Naming an AIPlayer

[Xalos]

As I understand it, bots (AKA AIPlayers) can now be named.

However, I can't find the method/variable used to do this. I've tried %bot.setBotName(%name); as it seemed like the most obvious function, but it did absolutely nothing.


Note: I don't want a shapename, I just want the death message to show a bot name. Preferrably without having to hack up a new onDeath function AGAIN.

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[jes00]

Dunno. The code for the bot's name in the death message isn't in Bot_Hole.

Maybe isHoleBot in the bot's datablock needs to be set to true?

[Xalos]

Maybe isHoleBot in the bot's datablock needs to be set to true?

Tried that and it made every single bot disappear instantaneously. :|

[mitterdoo]

Looked through the code for bots. You used the right function, just the wrong parameters.

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AIPlayer::setBotName(%bot,%name);


[Axolotl2]

Looked through the code for bots. You used the right function, just the wrong parameters.

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AIPlayer::setBotName(%bot,%name);


Calling that method on an AIPlayer like thisBot.setBotName( thisBot , "theBotName" ); will not work because %bot is automatically filled when called by a method, so it'd just be like calling AIPlayer::setBotName( thisBot , thisBot , "theBotName" ); which will simply name the bot as either the objectID or both the objectID and the wanted name.

Xalos is calling it correctly by thisBot.setBotName( "theBotName" );.