Bot Questions - Bot making? Henbane - Sat Jun 26, 2004 2:46 am Post subject: Bot making?
Can I make a bot in Microsoft Visual Basic? Or do I need C++ or java?
50% Packetloss - Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:06 am Post subject:
Mervbot is C++
TWcore is Java
Those are the 2 main open source bots. I believe Redstar has a bot made with VB
Cyan~Fire - Sat Jun 26, 2004 10:30 am Post subject:
MERV started off in VB.
D1st0rt - Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject:
You should be able to write it in Managed C++, depending on what computer you want to run it from. You might need to recompile the core though in that case.
Mr Ekted - Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:16 pm Post subject:
If you are just writing DLL's, you should be able to use any language/compiler that can produce a DLL with the appropriate interface.
D1st0rt - Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:41 pm Post subject:
I think one of the calls MERV accesses returns one of its internal template classes though 50% Packetloss - Sat Jun 26, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:
yep, playerlist, flaglist, bricklist and some of the things that you send to the core are all of catid's _linkedlist template
Mr Ekted - Sat Jun 26, 2004 7:51 pm Post subject:
There's nothing magic about classes or templates. It's just function calls, parameters, return values, and stack cleanup. You can mimic the interface with any reasonable language; maybe not VB. Pests - Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:46 am Post subject:
Yes, Redstar has a VB bot.
D1st0rt - Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:48 am Post subject:
ew, icky VB
Cyan~Fire - Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:33 am Post subject:
I think Ekted was referring to making MERVBot plugins, not bots. As I said before, MERV started in VB. (It is gross though, I would never write something serious in VB.)
