[release] Radar Group AI

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 19 May 2006, 14:19

Radar AI
http://teake.home.fmf.nl/temp/RadarAI.zip

This group AI does something very basic, yet very usefull: it alerts the players whenever an enemy unit comes into radar / LOS.

Pros:
+ You don't have to keep a constant eye on the minimap for enemy intruders.
+ With any luck, you can get to the enemy intruders before they get to your mexxes :P
Cons:
- It currently broadcasts it message to everyone in the game.
- It gets a bit useless after the initial stages of the game when your base perimeter is better defined.
- It isn't compiled yet :(

The first con can also be a good thing: now the other players also now that you have recieved an alert, making it a bit more fair if your oppenent doesn't have or doesn't use the AI.

The last con is a big bummer: I can't compile it with MinGW so that it runs on the 0.71b1 release (which was probably compiled with Visual Studio, which I don't have). Would someone be so kind to compile it so that it runs on the latest release?

:update:
I've released a patch that updates the functionality of the Radar AI a great deal. Check my post below.

submarine · Post by **submarine** » 19 May 2006, 14:24

lol i would refuse to play with someone spamming me with messages

AF · Post by AF » 19 May 2006, 14:33

I'll take a look at the source and see if I can bring up a solution that doesnt require console messages.

Would you mind if I packaged this with XE8.1?

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 19 May 2006, 14:45

submarine wrote:lol i would refuse to play with someone spamming me with messages

It doesn't spam; it uses an interval of at least 320 frames between messages, and it reports groups of enemy units at once: e.g. "10 enemy units have entered radars/LOS".

AF wrote:I'll take a look at the source and see if I can bring up a solution that doesnt require console messages.
Would you mind if I packaged this with XE8.1?

You can perhaps draw lines on the map, but I don't think that would attract enough attention of the player. And sure, go ahead and include it (with name and reference) in XE8.1, but be a good sport and compile it first for me :P.

AF · Post by AF » 19 May 2006, 14:51

I'm thinking more fo a message that flashed by the users cursor, with a faint line in the direction of the event/s...

Soulless1 · Post by **Soulless1** » 19 May 2006, 18:02

how about if it automatically pinged the units like human allies would do?

You've got your groupai's to draw before havent you AF?

AF · Post by AF » 19 May 2006, 20:21

pinged? huh? You mean draw a marker?

And yah, my groupAI's can draw photo realistic animation, albeit I havent worked on speeding ti up from a laggy crawl just yet.....

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 19 May 2006, 21:26

AF, stop stealing my topics.

Is nobody so kind to compile this groupAI with MSVC for me?

AF · Post by AF » 19 May 2006, 21:30

I'll ahve ti for you tomorrow

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 19 May 2006, 21:33

Great, thanks a million. Can you do an unmodified version (i.e. my original) and one you've adapted?

Post by **jcnossen** » 19 May 2006, 21:33

I can put it in the spring repository if you want? It seems like a nice non-intrusive AI dll...

submarine · Post by **submarine** » 19 May 2006, 21:45

ok but please make sure that only the player using the ai gets those messages. it might be annoying for the other players who dont use that ai...

Post by **jcnossen** » 19 May 2006, 22:01

It doesn't actually do that I think, there is no networking code and SendTextMsg doesn't send chat messages to other players.

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 19 May 2006, 22:33

jcnossen wrote:I can put it in the spring repository if you want? It seems like a nice non-intrusive AI dll...

Sure, go ahead! It's nice to know that my efforts haven't been in vain :). And in case you're right about SendTextMsg, you can remove the team number in the first part of the text message.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 24 May 2006, 18:49

Can someone please compile this so that we can use it?

I play at 1600x1200 which means the dots on the minimap are incredibly hard to see. Not to mention when 1 dot blends in with the map.

I really need this groupAI

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 25 May 2006, 11:03

It's in SVN, so it will probably be in the next release too. IF you can't wait that long you'll have to poke AF for a compiled version (as he promised me some days ago ...)

colorblind · Post by **colorblind** » 04 Jun 2006, 17:54

I thought it was time to pimp up my Radar AI, and so I did. The patch is here:

http://teake.home.fmf.nl/temp/RadarAI_update.patch

This does the following:

You can now press F3 which will take you to the location of the enemy unit that has tresspassed your LOS / radar.
It also adds a notification on the minimap.
I had to change the AI interface a bit to allow for the above functionality. I added the functions SetLastMsgPos and AddNotification, I hope jcnossen doesn't mind ...

Enjoy :)

AF · Post by AF » 04 Jun 2006, 18:00

yay that's very useful thx colorblind for those additions!

Now if onyl there was an explosion and weaponfired event

Cronyx · Post by **Cronyx** » 10 Jul 2006, 14:26

So is there a .dll we can download at some point?

Rafal99 · Post by **Rafal99** » 10 Jul 2006, 15:46

It was added to the Spring installer. You should have it in your .../aidll folder.

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