How to use bots in your title packs

[steeffeen]

Well I agree the UI is not that usefull, but it's easier to test the real performances of the script by example.
And I think it's also safer in general to be able to test a script with bots that have the same properties as a player to avoid tons of specific coding only for testing purpose.

that's a point

[w1lla]

we played some time as toads! so funny
it would be great if we could just place usual bots which look like players, i'm missing the fake players which did just stand in the spawns, they were helpful for debugging and stuff

Well using SetNbFakePlayers() seems to be broken? in Maniascript.

So this is quite a nice alternative.

I'm not sure I understood exactly the problem, but now you can use the new Users_SetNbFakeUsers() function instead of SetNbFakePlayers(). And it's much more powerful, as it spawns "real" players with an UI, Score, etc (this thing changed my life ^^).

K missed it actually

It was in the old scripts on maniascript always

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SetNbFakePlayers(	Integer 	NbTeam1,
Integer 	NbTeam2 		
);

Thanks for the Headsup...

[YonCan]

it would be great if we could just place usual bots which look like players

[steeffeen]

Saunter

The bot wanders in a zone defined by a point and a radius. More precisely, the bot goes to a random location in this zone, then waits, and chooses another point in the same zone (and loops on this pattern). Use the following Driver's parameters to customize this behaviour :

Saunter_AnchorPoint (Vec3) -> Center of the zone
Saunter_Radius (Real) -> Radius of the zone
Saunter_BaseChillingTime (Integer) -> Time between two moves (in ms)
Saunter_ChillingDeltaTime (Integer) -> Used to add some randomness in the chilling time. For example, if the BaseChillingTime is 1000 and ChillingDeltaTime is 300, the chilling time will be a random value between 0.7 and 1.3 second.


The bot will engage the targets within its AggroRadius, following them and shooting at them until they are out of sight or until the distance between the bot and its AnchorPoint is above its DisengageDistance. The bot then disengages and goes back in a random point in its zone.

i can't quite get it working

here's my code:

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declare Bot = CreateBotPlayer(NullId, 0, S_ArmorMax, BlockSpawns[MathLib::Rand(0, BlockSpawns.count-1)], Now);
InitPlayer(Bot);

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Void InitPlayer(CSmPlayer _Player) {
	// Apply bot hehavior
	if (_Player.IsFakePlayer && _Player.Driver != Null) {
		_Player.Driver.Behaviour = CSmPlayerDriver::ESmDriverBehaviour::Saunter;
		_Player.Driver.AttackFilter = CSmPlayerDriver::ESmAttackFilter::All;
		_Player.Driver.Saunter_Radius = 100.0;
		_Player.Driver.Saunter_BaseChillingTime = 500;
		_Player.Driver.Saunter_ChillingTimeDelta = 500;
		_Player.Driver.AggroRadius = 50.0;
		_Player.Driver.Escape_DistanceReset = 50.0;
		_Player.Driver.Agressivity = 10.0;
	}
}

i know that the whole bot thing isn't finished yet but in the thread it's written, that the bots DO move around
mine just stay in the spawn and shoot at you if you get in their sight (as usual)

AND Saunter_AnchorPoint doesn't exist

any hints?

[steeffeen]

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DbgEnableNavMesh

i'm dumb

[steeffeen]

Ok, I think I see where the problem can be. Until I fix it, here is how you can make your bots move : all you have to do is put the global variable DbgEnableNavMesh at True in your StartServer section. Basically, the game should have understood by itself that this variable is supposed to be True when you use bots, but apparently it didn't.

after some tests i would say that DbgEnableNavMesh should be kept as variable
if only maps with botpaths would be computed like DbgEnableNavMesh enabled then you couldn't use bots on other maps because they don't move then, for me it's fine to set the variable in a mode where i wan't to use moving bots

another question though:

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Users_CreateFake(Text, Integer);

works but fails always on my end
the fake players gets created successfully and is working, but the script crashes instantly with the following error
http://www.pictures.esc-clan.net/upload/createfake.jpg

and a request:
it would be great if fake players wouldn't be part of the Players array but included in the BotPlayers array

[TMarc]

another question though:

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Users_CreateFake(Text, Integer);

works but fails always on my end
the fake players gets created successfully and is working, but the script crashes instantly with the following error
http://www.pictures.esc-clan.net/upload/createfake.jpg

Spontaneous question here: why do you use "*test*" ? Did you try with a string that has no wildcards? E.g. "TestFakeUser_01"?
Perhaps the engine can create the fake player, but can't attribute the name, which leads to the abort?

[steeffeen]

another question though:

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Users_CreateFake(Text, Integer);

works but fails always on my end
the fake players gets created successfully and is working, but the script crashes instantly with the following error
http://www.pictures.esc-clan.net/upload/createfake.jpg

Spontaneous question here: why do you use "*test*" ? Did you try with a string that has no wildcards? E.g. "TestFakeUser_01"?
Perhaps the engine can create the fake player, but can't attribute the name, which leads to the abort?

i tried 100 different names, the bots created with another method have the logins *fakeplayerXYZ*, that's why i tried this name in the screenshot

[TMarc]

hm, and if you try "\*test\*", escaping the special characters?

[steeffeen]

hm, and if you try "\*test\*", escaping the special characters?

* isn't a special character...