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LaserMania does not only use primitive shapes, due to tilted boxes; or our understanding of primitive shapes differs. Thank you. I realize the map objects in LaserMania are not as primitive as many 1.x maps. Basically, I want to include maps containing meshes where the objects can generally be repr...

I'm trying to compile a list of the most-played maps of all time and their authors. While many kinds of maps could be listed, I especially want to capture maps that primarily use 1.x objects (basic boxes/pyramids/bases/teleporters), including maps that have a few limited mesh objects (like one-way d...

I wonder if Macsforme was so kind as to include the source files for my new version, as well as the exe. Yes, I sent you the link to my GitHub branch for your project in a PM some time ago. If you're just replacing textures and/or sounds, you shouldn't need to rebuild for that (just replace the res...

This is a known issue with Apple Silicon computers at the moment. Right now, our developers have limited access to this hardware, so diagnosing the issue is difficult, but that will hopefully change in the future. If you could post a video or screen capture of the issue, that would give us a good pl...

I worked on a mobile port of BZFlag about five years ago, and probably had it at least halfway done (graphics were completely done, and touch controls were partially done). Someone else also tried to do it before me, and then a third person was working on it after me. In my case, I waited a year for...

Sometimes when there is a new generation of GPU in an Apple product, there are driver shortcomings that take some time to resolve. Additionally, Apple has basically declared that OpenGL is end-of-life on macOS, so we should probably not expect them to dedicate much attention to these bugs. Also, I d...

Can you describe your issue more specifically, preferably with screenshots? If you are saying that BZFlag ignored the scaling setting and runs at the full native resolution, that is the expected behavior for now. You can manually change the size of text elements and such in the GUI settings, or you ...

No mention of Bolo, either. That was the tank game I played before BZFlag.

I know if you just use a plain “matref” (without the top/sides designator) to cover all sides of the object, the noradar function does work. You may need to specify a noradar material for all angles of the object to get it to work.

timtak wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 10:27 pmSo...who is going to be kind enough to implement this?

I will PM you.

If you are offering money, I’m sure you can find someone here who can create a custom fork for your experiment. As stated previously, it would not be allowed to be compatible with current clients, but if you are running a controlled experiment where you are distributing the custom client to each par...

I think he means that your own flag must be on your base in order for you to capture another team’s flag.

Wow... rarely have I seen a post that so confuses an issue with irrelevant comparisons and unhelpful points... A plugin that gives a player more points on command is not similar to a plugin that gives bonus points for getting kills or performing other game objectives. Players who geno bait or intent...

I hate to open a likely can of worms, but what on earth is the point of allowing players to assign their points to others via a slash command? Say what you will about our scoring/points system and its shortcomings, but how is it helped by allowing scores to be manipulated in such a fashion? I might ...

Driving, jumping, shooting, etc. are core mechanics of this game. The various modes/styles such as CTF exist to provide variety on those core game mechanics, not the other way around. The aspect of shooting at other players is not a distraction from the objective of CTF as you are suggesting; rather...

Look for where the game renders to an MSAA-enabled render buffer for anti-aliasing. You could convert that to render to a texture pretty easily (although the OpenGL requirements would be higher). I think only the 3D view, not the HUD, get passed through there, though.

Sure. Feel free to patch the new genocide plugin and submit a pull request for it. However, I would do the rogue genocide options as a plugin config, or less optimally, as a direct plugin argument, rather than making a BZDB variable for it.

As blast said, you would probably implement this new flag in the game directly, not via the API. One of the criteria for new flag designs accepted into the game is that they should be distinct from and not too similar to flags that we already have. The idea you shared sounds generally similar to Win...

For those of you who are or may become interested in playing BZFlag with a joystick or gaming controller, here is a video showing some proposed improvements to joystick handling. These changes are currently under review as a pull request on GitHub.

https://youtu.be/5pwImEa5vf8

The main barrier to mandatory registration as I see it is that the process for registering an account is not intuitive. Once that is remedied, the opposite problem may occur, where people can easily register throwaway accounts (although that is already true to an extent) and hop from account to acco...

Your ping looks very consistent, so perhaps your issue is not network related (unless it's an issue that only affects some kinds of traffic and not others). Can you share what framerate you get in the game, whether the framerate you get is consistent or varied, and what settings you have for energy ...

I still have to change Energy Saver options to take effect before playing. For example, I keep it on Vertical Sync, but if I play without changing it to Off or FPS Limit and back, FPS will go to something like 200+ and drop to ~30 when there is intensive activity on screen. It I change it to either...

We need to get away from flags like this in general, which involve blindly trusting other users' clients to show (fake) information or to hide information from the user. Flags like Stealth, Cloaking, Masquerade, Jamming, Colorblindness, etc. all depend on this blind trust. Going forward, flags like ...

“The details and the goals” are entirely missing from any of your posts in this topic so far.

If the concept is viable and enough interest, it would make sense to begin to plan to [possibly?] dedicate some resources towards the development of either web applications or a web site or both options. IMHO we are long past the point where we can simply "dedicate some resources," or in ...