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This actually sounds like a pretty cool idea. California would like grey, please - our grey goo will spread all over the map (if you don't get it, look at the wikipedia entry).

Just out of curiosity, why would you want to remove comments from a map?

Lan56: -q does not have anything to do with the list server, it makes the server not respond to query pings, which are used for locating servers on lans. To clarify, there are two ways the client locates servers. One is retrieving the server list. The other is a UDP broadcast ping, which will locate...

1.10.6/Win32 If it's an earlier win95, you'll need the OpenGL and Winsock2 service packs that Microsoft released, details are in the BZFlag readme for windows ( README.win32.html ), which is installed by the bzflag installer. Also be sure you get decent video drivers, if you've got a junk card in t...

To your original question, bzfs can be compiled alone by using the --disable-client argument to configure, e.g.

./autogen.sh
./configure --disable-client
make && make install

should build and install the server only.

If you get BZFlag from CVS, there is a README.MINGW32 file in the root. Read it, and go to http://mingw.org and get MinGW32 and the MSYS DTK, bzflag will build fine if you follow the directions. If you have questions which are not answered in README.MINGW32 (almost all of them should be), ask on #bz...

Rereading your original problem, I'm not that surprised... What exactly does it output to the console? What you said "cannot load texture: 1" does not seem reasonable...if it's "cannot load texture: {1}" that would imply that it's searching for a texture without a name, and requi...

It's the Unix Way - binaries go in bin, data in share, docs in doc, manpages in man...

Patlabor221: on redhat at least, the textures are IN /usr/local/share/games/bzflag/ (e.g. blue_bolt is /usr/local/share/games/bzflag/blue_bolt.png), there is no data directory. Saturos: create "alternate" as a subdirectory, and extract the textures there, so if the textures are in /usr/sha...

oblomov: #bzflag on irc.freenode.net is where the devs usually hang out & discuss such things.

As of today, 1.11 cvs will not let you enable autopilot more than once every five seconds. Is this satisfactory?

1.11 or 1.10?
If it's 1.11, you should have BzfJoystick.h in the include directory. If it's 1.10, you have some 1.11 platform files...

Fixed in latest CVS, the runtimes were being linked differently in regex than in the rest of the project.

What errors do you get using bzfsgui?

This bug is known and has theoretically been fixed in 1.11.

Thanks for the suggestion...like I said, native windows joysticks have not recieved nearly as much testing as SDL joysticks have. SDL (and BSD native) joysticks have somewhat shorter names....I'll see what I can do. The resolution makes no difference; bzflag adjusts menu text so it looks (approximat...

There are some XML docs "started" in CVS...if you could check those out (sf has instructions if you don't know how to check out anonymously) and fix'em up, post them to the patches tracker on sf or e-mail them to someone on the dev team (learner has been working on them, I think, or just s...

X/Y and buttons 1-10 as it stands, but it would be fairly easy to add additional functions if they were of value, and if one of the developers had hardware with them on it.

toaster: 1.11 has joystick support on (almost) all platforms, including windows.

All messages are relayed through the server. Server commands (messages beginning with /, including /identify, /setpass, etc.) stop there, and are not forwarded, so you don't have to worry about your password being sent to everyone, as the server will not relay them. In 1.10.x+, no other messages sho...

he's using win98 - deleting the contents of the My BZFlag Files folder is a good idea, but it'll be in "C:\My Documents\My BZFlag Files".

xtank: when the screen turns black, if you press F12, does it quit?

sgi: maybe we just need /poll mkick too

'twould be nice if medium used basic linear or nearest texturing; I did some tests about a year ago, and on the TNT I got 50 fps sans textures, 30 on either linear or nearest, but <10 with linear/mipmap/linear. Obsoleting the sweet spot would suck :)...and the differences between low and medium with...

I've a GeForce3 in my main computer, but play on (alternately) a TNT2 and a Radeon 7000 more often. Use high (well, experimental as of yesterday) quality, linear/mipmap/linear (until yesterday) on the GF3, medium, nearest on TNT2 & Radeon, because no textures is ugly and good textures are unplay...

Patlabor: what about http://bzbb.bzflag.org/viewtopic.php?t= ... sc&start=0
...which switches topics TWICE (three times?) in the FIRST page...

Wait, this is even more offtopic...see what you did!