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I've been busy, so I haven't tried this. I recently installed the new Fedora Core 6, so I went ahead and left BZ out of the install, so I could install how you directed above. Unfortunately, I'm not sure where to enter the first two lines you have above, about CVS. The konsole? If so, I tried in the...

Are you sure that that is supposed to work? Because it's not working for me. I've tried: flag L(1) flag L (1) flag L{1} flag L {1} flag L[1] flag L [1] (So you know, the second set uses curly braces.) and none of those worked. All of them gave me the same error: [ck@worf ~]$ bzfs -conf ctf.txt using...

thanks, it works quite cool ... thanks much!

Hey, here's another question: how do I make the GMs lock on, if I want? (For a different application than warning.)

Later, g'day!

I have identify mapped onto the fire key, so when i shoot i identify too.

Ooh, that's neat! I should try that.

Okay, cool. I tested out the questions asked in this post, and I found out I can have one, five, or more timers set for any particular weapon delay. What I want to do is borrow Louman's idea and set off some GMs before a shockwave as a warning. A ring of them shot three times before the shockwave, a...

I just had a cool idea, and you could use the same map as pictured above. Think of it: SEVERAL world weapon lasers, no rico, all going from the center to the walls (of course missing the bases), and directly in the center, hold one cloaking flag, which can only be reached in the very limited time th...

okay, awesome ... can't wait until you're finished! Whee! I'd try and make it myself, but due to the circular form, and my lack of skills in the 2x department, I wouldn't be able to make such a thing. I guess how you will do it is have it slowly expand, and then have it delayed for a short bit, then...

oh, cool, so I can specify how many I want at each place? awesome! So say I have five cloak flags, right? And I want one specifically in placeA, one specifically in placeB, and the other three scattered randomly. All I have to do is: zone name placeA position -100 -100 0 size 1 1 1 rotation 0 flag C...

eh ... just right click?

That's awesome, spazzy ... can you release the map file for that?

Cool deal...

I've set up various zones in my CTF map which do things like drop teams on their bases and certain flags in their places. Two zones I set up are lasers in front of each base up on the main building. One laser per side. Unfortunately, upon testing the room, it seems that sometimes BOTH laser flags ar...

One other thing: it helps to actually ask your question in the subject line of your thread, so people know what they will read when opening the thread. Generic threads such as "help," or "please help me," and such don't do anyone any good to know what's in the thread until actual...

Okay, so how do I use those textures, and how do I use the other thing (arc & dyncol)?

I tried adding the second thing to a map file, but there was no lightning.

This is pretty neat, it worked as advertised ... but I'm wondering how to get color to work. So far, when I get an object into the bz map, it's bright white. I'd like to change that, and make it a different color. I found out how to color from within Wings, but that color doesn't transfer. Trying to...

"you do not have plugin support." That sucks - how come the linux version doesn't come with it automatically? Windows does... "You need to compile" Eh ... I'm still new to linux ... not sure how to compile apps. "get a binary with plugin support." Where can I find that?

"Are you using the binary, or building from source?" I'm using the second download provided in the original post, which is a zipped .so file. " /listplugins " While in the server? "Enable debug level 4 (with '-d -d -d -d'), and check the output" Where is the output goin...

I use it a bunch, but unfortunately, I often forget to when charging towards people, and I end up getting shocked severly. There's been a couple of people who've been known to sit inside the hollow box on my server with shockwave, and as people pass by, they release the shock within them. Hehe... An...

uh, oh! I'm having difficulty in getting this to work. I'm running Fedora Core 5 and the latest version of bzflag. In my configuration file, I used: -loadplugin /home/ck/flagOnSpawn.so,V:-1:G:0 I got no errors upon starting the server, but I couldn't spawn with a flag, either. Am doing something wro...

Too complex to cycle through the flags? What about mouse wheel? Right now, it's set to scroll content in the text box, but people could use page up/down if they really need to scroll that area. I was talking to my teacher, and he said that he thinks he's seen a server where people had two flags. I t...

Another map (semi-popular) that uses vertical shot velocity is Hide and Seek Hills, hosted by Brad.

I've used it a couple of times, and though it's not active on either of my servers at the moment, I may add it again.

me? a teacher? hm...
I'm a player, who is annoyed by tking, and besides - I know how it is to have to learn something later that I SHOULD have learned before, and it's no fun.

Yeah, there's some psychology for ya. Or something?

Sorry, but this seems like a terrible idea. New players would NEVER learn not to tk, then, and they'd end up being even WORSE of a player on a server without this "enhancement."

No, I think it's important that they learn early NOT to shoot towards their team.

While I realize these are two completely different topics, at least they share similar subjects; Linux. Hehe. Someone told me the reason I lag when I minimize bz is because linux gives it far less priority, which I suppose works for performance as well as network. Unfortunately, I minimize to do thi...

Here is my current group file. You'll notice that I don't have poll set in verified, though I have most all of the other polls available. However, even without poll set, people can still vote to set something. Is that because I have the single "poll" permission? ---------------------------...

sorry, I guess what I meant about the syntax is how to select the various settings. But I guess to de-select some of them, I can take them out/add a comment symbol (#). To answer your question, yes; here's what it says in the server when I type "/poll" Usage: /poll vote yes|no or /poll ban...