Teleport Behind Somebody

By:Phasmophage
Okay then, this is my first original post in quite a while. Most of the new cheats have been posted by Someone.

Are you tired of having to catch up with others to get a good shot at them? Do you wish that you could just appear behind someone (not the contributor Someone), and automatically aim at them? Well now you can! What this cheat will allow you to do is teleport behind somebody (Kind of like what I heard Agent Smith used to be able to do) by sending them a special private message (Using the period key) like "/behind" or "/b".
To do this, we will need to edit the "composeDefaultKey.cxx" in the directory "/src/bzflag/". Now what you'll need to do is find this line of code:

if (message.length() > 0) {

and change it to this:

else if (message.length() > 0) {

and put this above it:

if(message=="/behind") {
const Player *Other = LocalPlayer::getMyTank()->getRecipient();
if(Other)
{
LocalPlayer::getMyTank()->setStatus(LocalPlayer::getMyTank()->getStatus() | int(PlayerState::Teleporting));
const float* pos = Other->getPosition();
const float* dir = Other->getForward();
const float* vel = Other->getVelocity();
float newpos[3];
float newvel[3];
newpos[0] = pos[0] - 10 * dir[0];
newpos[1] = pos[1] - 10 * dir[1];
newpos[2] = pos[2] + 0.01;
newvel[0] = vel[0];
newvel[1] = vel[1];
newvel[2] = vel[2];
LocalPlayer::getMyTank()->move(newpos, Other->getAngle());
LocalPlayer::getMyTank()->setStatus(LocalPlayer::getMyTank()->getStatus() & ~int(PlayerState::Teleporting));
}
}

You can change the command "/behind" to anything you want. You may want to make it shorter. I also don't think that the "setStatus" functions really do anything important, so you may want to get rid of those, but they don't do any harm anyway.

If you're really into coding, what you can do, like I've done, is instead of having the "Other" player be the recipient of a message, you can make it the closest enemy through using the "findBestTarget()" function in TargetingUtils. You may also want to bind this action to a key, making it quicker to use. I won't go into the details on this, but for one method of binding keys, see Someone's comment on "Quick Guide to Toggling Cheats and Wallwalking". This method doesn't work for me, so I replace some commands I don't use, like "w" for "toggle console".

Questions? Comments? If I missed anything, or if you have any ideas on improvement *cough* Someone *cough*, post a comment.
Have fun with this one.
-phasmophage
aka phaz