[TUTORIAL] How to Make Your Own Bots

[Ivory]

I added a bot, but I edited the MM8BDM.pk3... it doesn't mess with multiplayer gameplay any.

Your missing the point. For multiplayer to work. both MM8BDM.pk3 and megagame.wad have to be IDENTICAL I can't stress that enough. If you change ONE THING in the pk3, skulltag doesn't accept it as the same MM8BDM that the servers are hosting with.

Note: When I say identical, I do not mean to each other, I mean they have match the ones hosted on the server.

[Blueiscooltoo]

I don't understand, I still able to go to any server and everything plays normally.

I added a bot, so if I host and I have this bot in the server, than people won't be able to join.

[Joseph Collins]

Actually, there's certain things you can change in the MM8BDM-v1a.pk3 file that won't stop you from being able to join/host custom servers.  Bots are one of them.  Granted, it's never a good idea to edit the main PK3 file when the "-file" command param works just as well, but if you absolutely want to...  In any case, music, bots, and bot chats can be changed without negative effect (music because it's entirely local, and bots because they're entire remote), but weapon scripts, levels, and most everything else that is read and sent by both the remote and local hosts (IE your computer and their computer) can't be changed because it will cause a version mismatch.

[Kackebango]

My bot works but he doesn't talk. This is what I put into "BOTAPAC":

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[IntroStrings]
"It's showtime!"
"ApacheJoe-Leader standing by!"

[FragStrings]
"BOOM! Hahahaha!!!"
"Anotherone bites the dust!"
"Hastalavista, baby!"

[KilledStrings]
"They came from behind!!!"
"IT'S A TRAP!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!"
"That was luck."

[RoamingStrings]
"You're a funny guy $player_inlead , that's why I'm going to kill you last."
"Flying this low, always makes me nervous."
"Autoaim is for cowards."
"Where's the A-Team music?"


[EnragedStrings]
"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"
"I've had it with these MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES on this MOTHERFUCKING PLANE."

[WinStrings]
"YOU. ARE. TERMINATED."
"Remember when promised to kill you last? I LIED."

[LoseStrings]
"I'll get my revenge!"
"I'LL BE BACK."
And this is what I put into BOTINFO:

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{
   name = "cnApacheJoe"
   accuracy = 4
   intellect = 4
   evade = 2
   anticipation = 1
   reactiontime = 4
   perception = 1
   favoriteweapon = "FireStormWep"
   color = "00 00 00"
   gender = "male"
   skin = "ApacheJoe"
   class = "Megaman"
   revealed = true
   script = "humanbot"
   chatlump = "chats/BOTAPAC"
   chatfrequency = 50
}

Why isn't he talking?

[brawlman9876]

You shouldn't have to put chats/ and BOTAPAC should only be 6 letters.....i think....i know you deviantly don't need the chats/ though

[Kackebango]

You shouldn't have to put chats/ and BOTAPAC should only be 6 letters.....i think....i know you deviantly don't need the chats/ though

Thanks! It works now.

[squidgy617]

Guide updated. Now works with the full version of the game.

[Alucard]

ok, so it has the skins and everything, I did everything right, but...it's not talking. what should I do? It has favorite weapon, name, and skin, but not talking.

[squidgy617]

Is the "chatfrequency" set to 50 in the BOTINFO lump?

[Alucard]

nevermind, I just got the script thing off.

Now I'm trying to make a CWU-O1P bot (the bubble from Megaman 1 & Megaman Powered-Up) but the skin is still base Megaman. I have the skin, but it's still the base Megaman. What do I do? I got the right ID for it and all.

[DWN-019]

I made bots for Luigi and the King (from the cd-i games, not Megaman and Bass) and they work fine, but they're appearing as Megaman. In SlumpEd, I changed thier skin, but thier still Megaman. What am I doing wrong?

[squidgy617]

The skin has to be whatever you named it in the actual game, NOT the filename. Does that work?

[DWN-019]

Ah. Ok. It works now. Thanks!

[Atticus]

EDIT: Never mind, I got it to work, but I have another question. Say if I wanted to release a .zip with a bunch of bots, if someone downloaded it but didn't have the skin of the bots, would they be able to see the bots?

[squidgy617]

No, they'd need skins.