Frikbots & Skins

[Sajt]

Holy cow! I saw a few apostrophes in there, scar3crow!

[FrikaC]

To be honest, if it doesn't involve custom skins, I do just go with DP, whether the server is QW, NQ or DP protocol... Who cares? Its still Quake. With that line of thought, people who don't switch to something that works well between all of them is furthering the divide (which should have died the moment broadband became widely available and the source was released as well). The only difference, thats real to me, is ease of bunnyhopping in QW and NQ. And if your Quake playing is so reliant on that, then you suck at the game. Same thing goes if you only play on dm3 or dm6 or whatnot. There, I said it, I get tired of that shit.

We should play STC more.

[scar3crow]

That we should, didn't Krimzon make a map for it a few years back?

I miss sneaking around and up walls as a Thief, raiding the enemy base...

Urm... Frikbot skins! Still on topic?

[redrum]

I was able to apply the custom skins to the bots!
After I did this, the bots are now removed from the scoreboard.
Why did this happen?

[FrikaC]

Don't mess up those messages.

[redrum]

What messages?

[FrikaC]

Those messages.

[scar3crow]

>_<

[redrum]

OK TERRIFIC!

[Lightning Hunter]

I stumbled upon this thread after trying to give the Frikbots custom skins as well, except I'm not using Quakeworld. I'm not compiling the code with any mods at all; only with Quake. I was hoping I could do it the "quick hack" way, with a player.mdl and modifying bot_misc.qc, as quoted here:

First, you'll need a player.mdl with some different skins on it. Second, look for BotName in bot_misc.qc. Just stick in some self.skin = X where X is the skin number.

So, I have a player.mdl in the /progs folder with 16 different skins. I changed the BotName section in bot_misc.qc to look like this:

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string(float r) BotName =
{
   self.b_num = r;
   if (r == 1)
   {   
      self.skin = 0;
      return "Vincent";
   }
   else if (r == 2)
   {
      self.skin = 1;
      return "Bishop";
   }
   else if (r == 3)
   {   
      self.skin = 2;
      return "Nomad";


Each bot after just has the next skin number. Obviously, something is wrong - because all I see now is the white team skin... Any ideas? Will the quick hack even work at all?

[FrikaC]

It's white because of the missing bshirt/bpants. Likely somewhere else in the code is setting the skin back to 0. Maybe PutClientInServer?

[Lightning Hunter]

Um, I only found The following code doing a search for "putclientinserver":

In Bot_qw.qc

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void(float whatbot, float whatskill) BotConnect =
{
   local float f;
   local string h;
   local entity uself;
   
   f = ClientNextAvailable();
   uself = self;
   if(f == -1)
   {
      bprint(PRINT_HIGH, "Unable to connect a bot, server is full.\n");
      return;
   }

   bot_count = bot_count + 1;
   self = GetClientEntity(f);
   bot_start_topic(1);
   self.b_clientno = f;
   self.colormap = f + 1;
   if (whatbot)
      self.netname = BotName(whatbot);
   else
      self.netname = PickARandomName();
   // players can set skill all weird, so leave these checks in
   whatskill = rint(whatskill);
   if (whatskill > 3)
      whatskill = 3;
   else if (whatskill < 0)
      whatskill = 0;
   self.b_skill = whatskill;
   self.b_entertime = time;
   self.team = self.b_pants + 1;
   UpdateClient(self);
   SetNewParms();
   self.ishuman = 2;
   ClientConnect();
   PutClientInServer();
   if(f > 16)
      active_clients2 = active_clients2 | ClientBitFlag(f - 16);
   else
      active_clients1 = active_clients1 | ClientBitFlag(f);
   self = uself;
};


And in bot.qc

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void(float whichteam, float whatbot, float whatskill) BotConnect =
{
   local float f;
   local string h;
   local entity uself;
   
   f = ClientNextAvailable();
   uself = self;
   if(f == -1)
   {
      bprint("Unable to connect a bot, server is full.\n");
      return;
   }
   
   // chat thing

   bot_count = bot_count + 1;
   self = GetClientEntity(f);
   if (!saved_bots)
      bot_start_topic(1);
   self.b_clientno = f;
   self.colormap = f + 1;
   if (whatbot)
      self.netname = BotName(whatbot);
   else
      self.netname = PickARandomName();


   // players can set skill all weird, so leave these checks in
   whatskill = rint(whatskill);
   if (whatskill > 3)
      whatskill = 3;
   else if (whatskill < 0)
      whatskill = 0;
   self.b_skill = whatskill;

   if (teamplay && !coop)
   {
      if (whichteam)
         self.b_pants = FindAnotherColor(uself.team - 1);
      else
         self.b_pants = uself.team - 1;
      self.b_shirt = self.b_pants;
   }

   self.team = self.b_pants + 1;
   UpdateClient(self);
   SetNewParms();
   self.ishuman = 2;
   ClientConnect();
   PutClientInServer();

   active_clients = active_clients | ClientBitFlag(f);

   // this is risky... could corrupt .way files if done wrong
   // If you're not the gambling type, comment this out

   f = ClientBitFlag(self.b_num - 1);
   current_bots = current_bots | f;

   if (self.b_num <= 8)
      saved_skills1 = (saved_skills1 & (65536 - (3 * f)) | (self.b_skill * f));
   else
   {
      f = ClientBitFlag(self.b_num - 9);
      saved_skills2 = (saved_skills2 & (65536 - (3 * f)) | (self.b_skill * f));
   }

   h = ftos(current_bots);
   cvar_set("scratch1", h);
   h = ftos(saved_skills1);
   cvar_set("scratch2", h);
   h = ftos(saved_skills2);
   cvar_set("scratch3", h);
   self = uself;

};


And of course I found putclientinserver in client.qc, but I shouldn't have to change that, right? None of this seems relevant, but I could be wrong. I've only ever done very trivial coding with QuakeC in the past.

[Lightning Hunter]

No responses? I guess it's just too much work to get new skins to work with the Frikbots + regular Quake.

[Dr. Shadowborg]

No responses? I guess it's just too much work to get new skins to work with the Frikbots + regular Quake.

Make a fresh function to set the skin, and call that AFTER:

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   ClientConnect();
   PutClientInServer();


in BotConnect(); (This is located inside bot.qc)

[Lightning Hunter]

I found what you were talking about in bot.qc, but I'm not sure what "fresh function" I could create. Like I said, I'm absolutely noobish at QuakeC.