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CBG, more info is helpful. Go to observer mode, press f8 until you see 'roaming' at the top of your screen. You move by arrow keys. Shift+keys, Cmd+keys and and Alt+keys also move you or rotate your image area. From there you can press f5 to take a screenie. Personal suggestion: make radar and mouse...

Thanks for the link blast, looking into it right now.

Hi guys, I am looking for some code for finding where certain players are. (Not all players only a few of them). A simple example is : MyBZBuddies from Bzstats.strayer.de that would be perfect, a list of 20 or so names and if they are on, it says underneath them what server and if they are not it ju...

To further Winny's post, look into the direction of scaling. scale 1 1 1 Would make objects* normal size. scale 1 2 1 Would make objects* twice the normal size in the Y axis, while the other axes stay the same *Correct me if I'm wrong and the scaling changes more than just object size. I believe the...

I must say that that map looks incredibly playable. I must agree, ricochet would be pretty bad. Now, I tried hosting a private server to mess with the zones. After about 1/2 hour of fiddling I still could not get the flags to spawn correctly (or at all even in most cases...) If a flag were to be add...

There are many ways to build a map, none of them require any specific age. The BZFlag wiki has lots of information that you can use (for free even! and you can be 2 years old!). Try their site at: http://my.bzflag.org/w There is also the bzflag manual pages located at: http://my.bzflag.org/bzfman.cg...

Hmm, lets translate that post Grace: If you happen to be camping on one of the corner boxes, and shoot parallel to the fencing with laser, your shot will hit the top of the barbed wire fence, ricochet up to the pyramid, ricochet back down (because it is a perfectly flat face), hit the top of the bar...

Not looking bad A Distraction, infact, looking nice. You might consider re-doing the textures on the meshboxes, since they look a bit disoriented.

Just a suggestion: People usually do not like maps with the the server name displayed like that. Other than on Mofo, who are proud of who they are, and Pieinthesky, I would not recommend that. Keep adding stuff, you have a long way to go, but work on strategy. How should the map be played? What woul...

You can add almost anything to that map to make it better. Try pyramids, boxes, teleporters, add obstacles, be creative. People will not play on a map thought of as too simple, but also not one too difficult either. Maps take quite a while to build, put some thought behind it.

Maybe that can work, but we do need to be able to read the server name and information.

Yes, we are looking into that as well Spazzy. Perhaps we could include information based on league standings from the last podcast, top 3 teams in each league, blow-out matches etc.

No flags. Pure and simple.

You cannot pass the flag to middle, the pyramid is too high up. I am interested in getting this hosted. If anyone would like to do so, I would be very grateful.

New map, simple, yet fun with lots of obstacles. Reminds me a little of the pillbox play.

No jumping
Ricochet
Red Vs. Green

Name: OrderlyChaos
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Earliest Recommended Client: 2.0.0
Date Submitted: Saturday, August 4th

I love the strategy these maps put out. Simple to play on, yet, challenging and well thought out. Good job Zelgadis

Ok, so, trigger oncap means that the world weapon will fire a shockwave after a flag gets capped. Can you explain the problem a little more, the one about not being able to move?

Very impressive Cedric. I hope to see this map up and running as soon as possible. Looks very playable.

Not a bad map. Just a hint: People love screenshots.

I remember that my x-treme ctf map was sized very small. The reason it was so playable was because of its ricochets and a small bit of laser flags. Small maps do not need to be necissarily cramped and crowded. You just need to understand what to put in the map to Make it playable. Good Job Zelgadis!

We now have a wiki available to the public. Its website is: http://my.bzflag.org/w/. At the wiki, there are categories. In the categories there are articles. If you read the articles that relate to your question, you can answer your question. Here is the link to the wiki article for bzwtools: http:/...

A Distraction: Don't be a pain, you know perfectly well that he is talking about the new and improved BZFlag available only for Microsoft Vista and is priced at gaming stores for $19.95.

Ok, what did you need the maps for? You can put them basically anywhere. Then, when you start a server you just load the map from wherever it was.

ie: c: \program files\bzflag2.0.8\map.bzw

or whatever the path is.

Constitution
I do the same as you. Sometimes I get problems building it with xcode, so I import the files from the regular ppc bzflag file and it loads fine.

I have the SDL.Framework as binary directly from its own download page (version 1.2). Is there any problem with using that? gnu-sense I used the precompiled framework when I compiled on my MacBook, and it worked without problems. That sounds like it should work for all, Constitution. I will test it...