BrotherBlades

Thanks guys!! That solved my problems Cheers, Blades

Hi, I have a strange texture lighting problem on a building I am making. I built the building using 3 boxes, stacked on top of each other. I then textured the boxes individually. The problem is that when lighted the tops of each of the boxes are brighter on some sides of the buildings- meaning you get annoying bright spots in between the floors of the building. Check out the pic below: Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong? Cheers, Blades

Hi, If you are using a lot of addons you might consider using OFPWatch. It includes an "auto addon" server that can be used to send and install addons easily onto clients. It takes a little effort to set up for sure, but its nice to be able to make missions that use obscure addons without worrying about it (for example, why else would you ever put the chicken addon in a mission?). Cheers, Blades

Hi, I am the proud owner of a sick server. It it a 2.4 GHz P4 with 512 MB of Ram and tons of bandwidth. Should be giving me great FPS numbers shouldn't it? Wrong. When about 5 people are playing on a regular map, we get between 10-20 FPS. When I open the server up for Battlefield 1985 and get 20+ people playing, the server hovers around 2 FPS. CPU runs at 85%, and bandwidth out is around 800 kps. Memory allocation is around 250 MB. It is a Suse 8.1 Linux system. Here are the extracts from my server.cfg: MaxMsgSend = 640; MinBandwith = 52428800; MaxBandwith = 83886080; MaxSizeGuaranteed = 512; Frame_Rate_Pref="500"; and from UserInfo.cfg: frameRate=15.000000; visualQuality=0.093750; objectShadows=0; vehicleShadows=1; cloudlets=1; viewDistance=900.000000; terrainGrid=25.000000; Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Cheers, Bladsey

Hi, My favorite island right now is Truax island. It has a great mix of landscapes and small towns, and in general has a really great overall mood to it. You should check it out - its available on www.ofp.info if I remember correctly. As far as spawning troops are concerned, do you really need more than 63 groups per side? Remember, these are groups not units. This means 63*12 = 756 units per side. Should be enough I would think. Of course, dynamically creating units does have its advantages... but in most cases its just not needed. In general, if you do decide you need to create these units dynamically, you should use createUnit to create the units, then use the removeAllWeapons command to remove their weapons, and then add the weapons you need to the custom units. You don't need to use dynamic waypoints (I believe you can set them from a Game Logic) but if you want to use them then use the move command to move units to a position. Hope some of this info helps! Brother Blades