Scripting, how scripting for CP maps will be done Options

[Cheeseh]

Note: This is going to be a way of getting bots to work with custom/changeable TF2 CP/PL/PLR maps,

This is an example of a working CP Script with the latest SVN for CP_Dustbowl

CODE

#
# RCBot2 Script DUSTBOWL CP
#
#
:setup_time:60
:on_reset:
blue_attack:1
blue_defend:0
red_attack:0
red_defend:1
areas:1,2,8
#
# STAGE ONE
# CAP ONE
:on_blue_cap:#Dustbowl_cap_1_A
red_attack:0
red_defend:2
blue_attack:2
blue_defend:0
areas:1,2,9
:on_blue_cap:#Dustbowl_cap_1_B
red_attack:0
red_defend:3
blue_attack:3
blue_defend:0
areas:3,4,10
#
# STAGE TWO
#
:on_blue_cap:#Dustbowl_cap_2_A
red_attack:0
red_defend:4
blue_attack:4
blue_defend:0
areas:3,4,11
:on_blue_cap:#Dustbowl_cap_2_B
red_attack:0
red_defend:5
blue_attack:5
blue_defend:0
areas:5,6,7
#
# STAGE THREE
#
:on_blue_cap:#Dustbowl_cap_3_A
red_attack:0
red_defend:6
blue_attack:6
blue_defend:0
areas:5,6

The numbers represent the "Waypoint areas", The most important are the red_attack/blue_attack/blue_defend/red_Defend as these denote the capture point waypoint areas, there should be waypoints with "capture point" type and area number related to the number in this script.

:setup_time:<time>

is the GLOBAL setup time in seconds at the moment, this may be changed to per point.

:on_reset:

is a global flag state which happens when a round completely restarts (.e.g first dustbowl cap/new cp_badlands round)


:on_blue_cap:<Cap name>

is what happens when BLUE captures the point with <cap name> (look at these later)


:on_red_cap:<Cap name>

is what happens when RED captures the point with <cap name> (look at these later)


To define what happens when a point is captured I use these


red_attack:<waypoint area>
blue_attack<waypoint area>
red_defend:<waypoint area>
blue_defend:<waypoint area>

The bots will go to these waypoint capture areas with the appropriate Defend/Attack style depending on which team they are, the names are self explanatory

Cap names

You can get these by putting "rcbot debug gameevent 1" on and playing on a team, go to a capture point and capture it. Eventually the "point captured" event will happen and it will have a "cpname", this is the capture point name.

For example:

On well there are
#Well_cap_blue_two = 0
#Well_cap_blue_rocket = 1
#Well_cap_center = 2
#Well_cap_red_two = 3
#Well_cap_red_rocket = 4

Perhaps someone could make up a script for this and the rest . . . As I'm going to scrap the old method.

areas
is used to determine what waypoints are valid when a point is captured, for example some waypoints may be unreachable after CP_dustbowl stage 1, 2 etc . . . All flagged waypoints should have an area related to the " reachability " of it . . .
e.g. If I want a sentry waypoint on CP_Dustbowl on stage 1 I will give it an area of 1 or 2.
If I want it on stage 2 I will give it area 3 or 4, (See the script above)

Area 0
Waypoints with area of "0" are generally accessible, or ignored.

for example: blue_attack:0 (or red_attack:0) , will mean the team has no attack areas at this time.

[Geralt]

Yeah - I've been extremely busy recently, not sure when I'll have time to do anymore of this.

Feel free to edit and re-distribute my waypoints as you want mate.

[MarD]

Heyyo,

Yeah - I've been extremely busy recently, not sure when I'll have time to do anymore of this.

Feel free to edit and re-distribute my waypoints as you want mate.

Cool beans, I'll do it for the maps since I've lost my waypoints and don't feel like redoing them all by hand again.. hahaha, so thanks for the permission.

Do you know Geralt if the areaonly flags work for PL maps? thus far I've had zero luck even though I've tried a lot of diff stuff... do the areaonly flags have to match the flags of the cart before or after the point of capture?

[Cheeseh]

Heyyo,
Cool beans, I'll do it for the maps since I've lost my waypoints and don't feel like redoing them all by hand again.. hahaha, so thanks for the permission.

Do you know Geralt if the areaonly flags work for PL maps? thus far I've had zero luck even though I've tried a lot of diff stuff... do the areaonly flags have to match the flags of the cart before or after the point of capture?

Hi mard, its good to see you around, sorry i could not reply sooner, i was just taking time to think about things. plus I have other problems in the real world just now which is slowing me down here

it loosk like your script has a problem at these points here

CODE

:on_blue:cap

it should be

CODE

:on_blue_cap:

extra underscore and colon at the end, . Sorry i can't help much further just now, hope it helps

[MarD]

Heyyo,

Hi mard, its good to see you around, sorry i could not reply sooner, i was just taking time to think about things. plus I have other problems in the real world just now which is slowing me down here

it loosk like your script has a problem at these points here

CODE

:on_blue:cap

it should be

CODE

:on_blue_cap:

extra underscore and colon at the end, . Sorry i can't help much further just now, hope it helps

LOL! I'm gonna keel over and die if that was the only problem... cause I actually copied the code from PLR_pipeline.. and I just checked that file, and lo and behold.. it was typed wrong once in there.. and it's the one line I copied, lol dammit.. so for your next release you might wanna fix the typo in there too.