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I should also add, the shot types will not change until a flag is grabbed. Without a flag, everyone has the standard shot type. If someone is holding a flag while the shot type is changed, the changes will not take effect until the current flag is dropped and a new flag is grabbed.

This is the current source code right now. I added a command to change the shot types while the plug-in is loaded. The command works as follows: /tw <action> <param_1> <param_2> ... <param_N> There are two actions as of posting this: set and info. The info action takes no parameters, and set require...

The freetype libraries are in /opt/local/lib. The freetype-config script is in /opt/local/bin, which is in my PATH. The freetype.h header is in /opt/local/include/freetype2/freetype/.

Wait, what is this? What does it do?

I have c-ares on my system, and the configure script always fails to find it. After looking in config.log, I found the c-ares test in configure.ac fails because "NULL has not been defined." I just replaced NULL with 0. Maybe this is trying to compile a C program? Does C define NULL? I went...

Actually the there isn't a genocide shot type:

Requirements: Development BZFlag from svn at revision 19878. This is a simple plug-in I started last night. The plug-in changes the shot types for specific teams. I believe at one point there was a plug-in that assigned flags to teams, where one team would always get laser, another would get guided...

Here is an example of how it could work. This is sort of off the top of my head, so I'm sure it is incomplete. There is a little bit of example code, but I pretty much just wrote comments describing how it could work. // All flags with non-standard shot types. // These are the possible shot types th...

I'm new to programming, this is my first plug-in that I have ever made. Sorry, I didn't mean to act like a jerk. I tend to notice things that are wrong, rather than those that are right. I apologize for that. Creating a plug-in when you are new to programming is actually quite good, in my opinion. ...

bool spawnpos[256]={0}; bool shield=0; float outspawns[5][5]={{0}}; What are these variables for? When I see a variable named 'spawnpos', I assume it would contain Cartesian coordinates in either R2 or R3. You have an array of 256 boolean values that you never use. Actually you don't use any of tho...

This is actually what I was trying to do when I wrote the mine plug-in. When I found out I couldn't do it, I switched to mines.

Man... I just can't imagine... The best part of BZF was always sitting around on Two Tanks with Alice and Temp etc, talking more than playing... she will be missed dearly. That she was always so positive, never letting on that she had a fatal disease... If only everyone could be so kind and strong ...

So a while back there were photos of a bunch of BZFlag players and developers. This is me.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=- ... f43d32e4de

There is a problem with an admin tab though. The problem is the admin tab conflicts with the other tabs. That is, they are not logically separated; you have an "admin" tab and a "chat" tab, both of which include chat. In addition, what about the server messages that are sent on t...

It's his client... I'm not concerned.

OK...... Enumerations are just named integers. You can either use the enumeration name or an integer constant instead. If you have an enumeration, then it is better to use enumeration names instead of integers, as it expresses intent. For instance, addMessage(NULL, fullMsg, ControlPanel::MessageServ...

You broke it. That is, you have syntax errors. All I did was change if (fromServer) { addMessage(NULL, fullMsg, ControlPanel::MessageServer, false, oldcolor.c_str()); } else { addMessage(NULL, fullMsg, ControlPanel::MessageChat, false, oldcolor.c_str()); } to if (fromServer) { addMessage(NULL, fullM...

Yeah, I did this once. I won't be able to walk you through every step, mostly because I am very busy right now, with the semester coming to a close and all. I can help a little it though. It looks like you just need to map some keys to the tabs. There are like five source files you need to edit. If ...

Mac OS X frameworks do not have an sdl-config. checking for SDL framework... no checking for sdl-config... no checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.5... no So, configure tries to find the framework first, then it tries sdl-config. If it finds the framework, does configure still try to find sdl-config? I...

First off, don't camp. :p Now, there is a setting that can help judge the shot height better. It's located in Options -> GUI Settings -> Colored shots on radar -> ON (it's the 8th setting from the top). Home that helps. How would this help determine the height of the shots? Aren't all shots rendere...

It's good enough, and there is some useful information here, I think. We are all learning. Anyways, I'm not sure if this still happens when compiling 2.0.10, but configure always used to fail with the ld error shown below. You have to look in configure.log to find it. It used to cause a lot of confi...

F1 toggles full screen. To switch to another application, use command+tab, since BZFlag will "grab" your mouse.

I can't get it to work for me. I says "error: exception handling disabled, use -fexceptions to enable" Were do i use -fexceptions? Assuming you really have to enable exceptions, you would have to pass -fexceptions to configure. I suppose you could just do ./configure CXXFLAGS="$CXXFL...

Yassen, maybe just try running make clean on the plug-in and rebuilding it. Also, make sure you used the included Makefile.am, since there are multiple source files; the default Makefile.am file will not work. If you can elaborate on the problems you are having, rather than "it is not working,&...