Oak Bots

vertigo · Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 9

I play phrantic, blip-tourney etc fine

crashtest · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 11

Ok, I was able to get them working fine on TMP2 Lost Feelt, Phrantic, etc.

It looks good. Finally I got it working! Very Happy

Thanks for the help.

Guest · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject: sabota8 crash report

Upon game launch, as in mid-init:

tIKi_mAn · Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Indiana, USA

Gah, thought I was logged in. Above Guest was me.

Guest · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately I haven't included a linux game binary.

tIKi_mAn · Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Indiana, USA

Yesh, see that is the thing. You should not really need one, the game binary is the executable supplied by Q4. The mods should be multiplatform. The mod should not even know It is on another OS.

I will pop this on my Windows box to see what happens.

[edit] I see, you compiled as a DLL and not a VM. I take it Q4 does not quite mod Q3 Style since that is what Raven has done too in q4base.
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PrOxY · Joined: 20 Nov 2005 Posts: 7

Guest · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject:

Is there any possibility to play this bot with X-battle mod?

jhan · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject:

Hey ...I just tried out Sabot and I must say this is a nice start.Brings back memories of those great old quake2 bots Very Happy

Thanks!

Guest · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:20 am Post subject: Re: sabota8 crash report

Guest · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:31 am Post subject:

i tested your bot on "the lost fleet" and "fraggin ...." and the bot runs fine.
i have many problems with q4 like crashes etc but your bot works fine for me, well he has some movement bugs :p.
thx for your impressive and hard work with bots its 100% more fun for me to play =).

Guest · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:18 am Post subject:

I ran your bot on a couple of custom maps and it really runs well.

Bliptourney1 was a nice map for this bot.It never got stuck and used the whole area and kicked my ass too.

Swq4dm1 is an awesome map and your bots did really well on it,just stopping to reflect on their lives in the two small slime pools from time to time.But since slime was not in the original game the bots can't really be blamed for that.

I am very happy that these bots run fast on my middle of the road system.I was kinda worried that any bot programs would show a noticeable slowdown but yours really doesn't.I kinda hope you continue working on the sabot or at least contribute to the oak project for the sake of us high pingers ;p

Great job!!

CatPhone · Guest

TinMan · Site Admin Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 51

Thanks for all the feedback guys.

Re: Other mods
As catphone mentioned it currently works with other mods, however only if no files conflict.
Again it helps to understand how the engine handles files and mods.
Fortunatly I'm completely awesome (my mum says so) and wrote up a description here:
http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=114876

The major conflict will happen if the mod uses a modified game binary (ie compiled game code).

Re: Performance
I'm quite happy with the performance too, while of course some of this would be sucked up by a more complex bot, things at least run a lot better than Doom3 mp (and the expansion was worse).

Re: Linux
Again, sorry I didn't include support.

Re: Dedicated servers, I didn't test it myself, but you guys are reporting it's ok?
The network side of it is really rough, bot's will use a bit more bandwidth, there are transmitting their usrcmds each frame, and it hasn't been optimised to only send those that are in the clients pvs.

Guest · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: sabota8 crash report

Could you create Linux version ? please....