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ok, we're getting somewhere. i've got cvs and i got the libraries. but when i tried cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@bzflag.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bzflag login i dont know the password. trop?? is there some password built into it that i dont know? or did i screw it up? Just hit enter, the password is...

@trop: it keeps coming up with "no such file or directory" @jeff: im using mepis. and i'd like the code thats compatible with the current servers. If you are on Mepis, chances are you DON'T have the stuff to follow my directions. To get those libraries, do this, then try my directions aga...

trop...look at the title says: linux from the source :D OS is linux Well in order to walk you through getting curl, sdl and the bunch I need to know what distro you are on. Assuming curl, sdl, curses, and the compiler on your system are 100% though, you can try to do the following: (type into a ter...

not sure where to put this, so i put it here, move it as you will, jeff. ok, so i want to build my version of the latest bzflag from the source. unfortunately, i have almost no computer knowledge. i've heard its possible to build it from the source, so thats how i know that in the 1st place. i was ...

Description Based on one of my bizarre ideas on IRC, L4m3r has designed an entirely new gamemode. Known as Zombie (Virus in sub-pre-alpha tests), the goal of this game is very simple. One player in the game is a "Zombie", he will appear as a zoned tank, but I assure you he can shoot you. ...

/set _spawnSafeSRMod 3.000000 3 /set _spawnSafeSWMod 1.500000 1.5 I think those two are the number of seconds you are safe from SR/SW when you spawn. -Tanner I can say for (well not completely) certain they are. If you set the SW really big, people start spawning at like 500ft after getting hit by ...

Ok I had this explained to me a little while ago. I might still be wrong. I have been told either bzfs or the client (I don't remember which) sends stats to the listserver at a frequency determined by how many players are there. This means if the listserver goes down and then back up, a 20-player se...

I too have had this problem. Restarting seems to do the trick.

Deathknight wrote:conf, the log,.......look i am only 14 i don no anthing about stuff like that....i just wanna start up a dam server with ,my map.lol

Just do bzfs -world [pathtomap] on a command prompt in that case. Dunno if you even want to bother figuring that out though.

Also, if you want to minimize download time, you can always use CVS and update and recompile whenever you like. ;) I dont know how to compile bzflag and i cant seem to find a free compiler :| Really Nightmare? Are GCC and its varients not to your liking? What about MinGW on Windows? They are all fr...

mistake wrote:Not sure, I think it's when people send a public message who have just logged on, and the login procedure hasn't quite finished, maybe because they are still waiting for global login confirmation or something else.

Bingo. That's how I freak people out with (UNKNOWN) at least

JeffM2501 wrote:just having linux dosn't mean you automaticly have all the other services bzflag needs. Mostly OpenGL.

Yes AFAIK none of these "Linux on your toaster" projects support OpenGL.

meacan wrote:And Tropican8, I'm gonna try to debug janitor soon as i get my dev environment up again (harddisk crash is so counter-productive )

Yay, I'll be around to test it once you get things worked out.

huwnet wrote:Anyone interested?

I would be depending on what compiler you use. If its ICL I would be very interested.

Longhair wrote:APT for Debian based distros

Whatever you do, please don't use the BZFlag build in Debian. Its a bad build and has been the cause of many honest players being accused of cheating.

There are many people here who can post a working .deb if its needed

This idea was actually stolen from Tropican8, who achieved the same effect with using the Janitor plugin. Meacan had the original idea to use Janitor that way. Its even in his Janitor documentation as an example of how to write Janitor scripts. I just used it on my server (and was the 1st to to the...

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Win Xp wrote:sound like it would be hard on the eyes, but cool never the less.

L4m3r wrote:IMO the only one that looks weird is purple... looks more blue to me.

Those were the two reasons I used dark colors. They look so much better and it separates blue and purple IMHO.

L4m3r wrote:Ooh, This will have the server included as well, right?

Especially since you can't compile it in any sort of bootable environment, not enough ram for most. I tried compiling the server under knoppix and my computer crashed miserably under low resources.

A server binary is a must.

Can you set the Colors for each team? In 4-team CTF some of them look off unless you do darkred, darkgreen, darkblue, and purple (not dark).

hard to say with out debuging the exact problem. I'm just saying it's NOT something that is in the code ( like a limit ). It could have been problems on your windows system, or your nic driver, or some other system process screwing it up. if you realy want to find out why, then it it needs to be de...

Win Xp wrote:odd, every windows server I know will act up with more than 10 flags.

Even though I am way beyond windows at this point, I would still like to know if this has been fixed or addressed. Any other successful tests anyone?

W00t its SLAX based? Could you also make a BZFlag.mo of 2.0.4? I think they will let you host it on their site if you do.

me1,

Try ./configure --enable-shared --enable-plugins

After make and make install, they should be in a /lib as Darth said. That's /usr/local/lib if you do a checkinstall or default (no argument) make install.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION :: Finally, last but not least, there is my server. It is almost an exact snapshot of what Planet MoFo FFA was like this summer. Everything is strictly set up to reflect Darth's MoFo at what I believe was its best stage in its short history. Unlike some of my counterparts there ...