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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: WhamettNuht on February 07, 2018, 02:25:22 PM

Title: 'House Robots'??
Post by: WhamettNuht on February 07, 2018, 02:25:22 PM

Hi all! Long time no see!

Just a quickie - I can remember from ages and ages ago I was told how to edit a value in some sort of file so that AI robots don't go after human players, but for the life of me and all of my poking around in RA2's files I cannot remember where this value lies.... Just wondering if someone would happen to know where one might find such a thing??

Also - can someone super savvy advise me on whether it would be possible to alter the Action Cam to only focus on say 2 robots when there's 3 in the arena?

Thanks guys!!

Title: Re: 'House Robots'??
Post by: apanx on February 07, 2018, 02:45:39 PM

in init.py for the SuperAI-class

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    def GetNearestEnemy(self):
        closest = None
        min_dist = 9999
        min_weighted_dist = 9999

        enemies = self.GetEnemies()

        # target human players first
        for enemy in enemies:
            dist = self.GetDistanceToID(enemy)
            weighted_dist = dist
            if not plus.isHuman(enemy): weighted_dist += 3
            if weighted_dist < min_weighted_dist:
                closest = enemy
                min_weighted_dist = weighted_dist
                min_dist = dist

        return closest, min_dist
Invert the weighted_dist modifier.

For action cam, in actioncam.py

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        for p in self.players:
            if plus.isEliminated(p) or plus.isDefeated(p):
                if p in self.expiration:
                    if self.expiration[p]  <= plus.getTimeElapsed():
                        self.players.remove(p)
                        self.playerCount -= 1
                else:
                    self.expiration[p] = plus.getTimeElapsed() + self.defeatedDelayAdd a line after to remove robots you want to ignore

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        self.players.remove(id)


Title: Re: 'House Robots'??
Post by: Jaydee99 on February 07, 2018, 03:30:20 PM

holy crap, this is awesome!!
Can I create a separate PY file and add this? Like will it still work?

Title: Re: 'House Robots'??
Post by: WhamettNuht on February 07, 2018, 03:31:20 PM

Thank you for the fast reply!

Been having a tinker, but it's still not quite right, just wanted to make sure I'm getting it right (been a while since I've done all of this advanced coding lark lol)

When you say 'Invert the weighted_dist modifier' am I inverting this value:

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            if not plus.isHuman(enemy): weighted_dist += 3
As for the Action Cam, am I adding the self.players.remove value straight after the 'self.expiration' line?
Also, does the (id) value work on a 1-4 basis (as in 4 is robot number 4) or the typical RA2 method of 0-3 (so that 3 is robot number 4)?

Apologies for my newbness! (There's a word I haven't used for some years lol)

Title: Re: 'House Robots'??
Post by: apanx on February 11, 2018, 08:18:54 PM

Just change this

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if not plus.isHuman(enemy): weighted_dist += 3to something like this

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if plus.isHuman(enemy): weighted_dist += 9999
For the actioncam, make it look like this. id is a player id between 0-3. Also, there are more than one place where the code is used, so make sure you change it everywhere. Observe the indentation.

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        for p in self.players:
            if plus.isEliminated(p) or plus.isDefeated(p):
                if p in self.expiration:
                    if self.expiration[p]  <= plus.getTimeElapsed():
                        self.players.remove(p)
                        self.playerCount -= 1
                else:
                    self.expiration[p] = plus.getTimeElapsed() + self.defeatedDelay
        self.players.remove(id)
        self.playerCount -= 1
I haven't tried any of these, but it should work, so: :cancer::cancer::cancer::cancer::cancer:

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