Robot Arena 2: Rumble

[FOTEPX]

The idea I had is creating a program that can open and display .bot files, arenas, and read the AI files and apply them to said .bot's. From there, you could bypass the 4 robot limit, and have massive brawls, akin to the Battlebot rumbles. Dunno how hard it would be, but I think it'd be quite an awesome idea.

[RedAce]

ShedRift had something for this scenario somewhere not too long ago. Dunno about the progress going anywhere past the first screenshots.

[FOTEPX]

ShedRift had something for this scenario somewhere not too long ago. Dunno about the progress going anywhere past the first screenshots.

I assume that is possible though, right? And it'd be less effort than creating an entirely new game from scratch, since the assets are already there. Wouldn't be a full game - just a really gnarly mod.

[090901]

The problem is the bots made from the same bot file will just pass through each other, so it wouldn't really work at all.

[FOTEPX]

The problem is the bots made from the same bot file will just pass through each other, so it wouldn't really work at all.

I'm not on about putting multiple bots inside of a single .bot file, I'm on about designing a program that will open >4 .bot files at once. It would be an entirely new program, seperate from the Robot Arena 2.exe that already exists.

[FOTEPX]

So I was just dicking around in the RA2.cfg, And EventNumBots supports values higher than 4. Does this mean it's possible to load more than 4 bots at a time into vanilla RA2, possibly by adding a new game mode (such as Custom in DSL2) that supports this?

[Avalanche]

Intresting, but that i think means the ingame tournaments which can have either 4 or 2 bots.

[Knight]

Wouldn't adding more robots mean you have to modify each arena so that robots don't get stuck in each other at the start?

[Jaydee99]

Oh yeah, wouldn't you need to edit the arena files for the spawn points?

[FOTEPX]

Wouldn't adding more robots mean you have to modify each arena so that robots don't get stuck in each other at the start?

Oh yeah, wouldn't you need to edit the arena files for the spawn points?

Absolutely, yes - but from what I've heard, spawn points aren't too difficult to add.