Content Restrictions

There are limitations on the origin of images that can be displayed by a fresh installation of BZFlag. These can be configured by the user.

Default Content Restrictions

By default the game-client will only allow downloading images from the official BZFlag image-server. Those images all comply with a strict policy that can be found at the BZFlag Image Uploader Terms Of Service.

Map creators can upload image-files to this server through the BZFlag Image Uploader. This procedure has a few drawbacks however:

• Images need to get explicitly allowed by a moderator before they get in, this is a slow process. This way it becomes impractical to have dynamic content.
• Each image needs to have some license associated with it. Map makers often just want to make a map without being bothered by the legal aspects of it.

Configuring Content Restrictions

Each BZFlag client-installation has a file called DownloadAccess.txt which controls what servers are allowed to serve images.

Location of the DownloadAccess-file

Depending on your platform the location differs:

• Windows: My Documents\My BZFlag Files\DownloadAccess.txt
• OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/BZFlag/DownloadAccess.txt
• Linux: ~/.bzf/DownloadAccess.txt

Modifying the DownloadAccess-file

A simple text-editor can be used to modify this file. On windows the program "notepad" will do just fine. If you do not want any content-restrictions at all you can replace the whole content of the file with the line

allow *

If you only want to allow a specific server then add on top of the file the line

allow some.image.server