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" juwb wrote: 9. Top-down (bird's eye) camera The custom cam is close. " therse already a top down camera, its called external or outside or soemthing ,.. speed limit? i doubt turbo servers would appreciate that i dont think basic a-tron gameplay should chage, bikes should not have thickness. atron ...

i've noticed the smaller the grid the higher the fps mebbe scale is way off in armagetron engine & or something perhaps if everything was rendered in a much smaller scale, we would see fps increases & "lag" monsters die much of the "lag" is visual IMO weird glitchy visual lag any idea zman if what i...

well, either as a temporary replacement of the KILL zone graphics, or, idealy, yes, it would turn towards the nearest player & then proceed towards them slowly. floating above the grid & trails, .. like in the movie someone was gonna code that, but.. i belive they're on a long atron hiatus the mesh ...

my new one "BludFort" i tried to incorporate several features i liked from other maps into 1 map I meant it to come out a little different than this, but.. somtimes worlds create themselves.. map removed till fixed fixed! To test a map in windows, stick the map in /application data/armagetron/resour...

i think the ability to make maps & latest surge of interest in it is great thanks for opening up another chapter in this wonderful game we like to edit 8) dunno if this will be usefull to anyoen but me, but heres a 50x50 pixel grid with the spaces numbered & the axis & degrees marked. thx lucifer fo...

im pretty sure that the way transparency was handled in the engine has changed,.. the alpha channel of the trail .pngs used to support greyscale changing of the transparency opacity level a.k.a. white alpha channel = no transparency, black alpha channel = invisible transparrrency, greyscale fade = f...

i like xmarks the spot, fun to play near the dangerous middle

i cant wait to play bludfort, is there a way to make it run in a local game client-side ?

guess i need to run a local server.. be great to play them locally for playtesting b4 release..

are the obstacle walls part of the code likely to be revised & outdated anytime soon? i noticed they're shorter than normal walls.. cuz im thinking of starting another map & if i need any pointers, i figgured i'd ask b4 i started coding if i dont need pointers, i will probably code the next map simi...

http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?t=1775&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 is where i got it from, from the first example in the docs i think... this is all very confusing to me.. im glad it worked tho, is great fun playing it.. so whys theres so many ways to skin a cat in level building:?...

i finished my map!!! woot
Lucifer can we play it on your server?

thanks phil! i thot it would be more complicated than that i thot i had to tell it an angle deg° too or soemthing.. axis *shrugs* i'll read what u put & look at my drawing & hopefully a little light bulb will light up ok, i got it almost finished! can someone do the first couple spawn points for me?...

an html version of the tute with pictures built into the examples would help alot.. IMO for dunces like me this part does this: (insert pretty picture for tard to look at here) this next part does this: (nuther pretty picture) see! isnt this easy! next, we can do this too: (ooh pretty pictures!) ;P ...

<-- busts out some graph paper & prints up tute :) hmm i couldnt find my fine square graph paper so .. i made this & some reason its 480x480 forgot abotu the zero square i guess.. anywho.. its gonna take me a while to wrap my head around the diagonal line part of the tutorial.. if anyone wants to ma...

this is an idea i had for a map..

if anyone wants to code it for me, its ok

or i'll figger it out & make it.. anywho.. blah

you can get it at any store that sells ice for like parties & stuff.. or meat dressing places have it usually near hunting areas.. (in the states anyways) not sure what temp it is, look it up on that newfangled internet thingy.. i belive its made with a compressor u compress the carbondioxide enuff,...