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Here's a backport of some of my SVN client-side features to BZFlag 2.0.12: http://trepan.bzflag.bz/bzV2_0_12-antiFlicker-mouseClamp-stencilShadowFix.diff Anti Flicker: Remaps the texture coordinates for boxes, bases, and pyramids to mask the "z-fighting" flicker that can be seen on overlap...

Getting bzflag 3.0 out is but part of the whole. I currently do not plan to re-commit the lua code that was removed from bzflag. On the upside, you now have much more flexible teleportation links. I've also got some uncommitted drawInfo animation code that is working well (and some fixes for old dra...

To wrap up this thread ...
All of the lua related code has been removed from the bzflag 2.99 SVN repository.

Screenshot from an *old* map (Chillbox), that I don't think ever got released. The play area geometry was done by Dutchrai. I added the mountains (iirc, they only took 4/5 minutes using wings3d using random deformations). I suggest using: /set _drawMountains 0 P.S. Right-click, View Image to see the...

I took another look, and it turns out that the invalid points aren't co-located,
they're co-linear, example:

vertices 7 8 9 # 50 34.0677 49.9263 75 34.0677 49.9263 100 34.0677 49.9263
-> (y is always 34.0677)

This setup is invalid for bz's purposes. Remove the faces, no more errors ...

Try Body->CleanUp on the mesh before exporting,
It seems that you have co-located vertices.

this effect can't: /set linkTankBlock 0
(and that's the point of having link BZDB tie-ins, now isn't it?)

NOTE: the parameter names were renamed to shotBlockVar and tankBlockVar.

guess what happens...

I've since added tank flag and shot flag discrimination. As well,
you can now block tank and shot passage by using BZDB variables.

The latest SVN commit adds the capability to use mesh faces as team bases and teleportation link sources and destinations. The team base faces have to be flat tops (normal = +z), but there are no limitations other than that. You can still jump and shoot backwards through the mesh faces without havin...

DrawInfo's animation can only do circles, so it's definitely not a generic animation system. The "may not show up the same on all systems" needs a better explanation. There are 2 types of BZDB variables that will affect the way that drawInfo's are rendered (besides the standard texturing/l...

Note the colors in the fast-sorted version: red - below you grey - your level green - above you, within jumping height blue - above you, above jumping height The other features to note about the fast versions are that: 1. They can be considerably faster (especially on more advanced maps) 2. There's ...

quantum dot has been misinformed. Only "Normal" is "2D only".

google gimp (1st hit)

tip: think for yourself, save this bulletin board a few bytes

Don't think you understand the "inside" problem, it is not a parsing issue.
P.S. Neither is it a matter of hope

The modeltool source contains: That's probably the source of the problem. Not something I would have added, but
I can certainly understand why the author would have chosen that path (he's kinder
to noobs than am I). An option to disable that feature could be added.

The numbers that I actually gave were 2 seconds vs. 2 minutes. That would be 60 times faster. The more data elements there are to be sorted, the better the relative performance will be for the tweaked code. I was using a 40K vertex mesh for testing, iirc. Another improvement that I haven't tested ye...

strayer PM'ed me with some questions regarding bzflag's lua scripts. My reply turned out to be a page or two of text, so I figured it best to post it here instead of just sending it to 1 person (NOTE: the original questions have been edited). ---------------------------------------------------------...

Here are the sources for the wings3d bzw exporter. I don't really
have any interest in updating them for the wings3d changes that
broke the plugin, but others may...

A similar trick was done to detect players on the
bases in the original AHOD map, using physics drivers.

if it's just a visual mesh, noculling.

Cones do not support flipz directly, they only do so when they are being used as "meshpyr" objects. Here's an example: meshpyr divisions 16 flipz end You're probably better off getting used to the negative Z scale technique to achieve the same effect: cone size 8 8 10 scale 1 1 -1 shift 0 ...

I have a fix, but it has not been applied to SVN.