Ns Bots?
Clashen
Join Date: 2003-08-22 Member: 20087Members
Join Date: 2003-08-22 Member: 20087Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Use bots with NS</div> I just wonder i i can play Ns with bots because i cant play online everyweek (my father only have 56k <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> )
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You can learn the basics of gorge and commander thought and sometimes i actually have good games with them....
Practise your own weapon skills against them. They are also acceptable for use when comm practasing. However, when playing eclipse they hardly ever go out the right door...
Parsing the terrain to navigate properly is the hardest part of bot creation - partially transparent obstacles like handrails and dynamic obstacles like elevators are usually the most problematic for autonomous bots. The HL engine has a kinda weird treatment of ladders which makes them a pain in the butt as well.
I suppose it would be easy enough to make bot nodes by hand on a map-per-map thing, but as you say making a bot that is autonomous would be nightmarish. Do you happen to know which one the WhichBot is?
WhichBot uses a mesh of waypoints on a map-by-map basis. Placing them well greatly affects how well the bot will play on the map, so it's not quite as easy as you'd think.
Half life
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++|-----NS
++|-----Rcbotns
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+++++ |--Maps (*.rcw)
That works for me. Remember to run the batch file too.
Just for clerity, (which has nothing to do with speed btw,)
Half life directory: Contains 'rcbotns' AND 'ns'
NS: Contains only the rcbot stuff that the installer puts there
rcbotns: Contains all the stuff from the zip file. Run the install.bat thing in here.
BTW, the official guide/manual pop-up pages can't be used on a smaller than 1024x786 resolution, bacause they have no scrollbars. And I am trying to figure out what is the relation to "armor levels" to "advanced armor"? I just can't get the latter in order to build e.g. HMG.
The manual BTW is unusable even in 1024x768. But I know how to get "Advanced armory" now: you research it by clicking Armory and then choosing the advanced armory icon in Commander view.
C:\Half-life
or
C:\Sierra\Half-Life
or
C:\Counterstrike
whatever (dont put the '\' at the end though)
Well.. RCbots dont really do anything.. hrm..
I tried it, and it messed up. Mind you, I have the most twisted NS directory ever, and I still have ns 1 installed.
Anyway, give me a minute and I'll tell you how to do it/get link.
There's something you need to add to the commandline you run NS with.
till then, im not ever playing with ns bots
I use them for evening (if that's possible, 3bots per human maybe?) the teams on LAN parties.
The online freezing is wierd sometimes..
Sometimes I can still see people walking around me, and sometimes everything stands still.
That's probably because you did not move the *.rcw files to ...ns/maps. As I said earlier in this thread, the instructions are faulty on this. The *.rcw in wrong place mean the robots don't know any routes across the maps and can't do much anything except at the base.
Can anybody get to the RCbot site? I cant.. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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On the subject, why are they different file types to the ones already installed?
I can't remember if this was to do with my old version of RCBot, but if it is, I've already fixed it. I just can't remember.
Does someone know the file types for the different versions of hand? Put me out of my uncharacteristec ignorance... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->