;3731']Does anyone have the source code to shrike bot? I am looking to work on it some to take the CPU usage it has down a good bit and try to tweak it so the AI is a little better.rnrnIf anyone has this, please contact me asap. ThanksrnrnCya

Would the source code be in the shrikebot downloads....

i dont recall ever seeing the source code availablennbut maybe you could email them.. i dont think its actually being worked on anymore at all...

Forums weirdness... double post... ;)

Not sure what the heck happened to my post, so I'll try again...nnThe forums are still being monitored by ITX, Cervezas, and even Jasp occassionally posts there still. So your best bet would be to post on the forums there. I don't know how Jasp would react to someone wanting to tinker with his code, but he is pretty cool, and he hasn't done anything with it for a couple of years at least, so at the very least it wouldn't hurt to ask.nnhttp://www.xs4all.nl/~jasp/shrikebot/nnHaving said that, I happen to think the cpu usage for ShrikeBot is actually pretty good. Light years better than it ever was for SturmBot and it certainly has never been a problem on my clan's ratty old server.

I will try to get a hold of him for you, but are you sure it's ShrikeBot causing your problems? I've used ShrikeBot a lot, on a pretty old server, both Windows and Linux, and I've never had problems with cpu load or spikes in cpu load, and the chances of him releasing a new version are 0. He has been working on a bot for DOD:S but has hit a wall with that because an SDK hasn't been released.

I'll see if I can get in touch with Shrike tonight about that. CPU usage spikes could come from rebuilding the nav files on map load (usually only needs to be done once however). It could also spike a little when the bots join (although the code does this one a time to lessen cpu load) or possibly maybe when players join or part when using min/max and bot team balancing..... rnrnThe rig I used to compile/test on is a 500mhz P3 and it could run about 12 to 14 bots without getting laggy, 16 would push it up to around 70 to 90% usage... This was back on Fedora Core 3...

Actually I think there is a good chance you can get the source code, if you want to contribue to the project. Shrike is really cool, and at least when I offered to help track down some bug in Shrikebot 2.3.1 (if I remember correctly it was a crash "bogus message type" and womething with with weapons restrictions...) he was willing to share the code...nnActually, what I would LOVE to see would be Shrikebot:Source for DOD:S :)nnBut, unfortunately, my C skills are extremely poor. I am good at debugging stuff that I don't completely understand, but porting shrikebot to Source would be much too much for me ;)

I honestly highly doubt you'll ever see a bot for Source that doesn't come from Valve. There just isn't enough in the Source SDK to build a functional bot.