way you interact with the game, FA has the ice adapter with the GPGNet server, that would require some change. If anybody is interested in doing this, contact us, we can help you with getting into the infrastructure.

Statistics: Posted by Geosearchef — 27 Sep 2019, 00:09

Re: Add support for other games?

2019-09-26T23:19:19+02:00

I think TA's client of choice is GameRanger. There was another WarZone but I don't know if that's around anymore.

There was development on some sort of universal patch a year or two ago that had been going on for ages but I think it's dead in the water now. Nobody seems to plays 3.1/vanilla TA in the last few years either (a pity in my eyes) ESC mod took over.

I could make a thread on TAUniverse.com see if anybody over there is interested in collaborating. Feel a bit daft talking about it beyond a suggestion because it's not my skills and time being sacrificed of course.

Statistics: Posted by BLITZ_Molloy — 26 Sep 2019, 23:19

Re: Add support for other games?

2019-09-26T16:30:45+02:00

for TA there is the springengine and client, vanilla TA to my knowledge has none ..

Statistics: Posted by MrTBSC — 26 Sep 2019, 16:30

Re: Add support for other games?

2019-09-26T16:13:13+02:00

I really like the idea and would do it, if I had the time. (although team matchmaking and gw are more important in my opinion)
I will try talking to some people in the TA community about how the game works to see if it could even be integrated. (not talking about mod / map support)

Statistics: Posted by Geosearchef — 26 Sep 2019, 16:13

Re: Add support for other games?

2019-09-26T15:12:47+02:00

Well I think this sounds like an incredible idea
The issue is that it also sounds like a big amount of work. I do not know if TA already has their own community and/or custom client.
If we get an infinite development workforce, I think this would be awesome.

Statistics: Posted by Louvegarde — 26 Sep 2019, 15:12

Add support for other games?

2019-09-26T15:08:33+02:00

FAF has an incredible client. Have you guys ever considered perhaps adding support for Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander 2?

Both games still have an audience and not altogether brilliant multiplayer clients. It might encourage more people to get into FAF, as well as keeping FAF players in the eco system if they fancy a change.

I know SupCom 2 wouldn't have a lot of fans here but Total Annihilation would massively benefit from some sort of autopatcher and mod manager. It's quite unfriendly to new players who want to get set up quickly.

Statistics: Posted by BLITZ_Molloy — 26 Sep 2019, 15:08