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1. The devs all know that this should be done, it's just a matter of having someone implement it. It might also include server bookmarking, multiple list servers, required client capabilites, server ratings, ping times, etc... Some of these items require protocol changes, so they also had to wait fo...

It only saves BZDB variables that differ from their default.

somebody's new stuff will probably go
into 2.2, but "his" new stuff may not =)

No new graphics (or very few). The GLEW library
is only used for the anisotropic filtering option (if the
2.0.6 release goes out with the current CVS code).

./bzflag -view anaglyph

March 28, 2006 CVS Log Message: The new graphics junk has not been added yet,
so it will not be in 2.0.6. No big loss, as few bzfolks
have the PhD's required to use it

Grouped teleporters can be linked.
Note that links can not be grouped.

My client has it for SDL, with limited runtime control. Both anistropic and anti-aliasing override controls are often available through your video driver, so having them in bzflag is no more then a convenience. That's not entirely true w.r.t. the anisotropic filtering. It's also good to be able to d...

I'll try this in simple terms:

NO GLEW library -> NO working anisotropic filtering control.

The code is there, that binary simply
wasn't built with the required library.

Wings3D does support PNG.
You may need a recent version.

That build does not include the GLEW library,
which is required for all the new fancy graphics.

Happy? Na, not my style.

Now your pictures suck because you're using stipple
shadows rather then the newer stencil shadows. =)

Not all of us use Windows(tm), so BZEdit isn't readily available to all. A Windows emulator can be used to run it on other OSes, but it really isn't worth the bother to set it up. The map could also be downloaded and run in bzfs, but again, not the worth the bother. Try JPEG to next time around. It ...

sid6.7:
You're wrong, he owns the copyright to his map. It isn't as
though he's sharing code derived from the bzflag source.
If I draw a picture in GIMP, do the GIMP guys own it? No.

smartkid:
The JPEG format is usually best for screenshots. GIF has
a limited (indexed palette) color space.

ducatiwannabe:
Your quality threshold is set a little too low
It does suck. It was a 5 minute modelling job to get
some geometry for a weapon / shader timing test
(although I am fond of the tapered octagonal turret).

Got lucky catching the GM as it came out:



The model sucks (low poly, ~400 faces), and isn't
properly textured. It's got bz generated texcoords,
and a reflective cube map. I was actually testing a
recoil shader when I caught the shot

1. Advanced Materials Tiered materials 2. Material Templates Can be either normals materials or advanced materials. Enhnaced by the addition of the "swap" commands. 3. Vertex Attributes Data attached to vertices. Default attribs are: - position - lighting normal - texture coordinate (for t...

Some radar mode examples:
http://trepan.bzflag.bz/noshow/radarmode.jpg
http://trepan.bzflag.bz/noshow/radarmode2.jpg

A note about the material modes: The current supported modes are render , depth , shadow , and radar . ( gbuffer is accepted, but not used) Render: Used for normal drawing. Usually the only one that needs to be specified. Depth: Used to draw into the depth buffer. If unspecified, draw with the objec...

With the map format's ability to do material templates, you don't need to know jack about shaders to use them. Just fill in your material with the right textures and colors and you're off to the races. Look at the WallMaterial as an example. You don't need to know how to write a relief mapping shade...

Spazzy/RPG: 2.0.4 already has timing messages (MsgGameTime). DrawInfo animations ("rotating"), Texture Matrices, and Dynamic Colors already use the synchronized time, and so should look approximately the same on different clients. The new shader support code also makes the synchronized tim...

Yes, the new features can be disabled. I've also changed the way that BZFlag loads the material properties for the default objects (ground, walls, boxes, pyramids, etc...) It now grabs them from a local file. The file format is the same as that of the BZW world file, except that you can not currentl...

Disable the "Double Sided" object property in Blender.

LouMan: It's unlikely that I'll be releasing any demo maps. The biggest change to map making will be the forced use of DrawInfo's for applying per-vertex colors, tangents, and binormals (the last two are required for normal mapping). Actually, custom attribtues can also be applied with DrawInfo's. T...

The Sun is now optional. I've also added map lights.