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2.6 will have updated textures, and better support for themes and optional texture packs.

More details. Players pick a skin type on the join menu. http://www.hyperdrive.tech/artbox/bzflags/AQGltwJk.png Every team has 5 skin choices. http://www.hyperdrive.tech/artbox/bzflags/SkinList.PNG Each player's skin choice is sent to other players and uses, so people on the same team can have some ...

Yes they are all on the blue team.

Yeah it's intended to do ALL the capture things, in order to properly support custom capture conditions.

No it’s in the current 2.4.x, always check the current code.

It may only be in 2.6

bz_triggerFlagCapture should already do that.

Quick question, if someone implements this, will it be merged to the official source? There is no way that this could be implemented in the current game protocol. As in there is NO way to do this and be compatible with existing clients. It would have to be in the next major version. So no, just imp...

If you knew that, then your post is mistitled, you want server control over flag effects independent of the actual flag. The current title makes it sound like the api is simply missing features. When the core isssue is the game itself doesn’t support the features you want. The core features you are ...

That has nothing to do with the API, the server can’t even do that itself. The things you are talking about are hard coded in the client as part of the flag itself.

There are also gameplay reasons to limit combinations, not all combos are fun or fair.

Time to fork, if possible, and reimagine what BZ should be. Good luck getting people to agree on what that should be ;) The entire game would change for VR, to the point where it would not be as simple of a game as many people seem to like. Code wise, yeah you'd have to basically start over and jus...

Bzflag still uses OpenGL 1.2 so that info is light years ahead of what bazflag does. It’s good info for modern OpenGL use.

VR isn't really supported by the current codebase. It would require quite a bit of changes both for VR and to get it to run on a phone. It's not a use case that is being developed.

Yeah, I was totally wrong, sorry about that. There is an object class called meshedbox that I missed. it's not in the map format but triggered when a legacy paremetric object is given material properties. this works like you expect material name cube texture bzflag-256x256 end box postion 0,0,0 size...

Dude, making a cube is trivial, just TRY a little. material name cube texture bzflag-256x256 end mesh vertex -0.500000 -0.500000 1.000000 vertex 0.500000 -0.500000 1.000000 vertex -0.500000 0.500000 1.000000 vertex 0.500000 0.500000 1.000000 vertex -0.500000 0.500000 0.000000 vertex 0.500000 0.50000...

What you are hoping for does not exist. The feature to support what you want is implemented in bzflag as meshes....
There is no "Secret" other way. I know, I developed some of the code.

Meshes are how people do billboards. They aren't that hard, just go learn a little.

That is the easiest way, but you can code them by hand too.

But you have to uses a mesh to get what you want. That what meshes are for, tota control over geometry and texture placement.

Define the object as a mesh not a box (and no, not a mesh box a real mesh) and define your own UV coordinates. All automatic texture mapping’s will repeat.

The client does not actually have the name, so it's not possible with out breaking protocol. The server loads the map and converts it into a binary representation that only has the info that the client needs. The names are thrown away after all the group instance and referencing is done. The client ...

A plugin can't tell bzfs to "hey. no. calculate a new position." Except that it can, I put a function in just for that case. BZF_API bool bz_getStandardSpawn ( int playerID, float pos[3], float *rot ); If you have at test for what you feel is an undesriable spawn, you could check the comp...

It's not weird, it did exactly what you told it to do :) You defined a single material, with no texture named 'noradar', then made your box use that material. The material has no texture or color so it gets white. If you want color and texture, you have to define it. The game doesn't know that you w...

You must install a compiler, the process is not trivial,it involves many steps.

You should read up on plugins on the wiki, https://wiki.bzflag.org/Plug-ins

Plug-ins are source code, you compile them into a module for whatever operating system your server is running on.

Zehra, please do not speak about things you don't know anything about. You make your self look like a fool. My code is in NO WAY based on the work of "TeamVSS", it is a completely unique codebase. It is based on a project to turn all components of BZFlag into reusable C# libraries.BZWTools...

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