Zandronum bots

[Krispy]

Do bots behave like real players in terms of scripts and tags? In single-player mode, if a script makes them do one thing, will it make real players on a server do the same stuff? Or do they inherit the traits of the player during single player sessions?

In other words, is it wise to playtest with them as if it's in a testing server with real players?

[Qent]

As far as scripts and stuff go, yes, they are affected just the same as real players.

[Krispy]

But not with stuff like playernumber?

[Ænima]

Playernumber should still apply the same way too.

[Krispy]

Thank you.

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One more question not worth making a new thread about, is it possible to check a player's TID through acs?

[Ænima]

http://zdoom.org/wiki/ActivatorTID

[Watermelon]

Thank you.

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One more question not worth making a new thread about, is it possible to check a player's TID through acs?

Make sure when using Ænima's post that you've actually set them to have a TID if you haven't already. Here's the way I do it:

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script 123 ENTER
{
    Thing_ChangeTID(0, 1000 + PlayerNumber());
}

Therefore the first player in the server (player 1) will have a tid of 1000, then player 2 will have a tid of 1001... etc [starts at zero for player 1]

[Krispy]

[starts at zero for player 1]

This was interesting.

[Ænima]

Yes. This is how all indexes work. For example, in the array myarray[48,32,11], asking for entry 0 will return "48" because indexes start at 0. Remember this for later, it will save you much frustration. ;p

[TheBladeRoden]

They don't seem to work with GetPlayerInput scripts though

[ZzZombo]

Better playtest using a local server. I noticed that custom SBARINFO is drawn incorrectly when used with bots offline. It draws totally wrong stuff.