hunt-all key ?

[mudfreak]

Hi,

whenever I join on any type of server I usually put everybody on hunt, so I see who they are and what flag they carry when they come into sight.
But that's a little tedious - I have to mark every single tank (with 7) and then press fire.
I'm wondering if there's an easier way?
How do you put everybody on hunt with one keypress/macro?

muddy

[Zehra]

There's an autohunt patch by trepan: See the Hunt Enhancements? thread for details on it. Either some options or settings could probably get it to work.

A client mod could probably be done for this too. (Someone would need to make the mod and you'd need to be able to compile BZFlag too [or provide a binary].)

-Zehra

[tainn]

Isn't hunt-all a bit overkill for that purpose? You could click/press your bind for aim whenever there is a tank in range that you want to identify. Otherwise you're getting a bunch of info on your screen that you might not necessarily need. Granted, that's an extra click/press...

[Zehra]

Something to consider if going by the Identify/macro route. While a macro to use Identify could be used for that purpose, it would also have the additional side effect of filling (or flooding) the chat console with Identify messages.

This is likely something not wanted.

A macro to cycle through players and add them to hunt could probably work, but you'd need to find the right key combo for it or modify your key bindings to get it to work properly, a slight delay of adding around 2 players on hunt per second could be a reasonable amount too. (This way it is only one or two callsigns to add to hunt manually if need be.)

-Zehra