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Anonymous - Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:41 am
Post subject: I need a ball plugin...

I need a ball plugin that will make the ball spawn in one particular area that i choose. please help me

Cerium - Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:47 pm
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Cant you do that with arena settings? I remember reading about some pseudo-undocumented arena settings that let you specify where the ball spawns or something.

In any event, have you attempted to make the bot yourself first? Its really not that hard, just need to have the bot jump in a ship, pickup the ball move to where you want it to spawn and spec. Hell you could have a spawn radius with 1 or 2 extra lines of code and a 5th grade understanding of geometry.

Also, your name would be much cooler if it were simply 'blacula'.

Cyan~Fire - Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:19 pm
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You can only specify the ball's spawn separately on asss.

Purge - Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:08 pm
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I was trying to work with Black on doing this, but another way of doing this is far complicated and isn't effective as ASSS is.

I was using the ballmover plugin for MERV and eliminating squares from the map for where the ball will not go. Then the bot can just simply pick up the ball and place it at the desired coord. A little bit of work, but that seems like the only alternative.

Maverick - Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:30 am
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Its not hard to make the ball spawn at a different location using a bot.
All the bot coder needs to do is to have a plugin detect if a goal has been scored (check for the arena message), then wait until the ball appears then have the bot move the ball to the desired location.
However, you need a bot in order for all this to work.

Oh cerium already said this. Oh well...

Underlord - Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:58 pm
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void botInfo::MoveBall(int ident, int x, int y)
{
tell(makeFollowing(false));//makes the bot stop following people
tell(makeFlying(true));//makes the bot stop sending it's own position
tell(makeSendPosition(false));

tell(makeShip(SHIP_Warbird));//sc to ship 1
tell(makeGrabBall(ident));//ball's ident

me->move(x*16,y*16);//tells the bot the coords you want
tell(makeSendPosition(true));//makes the bot actually go there

tell(makeShip(SHIP_Spectator));//ball is dropped
}

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// #include "time.h"
// to get an area for ball to be placed in. this range would be in 450-550 x 500-600

srand(time(NULL));
rand();

int coordx = (int) (100 * ((float)rand()/RAND_MAX)) + 450;
int coordy = (int) (100 * ((float)rand()/RAND_MAX)) + 500;