Preview for advanced Clone bot AI

this was done with albetrous source by pro4never, pvp clone bot wasn't as smart as it should be so i worked on it for couple of hrs and modified it to act as guard where it can loot and kill (exp for hitting or killing goes to it's owner) also made it a bit faster and added more factors for chances

anyway here what i've done


im going to release that after adding couple more stuff, going to lower the hitting chance with rewritting it's AI to include stratages ex. hit 'n run, also will add another features like reviving it's owner and use pasive skills on him , maybe turn it to a skill and let it use player hp/mp pots , i honestly duno if i've time to do what i wish to do with it but it's really fun tho

more over , i honestly duno how people could leave a source like albetrous and use trinity edits, it's a pretty decent source and well written , not perfect but imho it could be the best i've seen (greatz pro4never you did awesome job there) and btw wamp 2.4 could do the trick instead of installing full version of mysql specially if the x64 version doesn't have installer

sad to see that u are going to release it :/ will hate to see ppl leeching it and see it in the title of every single server, i would prefer "original things for who can code it".

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Originally Posted by U2_Caparzo sad to see that u are going to release it :/ will hate to see ppl leeching it and see it in the title of every single server, i would prefer "original things for who can code it".

i'm not releasing it for trinity, so it's okay i guess XD Lol, plus if pro4never haven't shared albetrous and i guess if in the first place if it wasn't shared at project x that i wasn't to think of it
but i honestly still duno if i want to share it anyway

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Originally Posted by go for it i'm not releasing it for trinity, so it's okay i guess XD Lol, plus if pro4never haven't shared albetrous and i guess if in the first place if it wasn't shared at project x that i wasn't to think of it but i honestly still duno if i want to share it anyway

u won't :D:rolleyes:

1st. nice capturing than mine (when i tried it sucks :D)
2nd. looting is useless
3rd. u could lose him or there is a specific range between owner and it(him)
4th playinf with AI is too epic. we never wins
5th best freature is adding stigers follower , reviver etc.

Good Luck.
Much fun.

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Originally Posted by abdoumatrix u won't :D:rolleyes: 1st. nice capturing than mine (when i tried it sucks :D) you was recording with a potato try camtisea studio :P 2nd. looting is useless could be but that depends on what the server drops vs cp drop (if there is any) 3rd. u could lose him or there is a specific range between owner and it(him) lmao nope he pretty much jumps within my ranges with 3 checks for owner range vs monsters range and if it exceeds 18 it find it's path to me 4th playinf with AI is too epic. we never wins that depends on how lucky he could get, currently it's 3 factors but that would increase, i've adjusted it's speed and rates to be so smarter and faster but that could always change 5th best freature is adding stigers follower , reviver etc. i've already add that with checking if it's passive or active skills to cast on monster or self and owner but forgot to loop the current skill lmao Good Luck. thanks buddy :) Much fun.

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Looks good so far. Could use some AI checks as well as an inventory just for the bot. You could have it so that when you talk to the bot it lets you claim items much like from a warehouse. Adding in some AI to have the bot drop worthless items once its storage is full would also be useful.

It's also pretty easy to revamp pathfinding so it stays within range of the player (on player jump check if he moves X spaces away and re-sync positions if needed) and you can add in many other features such as giving the bot its own equipment to wear (visible changes stored permanently in database) and even giving it various commands/actions to change behavior types.

There's plenty of functionality in the client to support proper summoned AI companions. It's something I had looked into writing years ago but never bothered finishing to a worthwhile state.


Best of luck and look forward to seeing more from you in the future.

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Originally Posted by pro4never Looks good so far. Could use some AI checks as well as an inventory just for the bot. You could have it so that when you talk to the bot it lets you claim items much like from a warehouse. Adding in some AI to have the bot drop worthless items once its storage is full would also be useful. It's also pretty easy to revamp pathfinding so it stays within range of the player (on player jump check if he moves X spaces away and re-sync positions if needed) and you can add in many other features such as giving the bot its own equipment to wear (visible changes stored permanently in database) and even giving it various commands/actions to change behavior types. There's plenty of functionality in the client to support proper summoned AI companions. It's something I had looked into writing years ago but never bothered finishing to a worthwhile state. Best of luck and look forward to seeing more from you in the future.

i really like the suggestions, some are pretty easy (the wh and saving to db) but letting it wear it's own gear is kinda tricky to figure out the way that you can change what it wears (could use big sash but that won't work on higher patchs where gears exceed 9 slots)
also thinking about a way to let it learn skills and level up that skills

I would say just use a inventory type slot and let it auto equip whatever best in slot items are in there when you drop them in (they would still show in the wh window but would show as registered or w/e the red glow around them is so you could still remove them)

Then add skill books designed for companions that when dropped into the window are consumed.

You could do the same with potions to make them heal and use the team window to show companion health in real time.


