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Robot Arena => Discussion => Topic started by: playzooki on May 06, 2013, 02:56:31 PM

Title: More than four robots?
Post by: playzooki on May 06, 2013, 02:56:31 PM

Is it possible to have more than four robots in one battle?

Title: Re: More than four robots?
Post by: Jonzu95 on May 06, 2013, 02:58:14 PM

Sadly, no. I would pay 25 dollars to a guy who could.

Title: Re: More than four robots?
Post by: playzooki on May 06, 2013, 02:59:07 PM

:(

Title: Re: More than four robots?
Post by: AlexGRFan97 on May 07, 2013, 02:08:36 PM

IIRC someone (maybe Serge?) said he once got more than 4 robots in a battle but it lagged a lot.

Title: Re: More than four robots?
Post by: Trovaner on May 07, 2013, 05:00:23 PM

It is not currently possible to add more than 4 fully-working bots. It is a limitation caused by a lack of coding in the EXE to handle more than 4. Serge was looking into it (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=4069.msg158190#msg158190) but he nor anyone else has had any success.

As a workaround, housebots have been created in the GMF files of some arenas but they don't support everything that normal bots do. There are some good topics on this subject: here (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=5711.0), here (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=5414), and here (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=4229)

There is also another workaround involving trying to pack more than one bot into a .bot file. This works because the chassis is treated as a component. IIRC, the issue with this is that if one of the chassis are destroyed then both bots are destroyed and one of the bots can't use wheels to move. As far as discussion topics go, I could only find this one (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=11897) but many modders have done it before so we can explain it further if necessary.

Title: Re: More than four robots?
Post by: playzooki on May 08, 2013, 01:21:39 PM

Thanks, Trov!
You are awesome.

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