[Plaffy46]

So I'm trying to write a plugin allowing users to record their actions and let a bot reproduce them on demand, pretty much like a bot_mimic imitation that works on demand, or that one feature in SFM where you can record yourself playing, except that this plugin is also useful for gameplay purposes.
Right now, I can properly set up listeners to note my actions such as walking, jumping and attacking, that I then write to a specific cfg file, so I can tell a bot to execute that cfg so it reproduces what I did.

My issue is how to handle the view angle of the bot. I can't really use the +left, +right, and all other usercmds related to camera to properly "save" where I was looking.

In short, is there any way to record the view position and angles of a player so that a bot can then imitates it later?

[Phil25]

The 5th parameter of OnPlayerRunCmd() are viewangles of the client. I'm pretty sure it would be better to use that for everything else rather than setting up so many listeners.

[blaacky]

Instead of recording all those events you can try just recording the player position, view angles, and buttons. I've made a replay bot and that is how I have it working

[Plaffy46]

Thanks for the replies!
@blaacky, would you mind giving me your code or at least a snippet? I'm not totally sure about how I could retranscript the informations I get into an "executable" cfg file (I'll probably have to find another way for that), and this'll certainly save me some precious time!

[blaacky]

PHP Code:

            any data[REPLAY_FRAME_SIZE];
            GetArrayArray(g_hReplayFrame[Type][style][tas], g_ReplayCurrentFrame, data, sizeof(data));
            
            float vPos[3];
            Array_Copy(data, vPos, 3);
            
            float vAng[3];
            vAng[0] = data[3];
            vAng[1] = data[4];
            vAng[2] = 0.0;
            
            buttons = data[5];
            
            float vCurrentPos[3];
            Entity_GetAbsOrigin(client, vCurrentPos);
            
            if(GetVectorDistance(vPos, vCurrentPos) > 50.0)
            {
                TeleportEntity(client, vPos, vAng, NULL_VECTOR);
            }
            else
            {
                // Get the new velocity from the the 2 points
                float vVel[3];
                MakeVectorFromPoints(vCurrentPos, vPos, vVel);
                ScaleVector(vVel, 1.0/GetTickInterval());
                    
                TeleportEntity(client, NULL_VECTOR, vAng, vVel);
            }
            
            g_ReplayCurrentFrame++;
            if(g_ReplayCurrentFrame >= g_ReplayMaxFrame)
                StopCurrentReplay(); 


This goes under OnPlayerRunCmd when the client is a replay bot. I use SMLib for some of that code in case you don't know

[Plaffy46]

Thanks! Now my only problem is still about how to save each individual frame for future replay and not just a live one. My guess is making another file affiliated with the cfg file containing every frame and the corresponding views and use OnGameFrame () to read this file and update the view of the bot when the cfg with all the other commands is being read. I'll put feedback when I try this.