Some Outgun maps

Here are some of my Outgun maps. Download them here.

S marks the spot

This map has a "hidden" exit in each base. Unless bumped through them by mistake, bots don't use these exits.












Sokker

I like how the map looks, but sometimes the extra angles and bumping off of them irritates me. 3 flags, and the bots seem to prefer the green one.







  

Small race angled

A very quick map. Grab extra guns and power and you can really rack up the points!

Small race smooth

A variation on the angled one.





 

Medium race

I really like the layout, but the bots always choose to take the flag on the bottom half of the map, unless somehow bumped into the upper half.










"Outgun is a simple multiplayer capture the flag game in 2D top-view, to be played on a network."

http://koti.mbnet.fi/outgun/
http://outgun.sf.net/

Sound not working in Outgun

In Ubuntu 10.04 sound was not working in Outgun. The fix that worked was one I came across when having sound issues with Skype.

1. "...edit or create the file ~/.pulse/client.conf and add a line containing "autospawn = no" there..."
   
2. Restart (maybe log out/in works?)
   

This fixed the sound problem but created new problems:

• Audio controls on the keyboard no longer worked
  
• Volume slider in the panel no longer worked
  
• System > Prefs > Sound no longer worked
  

After some toying around, I found that pulseaudio could be disabled / enabled without having to restart or log out. I put together a script that disables pulseaudio, runs Outgun, and then restarts pulseaudio after the game is shut down.
 
The script doesn't entirely make sense to me. Creating the client.conf file wouldn't be necessary I would think, especially right before killing pulseaudio. But the sound fix didn't work otherwise.
 
#!/bin/bash
# create client.conf file
cd ~/.pulse
echo "autospawn = no" > client.conf
# kill pulseaudio
pulseaudio -k

# run outgun
cd ~/outgun_1.0.3_r336
./outgun

# remove client.conf file
cd ~/.pulse
rm client.conf

# restart pulseaudio
pulseaudio --start