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When I'm an admin on a server, I'd like the server to tell me (say, via a one-line message) that some player has exceeded what should be possible: turning speed, acceleration, tank speed, and maybe something about unusual shot accuracy, if it could be computed. I don't want all of the info I get whe...

I sometimes create 'roads' for aesthetic reasons: mainly very flat meshboxes, usually with drivethrough. It'd be nice if I could associate a physics driver with them that would make tanks in contact move a bit faster than usual, in whatever direction they want to go; perhaps by a factor I could spec...

I'm working on a new map, going quickly through the change-run-test cycle. Today I've noticed something really odd: Frequently if I die on the map, I respawn outside of the playable area, and the server kicks me (there are no plugins or anything running). The BZFS console indeed shows my spawn coord...

That fixes it!

What would full outside coverage involve? An outside point near each face, that is so that a line between the inside and outside points goes through that face?

Is it necessary to put one underground as well?

I've got a very simple map (will quote below) with a trapezoid - not quite the right term, but it's essentially a block where the top is smaller than the bottom, so the walls slant in. I have a script to create it, and it works fine, but as soon as I specify an "inside" and "outside&q...

I've played a bit on ducatiwannabe's Missile War maps - I liked the 4 team one a lot, and I also play the current 2 team one. Like every map, they play differently depending on the number of players - on the old 4 team one, lots of players would mean that people would tend to stay in the bases and n...

I've got spawn zones for all teams near the ground. When testing, I respawn in the correct X-Y location as given by the appropriate zone, but my Z location is equal to the highest object on the map (type apparently not important - tall pyramids cause this as much as cylinders or blocks). I *need* on...

I've extracted a very small fragment of a map I'm working on - there are four mesh boxes touching to form a shaft. They all start at the same Z value, and all have the same height - yet when I'm driving around the top, I get stuck on some of the seams, as if there is a height discrepancy. If you wan...

After thinking about the above discussion, maybe I wasn't clear (either here or in the readme file included) that the idea is that you look at the modules that create maps: script_example, script_bigmadcity, etc. You do this in the Visual Basic Express development environment. Particularly for Scrip...

My oh my, you are (were) correct - probably old compiles I did as tests, or something the IDE does in the course of its incremental compiles - I took them out.

I've fixed the infinite loop problem, as well as the trailing slash issue. This started out as a VB 6 project, and the events fired by the textboxes have changed - my apologies. Also, I don't think you can distribute binaries with the express versions of Visual Studio, but that might be specific to ...

Over the years I've developed a map toolkit, using fairly simple scripting, which I use to generate most of my maps. I thought it might be good to make it generally available, particularly as it may make it easier for people who have never designed a map to get started. I thought about posting this ...

I was playing on the newer MissleWars map (thx DW), and somebody joined and in the course of conversation said he preferred another map, to which I replied that I thought it had gotten a bit old, as indeed all maps do. One thing I love about a new map is figuring out the tactical and strategic impli...

Thanks for pointing that out - they indeed were missing, and will make their way to the right site shortly. I don't use the old box object much; these are meshboxes, with the right texcoord specs to spread the image out along one face. That's all that should be on that face, but in thinking about it...

For a while I've found myself feeling a little bored when playing, to the extent that I play a bit less. I thought I'd try to address this problem by creating a new map, which would be interesting enough on its own for people to hang out on; I've just put it up on 1purplepanzer.hoptp.org:4610. It's ...

I think I've stumbled on to what might be a significant bug in the newest bzflag client. Background: recently I've found bzflag too boring to play for any length of time - indeed this has led to a bit of avoidance of play on my part. Rather than just complain, I thought I'd do something about it, so...

I've got a new one (based on an old one, with lots of new stuff) that's now running; it's Wild West. The bullets are really fast, and the map is really big; one change from before is that there are now highways as well as teleporters to move you around quickly. With the shot speed though, you can ki...

If anyone is out there who could do a low-polygon cactus or two, I'd love to have them for a new map. Let me know, and of course you'll get appropriate credit/fame, though fortune is unlikely.

For reasons I can't quite express, I've really enjoyed playing on the map recently, most of the time I'm playing BZFlag. I've slowed down a little, partly because I'm bored with it (this isn't a reflection on the map, I'd be the same way on pretty much any other map I've spent as much time with). On...

It was the radar setting; thanks very much. That must have gotten reset during some version change or something. I don't think I ever would have thought of it!

In version 2.0.8, I've got the following: meshbox noradar size 100 100 1 texture std_ground end but it still shows up on radar. Why? I'd like it not to, as I'd like to create a 'false ground'. (I've tried moving the noradar into a material, and even taken the texture out of the material, but no luck.)

This morning it occurred to me that it would be convenient to host world weapons in these dead-shell tanks, giving them a little life. I think it would be clearer to players that world weapons might be co-located with tanks, rather than in arbitrary map locations.

I've never had much use for bots, but if one could create regions of a map, and specify that bots with certain flags were to occupy those regions, it would open up a whole new kind of map creation. One could have, for instance, valleys or distinct pathways that would be 'protected' by bots, that one...

I'd like to be able to place (dead) tanks around on a map, for example so that real tanks with ST might hide amongst them. It would be great if there were a TANK map object that one could position arbitrarily. Of course it might be done through appropriate modeling, but if a player changes the tank ...

But the textures work just fine if I put them in the local "data" directory - indeed that's how I develop. When I'm done, I change the texture line to point to the directory on images.bzflag.org, rather than to grab the local texture. So if it were a reader problem, I should already have s...