TW-Light

0.3b69

Overview: What is TW-Light?

TW-Light is an open source clone/sequel to the epic cross-genre game Star Control II. Currently it includes only a combat portion, although epic adventure part that is called TW:Legacies is actively developed now.

Getting Started

• Melee: Starts a battle. In battle the following keys do stuff:
  • F1 brings up the help screen (this file, at the moment)
  • F2 brings up the options menu
  • F3 switches camera focus
  • F4 is fast-forward (speeds up in-game time greatly)
  • F5 displays fleet status
  • F7 changes game tic rate (physics quality)
  • F8 changes camera mode
  • F9 creates planets (silly "feature")
  • F10 quits (so does ESCAPE)
  • F11 saves screenshots
  • F12 displays framerates / performance data
  • - zooms out on some viewing modes.
  • + (or =) zooms in on some viewing modes.
  • 0 also effect the camera in some viewing modes.
  • ctrl+T = toggle team indicators on/off
  • ctrl+H = toggle healthbar indicators on/off
  • Also, if some controllers are set to keyboard, customizable
  • buttons may cause ship actions. Be default these are:
  • Config 0:
    • left: Keypad 4
    • thrust: Keypad 8
    • right: Keypad 6
    • fire: Enter
    • special:Ctrl
    • next: Closebrace (])
    • prev: Openbrace ([)
    • near: P

See ingame help for controls description.

Development

Full developer documentation can be produced using doxygen tool.

Following documents describes some of the issues concerning contributing to TW-Light

• A guide to a few of the wierder issues with programming for TW-Light.
• Document your code

Currently we are working on the following tasks:

• Introduce the most interesting and cool TimeWarp ships
• Simplify and fix melee engine
• Add TimeWarp Markup Language (TML) support
• Write plot
• Implement plot with TML

Introduce the most interesting and cool TimeWarp ships

Currently TW-Light includes the following ships:

• Alary Battlecruiser
• Bipole Katamaran
• The Chorali Extractor
• Confed Cargotran
• Confederation Hornet
• Drax Griffon
• Earthling Crusader MK3
• Zekfahan Shocker
• Garash Tyrant
• Ilwrath Spider
• Kahr Boomerang
• Re-Koj Assassin
• Rogue Squadron
• Tau Archon
• Tau Dagger
• Tau Slider
• Tau Torrent
• Zekfahan Shocker

Simplify and fix melee engine

Almost done.

Add TimeWarp Markup Language (TML) support

No progress.

Write plot

The Plot is fully writen.

Implement plot with TML

No progress.

License

Copyright (C) 2004 Yura Semashko aka Yurand Copyright (C) 2001-2004 TimeWarp development team

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Credits

• TW-Light is derivative work from Star Control: TimeWarp
• Some code and documents were taken from Battle for Wesnoth
• UQM Ships description were taken from Ultronomicon (http://uqm.stack.nl/wiki/)
• Some battle music were written by Robeter Productions Inc.

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