RE: patches for bzflag - SDL to 1.10 and experimental extra vehicle

[Jeff M. <je...@gi...>]

What is the disadvantage of the flying vehicles. Why would anyone want
to NOT chose one? Or is it now that all things fly?

Jeff Myers
Software Developer 
Gibbs and Associates
jeffm@GibbsCAM.com
www.GibbsCAM.com



-----Original Message-----
From: bzf...@li...
[mailto:bzf...@li...] On Behalf Of Luke
Kenneth Casson Leighton
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 1:10 PM
To: bzf...@li...; bzf...@li...
Subject: patches for bzflag - SDL to 1.10 and experimental extra vehicle


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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