Getting Frikbot to shoot an entity

[CocoT]

Hi!
I'm playing around with a little something here and was wondering if there was an easy way to make a Frikbot shoot an entity that is not a player or a monster. Basically, I'm making the player create an entity and would like bots to shoot at it (while shooting at each other and/or the player). I've tried a couple of things but can't seem to make it work. Any suggestions?

[Orion]

Yes!

You can do it pretty easily, search fot bot_dodge_stuff() at bot_fight.qc and add this in the (else) after (if (coop)) statement:

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local entity head;
head = findradius(self.origin, 9999);
while(head)
{
   if(head.classname == "something")
   {
      if(head.health > 0)
      {
         tsz = bot_size_player(head) + vlen(head.origin - self.origin) * 0.5;
         if (tsz < foesz)
         {
            if (fov(head) || head.b_sound > time || self.b_skill == 3)
            {
               if (fisible(head))
               {
                  self.enemy = head;
                  foesz = tsz;
               }
            }
         }
      }
   }
   head = head.chain;
}


[Electro]

If you really want to shove things down its throat you could always just do:

self.enemy = targetentity;

at the end of BotAI

BotAI is called pretty often, so if it's an entity you already know.. should be fine, but you don't want to be doing a find here methinks.

Really depends on what you're using it for!

[CocoT]

Great! Thanks a lot, guys, it works fine now

[FrikaC]

Wait. FrikBot....shooting entities....I don't see how that fits with either InfraRed or SpaceWalk.....

[Entar]

Who said he's working on one of those two? CocoT seems to have a certain aptitude for working on multiple mods at a time... dum dum DUM!

[CocoT]

...

/me tiptoes out of the thread...

... but trips on his own screenshot



... ouch!

[redrum]

I tried implementing the above code, but get this error message:

INDIRECT 13454(FOE)ENTITY 0 13077(_NEXT)._NEXT 13454(FOE)
BOT_FIGHT.QC : BOT_DODGE_STUFF
BOT_AI.QC : BOTAI
BOT_PHYS.QC : POSTPHYSICS
(NO FUNCTION)
RUNAWAY LOOP ERROR

The code compiles with no warnings.

[r00k]

BotAI is called pretty often, so if it's an entity you already know.. should be fine, but you don't want to be doing a find here methinks.

Try Electro's method instead?

or wrap a counter there instead, like if c > 256 break;

[redrum]

Yea...that was getting errors as well. I tried that first. I have no idea what you said after that

or wrap a counter there instead, like if c > 256 break;

[redrum]

any other help?

[Spike]

make sure you are not recursively calling findradius. it can potentially mess up the .next chain resulting in infinite loops (at least in dp where the order isn't guarenteed, but its a potential problem in any engine).

[redrum]

Thx Spike. I'll look into it.

[redrum]

When using Electros method of adding self.enemy = targetentity; at the end of BotAI().

I get an error while compiling: "Unknown value targetentity" and "type mismatch for = (pointer and _variant)

[r00k]

i think he means target1, target2, target3, self.enemy etc. for targetentity.

ok look up the function

priority_for_thing

add the classname and a priority to that function, might help.