Team Fortress 2 Options

[Venom]

Hello,
Well i have been playing TF2 basicly since beta, having been release and after playing it for 3 or 4 weeks solid now, I would like to start to turn towards bot development. After previously working with the older HL version of RCbot on Natural Selection and modifing that bot to support different game types, I will be moving my efforts towards bot development with TF2.

Like all source games and mods, they all come with basic source bots any way. The only way to activate this in games like TF2, is to make sure that -console command is on before you launch the game, and simply type "sv_cheats 1" and then "bot_add". Due to the lack of development and customisation of these standard bots, the bots will not do anything even though they can be added to the game. So I will now be looking at RCBot2 to see if i can get bots into TF2.

I will keep you posted on my efforts, i am currently downloading the Windows version of the TF2 dedicated server, having a glimps at the RCbot2 forum, people seem to be having problems with dedicated server so i hope I am able to setup and install RCbots correctly.

Wish me luck

Venom

[Venom]

First inital impression is that in order to code, you need all the files, lucky enough i know were to get them from, the source sdk, the problem is that i am unsure what ones it needs, so i am slowly building up the file list that rcbot requires through trial and error.

Very time consuming

I have decided to re-write the directory of the source code, so it will look more tidy for example:
RCBOT2_2005\sourcesdk <all files required from the sourceSDK directory will go in here
RCBOT2_2005\ <all files for RCBot will go in here, that way you keep them seperate from one another

[Cheeseh]

The usual SDK install is to use steam tools and extract source code only to any folder, and put the rcbot source into the src/utils (I think) . It reduces the size of the bot code tremendously the source code folder is about 100MB, unless there is someway to reduce it so you can have all the files you need in one package for at most 1 mb.