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Bot Questions - Powerball

CypherJF - Sat Feb 28, 2004 11:28 pm
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MervBot: what would be the best way to determine if a player is carrying the ball for like # seconds?

SuSE - Sun Feb 29, 2004 12:16 am
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um, start a timer for x seconds when they pickup the ball?

CypherJF - Sun Feb 29, 2004 1:40 am
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What if they throw it :/ and what if theres 2 more balls or w/e :/ LOl akai... im not _that_ dumb

Cyan~Fire - Sun Feb 29, 2004 10:52 am
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Well I'm not sure about this (I've never used the soccer functions of MERV), but the PBall struct has a 'carrier' member. Possibly have the bot check every EVENT_BallMove and see if there is a carrier.

50% Packetloss - Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:47 am
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struct PBall
{
Uint16 x, y;
Sint16 xvel, yvel;
Uint16 team;
Uint16 ident;
Uint16 carrier;
Uint32 time;       // Local timestamp on event (not constant)
Uint32 hosttime;    // Remote timestamp on event (constant until new event)
Uint32 lastrecv;    // Last update recv time (for timeout)
};

test out some of those time variables, i have no idea what catid's comments mean so its trial and error. If worse comes to worse, you can keep track of EVENT_BallMove , the ball->carrier will be ==0xFFFF if the ball is uncarried. Else it will be the p->ident of the player

Smong - Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:30 am
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Also I think if the ball is being carried, time will be 0.

Mr Ekted - Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:01 pm
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PID TIME MEANING
FFFF 00000000 ball removed from play
FFFF xxxxxxxx ball set/spawned
xxxx 00000000 ball carried by pid
xxxx xxxxxxxx ball passed by pid