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Not mentioned on the wiki page is the 'trackShots' feature. Try
typing /localset trackShots 1 and using the "Following" or the
"Driving with" observer modes. It's a silly feature that'll probably
be removed at some point

There are several BZDB variables which may help you: roguecolor redcolor greencolor bluecolor purplecolor rogueradar redradar greenradar blueradar purpleradar These can be set in your config.cfg file, ex: set redcolor "1 0 0" The 3 numbers are RGB value (red, green, blue) You can also edit...

For detailed examination of recording files, you can also look into
the 'rrlog' tool in the SVN misc/ directory. It allows you to print out
detailed information for all packets in a recording (in color, woohoo).

The server-side lua plugin was merged into the bzfs executable in SVN r19215.
That means that you can count on having server-side lua plugins regardless of
the build configuration (it also helps to speed up some of the callouts, and makes
it easier to share code with the client-side lua libraries).

BZFS plugins are entirely server-side. That should answer most of your questions.

For more examples of what lua plugins will look like compared to C++ ones, take a look in the following directory: http://bzflag.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bzflag/trunk/bzflag/plugins/lua/example/plugins/ Those plugins are "luafied" versions of C++ plugins which already exist. Instead of h...

For those that don't track SVN commits, I've added a lua plugin to the SVN sources. There are several advantages to using scripting languages (lua, javascript, python, etc...), for plugins instead of using the raw C++ interface. 1. no need to compile (or have bzfsAPI dev sources) 2. usually much eas...

You could also udrawInfos with a large offsets from their origins
(coupled with dynamic colors to switch between them). It look like bzflag
v3.0 or v3.1 might make it much easier to achieve your desired effect.

World text objects have been added into the SVN sources. The following features are available: - using BZDB variable values as the text source - URL sourced font files - most of the 'material' properties (noshadow, nolighting, etc...) - all of the transformation keywords (shift, scale, spin, shear, ...

Louman's BZBowl:
http://my.bzflag.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3927

I had plans to add a major feature to BZ, but have since decided that it probably isn't worth the bother. As a warm- up, I added per-obstacle ricochet (needed for the demo map for the major feature). Someone would have to sanitize and merge the relevant commits into trunk (r18443, r18444, r18445). N...

http://trepan.bzflag.bz/noshow/lcd.zip

(dated: May 07, 2005)

JPEG -- all the cool kids are using it these days.

try: /localset vsync 1

Blender's default OBJ importer doesn't accept negative indices. Try
loading it into another editor first, and then saving it (ex: Wings3D
does support negative indices, and saves with only positive indices,
iirc).

Unfortunately, it looks like bz_getPlayerFlag() can return
NULL pointers (rather then returning a pointer to an empty
string). The strcmp() call looks right, just check for a NULL
value before doing it.

Been there, done that (pools, not queues):
http://trepan.homelinux.net/flag-switches.txt

Had a patch for it... Note that the contents of
the flag pools could be changed on the fly.

1. You do not have to be in observer mode to take screenshots

2. This can already be done, just paste the screenshot on to
a mesh object. Clients can reload the texture in game via the
Cache Settings menu. You'd have to figure out your own upload
strategy (php, etc...)

Don't bother trying to do meshes by hand, it isn't worth the effort. Your time would be better spent learning to use a modeller that will do most of the work for you. P.S. UV mapping = texture mapping. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_mapping Here is a Wings3D tutorial, the pictures might help e...

BinarySpike: Anti-aliasing is not "blending". Rather then demonstrating your ignorance (and potentially confusing the unwary), don't post next time you know nothing about a subject. P.S. The anisotropic filtering option does require a decent video card (not that recent, my old GeForce3 sup...

dartman: Roaming... it's normally there.

Saturos:
The console shows up full length along the
bottom, like when you have the radar disabled.

Elem3nt:
AutoHunt patches in:
http://my.bzflag.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=82330

For those who fancy round radars
(works in non-fullscreen too)