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A few months ago I actually started a PHP script that would convert any 1.x map to have this "look", inspired by battlezone vectrex. I really should finish it sometime.

That tends to not work well, in my experience. if I recall, it frequently caused the server and/or clients to crash.

An option has been added to 2.99 to disable friendly fire completely. I don't think a flag was added for that ability.

At the very least you will need to be able to read C++, because the game protocol is not really documented. You'll need to read the code to figure out how it works.

PZ as a flag is pretty specialized, and its "special" properties aren't generally that useful. To be honest, I'd rather it be dropped from the game.

I've written a simple PHP script to facilitate the plugin-writing process. http://l4m3r.bzflag.net/scripts/plugin_starter.php This will set up a skeleton of the C++ code, handling the events and commands of your choosing. While the primary intention is to make plug-in authoring faster (and less bori...

as of right now, 2.0 SVN has been fixed to not allow players to respawn before _explodeTime has passed. This cheat should no longer be possible, at least not with a frequency greater that 1/_explodeTime. You may have to re-work your plug-in to cope with that. Sorry. ;) On the other hand, thank you f...

I'm pretty sure Midtown was licensed to Microsoft in one way or another.

...wow, people still play that game?

Either way, it won't make a good bzflag map, because it's so hilly.

This my first attempt at posting an image here. What a great idea what a way to use that wasted realestate. Pity being the worlds worst player outside of my 7 year old daughter that is I cannot hope for any improvement. L4m3r you are a genius. Of course it runs better on two 19" monitors... Wo...

1. Dodges and aims well
2. Depends on certain powerful flags; flag-shops.

Yeah, it's hard, especially when you're trained to look at the lower right for radar. it'd work better if the laptop was just to the right of the main monitor, but there's not really room for that on my desk. With an ideal setup (two identical widescreens, or two 1600x1200 screens, side by side) it'...

I was tinkering with monitors and had this idea: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/8319/bzdualscreenkg2.jpg It's hard to make out (bad camera) but on the laptop screen is radar/console, and on the right screen is the window. This was done with a stock client, using vertical monitor spanning and ful...

More or less, the wiki can be navigated with categories. However, it's not a manual. it's not really designed to be read in a linear fashion, but more intended for users to look up whatever they need to know quickly and easily.

Well, the next major release isn't likely to be out for some time, so there's really no hurry. You can hack up 2.0.11 as much as you like and release a patch if you want. Any new features will be implemented in 2.99.

well, the idea would be that package scripts wouldn't be necessary (again, OS issues). extract the theme to the appropriate directory, start the client, and pick a theme. The client will check for theme directories and list them as options. the client saves the selected theme in its config, and you'...

Some OSes don't support links. :p I think it'd make more sense to put a "themes" directory in the user files directory (alongside worlds and screenshots), instead of the client's original data directory. themes could then be selected by the client. If any data elements are missing, the ori...

Joe-Schmoe wrote:A simpler change would be to have it so that you can turn friendly fire off. Blue bullets would go right through blue tanks.

I think that's already in 2.9.

Unfortunately, in 2.0.x, most scoring is handled by the client. In other words, we can't change this behavior until 3.0. When 3.0 is released, scoring will be much more customizeable (by plug-ins and such).

There have been assorted mods and textures for colorblind people in the past.

There are also lines in bzflag's configuration file that can change the radar blip colors used in-game. This is especially helpful for differentiating red and green for those who have trouble.

Eh, the basewall doesn't tile very well.

Very nice. I like the tunnels and the bunker.

The shaft into the bunker is kind of hard to jump out of, though. I think an escalator would be nice there.

Great work, as always.

Hmm... I can see a variation of you original idea that would work... Instead of dropping your team flag near YOUR base, you would drop it near the ENEMY base, to prevent accidental same-team caps. The flag would then fly back to your base. In other words, Red Team cannot take a Red Team Flag anywhe...

BZWorkbench is intended as a one-stop editor for BZFlag maps.

Teppic's BZWTools is a plug-in for Blender that also provides start-to-finish BZW editing, more or less.

Oh, right, the Windows problem. Forgot about that.

iirc, that function is supposed to fill the int list, not create it.

When I use it, I just declare an int list and pass its address to the function with &.