Bots in Quake2

telex4 · l33t Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 704 Location: Reading, UK

I've got Quake2, and I've just run through the single player mode for all times sake, but I can't find / get any bots to work.

Has anyone manged to get DM/CTF bots running, and how?

meetra · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 3:44 am Post subject:

well, there was the gladiator bot:

http://www.cyd.liu.se/~bjoli035/botepidemic/gladiator/

i think is the best... but... here's one page with a lot of them (some links are broken)
http://www.cyd.liu.se/~bjoli035/botepidemic/

telex4 · l33t Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 704 Location: Reading, UK

Well the download link for the gladiator bot was broken, but with a little googling I found the file here: http://ftp.cdu.elektra.ru/pub/games/unix/quake2/gladiator/

I unzipped the files, made some .AAS files for the maps, then ran the client (quake2forge) like so:

quake2 +set game gladiator +set deathmatch 1 +disconnect

which is what the docs suggested. when it starts, it says it has loaded the pak file for the bots, so it must have recognised that I asked for the gladiator "mod". But it doesn't seem to have loaded the bot files properly, because none of the commands work.

any ideas?

meetra · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 2:40 am Post subject:

telex4 · l33t Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 704 Location: Reading, UK

Hmm... I made the .AAS files, and left them in gladiator/, and that was it. The instructions that came with the bots didn't mention putting them plus the bsps into gladiator/maps, but now you mention it, it seems like that *might* be why it isn't loading the commands it, because it's failing to load the map with the AAS files properly.

I'll see if it helps. And it's not the +disconnect that's at fault - that's something recommended in the gladiator readme.

vod · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 90

there's a quake2forge ebuild?

meetra · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 3:15 pm Post subject:

telex4 · l33t Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 704 Location: Reading, UK

Any ideas as to how I can extract a BSP from a .PAK, to try this idea out?

zephyr1256 · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 5:30 pm Post subject:

If I remember correctly, .pak files for quake2 were just .zip files with a different extension. Maybe you could try unzip on it(you might have to change the extension or pass a parameter to tell it that .pak extension is ok).

telex4 · l33t Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 704 Location: Reading, UK

Nope, no such luck

I downloaded a map, made an aas for it, put them both in gladiator/maps, then ran the game. It still doesn't recognise the commands.

meetra · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 10:27 pm Post subject:

try doing this:

Multiplayer -> Start Network Game

choose the map and "begin".

if u load the map by using the "map map.bsp" command... the gladiator doesn't work. (at least, not for me)

telex4 · l33t Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 704 Location: Reading, UK

Hmm, this is really bizarre. I'm probably making you all as fed up as I am!

If I run the game simply with "+set game gladiator" as the only argument, and then pull down the console and type "map stellar", it finds stellar (whose bsp and aas files are in gladiator/maps). But if I go to multiplayer -> start new network server, stellar doesn't come up in the map list.

meetra · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 4:59 am Post subject:

add the map stellar in the maps.lst

telex4 · l33t Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 704 Location: Reading, UK

I have no maps.lst at present. I've made one, and put in the line:

stellar "Stellar"

And I've put it into "$QUAKE2/gladiator/". When I go to start a new network game, quake2 aborts with the error: "no maps in maps.lst". Where am I going wrong?

meetra · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 8:52 pm Post subject:

hmmmm, is the stellar.bsp in the "$QUAKE2/gladiator/maps"?

if yes, try to add the line to the maps.lst in the "$QUAKE2/baseq2" and copy the stellar.bsp into "$QUAKE2/baseq2/maps".

telex4 · l33t Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 704 Location: Reading, UK

OK, I've made a file $QUAKE2/baseq2/maps.lst, and in it I've put the following two lines:

---
base1 "Base1"
stellar "Stellar Map"
---

I then run quake2 with no arguments, go to start a new network game, and it still exists saying "ERROR: no maps in maps.lst". If I delete maps.lst, it works fine.

Could it be because I'm using quake2forge and not the icculus port? Or something else? Could you post your own maps.lst if that would help?

meetra · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 10:42 pm Post subject:

don't know, never tried the icculus nor quake2forge, only the quake2 from iD.