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Default Re: mp_schwalbe (BETA) Waypoints - 17-03-2006

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Originally Posted by the bindlestiff
There is a route #0 at the Allied spawn point that directs the engineers to take either of two paths to the dynamite objective. One is outside the chapel door (alt_roam #9) and the other is inside the door (alt_roam #8. The inside route is the most dangerous, so I'd llike the bots to mostly use the outside route that goes over the boxes and down to the outdoor patio.

I checked your map to see if there was a problem with the route code.

You have 2 dynamite actions, 0 and 1. You only provide a route for dynamite action 0, NOT action 1. The other route in the allied spawn was for the document goal. No route was provided for action 1.

Remember - routes will only be used by the bot IF it points to the action the bot wants to accomplish. In this case, sometimes the bots decide they want to plant on action 1 instead of action 0, and since you have no route info for action 1, they just take the shortest path to it. Action 1 is a valid dynamite goal at map start, so it can and will be chosen by the bots at times.

When they went to plant on action 0, then they always used the route info. I tested this 100+ times, by deactivating action 1, then setting timescale to 7 and adding/kicking/re-adding 20 engs bots, with the same, correct result everytime.

By adding some route info for action 1, you will get the results your looking for.


Cheers!


BTW: I extended the route system in ET so that one route could point to multiple actions, as well as multiple paths, which helped a lot to prevent the confusion with trying to route multiple actions like in this case, as well as saving precious actions for other things.

Unfortunately, adding this ability to Wolf would break most of the current nav files, so prolly won't ever be added.


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