Frikbot Item desirability

[Lightning Hunter]

[frag.machine]

Just my $0.02:

Changing aiming accuracy alone based on bot classes will likely lead to some of them being consistently "weaker" than others.
IMO a proper approach would be to counterbalance this with another parameters (for example, the worse the aim, the faster the yaw speed, so it would mimic better a "twitching" player).

BTW, I am looking forward to play the final result, it's an awesome revamp project you guys are doing here.

[Lightning Hunter]

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[Lightning Hunter]

[Lightning Hunter]

I finished waypointing the official DM maps. I did them all from scratch, and spent quite a lot of time testing each map to make sure they were as flawless as I could get them to be. I have uploaded the waypoints and recorded a few videos of the navigation in DM2 and DM4. I will make posts about this in other Quake web sites later, once the release is closer.

Download:
http://fbe.am/uwW

DM2 Navigation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVsiBbBrWA

DM4 Navigation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9WQneV6dBY

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[Lightning Hunter]

Hey Shadowborg, how's progress? I've been busy myself lately. I have just been touching up some waypoints here and there when I have the time. I think I am pretty much done waypointing all the maps I set out to waypoint (738 of them). At this point, there are few (if any) good quality maps left to waypoint. I think my goal is accomplished.

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[Dr. Shadowborg]

Update: Invisibility code now completed. You'll have to wait until I finish the personalized accuracy stuff though as its not cut-and-paste friendly until then.

It basically checks to see if you've fired a weapon while invisible, or are infront of a bot and within 128qu. If so, they will either try to shoot at where they last saw you shoot from, or if they actually see you shoot, they'll lock on to you for a little bit.

[Lightning Hunter]

[Dr. Shadowborg]

Okay, play around with this:

http://fbe.am/uJA

It's developmental, prototypey, but I *think* it works like it should.

bot.qc has the various skill accuracies as constants, you'll see them under the extra shizz here block.

Lots of crap at the bottom of bot_misc.qc.

You can change the various personal accuracies of weapons as well as favorite weapon in the botname function. Note that positive values will cause them to be less accurate, while negative values will give them more accuracy, compensating for skill level accuracy. Note final accuracy (in bot_angle_set) doesn't go any lower than 0, because once they hit that level, they don't get any more accurate. I've also added some accuracy stuffs for the grenade launcher.

If this works out okay for you I'll tell you how to integrate it into your own sourcebase.

[Lightning Hunter]

I finally had a chance to take a brief look at the code. I'm actually confused as to where I put the botname info. Can you maybe do some personalized code for one of the default bots, like "frikbot"? I can then simply duplicate this for all the other bots. This would primarily show me where and how to add the code.

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[Lightning Hunter]

Ahhhhh, I see. I didn't even realize you added that to bot_misc. I was looking at the "extra shizz" in bot.qc. That is very easy then! I'll start messing with it.

Edit: So, does the favorite weapon actually increase the priority of "Thisp", or does it make the bots desire switching to the weapon more often when they have it in inventory?