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Yeah. You said that bzflag cannot rotate along the z access or something and that Open Combat will be able to.

I don't know if anybody else does this but I leave my desktop on "ctrl+alt+F7" and I play games on a nother screen, usually F8. xinit -- :1. Basic xinit, open xterm, execute bzflag. It switches between bzflag and my desktop just fine but if I stay at my desktop to long bzflag is replaced w...

BZFlag will never be able to rotate up and down. Actually it was Jeff that said that; Open Combat will have a different engine that'll support it. So the tanks wouldn't be able to look up or down in the first place. Just swivle. I don't like the idea but I dont think it would be harder. How would de...

It's so easy :) This works in the 2.0.4 version. Just open up bzfs.cxx and add this someware around line 1500 // no quick rejoining, make 'em wait // you can switch to observer immediately, or switch from observer // to regular player immediately, but only if last time time you // were a regular pla...

Ok, the verdict. I located a program called nethogs and modified the source to gather the average output. I even took the liberty of testing its results with dslreport's bandwidth tester. It was short 8 out of 206 which isn't very much. The rseults came from a) Upload on my server b) Download on oth...

Soraya, it would be just as "complicated" as any first person shooter. As I explained in my last post.

It does but it only echos to the consol. You need to make it echo into a log file.

Use the zone object and add team X.

This will make (I think) red and blue spawn in the respected locations:Play around to find the right color.

Yeah, I've been looking at my bandwidth usage when my server gets full and 5kb per person doesn't add up. W/ 8 players and 2 observers it was averaging ~20. The peak is at 30 and it never goes higher. I'd say three (to be on the safe side) is a good estimate. (probably 2.5) Of course lag is more on ...

How much data transfer and disk space do you need to run bzflag? 5kb/user/second could add up.

I'm thinking about searching findmyhosting but I have no idea what to qualify hosts by.

The security issue wouldn't be a direct exploit through. They could mask as you and thus pretend. But even still, logging on bzflag wouldn't do any harm. If somebody was able to do that then there would be much worse thigns they could be doign to your computer. I actually have a kind of practical so...

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many newbs give up early because the gameplay takes a long time to truly master. rotating turrets would make bzflag even more complex Actually rotating tourents would make it easier to play. It would be mroe like standard fps: W,A,S,D to move and mouse to aim. Except A and D would be for turning an...

I figured it out A Meteorite.

Run bzfs &> file will echo errors as well.

To still see the output run tail -f file and that way you can log and still watch the output.

I get locked out of my server a lot because it's full. I think there needs to be an option for connections comming from either 127.0.0.1or in the network to always be able to log as, say, and extra rogue player. The reason is that there is absoltuely no lag and no bandwidth usage (in the network the...

I know this is probably a FAQ but there is no wiki for doing this. How do you make objects? I've seen trees and different things on other server but never knew there was a tool for this (thought you had to go throguh and hand code an object...) I found this but what kind of tool do you use to make a...

The > and >> thing doesnt send errors to the file. Is there any way to echo ALL terminal messages to a file? Not just for bzf but for anything, I've had the problem before trying debug stuff.

I cant use a configure file either. My .../bzfs/conf.conf contains bash commands that I past in a terminal. I think it's a common problem.

And really, I remember when it did work as just "bzfs/conf."

Can you post the script? Right now I look at a superkaramba wiget to see how much bandwidth the server consumes.

I like it,

I might even put it up on my server, rotating if it isnt already hosted or nobody else wants to.

Why not host it from your computer? A website doesnt require much bandwidth.

I actually wouldn't mind taking it. The only thing is that I dont have SQL set up (it is installed, though). I'll make it open, put a GNU thing someware.

I'm giving it mapatorium.homedns.org or something, just in case

Teppic, you're doing it the hard way. When I had FC3, there was this firewall tool called security level or something. All you have to do is say 5154:udp, 5154:tcp

Make it open source.

I'm half tempted to take it, but I'm going to have a busy school schedule.