Spawning Bots Using PutClientInServer();

[Junrall]

[Sajt]

The first thing you must know is about the "self" global variable. Those functions do a bunch of crap to "self". You have to make sure "self" is set to the proper entity before calling them. So you might spawn an entity, set self to point to it, then call those functions. But I have no idea if those functions are safe out-of-the-box to call on non-clients. FrikBot may have made modifications.

[c0burn]

FrikBot uses actual client slots so they are safe to call.

Have a look at BotConnect() from bot.qc - in fact for a first bot I would recommend taking FrikBot and ripping the AI out to save you reinventing the wheel on the boring stuff.

[Junrall]

[c0burn]

[Junrall]

[Junrall]

[c0burn]

On a listen server, you're slot 1. The world is slot 0. The rest of the clients/bots are 2-16.

Nextent cycles through all entities, but that code is called from worldspawn() if I'm remembering rightly so at that time there are only the world and client entities created by the engine. It's just Frik taking advantage of that knowledge so he can count how many client slots there are (you can't read "maxplayers" from QC as it's a command not a cvar).

[Junrall]