the plug ins

[Matt?]

will the plugins ever be available to the peoplet that cant compile. like when u download and imstall bzflag in with the datd there will be the plugins sry if this has already been said

[A Meteorite]

will the plugins ever be available to the peoplet that cant compile. like when u download and imstall bzflag in with the datd there will be the plugins sry if this has already been said

Some people migt build it and offer the .so file for download. I don't think (except for the base ones in CVS now) will be offerend in the BZFlag download. Then again I may be wrong... (it seems sensible enough)

[JeffM]

The windows installer version of bzflag will ship with some premade plugins.
Most plugin developers will provide binary premade plugins for the OSs that don't comonly build ( windows, and OSX probably ).
The source distrobution will contain a set of sample plugins, that can be built on any OS.

[Matt?]

i am looking forward to the point when this happens!

[I_Died_Once]

Remember: as of now, plugins are ONLY FOR SERVERS!!!

If you are just going to play the game, you do not do anything with a plugin itself.

If you are going to HOST a game, plugins are optional add-on features your server may have if you would decide to use them.

[Matt?]

yea i know that

[I_Died_Once]

my bad Matt? - that was more for general information than it was you. (I expect a nice sized trickle of "What do I do with plugins?")

[Matt?]

i want to use the plugins someday and i cam a complete compiling idiot so i was just wondering if they would eventually be avalible

[TD-Linux]

They already are. Get the latest bzflag (2.0.4), and start a server with something like this:
bzfs -option -another-option -all-your-other-options -yet-another-option -loadplugin path/to/PlayHistoryTracker

See if you can find PlayHistoryTracker or another plugin that comes with bzflag.

[SilverFox]

There are currently some plugins in CVS, however I don't see much in the way of documentation that explains what each plugin does and how to use it. These are the plugins I see:

airspawn
chathistory
HoldTheFlag
logDetail
python
hiddenAdmin
killall
playHistoryTracker
RogueGenocide
shockwaveDeath
vocaliser

Some I can guess, but it'd sure be nice to know details about each of these. Can someone fill me in?

[RPG]

airspawn - tanks spawn in the air instead of on the ground
chathistory - Uhhhhhhhhhhh..........
HoldTheFlag - allows for HTF gameplay
logDetail - Uhhhhhhhhh...........
python - allows plugins to be written in python
hiddenAdmin - Takes the '@' sign away from admins
killall - kills everybody?
playHistoryTracker - Announces "blah blah is on a rampage" when people go on killing sprees
RogueGenocide - Allows genocide to affect rogues
shockwaveDeath - when someone dies they emit a shockwave
vocaliser - Uhhhhhhhhh..............

[A Meteorite]

RPG
chatHistory - let's you view past lines of what someone said
logDetail - displays information about server events
and chat to the standard output server log
vocaliser - plays sounds? best I can get from the doc in plugins/vocaliser

[JeffM]

vocaliser dosn't realy do anythign anymore.

[Spazzy McGee]

what did it used to do?

[Matt?]

is there a way someone could show me or explain to me how to compile "a" plugin w/mingw and windows thanks