How to change map?

[flowerbzflag]

Hello everyone!

We just found this super game and play it hardcore in our office! Super
Now we have a problem - is it possible to change the map?
I have downloaded one map for testing, winter-een-mas.bzw. Now what?
We run Mac OSX. We have here 5 macs, one is the server, we play BZF locally...

All help is so welcome! Thanks in advance

[Strakowski]

Alright, just a forewarning: I usually mess up when it comes to interpreting questions, but I think I know what you're asking.

When you run BZFS (I assume you are using terminal), run it with the parameter "-world insert/path/to/map/here.bzw".

Does this solve your question or did I mess this one up too?

[flowerbzflag]

Thanks! Your answer is just great but I am not sure I understand it
I am running this BZFS right from OSX, you know, no terminal. I really do not know where to put that parameter.

I think I now have two ways

1) I run BZFS from the terminal and try to use your tip; or
2) I try to poke the map into some proper place some other way...

This what this game packade look here (inside the icon), not much

[Strakowski]

What method are you using to start the server? Just double clicking BZFS? Using the Start Server function within BZFlag?

Terminal/BZFS:

Personally, I like Terminal the best (it's simplest). If you want to do it in Terminal, just:

1) Open Terminal
2)Type "the/filepath/to/bzflag/bzfs/" followed by a space and then any parameters you want to load (such as -world).

Here is a complete list of the parameters you can load: http://my.bzflag.org/w/BZFS_Command_Line_Options


The other way to go about this would be to edit your Config file (http://my.bzflag.org/w/Sample_conf). A config file is basically just a list of all the parameters that load automatically when you start BZFS.

The wiki can probably answer your questions better than I can though; here is the article on BZFS if you need it : http://my.bzflag.org/w/BZFS

[flowerbzflag]

Ultra Many Thanks for the info!

Yes, I have just double clicked BZFS then from the menu I've started the server.

I have to try follow your instructions... More questions coming soon!!!
I'm sorry for the newbie questions

[Spazzy McGee]

On Mac OS X, the Start Server menu actually works (it doesn't on windows).

• Put your map in the folder <home folder>/Library/Application Support/BZFlag/worlds/
(If the folder is not there you'll have to create it)

• Then fire up BZFlag and select your map from the start server menu.

This is a whole lot easier than using BZFS directly (the BZFlag server application). You don't get as many options buy it's quick to set up.

[blast]

Also note that if the map is CTF and does not include all 4 teams, it might fail to run via the "Start Server" menu. You would need to modify the map file to include an options map object with the proper -mp setting (which takes 6 values, rogue,red,green,blue,purple,observer). Like, say it was a red vs green map, and you wanted 5 players for each team - along with 10 observer slots. You would add this to the map file at the top:

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options
-mp 0,5,5,0,0,10
end