POD-bot back into shape.

[sPlOrYgOn]

yea i think pmb's leaving this project right about now.
hopefully now that i have an avatar you can see which posts are made by me ezier

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

...and he's making fun of me, or what?


To all the others: yes, I'd appreciate if someone could continue fixing the bot. I have come to the point where I know pretty well how the POD-bot code works, so I believe I am able to provide quick and hopefully accurate assistance to anyone wanting to get his hands dirty with the code. Just ask, and I'll answer. I can help you and point you in the right direction if you want to fix a particular bug or add a particular feature and I can tell you how I think I would do it. Besides, there are a few other people here at Bots United who know the POD-bot code pretty well too, being working on their own PB-based bots : Whistler, KaCaT, LightNinja... I'm sure they can provide as much help as I could.

It's that I have too many priorities at the moment. I prolly thought "one or two fixes, and hop, RACC", but what was needed was much more than that and maintaining this bot has become a demanding hobby. I've got a shitload of other projects: my own bot, which I haven't touched for two weeks, running the Bots United organization with the other council members, planning and working on the United Bot, thinking about the future... what is taking the most time right now is running Bots United. The association is very young, and we're not yet fully organized... and as often, people also having their real life and other issues, a majority of the work falls down on the arms of a minority of the people who are supposed to run it.

[SoUlFaThEr]

totally understandable You have done an incredible amount of GREAT things to this .dll and you should be really proud. you did those things with godspeed too! amazing sometimes. I perwsonally cant thank you enough for the great effort you put into this bot Pierre. i understand your talents now and will go with you wherever you go to help test the things you do.......that means if i am wanted as support.

is anyone else willing to implement the stephanhendricks door fix coding into podbot as a last update?

the rest is cosmetic cuz the bot runs fine i think. minor things.

but the door fix is a major issue in many many maps.

[MusicMan]

Hey PMB. I would love to compile the new .dll with the fixes SF mentioned, but I am having trouble when compiling it with MSVC 6.0. It says that I am missing alot of .h files i.e

extdll.h
meta_api.h
etc.

Can you please help me

MusicMan

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Sure. You need to install the metamod source code and the Half-Life SDK.

It's not exactly like the original POD-bot 2.6; this one was self-contained, i.e you grabbed the archive and were able to compile it straight out of the box.

But since this one has been ported to metamod, it relies on the metamod files, which ones rely on the Half-Life SDK too.

I will make a POD-bot development kit and post it onto the filebase, is that OK ?


*edit* it's there, you can find it at the POD-bot section of the filebase.

[MusicMan]

Thanks PMB

I dl'ed the BU dev kit and tried changing paths and copying .h files but it didn't work, so thanks a million for making this PB dev kit

MusicMan

[Austin]

Once I get some time I would like to work on this bot.

The next three weeks I will have little if any time but after that I should be able to do some things with it.

I fixed the command bug and updated the apmd menus for SF.

You can DL the new dll here:
http://austinbots.com/Pod26MM/podbot_mm.dll

>edit<
I will be switching EVERYTHING I do on computers, over to Linux starting in about a month!

I have redhat installed right now and can do the builds if someone can tell me what I need to install to get this to buld on RH.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

The PB SDK is done

[MusicMan]

Thanks!

MusicMan

[Dethpod]

Glad to see that the PodBot-mm is not going to die off.
Any chance the linux .so file can be built too?

-Dethpod