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Thanks for the help, guys. DW, the tunnel is exactly 6 units high. You came awfully close... I figure you must be a pro at this.

Anyway, I guess I'll just have to make the ceiling higher. Everyone be sure to come by and play sometime! gnurdux.homelinux.net:5170

Hi all, I'm curious as how server owners find a good place to host their bzflag servers. Naturally, I'm sure that some already have high-speed always-on connections worthy of hosting a server on, but I'm sure that the vast majority of us don't. Do you guys rent shared space? Find a business/school/p...

Nope, didn't work. I didn't see any noticeable difference at all with the a change to the _flagHeight variable (although I suppose there must be something). Any other ideas?

Okay, thanks a lot. I'll give it a try.

Make sure you typed in your callsign and password correctly in the "Join Game" screen. Try erasing them and typing them in again.

The screenshot below is a tunnel in one of my maps: http://my.bzflag.org/bb/files/tunnelwithflag_337.jpg There is a ground plane a few units up from the top of the tunnel. Whenever I drop a flag inside the tunnel, the flag flies up through the roof of the tunnel and comes to rest on the ground plane...

What mac do you have? On some of the older models you have to start BZFlag in windowed mode (some problem with opening an OpenGL context, I think). Some of those machines can have pretty old video cards.

Seems that this would render your tank pretty much useless That was the point of including the exception of 'kill to drop bad flag only' servers, on most though it would just present an annoying challenge. That's true. I just don't know if the devs would go for a flag that can be configured to make...

dartman wrote:

BinarySpike wrote:They should split WG into Gyro (turn in midair) and thrusters (jump in midair)

Heck no. That would ruin the gameplay on servers like Hide 'n Seek Hills, Mofo, Twin Peaks and others.

Or they could have Wings and Gyro and Thrusters... and leave it up to the map makers/server owners.

Thinking of all teh 40 flags that exist there is no 'gun jam' (ie can't shoot while I have this flag) Obviously this would screw any server running drop bad flag on kill (only), but it is an obvious flag, any reason why it isn't there? Seems that this would render your tank pretty much useless (exc...

I was there with him when it happened, and I think I've seen it elsewhere too. I really don't have any idea what the problem is, but I think it has been encountered before.

You probably don't need to compile BZFlag from source. The server, client, and text client binaries are all included inside the application that you can download off of sourceforge. Just click on the application ("BZFlag.app", most likely), click "Show package contents", and navi...

yes, texcoords have everything to do with it. they say how the texture is applied to the mesh. there is no "default" mapping. Okay, thanks for the info. I guess I'll just need to experiment. ;) Can anyone give me just a simple example of a mesh that uses texcoords? I really have no idea e...

Hmmm, from what I can make of the translation... good point. I've had someone sneak a peek into my config file before... fortunately I had disabled the -password option by putting a "#" in front of it. For private servers, the passwords in the -passdb file are encrypted somehow... maybe pr...

Some good thoughts, there. Score certainly isn't the most important thing in every situation. Still, a plugin like this might have its uses. I guess I'll have to think about it a little more.

Okay, thanks for the tips. I downloaded Wings3D, and will have a look at it shortly. However, I'm still interested in leaning a little more about the texturing options for bzflag meshes, just for the sake of understanding them so I can tweak them if I need to. Do texcoords and normals have anything ...

me1 wrote:try uv'ing it.

Could you be a little more specific? I have only a vague idea of what UV means.

The Knights Who Say Ni wrote:I think he ment saves to a file on the server as soon as the connection is lost with the client whether it be crash or disconnect...

Precisely.

I'm building a map with tunnels, and I created a "fake" ground with the std_ground texture. This new ground is effectively a flat plane that has holes in it. I used a mesh with the following code: # Fake ground level mesh matref grass color 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 # Four corners vertex 300 300 25 ...

What's the exact command you're using? The one I use (which seems to be working okay right now) is: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@bzflag.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bzflag login (Hit enter when prompted for the password) Followed by... cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@bzflag.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bzf...

I have an idea for a new plugin. It would actually be quite simple. It seems that it must be frustrating for a really skilled player to get up to a score of 100+, then have his computer freeze, or get kicked for lag, etc. Also, in certain other game situations, it would be cool if you could keep you...

Although it is possible for a user not to see that a poll is in progress, it is very unlikely. There are four messages sent that indicate that a poll is in progress (poll requested, 45 secs left, 30 secs left, and 15 secs left). An easier way to vote might be a welcome addition, though. I don't know...

Usage: bzadmin -hide xxx -show xxx callsign:password@server:port From the bzadmin help file: -hide msgtype[,msgtype]... Tell bzadmin not to show these message types. The available message types are chat, join, kill, leave, pause, ping, rabbit, spawn, time, and over. By default chat, join, kill, leav...

how do i get it into bzflag directions pleae help a noob Ummm... 1. Download BZFlag from SourceForge (links at http://www.bzflag.org ). 2. Open the BZFlag application. 3. Use the "Enter", "esc", and arrow keys to find the help documents within the application. 4. Read those. 5. ...

ibot wrote:where is a red base or any other? Only blue base is there!

Perhaps a player's TK number is considered his score on this map.

Well, okay... maybe not.