Slight problem with uber simple bot.

Hello,

Im currently just writing a small bot, which just needs to be a player on a team (In natural-selection the game doesnt start unless both teams have at least one play, so I just need a bot to be on the other team while I test whatever I need to test), I've used some code from HPB_Bot, which spawns the bot and makes him connect.

Well, I'm happy to say, the bot spawns, joins a team that I want it to, but, it does not show up on the scoreboard, it shows up on status/rcon users however.

Is there something I'm missing here?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

- voogru.

[Lazy]

That does sound odd, are you calling the player function of the mod? ie: CALL_GAME_ENTITY ( I'm assuming this is for metamod ).

Auctually I'm not using metamod, but I am calling the game entity.

  
 
extern "C" void* player(entvars_t* pev);
 
 if(FStrEq(Cmd_Argv(0), "addbot"))
 {
  char szName[] = {"Badger"};
  char szRejectMessage[128];
  edict_t* pEdict = (*g_engfuncs.pfnCreateFakeClient)(szName);
  if (pEdict != NULL) 
  {   
   player(&pEdict->v);
   
   
   ClientConnect(pEdict, szName, "127.0.0.1", szRejectMessage);
   ClientPutInServer(pEdict);
   
   pEdict->v.flags |= FL_FAKECLIENT;
   edict_t *pInfoTeam = NULL;
   while(pInfoTeam = UTIL_FindEntityByClassname(pInfoTeam, "info_join_team"))
   {
	if(pInfoTeam->v.team == atoi(Cmd_Argv(1)))
	{
	 DispatchTouch(pInfoTeam, pEdict);
	 break;
	}
   }
  }
 }

As you can see, its simple as pie.

[Lazy]

I don't know why this works, it just does though. Change where necissary...

   const char* pszName = "Badger";
   char szRejectMsg[ 128 ];
   edict_t* pSpot = NULL;   
   edict_t* pBot = NULL;
   pBot = ( *g_engfuncs.pfnCreateFakeClient ) ( pszName );
   if ( ! FNullEnt( pBot ) )
   {
	  CALL_GAME_ENTITY( PLID, "player", VARS( pBot ) );
	  pBot->v.flags |= FL_FAKECLIENT;
	  MDLL_ClientConnect( pBot, pszName, "127.0.0.1", szRejectMsg );
	  MDLL_ClientPutInServer( pBot );
	  while ( ( pSpot = FIND_ENTITY_BY_STRING( pSpot, "classname", "info_join_team" ) ) != NULL )
	  {
		 if ( pSpot->v.team == atoi( CMD_ARGV( 1 ) ) )
		 {
			MDLL_Touch( pSpot, pBot );
			break;
		 }
	  }
	  ( *g_engfuncs.pfnRunPlayerMove ) ( pBot, pBot->v.v_angle, 0, 0, 0, pBot->v.button, 0, 0 );
   }

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

When you mean "doesn't show up in the scoreboard" do you mean the bot doesn't show up AT ALL, even in grey or with the spectators ?

That worked.

Thanks!

And I meant that they didnt show up on the scoreboard at all, not even under spectators. As if they were not even there.

[Lazy]

I think its one of those wierd engine things, when I was working on a bot long ago it would also do wierd things unless RunPlayerMove was called.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

now what I don't understand is that you said the code Lazy posted WORKS although the bot is not using metamod, WTF ??? how on earth can this be ????

[Lazy]

I told him to modify the code as needed, all of the metamod stuff can be done in a standalone dll.

Unless I completely mis-understood what you were saying.