VISUAL BASIC!

[tommyboy1212]

Taking a visual basic class! Was wondering if it was possible to make bots with this langauge. if you have any experience, lemme know!

tommyboy

[Smaehtin]

Of course it is

[tommyboy1212]

know of any bots made with it?

[pro4never]

C# and VB are both based on .net so anything you can do in C# can also be done in VB. You can even run the source through a translator to view rather poorly formatted VB source of any C# project that's public.

I know hawtness posted an example of his hooking framework using VB before. Not sure if any of his other projects such as cooperative was in VB or not. Never looked into it and it wasn't open source iirc.

[InfamousNoone]

Most programming classes don't teach you anything close to what you would need to make a bot.

[tommyboy1212]

Originally Posted by InfamousNoone

Most programming classes don't teach you anything close to what you would need to make a bot.

Oh **** really? not even like a network programming class? well i figure at least this class will show me the basics so i have a start lmao.. gotta start somewhere :P

[pro4never]

Originally Posted by tommyboy1212

Oh **** really? not even like a network programming class? well i figure at least this class will show me the basics so i have a start lmao.. gotta start somewhere :P

Creating a bot is far more about logic as well as reverse engineering imo.

You need to look at how something works ingame and have a good understanding of how that same thing would (or should) be coded. You can then use that knowledge to find exploits in the code or simply emulate how a normal player should act.

EG: if you cannot figure out the sequence of events involved with jumping (client>server>client) then you're going to have a very difficult time doing a hunt bot... seeing as you cannot jump ^^. That has more to do with knowledge of the game's protocol (or aptitude for figuring such things out) then the programming language itself.

[tommyboy1212]

Originally Posted by pro4never

Creating a bot is far more about logic as well as reverse engineering imo.

You need to look at how something works ingame and have a good understanding of how that same thing would (or should) be coded. You can then use that knowledge to find exploits in the code or simply emulate how a normal player should act.

EG: if you cannot figure out the sequence of events involved with jumping (client>server>client) then you're going to have a very difficult time doing a hunt bot... seeing as you cannot jump ^^. That has more to do with knowledge of the game's protocol (or aptitude for figuring such things out) then the programming language itself.

Hmm okay so i should start reading tutorials instead or something.