Zombie Panic compatible bots?
 

Hey guys. Forgive me if I say something wrong, or post this in the wrong forum, as obviously I am a newbie. I'm pretty sure this is where I post this, so here goes:

Zombie Panic is an extremely fun multiplayer mod, I'm not sure if anybody here has heard of it. Problem is, not many people actually play it. There is one - maybe two servers out there that have the game up 24/7, with a hardcore group of about 50 people who play it occasionally. Zombie Panic is at it's best when there's at least 10 people playing.

Zombie Panic is also a mod in dire, dire need of bots. For times when there is nobody playing, or for times when there is a desire to play offline, a bot would be most useful. I've been on patrol, hoping to find even a simple HLDM bot that would work with Zombie Panic, because, frankly, that's all it needs. In terms of handling weapons and attacking, all a Zombie Panic bot would need is to be able to spawn itself and play using standard HLDM teamplay mechanics.

I've asked around the ZP forums to see if there were bots that would be compatible; they don't know either. So I turn to the experts: You guys. I've tried HPB, and I've tried RCbot. Both bots join the game, but when it comes to actually creating players, it's a no-go.

Are there any bots which might be compatible with Zombie Panic?

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well I think you really narrow down who can respond to this since you said you came to the "experts" which, I believe, most of us aren't. I think most of us are just hobbyists.
you'll probably have to (or find someone to) modify the HPBBot (or some other multimod bot) to support Zombie Panic or make a new bot for Zombie Panic.

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Damn. I'd love to get in there and tinker with HBP's code, but I'm too inexperienced with Half-Life stuff - plus I really don't have the time to start learning.

Oh well. :-/

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Too bad you don't have time, because it's actually quite simple, and we'd have enjoyed to help you out. Perhaps you can find someone else in your community who'd want to do it ? Don't hesitate to send him here if so :)

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Simple for you, maybe. I am not pro-efficient in C++ code. My coding experience is limited to TI-82 BASIC, Clickteam Event Script, mIRC scripting, and PHP.

Just trying to read Botman's readme is making my head spin. :(

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Heyyo,

Yeah, it's pretty much needed that you need to know at least the basics of c++, and then you can work from there. *sighs* for now I think I'll just stick with modding gta script (san andreas! here I come baby!)

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basics of C should be sufficient I guess

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Even with some c++ knowledge botmans hpb bot and the readme still seems very hard.

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Look, when I decided that I wanted to code a bot, I knew only how to write hello world's in C, and not any C++ at all. Nevertheless, hacking the HPB_bot turned out to be a piece of cake after one week or two. I don't know any person that tried seriously to get into hacking the HPB_bot and failed. Even (3)Colors could do it. Now what ?

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The first time you read the readme/source it might look very hard. Just read the readme a few times and you'll understand how the bot itself works. After that you should reading cpp files such as bot.cpp and bot_combat.cpp and things will start to make even more sence.
Now you can start with modifying small things(add mod-specific entities in h_export, change the weapon table in bot_combat etc).
Ofcourse if you have any problems you can ask them here :)