Starting place for bot-coding...

[NathanRahl]

I'm searching for a good place to start making bots for JK2... Is there any place with tutorials, how-to's or sample code?

 

I'm a quite competent programmer, have done some (small) games myself, but am new to the bot/mod scene...

 

Anything helpful is appreciated!

[Project_Fusion]

Hey,

Do you learn fast? Like c++ ect? If so, your just like me. lol

 

Okay, it's really quite simple, if you just want to make a bot do the following:

 

Open up GameData/Tools/Bottutorial/example.bot(this sets saber color, skin and points to your peersonality)

 

simply edit this to your needs. save as yourbot.bot

 

Open up example.jkb and again edit to your needs (This is the personality/skill file)

 

save as yourbot.jkb

 

Stick the .jkb in /botfiles and the .bot in /scripts within your .pk3.

 

If you ant a custom skin, make it and then just shove those two files above in /botfiles and /scripts within the skin.pk3

hope that helped,

 

Rich

[NathanRahl]

Is there any way to dig deeper into the bot's algorithms? I'd like to do something a bit more than just adjust the numbers...

 

Do I have to make a mod for this? How could this be done?

[Jaii der Herr]

look in the game ai files in the MP SDK Source code.

If you are not familar with C learn C or forget it

[NathanRahl]

I'm well familiar with C/C++... just wasn't aware there is an SDK out! Know where I can find it?

[Jaii der Herr]

raven

nearly all JK2 relatet sites

[NathanRahl]

Just to clarify: SDK = Editing Tools? Just wondering since there's only header files in there but no source... or have I overlooked?

[NathanRahl]

Ahem, you did mean the "code" directory, didn't you? Somehow I saw .c files and ignored them - I'm too used to C++...