Welcome to the home of Complete Annihilation
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Complete Annihilation is a game for the Spring RTS engine. It has a sizable and active playerbase, while still being under intense development, with updates every day. CA is based on several other modifications of Total Annihilation content (with the eventual goal of replacing it with original content, one piece at a time). CA aims to be a dynamic, action-packed, deeply strategic game, full of clever tactics and constantly moving combat.
Download
- Get the Spring engine and multiplayer lobby.
- To Download CA you can use the...
- Spring Downloader to download CA, maps and keep everything up-to-date on Windows or Linux.
- Or download a stable release from http://packages.caspring.org/builds/.
- A command line tool is also available. Old Python script is not working anymore and will never work again.
Play
Start Spring Downloader.
To play Online Multiplayer
- Create a lobby account and log on.
- Click Multiplayer under the Start tab.
- Select Complete Annihilation (so that it is coloured), and click on any other games you do not wish to play (so that they are grey).
- Click the 'Chat' tab and select 'Complete Annihilation' down the left side to talk with the community or ask for help.
To play Singleplayer
- Click on the Single Player button in Spring Downloader.
- Select one of the singleplayer options.
Or
Proceed to Single Player tab in SpringLobby?
Preview
- Look at some Screenshots(a bit out of date, submit or link yours following here)
Documentation
Discuss
- Visit the Forum.
- Check out what's new.
- Join the #ca channel (type /j #ca) in the lobby.
- Post in our subforum in the official Spring forums.
- Suggest a feature.
- Report a problem.
- Join a Tournament.
Support
- Advertising and supporting CA
For Developers
General
- Tasks
- Voting - make decisions in a democratic way.
- Review all changes since the last stable release.
- Development Log
- Development Version
- Learn how to use the SubversionRepository.
- Developer System Specs. (If you need testing)
- Programs to manage .DDS Files
- List of reported LUA errors http://files.caspring.org/caupdater/spring_errors/
- Open Resources
- Look at stats from actual games.
- Long term goals
Ca's magical lua and where/what it uses
- Jump Jets
- LUPS
- Chickens
- Outlines
- Halo
- Chilli UI
Design Documents
- Balance Guidelines
- Graphical Design Document
- Weapon Standardization
- Unit Categories
- Air Changes
- Sea Changes
- Resource Ratios
- HoversAndAmphis
- Movetypes
- Ballistics
- Extra Resources
- Economy
- CA-GUI
Artwork
- Track modelling progress with Modelbase, CA's model management system.
- Graphical Design Document, for modelling guidelines
- Concept Art
- Story
- New Names
- Explosion Images
- Unused and OTA textures
- Old model page (deprecated).
Audio
Scripting
- Spring Lua API reference.
- Performance notes
Map/Mod Downloader
- Mod statistics
- Map/Mod Downloader Protocol
- Adding new SpringDownloader module
- Widget Downloader Protocol
