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

History[edit]

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[edit]

Main article: GAE/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[edit]

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[edit]

Official Compile Guide

Reference / Specification[edit]

The XML reference gives examples of XML pages and explanations in depth.
The GAE features examines each new GAE only feature in depth.
The GAE Lua reference provides details on the new Lua functions.
The GAE keymap reference provides details on setting hotkeys.

Bugs[edit]

Links[edit]

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

GAE-based mods[edit]

Military: One specific GAE-only mod.

Four path magitech: A faction mod extending upon the existing magitech, WIP.
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: An RTS Game that is using GAE purely as an engine. Being recreated from scratch for a University Project.
Constellus: A sci-fi mod with two factions: the Crincillin Remnant and the Phorin Tribes. Currently a WIP project.
Project Green: A mod that aims to make GAE more like a real-time tactics game. It utilizes GAE's PhysFS capabilities for a smaller download size, as well as emanations and multi-production. WIP.
Japanese: While the Japanese mod was not produced with GAE in mind, a small secondary mod file allows it to run on GAE and also adds the GAE Patrol and Guard commands to armed units.

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-'''G'''lest '''A'''dvanced '''E'''ngine (GAE) is an advanced mod involving the modification of the Glest engine.  At this time, tentative plans still exist to integrate GAE back into Glest once it has achieved a portion of it's goals, has integrated all latest Glest features (such as lua scripting and all features currently in Glest 3.2 beta) and has stabilized.  GAE may be downloaded from [http://glest.codemonger.org http://glest.codemonger.org].
+{{Infobox
+|Box title = [http://sourceforge.net/projects/glestae/ Glest Advanced Engine]
+|image = File:Gaesplash.png
+|imagewidth = 250x250
+|Row 1 title = Latest Version:
+|Row 1 info = [http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=6283.0 0.3.2] <small>(12 December 2010; {{How long ago|year=2010|month=12|day=12}} ago)</small>
+|Row 2 title = Homepage:
+|Row 2 info = [http://sourceforge.net/projects/glestae/ Homepage]
+|Row 3 title = Downloads:
+|Row 3 info = [http://sourceforge.net/projects/glestae/files/0.3.2/ Download List]
+}}
-=History=
+[[File:GAE_Icon.png|left|75px]]
+'''G'''lest '''A'''dvanced '''E'''ngine ('''GAE''') is a fork/modification of the '''R'''eal '''T'''ime '''S'''trategy ('''RTS''') game [[Glest]]. GAE may be downloaded [http://sourceforge.net/projects/glestae/files here].
-=Guide=
+==History==
+GAE was originally started by [http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?action=profile;u=4709 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 ==
+{{Main|GAE/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|GAE Guide]] provides more of a guided tour through GAE's extended functionality
+* The [http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/glestae/wiki trac wiki] provides other valuable information about GAE.
 * The [[GAE/CodingConventions|GAE Coding Conventions]] provides instructions for how to layout and modify/add code
-=Reference / Specification=
+==Compiling==
-* The [[GAE/XML|GAE XML Specification]] gives examples of XML pages and explanations in XML comments.
+* [https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/glestae/wiki/CompileGuide Official Compile Guide]
-* The [[GAE/Reference|GAE Reference]] examines each XML-configuration option more closely.
-=Requirements Analysis=
-* [http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=4015.msg22030#msg22030 Networking]
-* [http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=4263.0 Game Settings]
-=Source Explanation=
+==Reference / Specification==
-* [http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=4011.msg20615#msg20615 Key Mapping]
+*The [[XMLs|XML reference]] gives examples of XML pages and explanations in depth.
-* [http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=4015.msg20693#msg20693 Network WIP]
+*The [[GAE/Features|GAE features]] examines each new GAE only feature in depth.
-* [http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=4019.msg20818#msg20818 Hex colours in XML]
+*The [[GAE/Lua|GAE Lua reference]] provides details on the new Lua functions.
-* [http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=4171.msg22909#msg22909 Custom Enums]
+*The [[GAE/Keymap|GAE keymap reference]] provides details on setting hotkeys.
-=Processes=
+==Bugs==
-* New Member
+*[[GAE/Bug Reporting|Bug Reporting]]
-* [[GAE/Releases|Releases]]
+* [http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/glestae/report/3 Bug Tracker]
-* Code Review
-* Feature Request
-* Bug Report
-=Links=
+==Links==
-* [http://glest.codemonger.org Glest Advanced Engine] web site
+* [https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?board=15.0 Glest Advanced Engine] web forums (hosted on [[MegaGlest]] site)
-* [http://glest.org/glest_board/viewforum.php?f=15 Glest Advanced Engine] web forums (hosted on main Glest site)
+* [http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/glestae/report/3 Bug / Feature Tracker]
-* [https://glest.codemonger.org/svn/repos/gae subversion repository]
+* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/glestae/develop Sourceforge hosting]
-* [https://bugs.codemonger.org/ bug/feature tracker]
-=GAE-based mods=
+==GAE-based mods==
-* [[Four path magitech]]: A faction mod extending upon the existing magitech.
+[[File:Military1b.jpg|thumb|250px|Military: One specific GAE-only mod.]]
-* [http://www.glest.org/glest_board/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3796 Dark Magic]: A dark magic faction mod that may be added to magitech or any other mod using the magitech armor/damage types.
+* [[Four path magitech]]: A faction mod extending upon the existing magitech, WIP.
+* [[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]]: An RTS Game that is using GAE purely as an engine. Being recreated from scratch for a University Project.
+* [[Constellus]]: A sci-fi mod with two factions: the Crincillin Remnant and the Phorin Tribes. Currently a WIP project.
+* [[Project Green]]: A mod that aims to make GAE more like a real-time tactics game. It utilizes GAE's PhysFS capabilities for a smaller download size, as well as emanations and multi-production. WIP.
+* [[Japanese]]: While the Japanese mod was not produced with GAE in mind, a small secondary mod file allows it to run on GAE and also adds the GAE Patrol and Guard commands to armed units.
+[[Category:GAE]]