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Zbot implementation in Half-Life 1

Hello Community.
I hope you're doing good. I have a question, that might sound stupid.. never the less... I'll ask.

Is it possible to implement the reverce engineered Zbot from CS to Half-Life 1?

Here's the repository:

https://github.com/s1lentq/ReGameDL...amedll/dlls/bot

Thanks in advanced.

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https://github.com/FWGS/hlsdk-porta...ee/hlzbot-clean
https://github.com/FWGS/hlsdk-porta...-random-weapons

Sweet. I was not aware this was done. Thanks, I hope I can pull it out.

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Ok, I managed to port them to the HL SDK 2.3, there were few stopping points as the bot code used deprecated functions since 2005... and until I figured out what was wrong with it.. It took me some time...

Now, I noticed that the bots are quite aggressive, but that's good. I see that I can use the BotProfile.db files from Condition Zero to manipulate the behavior of the bots... the question is how can I make the bots to use different skins?

At the moment they are all joining with "gordon" player model... and that's a bit odd... I opened the db file (it's text file) and I don't see anything that resembles the player model name or path...

Any help would be appreciated.

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Here are a little more details:

So I was looking at the code for the bot profiles:

https://github.com/FWGS/hlsdk-porta...bot_profile.cpp

It should be able to use the player models in the models/player folder, if I understand correctly this piece of code:

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const char *decoratedName = GetDecoratedSkinName(skinName, filename);

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bool skinExists = GetCustomSkinIndex(decoratedName) > 0;

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if (m_nextSkin < NumCustomSkins && !skinExists)

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{

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  // decorate the name

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  m_skins[ m_nextSkin ] = CloneString(decoratedName);

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  // construct the model filename

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  m_skinModelnames[ m_nextSkin ] = CloneString(token);

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  m_skinFilenames[ m_nextSkin ] = new char[ Q_strlen(token) * 2 + Q_strlen("models/player//.mdl") + 1 ];

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  Q_sprintf(m_skinFilenames[ m_nextSkin ], "models/player/%s/%s.mdl", token, token);

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  ++m_nextSkin;

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}

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//

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// All profiles begin with this data and overwrite their own

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//

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Default

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Skill = 50

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Aggression = 50

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ReactionTime = 0.3

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AttackDelay = 0

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Teamwork = 75

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WeaponPreference = none

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Cost = 0

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Difficulty = NORMAL

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VoicePitch = 100

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Skin = 0

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End

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//----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Hello, This is fixed btw.

The bot didn't had logic for calling the change of the player models.

And the fix was trivial...

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#define MAX_SKINS 10

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char *bot_skins[MAX_SKINS] =

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{

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  "barney",

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  "gina",

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  "gman",

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  "gordon",

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  "helmet",

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  "hgrunt",

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  "recon",

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  "robo",

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  "scientist",

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  "zombie"

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};

bool CHLBotManager::AddBot(const BotProfile *profile)

SET_CLIENT_KEY_VALUE(pBot->entindex(), GET_INFO_BUFFER(pBot->edict()), "model", bot_skins[RANDOM_LONG(0, 9)]);

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Any videos how this bot works in HL?

Well here's a video of the bots in action on crossfire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2tQuDFi7WM

Don't expect miracles, but still.

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