patches for bzflag - SDL to 1.10 and experimental extra vehicle

[Luke K. C. L. <lk...@lk...>]

hi, i downloaded bzflag and love it.

i found the mouse impossible to use so back-ported the SDL code
to 1.10 (latest stable release)  i sent it to tim riker because
he's the debian maintainer.

also i like the idea of flying vehicles so i have split latest
cvs to be able to add different vehicles (base class LocalPlayer).

first new vehicle, a rather badly flying ... mmm ... brick.

there are a number of limitations of the source code that make
adding flying vehicles quite tricky

1) assumption of angular velocity rotating only around z-axis
   makes horizon dead-level etc.

2) assumption that vehicles will not go above a certain altitude.

3) assumption that vehicles will not tip up / over such that building
   collision is only checked on the "level".


if i assume some sort of mag-lev or anti-grav flying vehicle instead
of jet or propellor i could get away with increasing the maximum
height+fudge-factor to not auto-kick players.

comments?

l.

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