Author Topic: Bot-clone people, a slightly interesting solution to mirrors  (Read 901 times)

What if there was an event that spawned a bot-clone of yourself on a named brick.
And the bot would mimic your actions but in reverse.
Every step you took, every animation you made, the bot would do it too.

This would make it possible to make
mirrors


Just imagine a bathroom with a mirrored part on the other side of the mirror.
When the player almost enters the room, he could step on a brick to spawn a clone of himself in the mirror room.
It would feel exactly like a mirror!

And when the player leaves the room, the bot could be killed (silently) by walking on a brick behind the spawn brick.

I think this is the way other games do it too.

that would actually be pretty awesome to see working

iirc the movie helper bots allow you to record movements. if someone were to adjust the code to account for the movements and actions of the player in real time as apposed to a session, it could help out with building projects.

iirc the movie helper bots allow you to record movements. if someone were to adjust the code to account for the movements and actions of the player in real time as apposed to a session, it could help out with building projects.

The movie bots record actions client-sided, so it is useless here.

The movie bots record actions client-sided, so it is useless here.
Really, that makes things complicated.

I guess it also won't be possible to let the player control 2 entities at the same time?

The only other solution is to work with a slight ping delay.

I was actually about to ask if this was possible and heres why:

I want to create a Deathmatch arena that is pretty high on brick count but I don't want it to affect the mode with lag. To counteract this I would build the arena twice, one arena with the bare amount of bricks needed and another arena with as much detail as possible.

This allows players with weaker computers to play among those with stronger computers and vice versa. Of course, minus the whole "mirror" idea this would be perfect