Anyone got some ideas or pointers on this topic please do post it, links one simmilar topics are also welcome.

                 

Seems it will require alot more work then i thought, thanks for the help Hunter but i dont understand what you mean but im gonna poke around in the bot codes and gonna see if i can find anything about the stuff your talking about.

ofc, any additional pointers on where to start in the code would be great.

                

Do the class tutorial but, have it so if you have the spider model, you have x movement and start with x weapons, have x life, and move at x speed.

                 

Plus for spawning just create a new entity(-type) like "roach spawner" that spawns a mapper specified number of roaches at it's origin. And cares for keeping the number of roaches in game constant.

I.e. when a roach is killed just make it spawn a new one (easy to do by setting the parent entity of each roach to the spawner which spawned it).

- Acryl

                

Exterminator 2000
Roach-a-licous.

                 

about not using the bot code for the roach: I want it to move around and away from the players and maybe even nibble at dead player corpses, then doing it as a bot wouldent be overkill? And using bot code would take much less coding or am i mistaken.

                 

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Originally posted by -=Hunter-Killer=-: True...but I'm not a mapper so the code side just kinda came to me first. Plus, with a little more code it could be possible to spawn these into any map.

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Neither am I ... and I was talking about the code side. Creating a completely new EntityType like ET_MONSTER (or ET_ROACH in this case) isn't that much work as most people expect. And additional spawner entity needs even less coding, but ok ... if you don't care where your roaches spawn it's definitely no problem to have them spawn randomly in the map.

@Mayday:
No matter what you want them to do, an entirely new entity will suit your needs best. Using the botcode is still overkill since bots are emulating clients whose behaviour is way more complex than the one of roaches. All of the things you mentioned can be done rather easily done.

When you create a new entity type you can hook the move function for your roaches into G_RunFrame like:

code:

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if ( ent->s.eType == ET_ROACH ) {
   G_RunRoach( ent );
   continue;
}

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