Difference between revisions of "Sphere"

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The sphere is a BZW Object that defines a sphere in the game arena.

Code

Appearance of a simple sphere.

This is a reference of all the options available in a sphere object with parameters.

sphere
 name OBJECT_NAME
 divisions 4
 flatshading
 hemisphere
 position X Y Z
 size X Y Z
 radius RADIUS
 rotation ANGLE
 shift X Y Z
 scale X Y Z
 shear X Y Z
 spin ANGLE NORMAL_X NORMAL_Y NORMAL_Z
 phydrv PHYSICS_NAME
 smoothbounce
 matref MATERIAL_NAME
end

Valid properties for a sphere are

name

defines the name of the sphere, it is not required, and often unused

divisions

defines the number of subdivisions (pieces) of the sphere

flatshading

enables flat shading, smooth shading is the default

hemisphere

only draw the top half of the sphere

position

defines the center point of the sphere

size

defines the size of the sphere

radius

sets all size values to the same value

rotation

defines rotation for the sphere

shift

shifts the sphere (repeatable)

scale

scales the sphere (repeatable)

shear

shears the sphere (repeatable)

spin

spins the sphere around vector n (repeatable)

phydrv

attaches a physics driver to the sphere

smoothbounce

makes ricochets use normals

matref

defines a material for the sphere to use

Appearance

By default, the sphere is a perfect sphere, with a red brick texture around the outside. You can, however, make the sphere elongated on one side (just don't use the radius option).

History

The sphere object has been supported since BZFlag 2.0.0. In previous versions of BZFlag, this object will not work.

Editor Support

Editors that support the sphere object include Blender using the BZWTools, Wings3D using the BZW Exporter for Wings3D, and pyBZEdit. BZEdit, BZFed, and IBZEdit do NOT support the sphere.