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[Doggeti]

Here is what I made:

In spawn.h I added in class-definition of botInfo:

int goals[2];

and

goals[0] = 0;
goals[1] = 0;

In spawn.cpp I changed in botInfo::gotEvent the case EVENT_SoccerGoal. It now looks like this:

int team = *(int*)&event.p[0];
int reward = *(int*)&event.p[1];
goals[team]++;
String s;
s = "SCORE - Evens: ";
s += goals[0];
s += " Odds: ";
s += goals[1];
sendPublic(s);

But the Bot doesn't display the message when I score.

[SOS]

Looks fine here...
Maybe you are not loading the dll into the bot?
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[catid]

try sending it as an arena message. prefix "*arena".

i think there might be a problem with plain old public messages, lemme check it out

[Doggeti]

I changed it to this:

int team = *(int*)&event.p[0];
int reward = *(int*)&event.p[1];
goals[team]++;
String s;
s = "*arena SCORE - Evens: ";
s += goals[0];
s += " Odds: ";
s += goals[1];
sendPublic(s);

is that what you meant? (it doesn't work)

[SOS]

Try putting a breakpoint there. Am thinkink that maybe it is not beink run for some reason.

[Doggeti]

where exactly you want me to put it?

[SOS]

Any of those lines under EVENT_SoccerGoal

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[Doggeti]

The bot acctually has mod-access and as i read in www.shanky.com/server/commands.html this should be enough for *arena command.
I will try it with higher levels and post it later whether it worked or not.

[Doggeti]

I gave Smod and after that SysOp powers to the bot but that didn't help.

[Mine GO BOOM]

You might want to just try to send a test public message before and afterwards, to see if the bot screwed up somewhere around it. Before and after that code section, just send a public message like "test1", and after it, send something like "test2". If it only sends test1, your code is wrong somehow. If it sends test1 and test2, then your goal[0] isn't being added to the string correctly.

[Doggeti]

I now tried this as well but the bot doesn't say anything. The only thing that works until now are private messages when player enter the arena.

[SOS]

Erm... well maybe you have messed something up there.
Post the entire gotEvent() function

[Doggeti]

Ok, here are the both case-blocks I have changed so far:

Code: Show/Hide case EVENT_SoccerGoal: { int team = *(int*)&event.p[0]; int reward = *(int*)&event.p[1]; goals[team]++; String s; s = "SCORE - Evens: "; s += goals[0]; s += " Odds: "; s += goals[1]; sendPublic(s); } break;

and

Code: Show/Hide case EVENT_PlayerEntering: { Player *p = (Player*)event.p[0]; String s; s = "Hello "; s += p->name; s += "!"; sendPrivate(p, s); } break;

As I said, the code in EVENT_PlayerEntering works but not the one in EVENT_SoccerGoal

[VampZ]

The Soccer Goal Event doesn't happen when a soccer goal is scored. just put a simple sendPublic("Goal Scored"); to prove it. Dunno what to tell you.

[Doggeti]

I put following line into case EVENT_PlayerEntering:

Code: Show/Hide sendPublic("Hello!");

Guess what, he didn't say it. BUT Now I know the problem is not that EVENT_SoccerGoal doesn't get called; The problem is in sendPublic() or in one of the functions related to it.

So I looked for the definition of sendPublic(). At the bottom of spawn.cpp I found all the message-functions including two sendPublic(). One of them was with sound the other one without.

Code: Show/Hide void botInfo::sendPublic(char *msg) {     tell(makeSay(MSG_Public, 0, 0, msg)); } void botInfo::sendPublic(BYTE snd, char *msg) {     tell(makeSay(MSG_Public, snd, 0, msg)); }

I found 'makeSay' in dllcore.cpp. It simply sets the properties of an event and returns this event.
This event is then given to 'tell'. 'tell' is a method if botInfo. It's located at top of spawn.cpp.

Code: Show/Hide void botInfo::tell(BotEvent &event) {     if (callback && handle)     {         event.handle = handle;         callback(event);     } }

'callback' should now be called with our little event. The problem is that i couldn't find this function 'callback'. Where is it What does it do

[SOS]

callback tells the EXE that you want to do something. It's in the EXE source.

[Doggeti]

Yes. I am using the latest source directly from catid.sscentral.com.

Ok, you are right. i can't tell if the EVENT_SoccerGoal gets called or not but i can be sure that something must be wrong with the function 'sendPublic' or may way of using it .

[SOS]

No, you can't
There's nothing special to use about it, so that's out...

As I said, post the entire getEvent() function and I might be able to find the error

[Doggeti]

OK. Though I don't know why you need the entire code here you have it (it's my spawn.cpp in attachment). I think that's the file that contains 'gotEvent'. If not please don't slap me

[tikiman]

Has anyone gotten this working? I tried it similar to the way Doggeti did and I have the same problem: sendPrivate seems to work, sendPublic doesn't, no matter where I put it.

I looked up the !say command that comes with the bot core. It's in command.cpp and the only difference is that it gets passed a Host object and uses the Host sendPublic() function like the following:

h->sendPublic("hi");

If h is of type Host*. I tried creating one of these in spawn.cpp but with multiple errors. Here's what I did.

Host* h = new Host;
h->sendPublic("hi");

It doesn't seem to work. My C++ is really rusty though so that may be completely wrong.

[SOS]

Well, sendPublic() always worked for me and it has not changed in the latest MERV versions...

A thought occurs: Can people talk public chat in your zone? There is that bug where only moderators can use public chat. Hrm, altough usually bots have staff access... so I dunno...

[Dr Brain]

It works for me too, altho I have not tested it with the latest MERV version.

I HATE that pub chat bug, I had an event in my zone with 10 people, and I was the only one talkin... I thought they just didn't like speaking.
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[ExplodyThingy]

Since we dont seem to know the source of the problem, ever thought of doing a sendTeam(); or similar to see if that event is called? That will tell you if its the event or sendPublic();
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[Doggeti]

LOL! I put sendTeam(s); into EVENT_SoccerGoal as Explody suggested and it didn't work.
SoccerGoal happens when the powerball crosses the goal-tile, right?