New "Broken Screen"

Sir Lance-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Lance-A-Lot** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:46 pm

It seems that the typcial "+" cracked-up screen that appears after you get hit seems to be growing a little annoying...at least for me.
I can't remember any changes done to this as far back as I can remember with BZ.
Is this sort of a BZ Memorial, or something that would be changeable?

Winny · Post by **Winny** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:56 pm

yea, it is kind of old.....

I have never seen anything else, but, can you think of something else that would fit there ?

Sir Lance-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Lance-A-Lot** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:05 pm

Well, maybe a more realisticly shattered screen - a plus sign in the middle of the windshield isn't too "realistic" as opposed to a "totaly shattered" design...

Hannibal · Post by **Hannibal** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:26 pm

its not just a '+', is it? it looks quite realistic to me..

Post by **L4m3r** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:27 pm

hehe, your camera should stay in the turret as it goes flying through the air. That would be fun.

Post by **DTRemenak** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:16 pm

The shattering effect used to be hardcoded. As of about version 1.7g0 or so it became dynamic. That was what, three years ago? Four? So it's changed relatively recently.

L4m3r: that was tried in a dev version before 2.0. It made people sick

Winny · Post by **Winny** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:19 pm

DTRemenak wrote:L4m3r: that was tried in a dev version before 2.0. It made people sick

maybe you could choose between the 2 in a newer version of bzflag ?

Post by **L4m3r** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:23 pm

DTRemenak wrote:L4m3r: that was tried in a dev version before 2.0. It made people sick

Hahaha, that's awesome.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:28 pm

it was bad. the spinning sucked.

I had the idea of making the camera fly backwards in like a reverse jump, so you could see your tank asplode better.

but noone got it

Winny · Post by **Winny** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:30 pm

ooo, that would be cool.

Spazzy McGee · Post by **Spazzy McGee** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:51 pm

I can see there is the option in the menu to change it (even if there is only one option), i would like to see another one - and if we do get more, have a 'random' option so it plays a random death effect.

hey look, it's my 500th post. whoa.

Sir Lance-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Lance-A-Lot** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:16 pm

JeffM2501 wrote:it was bad. the spinning sucked.

I had the idea of making the camera fly backwards in like a reverse jump, so you could see your tank asplode better.

but noone got it

I would enjoy both - Just for something different.
It just seems as if having a simple fracture in your screen isn't enough to get up enough energy to hunt down the person that just shot you >:)

Even if the explode cams woudn't be added, a different "cracked" design would be interesting imho...

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:30 pm

code it up.

Sir Lance-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Lance-A-Lot** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:34 pm

I would, if I could understand how the graphics code is mapped out...And to be able to change the tank coords....*/me dreams wishfully*

Spazzy McGee · Post by **Spazzy McGee** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:18 am

what about a 'james bond style' red overlay coming down from the top of the screen and then the screen swings from side to side.

Winny · Post by **Winny** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:15 pm

bz isn't supposted to be violent....

Spazzy McGee · Post by **Spazzy McGee** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:45 pm

Win Xp wrote:bz isn't supposted to be violent....

yeah i know, i ment a kind of rip off version that's not.

Tanner · Post by **Tanner** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:06 pm

Instead of blood you could do bolts, screws, and sheet metal

-Tanner

Sir Lance-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Lance-A-Lot** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:37 pm

Tanner wrote:Instead of blood you could do bolts, screws, and sheet metal

- oozing down the screen?

I just think that if your tank realy had that big of an explosion, as in blowing everything completely apart, your windshield would have more than a small fracture in it.

Just an idea for future versions...But then again, I am not a C++ linguist, so I don't realy know how hard it would be.