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General Development / Free Borland Compiler problems (exe has been made)

« on: May 28, 2007, 01:04:51 AM »

Ok me and my friend (crewmanjenkis? I think he posted about modding)  have been setting up dp on various compilers.  On windows VC was fine, but Borland had a problem.

Whenever we tried to join the normal b18 (that we updated from b16) it would just say "ub_cliff by unibonger" over and over and over.

We tried the Borland compiled server as well, same problem.  When using a normal client on our compiled server, the problem was not there.  Obviously it is client error, anybody have any clues?

Also, multithreading messes up debugging, so I can't debug.  if someone could tell me the location of where it prints the worldspawn "message" that would be helpful.  Cause it just keeps printing that over and over and over.

Thanks

*edit*
I tried going to the list server and it crashed, multithreading won't show me where though :-/

*edit2*
Ah, on "join game" I get a dialog.
Net_SendPacket: bad address type

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Mapping / r_speeds on 5 arch vs 20 arch

« on: May 26, 2007, 01:54:13 AM »

I made an arch with 5 pieces on top, and when standing under it looking up I get a yellow r_speed of 1200, when I make a 20 piece arch, I get 1200-1300.

So what's making it so high for the 5 piece arch?

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Mapping / Siege zone...?

« on: May 25, 2007, 10:44:28 PM »

What zone defines in Siege the area the defending team cannot exit? (or they die)

Also is it possible to make "zones" so they could walk in a specific line outside?

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General Development / My mac port cancled due to cussing

« on: February 26, 2007, 12:34:13 AM »

After a little falling out in the bzflag community over a very popular map I made I have started playing DP.

Playing dp was nice because I sat back, joined the losing team to get better, and would play.  Well recently I was on a server and a guy cussed, well having a key bound to say "Please watch the cussing!" because several factors, there were around 40 people playing and any one of them could have been under 10 years old, this is very inappropriate, after a short time three or four guys were cussing me out because I had the key bound and every time they said anything sexual related I hit the bound button.

A couple other players asked for them to stop cussing and they started cussing them out, I'm not sure how admining goes, but as far as this goes DP needs a cuss filter.

Until something like this has been created, and people take action to curb the language and sexual innuendo, I will abandon my mac port (I was basing it off SDL which was a little complicated, but what one of the forum members suggested when I asked about a mac port, because SDL supports more than mac, it would have generalized the opengl context creation)

If I have to I will release my own digital paintball with a complete admining system like that of tjw's mod of Tremulous, and stricter rules on the public servers.

until the digital paintball community becomes *everyone* friendly, then I will not support them.


Swearing Imposes a Personal Penalty
It gives a bad impression
It makes you unpleasant to be with
It endangers your relationships
It's a tool for whiners and complainers
It reduces respect people have for you
It shows you don't have control
It's a sign of a bad attitude
It discloses a lack of character
It's immature
It reflects ignorance
It sets a bad example

Swearing is Bad for Society
It contributes to the decline of civility
It represents the dumbing down of America
It offends more people than you think
It makes others uncomfortable
It is disrespectful of others
It turns discussions into arguments
It can be a sign of hostility
It can lead to violence

Swearing corrupts the English language
It's abrasive, lazy language
It doesn't communicate clearly
It neglects more meaningful words
It lacks imagination
It has lost its effectiveness

Something I like is "It lacks imagination"
Calling me sweaty pirate underpants is a lot more degrading than cussing your head off at me, just makes you look like an uncontrollable fool.

and I'm not talking about stubbing your toe and letting one slip, I'm talking about cussing someone out *on purpose*

If you get angry, walk away, kick the cat a few times

A lot of ppl cuss cause they hate losing, if you join the losing team then you set your expectation as low as you can get, so you can only go up, and you also learn a lot more a lot faster, that's how you start placing first every other game against ppl like FourthX in your first month.

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General Development / Porting to mac (need some info)

« on: May 04, 2006, 11:31:00 PM »

I need some info on what exactly DP does... that is platform specific... you guys probably know this info... I can't test it but I have several linux friends that play and well... us mac dudes from bzflag can't play... so I'm gonna port it... there's not much code...

From what I can tell you can run CD tracks ingame... (strange... never thought of doing that on mac)

And you have events... (mac events in C++ == carbon)

OpenGL (cross-platform)

Do you use STL at all?

BSD sockets right? I hope so... if not then your networking is probably bad... I also see you use Quake Engine... is there a mac port?

Also, what are all the needed libraries? like do you use zlib? libcurl? do you compile shared libraries and then compile them on the client? where is the server?

(you can see I need a ton of info... I have the source... and I know enough about programming to port it)

I didn't see any porting tips or info... and I'm just now browsing this forum...

Thanks,
-BinarySpike