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[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]

sorry, i didnt make it clear it was the source bots. RCBOT just crashes, have you tried it on a dedicated server? seems to work differently.

The problem with the rcbot2 as dedicated is that it has trouble finding the ..\rcbot2\profiles\1.ini

What directory should it be in as i put it in almost every directory and it just doesnt like it, it wont continue unless it find its, producing an error.

I guess its better to produce an error on startup on the dedicated server than produce and error and crash the game.

[Cheeseh]

sorry, i didnt make it clear it was the source bots. RCBOT just crashes, have you tried it on a dedicated server? seems to work differently.

The problem with the rcbot2 as dedicated is that it has trouble finding the ..\rcbot2\profiles\1.ini

What directory should it be in as i put it in almost every directory and it just doesnt like it, it wont continue unless it find its, producing an error.

I guess its better to produce an error on startup on the dedicated server than produce and error and crash the game.

Dedicated server files should be in "source dedicated server"

I've tried again with rcbot2 for orange box with the lastest aavailable SDK from Valve, it still crashes. The built-in bot_add command is actually bots already built into the TF2 mod code (not from a plugin), and they NEED sv_cheats on to run. although doesn't seem to work for rcbot. Also I noticed usefull commands:

jointeam <team>

join_class "scout"
join_class "engineer"

Etc...

I've finished my "make your own custom mod" version of the bot which reads mods from a text file so it is easier for dedicated server installation and you can let the bot play in any mod as long as a cetrain "bot type" can handle it.. But I will have to tidy it up a bit.