POD-bot back into shape.

[Hot-Doc]

Sorry for posting my server specs here:

PIV 2.8 GHz
~500 MB RAM
Win XP Home
no background tasks just halflife with cs1.5 dedicated server (also metamod, podbot and mean of course)

Only one human player connected (me)

Don't you think that 60% cpu load is a little bit too much for this? ???

Later I will test a map with a .pvi file for it.

EDIT:
OK I just checked de_dust with existing pvi file. No slomo effect but 67% cpu load all the time with 11 bots and 1 human...

Will try removing mean and statsme...

[SoUlFaThEr]

@PMB and this last update.

i got in a map.....i had one duplicate name......
then i removed ALL bots from my server......and tried to fill server with bots and that doesnt work anymore.
so i added them with "quick add" and did this 2 times with no duplicates.
after a map change the bots did not come back at all.
i had to quick add bot.......

i just went back and repeated this sequence and it did it again...exactly.....there was one duplicate name upon opening first map....no fill bots command(even gives the not possible sound)
and no bots on achangelevel command when the next map loaded.

EDIT
CS 1.6, i have had no double names yet the fill server with bots command alsodoes not work......and no bots are added after a changelevel command. that should still be automatic as defined in the podbot.cfg.(i.e. addbot,addbot,addbot)

EDIT2
We found that the slo-motion thing was only really a problem with not having the vis table file.....it doing a vis made it slo down and take up to 60% CPU resource. It was suggested that we include the .pvi file with the waypoints for this bot in the future.....thats the standards package then(pwf & pvi), this way avoiding that "bug".
here is an updated and final release of the officials then until something else changes them

[sPlOrYgOn]

i don't think its the pvi files..
i had pvi files and it loaded it and it didn't say rebuilding but the bots still move in slow motion..
they never moves in slow motion before a map change..
only after.
even if i didn't have a pvi file for the first map i play they don't move in slow motion.
it only happens after a map change..
[edit]
computer specs
400Mhz
192MB RAM
Mandrake 10
hlds v3.1.1.1e

slow motion seems to happen less when i run the dedicated server with no X11 desktop running.
its probably just my comp
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[SoUlFaThEr]

its true on the only after map change slo motion.......

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

The "pb fillserver" command was still working... what was broken was just the menu. I've fixed it now. And while I was at it, I've removed the "autopath on/off" feature from the menu and I've added and "autopath maxdistance 0" option along with the other distances in the waypoints menu. It's more natural this way.

I've changed the way the respawn code works. Tell me if this crap works any better.

http://racc.bots-united.com/releases/podbot.zip

The .pvi files are included, too.

[SoUlFaThEr]

i have Mark doing the same thing lol...except he will place the apmd menu where the autopath option was in the MAIN menu

names are good.....on 1.5 and 6........thanks!!

checking the rest in a bit.....gotta get food in here somehow.....

im back and am experiencing HL crashes.....2 of them so far.
also sometimes in 1.5 the command "podbotmenu" is unknown and i cant do anything with the bots.....or that menu......i reload CS again and it suddenly works......and then not....... wierd?

CS1.6 seems to be fine on that so far.....

and yes......after the first map change that slo motion stuff happens no matter what you do....... so the pvi thing may not be worth it until this gets "fixed"

[kedat]

Originally Posted by SoUlFaThEr

im back and am experiencing HL crashes.....2 of them so far.
also sometimes in 1.5 the command "podbotmenu" is unknown and i cant do anything with the bots.....or that menu......i reload CS again and it suddenly works......and then not....... wierd?

Have same problem.
What is botcfg.cfg for...

Same thing here, boss.

The new update is crashing my HLDS non-stop. 8o It loads fine. HLDS starts, finds the podbot proggy and loads the map, but when it starts to "Rebuild Visibility Table" it crashes. :'( I nixed it from my Metamod and HLDS runs fine. Added it back, and it crashes again.
Not a coder, just throwing my 2 cents in here.

Keep up the incredible work guys!!!

[SoUlFaThEr]

aahhhaha.......must............uh.......find...... ..mmmmmm.......bug....ughh...
....crash.....pc...........no.......fun.....ughhh. ....bugs..........must........die...
headshot......script.........nub......geeks....... .must..........shoot......pixels

hihi

[sPlOrYgOn]

don't know about you guys but I don't crash on either of my comps.