[Solved] BOT staring contest

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 10:43 pm

Arent they cute?
Staring at each other like this ( except that they are 4 floors of concrete from actually seeing each other )

The bots sometimes stop and do this ( only this ). The soldiers on the bottom floor look up, and the soldiers on the top floor look down...

A possible cause for this is that its a map with -fast VIS compile: so they CAN actually see each other. If so the problem will go away in the -final compile....
Any other smart reason for this?

Reish Vedaur · Post by **Reish Vedaur** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:45 am

I'd consider using monster clip between the floors. Give it a quick try.

Post by **jv_map** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 6:22 am

This is a very common problem and I thoroughly hate it. Singleplayer AI does it as well. I'm afraid there's no other solution than to modify the game code and remove their irritating turret behaviour altogether. But alas, when will we get the source....

Here's an old thread from before my bots beta release:
http://www.modtheater.com/forum/showthr ... eadid=4005

Although the solution found (eleminating all hearing and enemyshareranges) strongly reduced the problem, it still happens every now and then, especially on very vertical maps like yours.

small_sumo · Post by **small_sumo** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 10:00 am

When you make a bot map you really have to take this into account. They like the flat country.

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 11:16 am

Hmmm... OK... now I know ewhat I can do with it.
Did you find any "optimal hearing" value jv?

Post by **jv_map** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:14 pm

0 is what they use now (no hearing at all).

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 9:44 am

I cant find how to define the hearing in the manual... what command should i use?

Post by **jv_map** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:28 am

The bots scripts don't let you customize it

(it's in spawnhandler_default.scr)

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:14 pm

In next release? They look like morons right now...

Post by **jv_map** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:18 pm

I know but it only gets worse if you increase hearing...

mohaa_rox · Post by **mohaa_rox** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:21 pm

i also had these dumb axis shooting at the sky for no reason.