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daemonicky: Why not QuakeC? With all the engine extensions available, I don't see why it's not viable. I prefer to hear your personal opinions from what you would expect, thanks for the links though. Routing that takes into account nearby sub-goals, cool :) Different strategies, agreed. Anticipation...

I'm looking to develop a rather extensive bot, with the goal of being as human-like as possible. I thought I'd put the questions out there... what do people look for in a bot to make it really distinguish itself as being more than other bots they've seen, something that can truely impress and make y...

Cool, cheers

I'd look at seeing if you can do the easy stuff first, like stopping them from attacking. Have them just roaming around using path_corner and ignoring the player for starters. Then you can worry about doing things like once you're in range they turn to look at you. Here's a tip :) Look in fight.qc I...

Ah right sorry, yeah the wording just threw me off a bit
Where are those vids! hehe

What do you mean by reason with the navigation meshes? The whole point of a navigation mesh is to already have the connectivity data readily available and the actual areas that can be navigated (spatial reasoning). Detour is just pathfinding, at least the last time I looked that's all it did. It's b...

Yeah I was looking into seeing how practical it'd be for my Quake bot a while ago. It uses voxels at first, but then throws that data away in favour of storing a single series of surfaces for the ground to determine the walkable area. It'd be a lot nicer and more like AAS in ways, if it kept the 3D ...

Yeah that's all good and well for general navigation, but when it comes time to doing more complex things like jumps that require a run-up, circle jumps, ramp jumps etc. then it kind of falls apart and needs another method. Yes the walkable surfaces in Quake are stored as n-gons, and the reason that...

Awesome, I can't wait to see some vids. I was curious how recast would go with Quake. What kind of ai did you have in mind? I'm yet to find a decent solution for automatically generating data for bots (and no, I don't count gladiator/q3 bots AAS as a solution... as they only handle the most basic si...

No worries, glad to help out

Looks good so far! Can't wait to see it progress.

Feel free to post any other AI ideas/questions etc. Artificial Intelligence is my favourite part of coding, and that section on the forums here is a little dry at the moment.

Cool! Someone else is doing bot stuff too :) Ok first of all, need to get some terminology sorted. Stack = list of things Push = add to the stack Pop = remove from the stack Usually when you push/pop things from a stack, you do it from either the top or the bottom. eg. Push to the top, pop from the ...

Seperate item weights can be achieved via qc, in fact that's preferable.

Same goes for personality files, can just parse external files, I was doing this for shockbot.

What about the other 90%?

Who cares, the formats aren't great anyway. Much better options are available.

It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel, saturated by it.

Both have their pros/cons. I've used both professionally in the games industry. It's more widely accepted that the animation tools in Maya are better, if that helps sway your judgement. Personally, I have a preference for Max, as I mostly do modeling and find the polygon workflow nicer. Basically th...