Frikbots & Skins

Does anyone know how to give custom skins to Frikbots?
When I spawn them in QW the always use the base skin.

[Dr. Shadowborg]

First, you'll need a player.mdl with some different skins on it. Second, look for BotName in bot_misc.qc. Just stick in some self.skin = X where X is the skin number.

Can you explain how to create / modify the player.mdl file?
I tried to read the file but it was all garbled .
Thanks.

quakeworld doesn't use the player.mdl skin hack

[Dr. Shadowborg]

quakeworld doesn't use the player.mdl skin hack

...It doesn't?

God, I loathe QuakeWorld. :/

[FrikaC]

You need to change this code found in bot_qw.qc:

  Code:

   // FIXME: do teams properly
   // note this has no effect on infokey
   WriteByte(2, 92 );  // \
   WriteByte(2, 115); // s
   WriteByte(2, 107); // k
   WriteByte(2, 105); // i
   WriteByte(2, 110); // n
   WriteByte(2, 92);  // \
   WriteByte(2, 98);  // b
   WriteByte(2, 97);  // a
   WriteByte(2, 115); // s
   WriteByte(2, 101); // e
   WriteByte(2, 92);  // \


Good luck!

Is there a way for each bot to have their own skin?

[FrikaC]

Yes.

First a disclaimer:
1) My only real experience in QW modding is from my stupid QW speedmod, FishQuake.
2) I'm not actually looking at the FBX code right now, just working from FrikaC's post, thusly I have no way of actualy checking wheter or not this will work.
3) I am a muppet.

That said:

  Code:

97    a   104   h   111   o   118   v
98    b   105   i   112   p   119   w
99    c   106   j   113   q   120   x
100   d   107   k   114   r   121   y
101   e   108   l   115   s   122   z
102   f   109   m   116   t
103   g   110   n   117   u

So if you want one bot to use skin 'foo', you'd do:

  Code:

   WriteByte(2, 92 ); // \
   WriteByte(2, 115); // s
   WriteByte(2, 107); // k
   WriteByte(2, 105); // i
   WriteByte(2, 110); // n
   WriteByte(2, 92);  // \
   WriteByte(2, 102); // f
   WriteByte(2, 111); // o
   WriteByte(2, 111); // o
   WriteByte(2, 92);  // \


Taking this further you could try this:

  Code:

   WriteByte(2, 92 ); // \
   WriteByte(2, 115); // s
   WriteByte(2, 107); // k
   WriteByte(2, 105); // i
   WriteByte(2, 110); // n
   WriteByte(2, 92);  // \

   if (somenumber == 0)
   {
         WriteByte(2, 98);  // b
         WriteByte(2, 97);  // a
         WriteByte(2, 115); // s
         WriteByte(2, 101); // e
   }
   else if (somenumber == 1)
   {
         WriteByte(2, 102); // f
         WriteByte(2, 111); // o
         WriteByte(2, 111); // o
   }
   else if (somenumber == 2)
   {
         WriteByte(2, 98);  // b
         WriteByte(2, 97);  // a
         WriteByte(2, 114); // r
   }

   WriteByte(2, 92);  // \


(And so on..)

Of course, I could be wrong. =)

Another step to take that to would be to make use of string manipulation stuff in newer engines

but of course that's probably not desirable because backwards compatibility would be shot

If it's not an issue then you could rather easily write a function that iterates through every letter in the skin and substitues it for the number and does the writebyte accordingly.

What a hassle!

FrikaC, how would you do it?

And the next question you would ask is, hmm. But how would Jesus do it?

he'd say use quake2.

Jesus is a crank. He will use a hack like totally different models.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29

[FrikaC]

First a disclaimer:
1) My only real experience in QW modding is from my stupid QW speedmod, FishQuake.
2) I'm not actually looking at the FBX code right now, just working from FrikaC's post, thusly I have no way of actualy checking wheter or not this will work.
3) I am a muppet.

That said:

  Code:

97    a   104   h   111   o   118   v
98    b   105   i   112   p   119   w
99    c   106   j   113   q   120   x
100   d   107   k   114   r   121   y
101   e   108   l   115   s   122   z
102   f   109   m   116   t
103   g   110   n   117   u

So if you want one bot to use skin 'foo', you'd do:

  Code:

   WriteByte(2, 92 ); // \
   WriteByte(2, 115); // s
   WriteByte(2, 107); // k
   WriteByte(2, 105); // i
   WriteByte(2, 110); // n
   WriteByte(2, 92);  // \
   WriteByte(2, 102); // f
   WriteByte(2, 111); // o
   WriteByte(2, 111); // o
   WriteByte(2, 92);  // \


Taking this further you could try this:

  Code:

   WriteByte(2, 92 ); // \
   WriteByte(2, 115); // s
   WriteByte(2, 107); // k
   WriteByte(2, 105); // i
   WriteByte(2, 110); // n
   WriteByte(2, 92);  // \

   if (somenumber == 0)
   {
         WriteByte(2, 98);  // b
         WriteByte(2, 97);  // a
         WriteByte(2, 115); // s
         WriteByte(2, 101); // e
   }
   else if (somenumber == 1)
   {
         WriteByte(2, 102); // f
         WriteByte(2, 111); // o
         WriteByte(2, 111); // o
   }
   else if (somenumber == 2)
   {
         WriteByte(2, 98);  // b
         WriteByte(2, 97);  // a
         WriteByte(2, 114); // r
   }

   WriteByte(2, 92);  // \


(And so on..)

Of course, I could be wrong. =)

You are absolutely correct. As far as actual implementation, somenumber can be self.b_num, which is the bot template number for names & colors. Also, if you want to make the code FrikQCC/fteqcc specific you can use single quoted letters instead of the ascii-code.