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Hey all, I've noticed a bug on my map Castle Scarwall which several people have brought to my attention. If someone has a flag (lets say Quick Turn), drops it, and then gets shot by another player, the variable "flagHeldWhenKilled" will be "QT". However, in this scenario, the pla...

Hey all, A lot of players on my map have been experiencing getting kicked for "moving too fast". Oftentimes, this occurs with when someone has the Burrow flag and starts to move. Granted, the speed for BU is cranked up pretty high, but I don't understand why they would get kicked for movin...

Hey, thanks for the reply. I solved this by just setting a timer and giving the flag back after a fraction of a second.

Thanks again,
Grue

Hi,

Could I please have:

BZGRUE.OWNER

Thanks,
Grue

Unfortunately, using crossingWall does not check whether or not tank is completely sealed...

There's one terrible work-around for this, have some sort of converter made for the map to find all the objects and create a zone for the "object" in question. Now simply check if the the spawn point is within a "zone" and if it is, it isn't a valid spawn point, in other words, ...

Hey folks,

How can I tell if a tank is sealed?

Grue

Well, there's several problems with this. a) I have a point, and I want to check whether or not the player can spawn there b) If that point is in the air, that's fine, I would still like them to spawn there bz_getSpawnPointWithin and bz_getStandardSpawn both generate random spawn points which is not...

Hey all,

How do I check if a single float[3] is a valid spawn point?

I know I can do the getSpawnPointWithin for a zone, but don't want to use zones in this case.

Thanks,
Grue

Hmm alright another question on this matter... I'm trying to give the player a flag immediately after they get killed and spawn back in. I kill the player using bz_killPlayer, then use the playerAlive function to spawn them back in. Right after they spawn back in, I'm trying to give them a flag in t...

That did the trick! Thanks so much!

Grue

Hey all, I was wondering how I could force a player to spawn, if possible. So if the player is dead, I would like the ability for a flag to make them spawn. I've seen this ability on a few other worlds, so I'm wondering how they might have done it. I tried playerRecord->spawned = true, but that didn...

Hi,

Could I please have:

BZGRUE.ADMIN

Thanks,
Grue

That worked!

Thanks,
Grue

Hey all, So I have an issue... not sure if this is a server setting or if I'll have to write a plugin. When I drop a flag on my world, the flag flies up in the air, and then will land on the platform directly above me if I'm under a platform. This is quite problematic, as my base to cap is up high, ...

That did it! Thanks again, blast.

Grue

Hey folks,

I've come across an issue while map making: I'm trying to remove the Oscillation Overthruster flag.

My current code looks like this:

+f good
+s 150
-f OO

But for some reason I still get the OO flag. Any ideas?

Grue

Hey all, I just uploaded a few textures to images.bzflag.org/submitimages, and when I finished, I got the message saying "waiting for evaluation" or something like that. When will I know when my images are ready for use? Will a notif be sent to my email, or should I regularly check to see ...

Hey all, So I've been trying to use allejo's really handy plugin, the bztoolkit, which can be found here: https://github.com/allejo/bztoolkit I've been having a few issues with getting it working, and I think it stems from some misunderstanding I have with referencing .h files. In allejo's documenta...

Wow, thank you so much!

That was my error. For the fix, I made a quick non-constant variable and assigned the constant value to it, and then just used the variable.

Thanks again,
Grue

Hey all, So I've run into the most bizarre issue while trying to make a mod... 1. bz_PlayerDieEventData_V1 *data1 = static_cast<bz_PlayerDieEventData_V1 *>(ed); 2. bz_FlagGrabbedEventData_V1 *data2 = static_cast<bz_FlagGrabbedEventData_V1 *>(ed); 3. if (data1->flagKilledWith == "GK") {} 4....

That's really weird, because I tried that exact thing before I posted this lol, but it didn't have any effect...

Are you running an older version of bzflag or some other mod? I'm not sure why it wouldn't work for me.

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Zehra,

First off, oops... I see that I accidentally posted this under my sister's account lol.

Secondly, thank you for your reply. I doubt I have the knowledge to bypass the API or modify BZFS, so I'll likely use one of your alternative options you suggested.

Thanks again,
Grue

Hey all, I'm trying to make one plugin that contains a bunch of functions that are run continuously throughout the game and trigger at random points, and then make another plugin that references a few of those functions from the first plugin. Is there any way to #include one plugin into the other? I...

Thanks so much for the help! I got grenade working pretty nice, I decided to just do away with trying to end those PZ shots early, but everything else works flawlessly. I used your suggestion on storing the grenade's location per player and using the shot's speed and such to predict where those PZ s...