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Welcome to bzflag.norang.ca!

BZFlag 2.0.14 is out. Get your fresh copy at Sourceforge.net or from SVN.

The bzmap map building toolset supports BZFlag 2.0 map generation features and is used to build the map on the Olympic server.

The patches applied to our bzflag servers provide the following extra features:

• Lag autokick fix to prevent player removal on failed ping message returns
• No kill zones for areas on the map (Olympic Server)
• Player destruction height (Olympic Server)

Custom plugins have also been written to allow the servers to provide real-time updates of the current player list to this web server. Logging is handled by the logDetail plugin which is part of the BZFlag source repository.

Servers

5154 - BZFlag Olympics

The BZFlag Olympic map is a collection of challenges for players. The most interesting of these is the obstacle race course. Olympic events include:

• 3-level Obstacle Course Race
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • 69 obstacles (23 per level)
  • Randomly generated race course
• Rock Climbing Walls
• Diving Competition
• Fireworks Competition
• Free-For-All Battling Area under 50m

The BZFlag server has been patched to prevent tank killing on race track levels. The course is difficult enough without having to dodge player bullets.

The race map is automatically generated every time it is idle (no active players) and changes many times a day.

Thumper is maintaining this map and can be reached by email at thumper@norang.ca or by private message to Thumper at the Official forums for BZFlag.org.

The source code for this map is available from our public Arch source repository.

More information is available via server /help for this map. The list of contributors that have helped create this map can be found with /help credits when connected to the server.

BZMAP Map Building Toolset

bzmap Map Generation

Some BZFlag maps on our servers are generated using scripting tools. The Olympic server map is created using a Python scripting map generation toolset called bzmap.

bzmap creates a map file which contains all of the attributes for the map including:

• Server variables
• Server startup options
• Server help
• Map of the world to be rendered

The bzmap generated map files contains everything required to render the map for gameplay by the bzflag server (bzfs). bzmap is GPL licensed and freely available. Both the stable version and the development version of bzmap are available from our public Arch source repository.

The easiest to way run a server created by bzmap is with runserver described below. bzmap can generate standard map files which contain only elements that are compatible with the BZFlag game server so that using runserver is not required.

Development on bzmap continues and will possibly change languages from Python to Common Lisp (CL). Stay tuned for further developments.

runserver - Creating A Server

runserver is a tool that takes the bzmap generated map file and starts the server with all of the map specified options. runserver processes a bzmap generated map file and starts the BZFlag game server (bzfs) with all of the specified options for the map. bzmap runserver is available from our public Arch source repository.

bzmap and runserver are brought to you by Frédéric Jolliton (aka Cods). You can contact Cods at fj@tuxee.net.

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