Lets get this stuff rolling!

[@$3.1415rin]

I guess this CBasePlayer shouldnt then be a big problem, since you have to have some pointer to a data structure describing the entity of your bot. and if everything is fine, this should be a CBasePlayer, at least when thinking about inheritance .. but well, that's only theory

OT: I really gotta have more time

[stefanhendriks]

the problem is , we don't...

the player class has a pointer to any edict, so cBaseEntity has a edict_t, logically ... could be used for bots and all, but we just can't access cBaseEntity (yet?). Its not that odd though, because cBaseEntity is very mod specific. And we don't (should not) need that.

[sfx1999]

Try taking a peek at the monster class.

[@$3.1415rin]

just taking time for browsing the SDK, ignoring the fact that I'm writing an exam tomorrow ...

nothing really useful found, but some stuff which looks promising

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Purpose: Interface to get at server entities

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

class IServerGameEnts{ ...

sounds nice, especially there is a function to get a BaseEntity pointer of an edict_t *. the BaseEntity class in the HL2 dll itself looks that it's rather basic for other stuff, and won't be hopefully changed by a mod ( otherwise this won't be much of object orientation ) ...

virtual CBaseEntity* EdictToBaseEntity( edict_t *pEdict ) = 0;

unfortunately I havnt yet figured out how to load that interface. with that CBaseENtity, we'd get origin and stuff.



Edit : I think I got how to load that interface ... please stand by


another edit :

in the serverplugin_bot.cpp, I added

IServerGameEnts *servergameents = NULL; // for accessing the server game entities

then I loaded the library by putting

servergameents = (IServerGameEnts*)interfaceFactory(INTERFACEVERSIO N_SERVERGAMEENTS, NULL)

into the load function of the plugin ... and now I gotta see if I can load that plugin at all by HL2

[stefanhendriks]

interesting indeed. I thought there was already a game events manager though?

Edit:
oops. My bad, did not read wel. ServerEntities, pretty neat stuff asp!

[Jerry]

Wow, nice find Aspirin .
Gotta check this out!

[@$3.1415rin]

looks like the idea was good, but it doesnt work. you somehow can't load this interface.

at least we know now how to load those interfaces in general

[botman]

Use the gameServerFactory to load IServerGameEnts...

	gameents = (IServerGameEnts*)gameServerFactory(INTERFACEVERSION_SERVERGAMEENTS, NULL);
  	if ( !gameents )
  		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load gameents, ignoring\n");
  	else
  		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded gameents\n");

botman

[botman]

Here's a bunch of them (the one's commented out don't work)...

 	enginetrace = (IEngineTrace*)interfaceFactory(INTERFACEVERSION_ENGINETRACE_SERVER, NULL);
 	if ( !enginetrace )
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load enginetrace, ignoring\n");
 	else
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded enginetrace\n");
 
 	gamedll = (IServerGameDLL*)gameServerFactory(INTERFACEVERSION_SERVERGAMEDLL, NULL);
 	if ( !gamedll )
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load gamedll, ignoring\n");
 	else
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded gamedll\n");
 
 	gameents = (IServerGameEnts*)gameServerFactory(INTERFACEVERSION_SERVERGAMEENTS, NULL);
 	if ( !gameents )
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load gameents, ignoring\n");
 	else
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded gameents\n");
 
 	gameclients = (IServerGameClients*)gameServerFactory(INTERFACEVERSION_SERVERGAMECLIENTS, NULL);
 	if ( !gameclients )
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load gameclients, ignoring\n");
 	else
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded gameclients\n");
 
 	spatialpartition = (ISpatialPartition*)interfaceFactory(INTERFACEVERSION_SPATIALPARTITION, NULL);
 	if ( !spatialpartition )
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load spatialpartition, ignoring\n");
 	else
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded spatialpartition\n");
 
 	voiceserver = (IVoiceServer*)interfaceFactory(INTERFACEVERSION_VOICESERVER, NULL);
 	if ( !voiceserver )
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load voiceserver, ignoring\n");
 	else
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded voiceserver\n");
 
 	staticprops = (IStaticPropMgr*)interfaceFactory(INTERFACEVERSION_STATICPROPMGR_SERVER, NULL);
 	if ( !staticprops )
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load staticprops, ignoring\n");
 	else
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded staticprops\n");
 
 //	mapdata = (IMapData*)gameServerFactory(INTERFACEVERSION_MAPDATA, NULL);
 //	if ( !mapdata )
 //		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load mapdata, ignoring\n");
 //	else
 //		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded mapdata\n");
 
 //	physics = (IPhysics*)gameServerFactory(VPHYSICS_INTERFACE_VERSION, NULL);
 //	if ( !physics )
 //		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load physics, ignoring\n");
 //	else
 //		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded physics\n");
 
 //	physicscol = (IPhysicsCollision*)gameServerFactory(VPHYSICS_COLLISION_INTERFACE_VERSION, NULL);
 //	if ( !physicscol )
 //		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load physicscol, ignoring\n");
 //	else
 //		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded physicscol\n");
 
 //	physicssurfprop = (IPhysicsSurfaceProps*)gameServerFactory(VPHYSICS_SURFACEPROPS_INTERFACE_VERSION, NULL);
 //	if ( !physicssurfprop )
 //		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load physicssurfprop, ignoring\n");
 //	else
 //		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded physicssurfprop\n");
 
 	enginesound = (IEngineSound*)interfaceFactory(IENGINESOUND_SERVER_INTERFACE_VERSION, NULL);
 	if ( !enginesound )
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load enginesound, ignoring\n");
 	else
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded enginesound\n");
 
 	enginecache = (IVEngineCache*)interfaceFactory(VENGINE_CACHE_INTERFACE_VERSION, NULL);
 	if ( !enginecache )
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load enginecache, ignoring\n");
 	else
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded enginecache\n");
 
 	modelinfo = (IVModelInfo*)interfaceFactory(VMODELINFO_SERVER_INTERFACE_VERSION, NULL);
 	if ( !modelinfo )
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Unable to load modelinfo, ignoring\n");
 	else
 		Msg("PLUGIN: Loaded modelinfo\n");

botman

[sfx1999]

Hey what if you tried to rip the exports out of the DLL?

Is that legal?