Making bots aim perfectly

[xoltra]

Just for my own amusement I hacked the bot aiming code to see what it would be like to play bots that had perfect aim and reflexes (that is, beyond skill level 10, which still emulates some lag and inaccuracy in the aiming).

Applying the patch only changes Nexuiz when the skill level is set to 100. With it bots are extremely good when armed with a Nex. It's fun to try it with a mode that bots do badly at, such as CTF, to see if perfect aim sufficiently compensates for their lack of understanding.

You can get my patch here:
http://home.austin.rr.com/selliott4/nexuiz/nexuiz-skill-100.diff

[Xeno]

For those who don't want to apply a patch to get the effect, just play with Hafner, ai, tZork, t0_drunken_master, and CUISINER.

[morfar]

Hafner, ai, tZork, t0_drunken_master, and CUISINER.

[Xeno]

Hafner, ai, tZork, t0_drunken_master, and CUISINER.

Sorry morfar, I just haven't played with you enough, so I don't have any memories of going "HTF can he keep hitting me like that?".

[ai]

A nice demo: http://www.origionstudios.com/ai/nexuiz ... fa_ctf.zip

You'll need to have this map in the /data directory.

http://www.origionstudios.com/ai/nexuiz ... obots3.zip

Today my aim way almost the way it should be. This is my true power (plus little more ;D), unfortunately I rarely have this form.

[xoltra]

I've update the patch so that it now upstates the bot's enemy origin every bot thinking timeslice. I've also resized that g_shootfromeye helps. With those changes the bot is practically 100% accurate with a Nex (the only misses seem to be when it occasionally fires a shot after the human is dead, or before the human is fully spawned). See the comments in the patch for details:
http://home.austin.rr.com/selliott4/nexuiz/nexuiz-skill-100.diff

[AceOfThumbs]

Amazing shots ai!

Do you use an FOV zoom? I didn't see any zoom in the demo. If you don't mind me asking, what FOV and sensitivity do you use for normal and zoom settings?

[ai]

Amazing shots ai!

Do you use an FOV zoom? I didn't see any zoom in the demo. If you don't mind me asking, what FOV and sensitivity do you use for normal and zoom settings?

Yup I use fov zooming from time to time, I like it better than Nex's zoom (even when tweaked it). For normal settings I use fov 110 and sens 6 (different values differ on the mouse settings. I basically use any value that gives me about 30-34 cm for a whole circle when draging the mouse).
When zooming it's 40 with sense 1.2, it's about the same as the '5' value with the Nex secondary.

And to Xoltra: For those who do not know what a .diff file is. Could you explain a little what to do with it and how to use it?

[xoltra]

ai,
I had fun watching your demo. That's quite a huge map.

As to what to do with the patch:

The patch contains the differences between Nexuiz 2.3 and my change. You can apply it to the source code with the following steps. Note: These steps are for Linux. Hopefully Windows users can translate these steps for their OS.

1) Get fteqcc in order to compile Quake C code from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116842
2) Unzip the gamesource20070531.zip Quake C code:
unzip gamesource20070531.zip
3) Apply the patch using Larry Wall's patch program
patch -p0 < nexuiz-skill-100.diff
4) Build the server:
cd qcsrc/server
fteqcc
5) Copy the resulting progs.dat file to your data directory:
cp progs.dat ~/.nexuiz/data
6) Run Nexuiz with variables set that allows the bots to show off their aim:
g_minstagib 1
g_shootfromeye 1
skill 100

If someone runs this patch on a minstagib server let us know people's reactions, but don't run it to long - that would be mean

[K-LorvianChant]

I'd like to see this in 2.4 but divverent keeps rejecting everything even tzorks turrets. This ain't an opensource project, this is divverent's dictatorship. Nexuiz needs to be forked or more help gotten or div sent to cool down so he don't block the way like he is now.