Riccochet Bot Template

[The_Hard_Mission_Guy]

Hello Hello
Today I clicked on "custom games" in the CS menu and I re-discovered an old game , and I thought ... Wow .... this mod needs a bot !!

Not only because it's fun jumping on those plates in the middle of the cosmos but , because it's game style opens for me an opportunity to test a new AI technique of MINE

So if you know of a nice Bot sdk for Riccochet that has some nice functions for retrieving player position in absolute 3d space , position of other players , position of the jump cursors and functions that get misc info like score etc...
then i would be very grateful
C ya folks!

[The_Hard_Mission_Guy]

Ah I forgot
and of course I need functions to control the bot ......very important LOL

[The Storm]

Ricochet is too simple game for AI developer like you. I mean that you just need to jump and shoot, nothing complicated. Anyway on the topic I think that Ricochet source code is released in to the Valve SDK. You can get it and create the bot. Anyway Whislter had created bot for Ricochet already. Its sources are released, the bot play pretty nice. Here if you are interested:
http://yapb.bots-united.com/downloads.html

[The_Hard_Mission_Guy]

Thanks for the link
Yes Riccochet is easy but that's not exactly why I choose it , actually I'm these days working on the development of a navigation technology that doesn't use Waypointing (or at least not in the traditional way of waypointing) ..
but the problem is that the basic requirement for this technology (which is based on neural networks) are distance sensors , and that's something that is a little bit nasty to handle in CS & Co..........So I choose a simple funny mod for the start like riccochet that doesn't need distance sensors because you don't have obstacles at all in your way

P.S my whole motivation behind bot programming is to make use of a nice and fun testing environment for my Ideas in the field of AI

[The_Hard_Mission_Guy]

I think I need to download the Sdk ...Hehe but the link at Hpb_botman @ bots-united seems to be broken , so does one have an alternative link other than those diseace sites of gamespy,fileshack ......etc
thanks

[The Storm]

Here the latest version of the HLSDK.

[The_Hard_Mission_Guy]

thanks man!