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I am really wondering why /idban can't ban players when the registered player left the map? (I know, u could ban the ip after the event, but that's not a replacement) When doing /idban after the player left, u get the message: "could not find player ..." It would be a nice feature for 2.1....

Some years ago on my linux (Bz old Version 1.8 ) my pc seemed to randomly freeze, too. After a long time of wondering, i then found out that when my linux freezed, then in kinda 100% of all cases it was due to i was shooting a GM trough a teleporter! Very weird. (No wonder i needed months to find it...

I think tiny is a really good flag. gm is good against n00bs but is useless against anyone that knows how to dodge it Yeah. But "Narrow" is even much better than "tiny", as it has only a width of 1 Pixel ! (Btw, on some servers gm has stronger auto-hit settings. If gm is setted ...

I booted once just for fun few times linux.
The most build in games were boring there, after few seconds i lost interest playing them. I just liked chromium and bzflag.

So u see, its just the guilty of the "bad, bad" linux that i do bz instead doing productive working...

Choose view > Use Two Lights It didn't work, see my description here. I tested diffrent combinations: If i activate "2 lights" and export to obj, and do import obj then again, the surfaces arn't consistent, too. But yes, this way the surfaces are much less inconsistent compared to "1...

I found a bug, check out these 2 screenshots: box-drawInfo.png & box-bzw.png The light-rendering of the surfaces of box-drawInfo.png are wrong! Cause each surface itself should have a consistent lightning, like in box-bzw.png. I guess the script doesn't calculate the normals correctly. Apart fro...

lod #3 lengthPerPixel 0 matref wtf trifan 0 1 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 end end #lod 3 I copied this code -without thinking- direct after the end of lod2-code. So now the object didnt disappear when driving under it. But when i was jumping over it, it disappeared!

JeffM wrote:code uses it as degrees / sec

True, my fault, so bz-docu is right, too. I measured again, this unit suits perfect.
I accidently readed rotations/sec instead degr./sec.

Tedius' spinning parasol: I tried it out, nice work. But its weird, shortly before i drive under the rotating umbrella, it disappears!? Is it cause the drawInfo isnt perfect? Or is it in general that rotating objects have this bug in bz when driving under them? Angvel: And the angvel again definite...

Everything here off-topic, no need to read: If I were you, I'd spend more time on the map itself, and less on the eye-candy. Don't worry, if u would know me, u would know that gameplay always had and always will have more priority for me than eye-candy features. That's one reason why i prefer normal...

omg, so the situation is even more bad!

There is no easy solution, draw info was never fully completed by it's author before he quit working on BZFlag. You will have to hand code the draw info for each mesh. You will have to do math for each object. There is no editor, there is no tool, it's all you. I also doubt anyone here is familiar ...

z[h]ero: angvel 60 would make it rotate 60 times per second, not minute. Hmm true, thats written in the bzw-docu. I thought its per minute, cause i had analysed an exapmle with "angvel 50". It seemed to rotate about 1 time per second. Now i checked out exactly, it rotates 1 time in 7.5 se...

objects that are animated with drawInfo will be decoration only, meaning they will not be collision objects. Tanks and bullets will pass though them. Tks, i know. Someone even did write that OO tanks crash if they drive trough such rotating objects, anyway, i still am interested in rotating meshes....

Hi, how to do rotating meshes ? I readed the bzw-documentation, this documentation is just a joke, if u want to find out how to make meshes rotating. The wiki is better, but still there misses many many information how to do it. After i fighted much over 1 hour (maybe i spended much more time) readi...

Additional to Essential Keys: - using "i" to find easily Stealth-tanks . U just rotate 360 degree and press all time "i" till u get displayed the callsign of the stealth-tank. Dunno if this is considered as a cheat, but i dont think so. That doesn't work for tanks with the steal...

Additional to Essential Keys: - using "i" to find easily Stealth-tanks . U just rotate 360 degree and press all time "i" till u get displayed the callsign of the stealth-tank. Dunno if this is considered as a cheat, but i dont think so. - using "u" and "7" sev...

Too sad i just understand about 80-90% of the text. I hope i dont repeat some messages that u already did write down -Flag use: SW vs. PZ. And SB vs PZ. -Teamwork (i personally dont play in teams, but i know some stuff about teamplaying): Supporting your teammates in a tactical way, by not dropping ...

This map looks just normal, but when i played there (version 0.2) i luved it! :) This map has really lots of nice rico possibilities like red cobra did mention. Even double-rico and multi-Rico spots are there, specially in the middle! @A Distraction: Well, i think tactics would really suffer if a ho...

When i was experimenting on a server on a windows system, it was like that: People could only join (without immediatelly automatically getting joined out) when less then 50 flags were on the server! (Its a known bug) So simply start bzfs with less flags. I guess u run bzfs on windows? Else i can't e...

It seems u have hdd errors (like donny already said) or bad Ram! I guess its the Ram. Ram-errors make software often running randomly wrong, like it does in your case! Cause ram-cells are sometimes not completely defect, but only "half-defect". Download Windows Memory Diagnostic (for ram e...

I talked with some developers: ----------------------------------------------- In version 2.1 jitterkicks will be possible. But 2.1 will not be compatible to 2.0.x! :( But if u compile yourself 2.0.9 u will have the jitterkicks, too, with compatibility to 2.0.x! :) The jitter commands are principal ...

CannonBallGuy wrote:I had this thought way back in 2.0.0 - it's been done now, I've seen it on action (mana's public hix server, iirc).

Hmm. I readed all server-names and server-descriptions! But didnt find both servers.
If those servers still online, plz someone tell me the exactly server-name.

What about an improved server auto kick, that kicks people with too much jitter or too much ip-packet loss?
For that we would need new server commands, for example:
/jitter "value"
/packetloss "value"

At the moment servers are only able to kick if too much lag.

zhero

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