Category talk:Flags

• What are "spawnflags" and how do they differ from "keyvalues", "inputs" and "outputs" ? what kind of things are flags generally used for ?

Boolean : flags can only be on/off, but then many "keyvalues" offer only a choice of "yes/no" ... ?

• What do the flag numbers mean and why are they logarithmic?

I guess that all the active-flag numbers are added together for storage (somewhere) as a single integer value, eg 519 can only mean flags 1+2+4+512 ?

• Which entities use which flags ?

See the specific documentation page for the entity classname or decipher the FGD file.

• What is the best way to document and comment on the usefulness / function of each flag ?

• Inline ? - ie within each relevant Template:Fl_ ... so notes appear on (already cluttered) entity documentation pages?
• Link ? ie using flag label as pagetitle/redirect link ?

eg flag : 1024 : Think outside PVS : 0 (then #REDIRECT PVS#flags) ?

eg flag : 1024 : Think outside PVS : 0 (using piped link to PVS) ?

eg flag : 1024 : Think outside PVS : 0 (using glossary keywords) ?

• Template ?

eg {{Think outside PVS}} => [[PVS|Think outside PVS]]<includeonly>[[Category:Thinking Entities]]</includeonly><noinclude>[[Category:Flags|T]]</noinclude>.

--Beeswax 14:12, 26 Feb 2008 (PST)