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Your problem is in the -public argument in your conf.conf. You will want quotes around it. -public "gamercolin's server" If everything else is right, you should be good to go. To create admins ingame, uncomment and supply a txt file for -groupdb and -userdb. The groupdb.txt is a file you'l...

I've found that navigating over non-level terrain is an under-developed skill with most bzflaggers. Another place where this skill can be practiced is Louman's Alpine Adventure. I will add it to the list of essential skills that every bzflagger should develop.

only got one button on your mouse? There only *appears* to be one mouse button. Go to Applications>System Preferences>Keyboard and Mouse. You'll find that there are more things your mouse can do than you've ever imagined possible. Edit: Also, even while you have mouse confined in the window, you sh...

There is no app-switching when BZ is in Full Screen Mode. To get out of Full Screen press F1, and then hit Command(apple)-Tab. Of course you can also hit F9, F10, and F11, for cooler ways to switch programs. As for creating an executable, your bash script should probably work just as in Linux, Termi...

very sloppy automatic vertex decimation for LOD. He just skips every other corner in further LODs. (As opposed to modeltool's correct method, I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I want to clear up the misconception about my baby. dI-machine does not include any decimation, sloppy or otherwise. I...

You should be able add the death physics driver to the roof, as long as you don't actually intend for tanks to be up there. I have not yet found an easy way to make flag "unsafe" zones in places where I also want tanks to be able to travel.

http://my.bzflag.org/w/Physics

I'm surprised you didn't say anything about my coding conventions ;) http://my.bzflag.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=116265#116265 I worked on it a bit more, made it smoother, smaller, and more efficient. I do custom pacmen too, let me know if you want me to make him bigger or smaller or change his turning ...

Here is an animated Pacman using the same technique of dynamic colors in Optic Delusion's "Running Deer".

chomp chomp chomp... boloolooloo bip bip

It looks great to me. With del's permission, I added 2 deer to "The Most Dangerous Game" tedius.dyndns.org:5172. They are kind of hard to spot if you don't know where to look. One hint: Stand just on the south side of the river in the far east, facing north and wait. For better or worse, I...

I think this is a great idea, I would be one that would use it. It needs to be kept simple, I think 3 key bindings would be enough %100, %50, %25. It would be a real pain to have to cycle through the number of speeds with a single key. Also, a %100 percent key would solve another problem, that is, n...

And here is the latest version of the dIMachine, for anyone that is still interested. Sphere and extents are calculated (check my math) and there is improved material support. Thanks Optic Delusion, anomaly, Tanner, JeffM and everyone else that has helped with the details. Let us know if the script ...

The game speed (I think you are referring to framerate, (press 't')) should be taken into consideration by anyone making maps. A well made modeled map, like those of Louman's, can often be more efficient than one made in BZEdit or by hand. In general I don't think simply adding textures will slow do...

I uploaded an updated version to the pastebin. It has anomaly's edits as well as support for polygons, which added another level of complexity. It will read Stripe .objf files, but I think a php tristripper would be awesome. We may have a php-bzw class by the time we're finished.

I noticed that the corner defs start at 1 (one) and they should start at 0 (zero), I think. also the order of corner defs is wrong, it is v/n/t in your code and should be v/t/n The "off by one" thing should be accounted for. Obj files start at one, unlike bzw, so I add a dummy vert, norma...

We know that texcoords are not processing correctly. In the script? I guess a more accurate way to put it is that texcoords have not been tested very thoroughly. They should work, but some have seemed to have trouble with it, and it might not be consistent yet. If you have a textured mesh in .obj f...

The water is there to keep the ants from escaping, of course.

Thanks zhero for giving the script a go. The script should export normals and texcoords correctly, and does when they are correct in the obj file. For some reason, Wings3d seemed to mess up your normals when it exported the .obj file. I don't know enough about wings to know how to fix this, or if it...

I just listened to it, it was highly entertaining to hear the different people's voices. It would be great if you can make sure there is at least one new voice from the BZFlag ranks each time. (BZedFlag, lol, I'm going to say that from now on.) Try to eliminate the background noise as much as possib...

Bumping a week old post for this: The order of vertices(corners) in tristrips and quadstrips are the same, you begin your face counterclockwise and zigzag along the adjacent faces. The corners would be ordered like so: 1 _____ 3 _____ 5 _____ 7 | . . . . . | . . . . . .| . . . . .| | . . . . . | . ....

Perhaps what you want is Options>Effects Settings>Display Treads ?

We have been working around the clock and now the pre-release alpha version is ready to try at: tedius.dyndns.org:5161 Skate-Park, by Tedius I will soon post a map so that those interested can see how I accomplished the ramps and halfpipes. I am currently running it on NN's bzmaps server so it may g...

I expect if you put the following in the correct place it will not disappear:

For what it is worth, here is an example of a simple trifan, that is, all triangles fan out from a single point. Tedius' spinning parasol: material name wtf addtexture http://images.bzflag.org/wtf.png end define parasol meshbox #parasol pole position 0 0 2 size .25 .25 14 end mesh vertex 0 0 15 #0 v...

z[h]ero, before delving too much further into the world of drawinfo, are you sure it is what you are looking for? If it is a flat face that you want spun, a texture matrix applied to the face will do the trick: textureMatrix name example_texmat spin 0.0 # rotation freq center 0.5 0.5 # dynamic u/v c...

Unfortunately some pirates and bad guys have distributed some screenshots of a bootlegged copy of the map. Some of you may have already seen them on those shady file-sharing sites or perhaps your coworkers have emailed the screenshots to you. If you have received the following screenshots, please do...