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a jedi never mentioned if he got his CVS from HEAD or the 2.0 branch. He might be offering 2.1. If that's the case, there are a lot of new features, but there are currently... umm... zero compatable public servers running right now.

Basically every portable app I've seen is for Windows only - as you use Macs, we couldn't use any of those systems. You would need to store BZFlag binaries for all the systems you use it on, and BZFlag would probably still leave traces of itself. By including Linux, you bypass those problems by usin...

Turn up the quality to something other than Low... becuase they look lower-quality than the 2.0.0 screenshots.

As I was saying, we should sort them into tabs. The BZFS server should be able to place itself under any tab it wishes. That way, there are no 'special' servers or anything. If someone wants to put up a tutorial map, all they have to do is give BZFS an extra option to specify what tab they want thei...

I made some cannons a while back for somebody that had a small surface sloped just right inside, so when one shot into the cannon, the bullet flew out of the barrel at the right angle. It wasn't too hard, though you will need a calculator :wink: The concept is really cool, as is the map! Someone els...

As for faces go, it also depends on the size, and if they are textured. I would say 100,000 faces would be just fine, provided that they were small. For more modern computers I bet you could squeeze out several million.

I know! You need a ? block, three mushrooms, and a rabbit on the roof...

It isn't good to force people to do anything. It would probably be quite aggravating to someone who just globaly registered after playing BZ for 6 months, to find that they can't play at their favorite servers anymore... What we need are tabs, and the ability to control categorization. IE: Tutorial ...

Ubuntu ALSA is terrible with BZFlag. What you can do instead is configure KDE/Gnome to release the dsp after so many seconds of inactivity, and then play BZFlag after that period. BZFlag will use the dsp, and will have much much better sound.

This is great! There is only one thing missing: church mice

I especially like all the nice details in the church, though the center is rather bare.

What changed in R2? (Don't answer that question if it is obvious, let me look myself )

Try a different browser, and clear your DNS cache. Run anti-spyware and anti-virus programs. Etc. Especially clear your DNS cache(s).

Naturally, Mario has two kinds of pipes: ones that you can go down, and ones you can't. Give it a mix of both

Eagle: That map is nice, but the only Mario-themed elements are the two pipes...

The options for UDP are in McAfee, not BZFlag.

Hmm, that's odd. Test logging out of this forum, then logging in again, to make sure your password is right. Make sure you are entering "gracef" as your callsign. Also, make sure you enter your forum password (the one you use to login to these forums) as your password. Possibly your callsi...

Why are you using -q? I think what you want is -advertise NOBODY.

One of the problems is your tunnel ceiling is too low for the flag, whatever the limit is. I've got a guess that you might be able to change that limit by changing one of the _flag* variables? Specifically, try lowering _flagHeight, which is the height of the flag used in physics I think (to change ...

I think he meant:
http://my.bzflag.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=8607

Unfortunately, those objects can't affect physics in any way, and are limited to rotating around Z.

Hmm... for complex movement patterns, scripting probably would be best, or a plugin (scripting would be better for maps, I think).

Tanner wrote: Technically light can't bounce off eachother unless theres a mirror there, but you can't see through a mirror and still have it bounce off.

You mean you've never seen Star Wars?
Sorry, I can't find the link I want...

Why don't you need working pipes? From what I see, the pipe isn't too big. L4m3r's pipe mechanism looks great - from what I can tell, it looks like you can teleport both directions. You go in a pipe, you land on a bouncy moving surface that flings you in a teleporter. You fly out of the teleporter i...

When exporting to BZW, click the little box-shaped thing in the menu (it's on the very right side of BZW...). You can change export scale there, along with flipping the Y and Z axes (in Wings3d Y points up, but in BZFlag Z points up)

Hmm, I might be able to fetch you an example from BoxyWar... can't tonight, though.

I think I'll be there

Aha, here is that link to a page of wonderful AutoUV tutorials (including the barrel one, right at the top)
http://p212.ezboard.com/fnendowingsmira ... D=77.topic

1. Use materials instead of vertex colors. They will export as bzflag materials.

2/3. You can manually UVMap for things like single faces. Or, you can use Wings3D UVMapping... there was a really good one involving barrels, I'll see if I can find it.

Hmm... there has been a spike of cheating at BoxyWar lately. Keep your eyes open. Yesterday I banned someone who was picking up and dropping OO's on the Geno platform without falling through.