Tank Type Selection

Sir Lance-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Lance-A-Lot** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:54 pm

Just a small idea, but would it be possible to add a tank selection feature to BZ 1.**.**?
Like at the server entry menu, there would b an option that lets you select different kinds of tanks.
All tanks would have the same spechs, but b diff shapes and colors and things like that.
Just an idea...

brad2901 · Post by **brad2901** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:57 pm

Dif colour tanks are already in bz as for dif shapes, wouldnt that mean u could all have tiny tanks?

Sir Lance-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Lance-A-Lot** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:01 am

Well i was thinkin more along te line of tank design...like in the military.
One with big treads, one wit off-road wheels, one with misslie-launchers on the side, one with spikes on side, ect.
It might b a lot of work to make though.

brad2901 · Post by **brad2901** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:04 am

Yes, not that i would really know but i presume that would be extremely hard for the devs.

Memnarch · Post by **Memnarch** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:27 am

No, personally, I don't think it would be that difficult, I am no expert, but I don't think that it would involve too much code... I think it would be harder for other things, tank designs seem to me to be mainly graphics...

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:44 am

allowing difrent models has been talked about there are some issues that would need to be resolved, like how it woudl work with the various flags that change tank color, like colorblind and masqureade, as tank shape would need to be taken into account. It probably won't be done in this next release, or anytime real soon.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 7:34 am

Well I would stay with 1 tank type because its what makes BZFlag different from other tank combat games. Everyone is equal, and there are no advantages or disadvantages over other people.

brad2901 · Post by **brad2901** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:06 pm

Flags act as a disadvantage/advantage..

Dutchrai · Post by **Dutchrai** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:14 pm

I rather would see custom engine sounds per tank. Lets say, there are 20 to 30 or so distinctly different engine sounds to select from in a default BZFlag setup. Then, a player could choose a sound and add it to his 'default profile' or something.

The battle starts.

You can now hear which player is which

Wouldn't that be great? Add the ears to the BZFlag spectrum. A great experience!

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:58 pm

ok, third mode in BZ, i dunno "every man for himself" or something

in it, no flags, customizable tanks, every man for himself (FFA with no teams), you could upload graphics logo's onto your tank by selecting a file and bzflag would compress it (btw image file) to be the right size and paste it on your tank, you would see your tank rotating around in 3d while you build it. oh and definetly new screen

and you could save the tanks as different names and stuff. (i will stop before i get into putting accounts on BZ

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RPG · Post by **RPG** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 6:54 pm

wait... upload an image to BZFlag then it would compress it and put it on your tank???? That sounds hard and requiring a lot of utilities! From what I understand, you'd need a program to resize the image built into BZFlag, and where would the image go on the tank?

I think too many hours and MB's.

ps... go here http://my.bzflag.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2092

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:35 pm

just a half a year old thought finally floating out there. and i mean like avatars kinda, on the side of the tank.

Memnarch · Post by **Memnarch** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 1:47 am

Just make a size limit for the whatever pic you want on your tank....

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:43 pm

Yeah, but then you have to do workto set it up

Memnarch · Post by **Memnarch** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:21 pm

Work isn't a dicease, the people who despise it are, though, scorch....

Workaphobia · Post by **Workaphobia** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:08 am

Uhh.. I'm not sure how to feel now..

Am I the despised or the despiser?

Memnarch · Post by **Memnarch** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:28 am

Ummmm............... both?