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Here is a link to some tutorials I made about how to use the textureMatrix command.

http://hosted.rangfar.com/bzflagworld/f ... .php?t=620

Tried spin, worked like a champ. Thank you.

I am not sure using texture coords would do what I want. UV map, say, a 512 size texture to a whole map? Wouldn't that be kinda jaggy looking...or am I not understanding what you mean. I will probably give the spin idea a try, I think that might do the job. I have seen this "twitch" proble...

Did you run into the same problem?

The attached zip file contains the start of a map and four textures. I have one texture as GroundMaterial and another that covers a single very large mesh that covers the entire map, with a moving texture matrix. If I used fixedscale to make the texture on this mesh larger so the tiling isn't as obv...

Actually, I googled UV mapping...which I figured would do the same thing. And what I did find, I didn't understand either. ...and I read your link and I still am, at best, only a smidge further enlightened. Just got a whole bunch more terms for which I have no definition. Either that or they got law...

If I have something like 20-40 objects in a map, all using texture matrices (maybe 5-6 different matrices) to move textures...how much of a drain on system resources is that gonna cause? In other words, will it make things really laggy?

I truthfully really do not understand why what I did worked. However... In wings, I took the face of a cube and did an extract region. Then I UV mapped that extracted region, which made the entire UV map into a single face. I applied my texture and texture matrix and viola, it spins around it's cent...

I have poked around on here and elsewhere and can't seem to find what I am looking for. Basically I want to have a mesh face that has a texture on it...just one texture, not tiled, not stretched, and have that texture spin continuously around it's own center (not fixedspin). I am assuming that the &...

I apologize if I seem ungrateful. I shouldn't complain. Don't think I fail to appreciate what you have done, because I do. The game is a good one and it IS free. And you guys have done a heck of a job with what you have done so far. The fault is probably mine, I lack the imagination and/or necessary...

However, I have a texture I am working on right now, which I will most likely have to scrap (and maybe the model that goes with it). I played with the compression settings in Gimp, which apparently defaults to maximum compression (i.e. 9). The texture file is a UV map which I am not yet even done wi...

I am not a programmer so I don't know what would be involved in implementing this idea or even if it is practical: I think it would be very useful if there was a provision to implement some sort of procedural texture function into maps. To be able to give a set of instructions on how to make a textu...

One of my big frustrations is that I make a texture that looks really good, but has too huge of a file size. If I shrink it to where the file download size is acceptable, all the detail goes out the window and I am left with a smear. It would be nice to be able to have an option to use the JPEG form...

Well, after poking around, I did find this: http://www.bzfed.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=5&MMN_position=10:10 However, it puked on compile for me...probaby because I don't have Gnome on my system. However, if you have Gnome, it might work for you. Like ...

Just for the heck of it, I downloaded the BZEdit source code package. Silly me, figured there'd be the usual generic ./configure - make - make install instructions included. But there hain't! I am completely lost. Do I need to run autogen to make a configure script? Howinheck does one do that? Do I ...

You might need to do a texture matrix and scale the screenie to fit the object: textureMatrix name screenie_tex fixedscale x y end then reference the texturematrix in your material statement with "texmat screenie_tex". You'd have to fiddle with the values to get the sizing right. The other...

Me personally, I prefer a big picture with a thumbnail (I hate small screenies, even though I have a 56k dialup.). That way I have a choice as to what to look at. It's why I use Imageshack, they give you this nifty code string you just copy and paste in the body of your message. Presto! Instant link...

Have a fake tank with a small .01 teleport located at the muzzle. Elsewhere you have a TP linked to the teensy one so that somebody shoots into it, looks like the fake tank is shooting. They shoot back, tank no explodee, what fun, yes?

Has anybody thought of using an actual BZFlag screenshot as a texture in a game? Seems like you could create some interesting effects. For instance, say you create a narrow "hallway" with a wall at the far end. Go into your map to the entrance to the hallway, get nicely squared up and take...

You can also use texture mapping, but that is a whole 'nother ball of wax. If you do your own mesh's check out http://www.davidbrinnen.com/tut_wings_3.html.

Ummmm...lets not go comparing me to LouMan. His maps actually work. Mine may end up being too resource impractical. So far, all those lovely textures tip the scale at just under 2 megabytes, the one for the wall spikes alone is 406.7 K for a 512x512 PNG file! And I ain't even done yet. Things like t...

Or something to that effect. Three screenshots of what I have so far. Kinda up in the air because I am not done texturing what goes underneath. I expect that this map will probably never get played, since the textures are gonna be a mutha to download, but I am having a heck of a time making it. As y...

Well...I didn't get much time to look at it, since everytime I tried to load it, the tank spawned in the water and I promptly died. I think you need to put in some tank spawn zones in a "drier" area, so to speak.

You could make a mesh with a horizontal spot set to drivethrough. Tank falls into a box with the only way out being through a conventional vertical teleport. Klunky, but it would work.

The below is copied from the bzw man page. The two lines in bold are the commands for what you want. Whatever value you plug into spin is how fast it spins. Shift moves your texture in X and Y. If you are looking at the side of a meshbox that has a texture that you are using shift with, if you set t...