[Godis]

I am trying to spawn fake players (bots) using CreateFakeClient, the problem is the bots are just puppets unable to move from their initial position. I'm guessing this has to do with nav meshes and such but i really have no clue how to get them to move and act like normal bots since i have never really atempted this before. How do i do this?

[tommie113]

For as far as I know:
Fake client is not a bot.
A fake client is an entity that looks the same as a player/bot but not acts the same.
For example a record bot (for surf or whatever) is a fake client, it does not behave like a bot but looks like one.
Fake client needs instructions on what to do or they won't do anything.
I have no source for this and it's just how I assume that it is and what makes sense for me.

[Godis]

Oh okay, well i guess i'll have to find some other way of spawning a bot and grabbing its entity index. I really wish there would be more documentation for things like this :/

[tommie113]

I don't know if a bot also triggers client connect.
If so you could use add bot command and use on client connected to get it's index.
With a check if his name contains bot ofcourse so you dont get problems when a client connects at same time.

[Godis]

I believe that OnClientPutInServer is triggered when a bot joins, so that will have to do i guess. Thank you for your time

[jess]

It should be similar in each game, as long as you know the entName.

For example, this is left 4 dead 2:

new client = CreateFakeClient("Survivor Bot");
DispatchKeyValue(client, "classname", "survivorbot");
DispatchSpawn(client);

[pcmaster]

OnClientConnect also works for bots.
I am using it to assign bots to replays in my timer plugin (spawned through bot_add).