Movetogoal and walkmove

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Never worked with these built ins too much. When they move the bot for example, are they using the setorigin command to shift the bot to the desired location?

Im trying to find a way to move the bot without using setorigin, and seems most of the old bot legacy code out there seems to use setorigin to do it. The new spawnclient () for bots in darkplaces does not work well with any kind of movement code that uses setorigin, and it winds up keeping the bot facing the same yaw direction all the time. LH has told me that its best to use .movement_x , _y to move the bot, with the spawnclient because of what is now going on in sv_playerphysics since the bot is really using the same player physics the player would use in that new code. He also said NO animation code is needed, so I guess the engine takes care of all the bot animations?

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spawnclient spawns an entity that acts like a client.

give it movetype_walk, set your intentions within PlayerPreThink, and it'll move exactly like a player.
your existing player code will do all the animations.

basically the only difference between a bot and a real player is that a bot is too stupid to make its own decisions - you need to set the various player inputs yourself, namely v_angles, movement, button0, button2 (and other buttons if your mod uses them).

angles is getting reset because you've not set v_angles, basically. You're expected to set .movement, but you don't have to.

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No other botclient uses thinks for AI.
There's a reason for that.
Changing thinks or nextthinks utterly ruins any player animations (as well as lightning/nail attack rates).
Its easier for them to create and use their own timers inside PlayerPreThink. Whether you move with .movement or movetogoal, I really recommend that you do not use thinks inside your bot AI, doing so makes everything much more complex (unless of course your bots don't use the player model/frameset, of course, in which case it doesn't really make any difference either way).

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[Electro]

You shouldn't need ANY specific models/animations for bots only if you want them to do everything like players.

Automatic downloading works off anything that's trying to precache and isn't found (as far as i'm aware).
So just make sure you precache the female mdl.

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