Glest Advanced Engine

Glest Advanced Engine
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Latest Version:	0.3.2 (12 December 2010; 13 years, 4 months and 7 days ago)
Homepage:	Homepage
Downloads:	Download List

Glest Advanced Engine (GAE) is a fork/modification of the Real Time Strategy (RTS) game Glest. GAE may be downloaded here.

History

GAE was originally started by Daniel.Santos, as a desire to create a special engine for the then-work-in-progress, Four Path Magitech, and started with offering auto returning units and other small enhancements, growing to eventually try to accompany the four path magitech. When four path magitech was abandoned, it was later picked up as an alternative way to play glest, and now is an engine with its own unique mods which work specifically on GAE (namely, Military and Malevolent Rising). To date, it is still actively developed by the GAE team, who's current active members include Silnarm, Hailstone, and Yggdrasil.

Features

A list of features in GAE:

Only loads the factions used in a battle.
Unit effects and emanations.
Unit pets.
Shroud of darkness
Particles for skills and effects.
Support for water based units
Support for transport units
Teleport and cloaking skills
Massive amount of new Lua commands with a dedicated Lua console.
Improved unit levels system.
Improved pathfinding for units.
Subfactions
New GUI with tool tips and faction logos
Support for normal maps and shaders
Support for zipped mod files via Physfs
Patrol, guard and autorepair skills.
Multiple music tracks per faction.
Many general bug fixes and improvements.
Command queuing
Games can be saved and loaded

Guide

The GAE Guide provides more of a guided tour through GAE's extended functionality
The trac wiki provides other valuable information about GAE.
The GAE Coding Conventions provides instructions for how to layout and modify/add code

Compiling

Official Compile Guide

Reference / Specification

The GAE XML Specification gives examples of XML pages and explanations in XML comments.
The GAE Reference examines each XML-configuration option more closely.
The GAE Lua Reference provides details on the new Lua functions.

Links

Glest Advanced Engine web forums (hosted on main Glest site)
Git repository
Bug / Feature Tracker
Sourceforge hosting

GAE-based mods

Military1b — Military: One specific GAE-only mod.

Four path magitech: A faction mod extending upon the existing magitech.
Military: A fully built mod exclusive for GAE with many GAE features such as Patrolling, Guarding, tracking projectiles, and emanations. It was the first created complete mod for GAE.
Malevolent Rising: A mod with a lot of high quality models. Currently a WIP project.
Constellus: A sci-fi mod with two factions: the Crincillin Remnant and the Phorin Tribes. Currently a WIP project.