Unclipped Radar
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Unclipped Radar
I use SciTech GLDirect to allow me to play BZflag with a DirectX-only video card. It's really handy, but it has an interesting bug:
My BZ radar doesn't clip inside it's little allotted box at the bottom left. I can see the entire thing, right on top of my game. It's got normal transparency and all.
Turns out, I really like it that way. I'm wishing I could do that with my other systems that don't use GLdirect. Is there a way to turn off radar clipping and let it live on top of my world renderer? That would be really useful.
Screenshot attached.
My BZ radar doesn't clip inside it's little allotted box at the bottom left. I can see the entire thing, right on top of my game. It's got normal transparency and all.
Turns out, I really like it that way. I'm wishing I could do that with my other systems that don't use GLdirect. Is there a way to turn off radar clipping and let it live on top of my world renderer? That would be really useful.
Screenshot attached.
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Weird... You have an advantage there! Try updating your graphic drivers (as usual). Using Windows or Mac or Linux?
And, no, radar unclipping wouldn't be possible without somehow rewriting the source. And that's not recommended.
P. S. Fix it.
And, no, radar unclipping wouldn't be possible without somehow rewriting the source. And that's not recommended.
P. S. Fix it.
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I can't fix that. If it's enough of an advantage that I shouldn't play that way, well, then I can't play BZ on my only machine. Somebody give me an opine.
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I can't see how it would be any huge advantage over others, it still displays the same information, just bigger.
Try the different ways to resize the radar... did you know about shift-mousewheel?
Try the different ways to resize the radar... did you know about shift-mousewheel?
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ATI Radeon 200M - Laptop onboard. Weak stuff. ATI doesn't provide a driver for it at all, and you can't get GL support.
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Binaryspike: I have the same graphic card in the machine that does that, and sadly, no, I do not have a link to what trepan said. It was in IRC, and I don't keep logs.BinarySpike wrote:I have the same problem, I'm running an onboard i810
Sometimes boxes have the outerwall texture as well, not to mention in certain texturing modes it seems like the blending is whacked out...
Gamma is messed up as well...
TRB, you have a link to what Trepan said?
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