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Thanks Constitution

Constitution wrote:Those textures don't tile very well, I take it?

what do you mean?

Thanks for the link mrapple. Downloaded and testing them!

Sorry to re-open a old post, but I tried to open the link to the base textures, and it wouldn't open. Is there anywhere else the base textures may be hiding?

Looks Great.

Thanks, it worked. I'm happy to say now I've proved Scythio and joevano wrong.

Looks like that was just a mistake on the map author's part. It should be a waterLevel object as there was never a "_deadUnder" (or at least, not in a released copy of the game - possible that was in a 1.11.x build at one point, but I don't recall it). Search for 'deadunder' on this log f...

Ohh, so it has to end with _tank I will try that, and see if it works.

It's saved as a png, the same as all other textures, and it is in the same folder as the default? I'm pretty sure my computer can process them properly.

I went into program files, and added the electric tank images. Its name is electricB_blue.png (I also added other textures like the blue base is electricB_basetop.png and all the other blue settings) Then I went to the config and changed blueTeamPrefix from blue_ to electricB_ all the textures load ...

I was looking in the Map Releases section, and downloaded an OLD map, on the last page, and it had a variable _deadUnder. I tried to run the map to see what it looked like, and the _deadUnder didn't let it load. Was this an old variable now removed? It also seems like all the old maps used .map inst...

Wow, I'm dumb for not thinking of that. Thanks Bullet.

~Edit, Thanks, implemented and working

Thanks Blast

Is it possible to texture team bases, other than the color it comes with?

Optic Delusion wrote:Yeah, but there's no way to know which face is supposed to have which material... You can only do this if your object has only one material.

Perfect, my object is only 1 material XD

Cobra_Fast wrote:All faces below the matref line use that material. So you can assign different materials to groups of faces without attaching the matref to each single face.

Okay, thanks. This makes it much easier to materialize my object.

So when you say the matref invisible thing, I use that once and ALL the faces use that texture? For what I'm doing that's fine. And is it actually 'matref invisible' as a code, or is that an example, and I put 'matref *Material Name*'

Also, how do I texture a mesh. I looked at r3lax's wooden tower, and he uses matref, but do I really have to add that too all of those lines? Is there an easier way. I can texture it in my 3d editor, but what I use it in BZ, it is untextured.

BTW I got it to move where I wanted it too.

Optic Delusion wrote:
Another thing i'd like to mention... when you build your mesh for a group, it is preferable to leave it centered around point 0 0 0, making it easier to shift around the world.

I did do that, I figured it would be easier.

Do I put -dddd in the config, what does that do?

Thanks you joey, also, I am having trouble with groups. With my test map, which is just the object, I have this

world
size 400
end
group object
shift 300 300 0
end
define object
*Miles of Code*
enddef

yet, the object wont move at all, even though I shifted it.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I think meshes are what I'm talking about. I made a object in Anim8tor, and exported it as .obj and converted to .bzw yada yada ya. I want to add it to a map, I know how to make groups, but when I do define group, the code for the object is thousands of lines long. In...

Sorry, I was on a 3 day hike (Ughhhhhh so sore) I just open BZ without a problem. I don't know what, as I didn't update anything. I'm just confused, but happy that BZ works again.

When I try to open BZFlag, I get the message NIVIDA OpenGl Driver NIVIDA display driver files from a different (incompatible) versions of the driver have been detected. NIVIDA OpenGL acceleration is disabled in order to maintain system stability. To resolve this problem, update the NVIDIA display dr...

Okay

mrapple wrote:Set _reloadTime higher
Set _gmAdLife higher
Set _shotRange lower

Why would I set the shot range lower?