Some patches the devs might be interested in :)

[Blµb]

I've been working to increase the gameplay for myself a lot lately, and here's the result:
http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0725517/nex/patches.xml

There are engine patches for:
Sprite Tracking: You define a list of sprites which you want to have tracked, and when they're out of your view, a scaled version of them is rendered at the sides to easily track them. Like a radar. You can also specify weather they should be flipped upside down when on top edge, and weather they should be rotated when on the sides.

An SDL Mouse patch: This is just a work-around for WM hotkeys (input-grabbing), beryl, compiz screen-corner-triggers (stick_mouse), and beryl/compiz' fullscreen bind (resizable window)
All of it as command-line-options, if you don't specify any, it'll work as usual.
Still using SDL_GetRelativeMouseState to avoid screen-resolution-mouse-movement-limits

The very best IMO:
NICK Tab-Completion
In console, or in the chat-line, type at least 3 letters of a nick (in normal-font without colors), and press tab, it's normal tab completion. As soon as only 1 nick is left also the colors and fonts are automatically added, and a ^7 with a space is added.
And yes, I worked out a nice way for nicks with spaces in them
It needs testing though

And if none of these patches makes it into the engine, they'll still be downloadable for whoever wants to use them
Just thought I should share

[Ed]

Nice work!

Sprite Tracking: You define a list of sprites which you want to have tracked, and when they're out of your view, a scaled version of them is rendered at the sides to easily track them. Like a radar. You can also specify weather they should be flipped upside down when on top edge, and weather they should be rotated when on the sides.

I think that would be nice for the Assault game mode as you could a pointer showing where the next objective is.

[Blµb]

Nice work!

Sprite Tracking: You define a list of sprites which you want to have tracked, and when they're out of your view, a scaled version of them is rendered at the sides to easily track them. Like a radar. You can also specify weather they should be flipped upside down when on top edge, and weather they should be rotated when on the sides.

I think that would be nice for the Assault game mode as you could a pointer showing where the next objective is.

fixed some bugs I ran into: multiple unused colorcodes, like a^9^3^8b caused problems for nickcompletion, is fixed, my sanitize-name function didn't like those :>

and the flag-carrier sprite was visible AS carrier when looking upwards, horrible...

I need some of you to test and report if you find any problems
I'll make new win32 executables soon too

[Ronan]

Sprite Tracking: You define a list of sprites which you want to have tracked, and when they're out of your view, a scaled version of them is rendered at the sides to easily track them. Like a radar. You can also specify weather they should be flipped upside down when on top edge, and weather they should be rotated when on the sides.

NICK Tab-Completion
In console, or in the chat-line, type at least 3 letters of a nick (in normal-font without colors), and press tab, it's normal tab completion. As soon as only 1 nick is left also the colors and fonts are automatically added, and a ^7 with a space is added.
And yes, I worked out a nice way for nicks with spaces in them
It needs testing though

These 2 features can improve Nexuiz experience, I hope it will be integrated in the next official release.

[divVerent]

Not if I don't get internet access anytime soon. Still waiting for my DSL. And today even the open WLANs were gone. Can anyone else test the patches?

[Blµb]

I now tracked down and fixed the last `bug' (if you can call it that).
There's only one problem left, you have to type at least 3 letters for nick-completion when a nick is the first thing you type...
But that's no biggie

Anyway, the more testers, the faster we know if there are bugs.
I'm now gonna bake win32 executables. (I'm way too nice to win users )

EDIT:
Added the win32 exes now...

[Mr.Carlyle]

Can anyone else test the patches?

I've tested the Win32 Executable and everything works great. The tab completion is such a time saver (IMO) and I hope it gets included in the next release.

The flag tracker also works like a charm.

Nicely Done Blub!

[Blµb]

I see you already edited your post
I now figured out how the attached sprites differ ^^
flags RENDER_EXTERIORMODEL

reversed the unnecessary changes for the visibility and made a clean version, as stated in the v5 patch description

[Blµb]

ohkay to make testing easier, there now are win32 and mac universal agl (thx to sYm[PB]) executables
http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0725517/nex/patches.xml
I'm not 100% sure weather the win32 combo is completely up to date but I think it is.

EDIT: since many linux users use binary packages I added i686 and x86_64 SDL binaries for linux as well.

[Spaceman]

I want to try the nick completion patch. How do I patch Nexuiz on Kubuntu?