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I n t r o d u c t i o n
The Frogbot mod is a tribute to the excellent game play of multiplayer
LAN Quake and my continuing attempt to create a bot that is believably
human. I judge my efforts largely on the game product you play.
The current AI of the Frogbot is what I would regard as a fairly
minimal working model. I do intend to greatly improve it over time.
Though it is true that QuakeC presents limitations of all sorts, by
using a bit of ingenuity I have been able to push QuakeC to the
limits.
The first requirement of a 'human' bot, as opposed to a 'bot' bot, is
fluent navigational skills. With the sacrifice of using static
waypoints the Frogbot can achieve fluent navigation around a level,
and moreover can actually be programmed in QuakeC (this is assuming
todays relatively slow cpu speeds).
The Frogbot is basically an exact client emulation bot.
I have decided to make my so far incomplete efforts available to the
Quake community so that other people can share in the enjoyment of
playing the Frogbot.
I n s t a l l i n g t h e b o t
When installing the frogbot, you must unzip the file to a directory within your main quake folder (ie, c:\quake\frogbot). This is done using a util such as WinZip. If you use pkunzip, remember to use the -d switch.
R u n n i n g t h e b o t
When installing is done, you must start quake using the bot in order to play with it.. lets say you have installed the frogbot into c:\quake\frogbot. You must then start quake, using this command line:
quake.exe -game frogbot -listen 16 -zone 1024
Replace quake.exe with whatever exe you are using (winquake, qwcl, glquake, etc). The -listen option makes it possible to spawn up to 15 bots (16 clients, including yourself) This is not needed if only want to play with 3 or less bots, but recommended.
You can also add more commands to the startup command line, but remember to include both the options shown in the example. If you would like to run the bot in QuakeWorld, please refer to the QuakeWorld frogbot setup page. There you'll find all the info you need.
P l a y i n g t h e b o t
Once inside quake, press [esc] to enter the menu. Then select multiplayer\serial or ipx\then start game
(remember to configure the server options)
when the map loads, you must enter "addbot" in the console to add a bot - more commands can be found in the text file. You can't play all quake levels. For a full list of supported levels, check the level support page
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