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Robot Arena => Modifications => Topic started by: MAD Scientist on June 13, 2009, 07:14:42 PM
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Well folks I said one day I would finally do it. That day is today.
I located my old broken PC (or so I thought) and ripped the drives out, I purchased an external housing and crossed my fingers.....
I managed to pull all the information directly off the teams folders, sadly my reserves folder did not make it. I prob had another 50+ designs in that collection :blackeye_smily:.
BUT.... with this download you will get all my signature bots: DEEP BLUE (1-4, LW version, and never before seen prototype), THRUST series, ANT weights, the original PROJECT: TRINITY and MANY MANY MANY MORE amazing bots.
I'm glad I can finally share my creations with the RA2 community....
ENJOY EVERYONE! :gunz:
Link-1: http://rapidshare.com/files/244258821/madsci_ra2.rar.html
Link-2(better): mad_sci_ra2 (http://www.madiaba.gametechmods.com/mad_sci_ra2.rar)
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Look forward to checking out your work...
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Im gonna clear my hard drive a little, no space at the moment ><
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Now if somebody will just make a bot exchange.....HINT,HINT!!!!!!
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^^^Yea, that would be nice.^^^
BTW, here's a better link to MS's bot pack (also now in first post): mad_sci_ra2 (http://www.madiaba.gametechmods.com/mad_sci_ra2.rar)
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A few of the bots that aren't in the AU engine team crashed RA2 on me. Two of which were ant crushers, iirc.
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A few of the bots that aren't in the AU engine team crashed RA2 on me. Two of which were ant crushers, iirc.
i had the same problem. cant remember which bots though
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A quick edit to ION can make it a SCv4 worthy AW.
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That would be awesome if you re-started building again.
We need more original builders.
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It's awesome to see how far some of these designs have come over th past few years...
I know nothing about how to AI, I was curious if someone could map a few of these bots, I'd like to see where they stand against some of the present day "heavy hitters". :biggrin:
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I'd love to take out one of your bots with Alter Ego 2. =P
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Not very far with Starcore, but nicely against gigafrost AI. The AW's would do good on tabletop with Starcore, however.
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Not very far with Starcore, but nicely against gigafrost AI. The AW's would do good on tabletop with Starcore, however.
You've already AI'd some?
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I can AI some if you want.
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I can AI some if you want.
i am currently aiing this pack, release soon.
i've made about 70% but i will need some help, i'll explain you soon why.
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With about 80 bots to AI, a huge work was waiting, more over, none of this bot was ready : controlers were not named.
So i take the lazy way : rather than uploading each bot in the bot lab, i mod them using notepad++ and its macro
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/97633ModBotsFile.png)
here are the rules i follow :
analog button have to be renamed Forward and LeftRight
Swith button have to be renamed Spin
simple button have to be renamed Fire
if the bot have only Spin button, it will be AIed as 'Spinner'
if the bot have only Fire button, it will be AIed as 'Poker'
if the bot have both, it will be AIed as Omni
if the bot have none, it will be Aied as Rammer.
The nose direction will be defined looking also at the file xxx.bot.
Than another problem arised : ok not to call the bot inside the bot lab, but what about those missing custom zone ?
-here again i take a simple way : just create 'Range Poker' and 'RangeOmni' AIs that fire when the bot is pointing
to ennemy (with a tolerance named delta) and given a special range.
here is a typical binding :
list.append( ("Krush 1.0", "RangePoker", { 'range' : 2, 'delta':0.3, 'nose' : math.pi, 'weapons': (1,2,3,4)}))
it takes me about 2 hours to AIed so the 80 bots.
After that, i had to 'quick test' : about 3 more hours to adjust few things with those results :
-these bots have been hidden from their teams because they crashed my game : ANT purgatory / Journad del muerte / Ant disposal service / El compacto /Invalid
-the AI have not been specialized for each bot, some works fine, others give low results
-2 bots have been modified with special AI : Pivot and nuclear winter.
SO What else ?
1/ First -i had to deliver the rar : done :
http://rapidshare.de/files/47557081/pack_madsci.rar.html
2/the 'hardest' job was to rename the controlers. Yet, someone should take this pack and make it 'better aied'.
2bis/ instead of step 2, many people should take one team each and try to improve it
3/repack the teams, yet the rar contains the teams, a file thebindings.py that contains only those binding and a file theTeams.txt containing
the team description (assuming they start with index 102!)
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Bumping this to say Awesome.
I'll play with this stuff later.
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El Compacto crashes the game, can somebody find out why?
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omg, MAD Scientist is back