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Hello all!! I am about to finish my second map (not really, first isn't finished), and i don't know how to link teles!! Can anyone give me the code?? Should it be something like this:

Do not wonder how i knew most of the thing, its just i searched the forum and the wiki, and this is all i can get.

Thank you!

Hmm, but there is a question , what if i want the tele from both sides, is it tele1:f:b ??

That link tells you all that you need. Read it over.

Simply use more than one link. In the first link link the front to wherever and in the second link the back to wherever.

Also could I ask, how do you link teleporters that are in a group.
And the wiki is pretty vague about the '*' character in links. How does that character work?
Sorry If am hijacking this topic, maybe I should stick to the "topics are cheap" principle.

Thanks mahem! And don't worry about hijacking MY topic

mahem1 wrote:how do you link teleporters that are in a group.

mahem1 wrote:And the wiki is pretty vague about the '*' character in links. How does that character work?

You have to know a bit about wildcard characters to understand that. A "*" character means anything that can fit with the other specified parameters make a match.

Here is an example: Let us say you have seven teleporters named the following:
Now, if we wanted to link tele to teleporter2, we would do something like this: Simple enough, right? Now what if we wanted to have it choose between teleporter1 or teleporter2 randomly? We could easily do this: Or this: In the first example, teleporter* will take anything with the word teleporter in it, and anything after the word teleporter will be considered. This makes teleporter1, teleporter2, and teleporterer all matches. In the second example, a "?" character is used to make only one valid character match. This means only teleporter1 and teleporter2 would be considered. The equivalent for teleporterer to work would be a match like this: teleporter?? which would only select teleporters with two exact characters.

This may sound complicated, but let's see one more: In this one, the two asterisks will expand for anything before and after re. Teleporters Fred and Teleporterer could be selected.

One final note is that teleporter links are only determined On map startup. This means once they are picked between a select number of teleporters, it will always teleport you to the same spot until the map is restarted, so the randomness can only be taken so far.

As far as linking teleporters in groups, that is impossible. Even naming them inside of groups and linking them is not possible. All teleporters must be separate and have their own unique names outside of a group in order to work correctly.

Thanks for the info sig.
Could this be added to the wiki please. (I would do it if you want) Or is it common knowledge that '*' and '?' are multi and single character wildcards?
Also it is misleading to say that teleports can be defined in groups (http://wiki.bzflag.org/Define) without saying that linking them is impossible.

I don't think linking them is impossible, but you'd have to probably leave their names out of them and use their automatically generated index instead.

Teleporter linking inside a define:

Be sure to name your groups.

That's neat. I wasn't aware of that syntax.

That is very helpful, thanks for the share. I'll assume it works for nested groups too.
Also, where did you gather that information? It would be help if it was more widely available.

Usually it ends up being look in the source code for the nitty gritty. A collaborative effort to document things down to the nitty gritty of BZFlag would be amazing. (That's what the wiki's for by the way)

sigonasr2 wrote:Usually it ends up being look in the source code for the nitty gritty. A collaborative effort to document things down to the nitty gritty of BZFlag would be amazing. (That's what the wiki's for by the way)

I agree sigonasr2, I have edited the link page on the wiki. To state the information shown here.

http://wiki.bzflag.org/Link