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General Discussion / Re: Saving Blockland: Our Survival Guide | An Update

« on: January 02, 2018, 04:08:50 PM »

Quote from: Mega-Bear on January 02, 2018, 03:53:17 PM

smoother, more natural movement would be a godsend.

Oh no, they'll still be strange and spazzy

They'll just spaz in the general direction of things like flags and objectives.

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General Discussion / Re: Saving Blockland: Our Survival Guide | An Update

« on: January 02, 2018, 01:51:53 PM »

I'm working on a promising new bot navigation system for Slayer, which will help populate empty DM/TDM/etc servers.

That't not exactly what you had in mind, but it'll help those genres of servers.

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Modification Help / Re: Determine if brick is completely covered

« on: January 02, 2018, 10:00:28 AM »

That's not what I wanted to hear. Thanks though.

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Modification Help / Determine if brick is completely covered

« on: January 02, 2018, 01:56:46 AM »

Does anyone know a way to determine if a brick is completely covered? The solution should not use raycasts.

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Request for extra Slayer events

« on: December 31, 2017, 01:33:01 PM »

I've release an update with the added events: http://mods.greek2me.us/storage/Server_TeamLifeTickets.zip

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General Discussion / Re: Anyone think more gamemodes should be open?

« on: December 30, 2017, 04:57:05 PM »

I'm sure a JS/Lua version could be made later! Unfortunately I need to support the TS-only people (myself being one, since I've never messed with Blockland DLLs) before I add a speedier version.

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General Discussion / Re: Anyone think more gamemodes should be open?

« on: December 30, 2017, 10:43:02 AM »

Since this is a mod that already has thousands of users, I want it to work without extra installation steps. The new algorithm is pretty good. Just need to fix the random bugs.

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General Discussion / Re: Anyone think more gamemodes should be open?

« on: December 30, 2017, 10:31:06 AM »

Quote from: Kyuande on December 30, 2017, 10:26:58 AM

This is an excellent idea, unfortunately bots aren't that smart knowing where to go unless you implement premade pathfinding maps for each map you have. I did have this idea but it would take forever for torkscript to calculate which way is the best (remember having to link everything, so if I did this manually it would take much longer)

Maybe if I created a pathfinding dll or use an external DLL like lua/java this actually will speed up the process much faster.

I actually did this in Slayer - when you started a minigame, it generated a navigation mesh of everywhere that bots could go. Unfortunately, it took 10-20 minutes to generate on large builds, so I scrapped it.

I currently have a prototype of a much faster, more efficient system, but it's buggy still. Once the navigation mesh works, it will be tied into the team-filling bots that Slayer already has.

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