LOTS of things you can do to write a full companion system into CO as all their other games are pretty much the same engine. If you hook into the client you can even do some directx calls to write your own GUI for it as far as I know (inf was demonstrating it recently for voting iirc)

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Originally Posted by pro4never I would say just use a inventory type slot and let it auto equip whatever best in slot items are in there when you drop them in (they would still show in the wh window but would show as registered or w/e the red glow around them is so you could still remove them) Then add skill books designed for companions that when dropped into the window are consumed. You could do the same with potions to make them heal and use the team window to show companion health in real time. LOTS of things you can do to write a full companion system into CO as all their other games are pretty much the same engine. If you hook into the client you can even do some directx calls to write your own GUI for it as far as I know (inf was demonstrating it recently for voting iirc)

that's just mind blowing, but it would be way better if it's done with good effects , actually a suspcious effect on item in bot wh inventory would be great but we still can do better and wow i really like the ideas , pretty easy and yet really good

and i know someone who had done that ages before ulti with buttons and stuff, windows itself was created by reshacker (if i remmeber corectly) and the functionality and on screen drawing was all pure asm , wish i really could do something like that with maybe only 2 packets (open window info , update ) also get the red hp bar

u r using which method for his equipment?
Spwan packet or the separte mehtod for new Player

like
or
and the rest codes like
and using the normal itemusage


the second may is much better cuz u can control its inv. & equips and skills etc very easily and just add it to the game pool make the the normal player checks works for him so he could easily level up and level up skills

So you say you will release it, say you wont, say you might.

Quite honestly, I would just release your modifications that you did to pro4's one.

It really is a shame to see someone so unsure whether to release an improvement for something already around.

Oh and

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Originally Posted by go for it that's just mind blowing, but it would be way better if it's done with good effects , actually a suspcious effect on item in bot wh inventory would be great but we still can do better and wow i really like the ideas , pretty easy and yet really good and i know someone who had done that ages before ulti with buttons and stuff, windows itself was created by reshacker (if i remmeber corectly) and the functionality and on screen drawing was all pure asm , wish i really could do something like that with maybe only 2 packets (open window info , update ) also get the red hp bar

I hope you weren't implying that it's something ulti couldn't do lol

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Originally Posted by abdoumatrix u r using which method for his equipment? Spwan packet or the separte mehtod for new Player like PHP Code: GameState Bot = new GameState();  or PHP Code: GameState Bot = new GameState(null);  and the rest codes like PHP Code: Bot.Readytoplay();  and using the normal itemusage the second may is much better cuz u can control its inv. & equips and skills etc very easily and just add it to the game pool make the the normal player checks works for him so he could easily level up and level up skills

That looks like you have modified a class that was heavily designed around for only an actual player, seems like a 'ducktape' method, I mean - It's fine for a first time run, but you should definitely consider a more appropriate way of achieving this next time round.

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Originally Posted by _DreadNought_ So you say you will release it, say you wont, say you might. Quite honestly, I would just release your modifications that you did to pro4's one. It really is a shame to see someone so unsure whether to release an improvement for something already around. Oh and I hope you weren't implying that it's something ulti couldn't do lol That looks like you have modified a class that was heavily designed around for only an actual player, seems like a 'ducktape' method, I mean - It's fine for a first time run, but you should definitely consider a more appropriate way of achieving this next time round.

:confused:

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Originally Posted by abdoumatrix :confused:

"That looks like you have modified a class that was heavily designed around for only an actual player" :cool:

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Originally Posted by _DreadNought_ So you say you will release it, say you wont, say you might. Quite honestly, I would just release your modifications that you did to pro4's one. It really is a shame to see someone so unsure whether to release an improvement for something already around. Oh and I hope you weren't implying that it's something ulti couldn't do lol That looks like you have modified a class that was heavily designed around for only an actual player, seems like a 'ducktape' method, I mean - It's fine for a first time run, but you should definitely consider a more appropriate way of achieving this next time round.

i've been working on that "improvement" for 11 hrs and still working on it, that could be even more time than it took pro4never to write it, i've had almost changed most of classes for more functionality, that's not just "improvement" that is reworking on a basic idea and you will see how good it became on the next preview, so it's all my decision to release it or not, and even if i don't ill still give a copy to pro4never for inspiring me but not everyone around here worth to leech it, but i still didn't really made my mind

and im not going to argue about if that was done or not and if ulti. can do it or not, simply cuz that will get nowhere as i don't have a proof to show you for right now

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Originally Posted by abdoumatrix :confused:

bots are special entity and not a players

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Originally Posted by go for it i've been working on that "improvement" for 11 hrs and still working on it, that could be even more time than it took pro4never to write it, i've had almost changed most of classes for more functionality, that's not just "improvement" that is reworking on a basic idea and you will see how good it became on the next preview, so it's all my decision to release it or not, and even if i don't ill still give a copy to pro4never for inspiring me but not everyone around here worth to leech it, but i still didn't really made my mind and im not going to argue about if that was done or not and if ulti. can do it or not, simply cuz that will get nowhere as i don't have a proof to show you for right now bots are special entity and not a players

so they r players + have special code to force them to make what u want :D