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Bot Raiser

Welcome to Soldier Of Fortune section!
Grazie alle sue notevoli innovazioni, Soldier Of Fortune è sicuramente un videogioco degno di nota, nonostante l'età del motore grafico.
Diciamo subito che a livello di bot, Soldier Of Fortune non può certo vantare il numero abnorme di prodotti disponibili per gli sparatutto id. Comunque sia, un bot esiste, funziona bene, e noi siamo qui apposta!
Ecco a voi, dunque, l'incarnazione dedicata di Bot Runner, che ho deciso di battezzare Bot Raiser.
Nonostante la scarsità di bot, potete però trovare tutte le mappe e skin che volete: per cominciare fate un giro su Fileplanet, Fileleech o PlanetSoldier.
Se avete fretta, leggete almeno la sezione Quick Start.

Thanks to its noticeable innovations, Soldier Of Fortune is surely a cool game, in spite of the age of the graphical engine.
Even if it can't reach the same terrific numbers of id's shooters, there is a bot, it works fine, and we're here to support it!
So, here there's the dedicated Bot Runner version, that I decided to call Bot Raiser.
Regarding player skins and maps, you can start your research from Fileplanet, Fileleech or PlanetSoldier.
Even if you can't wait, please read at least the Quick Start section.

Manual Addendum

Being Bot Raiser fully based on the code of Bot Runner, I don't think another manual is necessary.
So below you can find what's new respect the Bot Runner manual (that's included into raiserXXe.zip).

My product's features:

Mainly different are, of course, supported bots , that are:

At the moment, there's no supported mod that can spawn bots.

Obviously, if you know any other, please email me!

About starting Bot Raiser, the instructions are the same; the program will ask you to update skins' file (/user/ghoul/pmodels) and the maps' one (*map.lst).
Although Bot Raiser has been fully tested, precedent experiences with Bot Runner force me to recommend you to make a backup copy of this files!
Moreover, every skin takes as its name the directory one; because of the lack of the model concept in Soldier Of Fortune, model and skin can be considered as synonims.

Obviously, every directory changed; here's the list:

In Chapter...

the phrase...

becomes...
1-7 crbot hidebot
1-7 /quake2/ /sof/
2-7 baseq2/players user/ghoul/pmodels
2-7 baseq2/maps base/maps
4-7 /runner /raiser
6 "Supermalefemalecyborg" "??????"

Obviously chapter 7 is completely unuseful.

Let's spend some words about config files: into /raiser folder you find some files named *flg.cfg. Everyone contains settings for corresponding game mode, with this convention: d=DM (deathmatch), c=CTF (capture the flag), b=CTB (conquer the bunker), r=RL (realistic), L=CON (control). Moreover, there's a file tflg.cfg, for team deathmatch. Same way, you find the lists of hidebot supported maps (i.e. with waypoints), named *map.lst. Moreover, into base/maplists, there are complete map lists (i.e. also with maps that do not have waypoints), in the form *map_now.lst, so you can play without bots starting a game from SoF menu.

When you'll launch set death.vbs, it will ask you which type are installed maps; if you haven't any addon map, answer "d"; in other cases you must remove them, then reinstall type by type (first all dm, then all ctf, and so on), rexecuting set death every time.

I remember you that maps must be installed into one of the following folder: base/maps, base/maps/dm, user/maps, user/maps/dm, or they won't be recognized. Skins are to be installed into user/ghoul/pmodels.

Moreover, /raiser folder contains file raiser.bpf, that has into it bot chat phrases.

Finally, some specific notes:

If you want to start a dedicated server, edit .vbs files, search wsh.run lines and add +set dedicated 1 (obviously, I think).

Here's the history line:

What's new in version 1.0

No new version of Bot Raiser is in program.

Quick Start

I prefer to leave this section here, so you don't need to read the whole manual to simply play. Notice: Gold patch and Hidebot 1.1 are NEEDED! Bot Raiser does NOT support gold patch integrated bot, because hidebot is the updated version. I remember you that maps must be installed into one of the following folder: base/maps, base/maps/dm, user/maps, user/maps/dm, or they won't be recognized. Skins are to be installed into user/ghoul/pmodels.

Bot Raiser can start Soldier Of Fortune directly with all options; however, if you chose not to bind a key to exec bot.cfg, you'll have to type it manually into the console every time the level changes to reconnect bots not capable to do it.
So, I strongly suggest you let Bot Raiser set this!

Follow these steps:

you have to do this only once, execpt if you install new maps or skins (in this case run set deah.vbs again)

You can answer to the first question with a number (and you'll play deathmatch), or with two number separated by commas(and you'll play team DM), or with a name of a previously saved configuration.
Game modes are: deathmatch, capture the flag, conquer the bunker, realistic, control, assassin, arsenal.
In case of 2 team game, Bot Raiser will set up as many bots as the sum of the two teams; once in the game, Soldier Of Fortune will autoassign bots to the two teams.
In case of Team DM or CTB, the maximum is 6 teams.

Remember that the method to create a predefined set of bots requires a file the file in the format: name/skin,name2/skin2; where name is what you'll see in the score tab and skin is the folder name (use ; to separate teams). This file must have a .bot extension, and be placed into /raiser folder.

From version 1.0, I've implemented a method to manage bot names; into /raiser/botnames.cfg you can find every available name, with this syntax: skinname(name1,name2,etc).
To add some names, you've only to search the skin you want or add it, if it not exists; after ( place all the names, spacing them with commas; you can use every character except for "; you must close the parenthesys at the end, but the last comma is not needed.
Every time Bot Raiser assigns a skin, it chooses a casual name from the ones available in the file; if the file doesn't exists, or there's no available name, skin's name will be used (as in old versions).
If you want, you can add generic settings using ### as a skin name; these settings will be used with every skin not explicitly defined in the file.
Regarding files created with the new method, there's no change, cause bot names were alreeady supported
For those who don't like to edit files manually, i've added a little utility to automatically create the file; start botnames.vbs (into /raiser folder) and it will add (if the file exists, it won't be overwritten) every skin not already present.

Downloads

Et voilà. Here's everything you need to start a good massacre.
To use my front-end, you need only the file raiserXXe.zip (into it you'll find also the manual in HTML format).
Obviously (there's no mod capable to use bots) there is no cfgpak file for Bot Raiser.
I remind you that you need at least Soldier Of Fortune Gold Patch (NEEDED) and Windows 98. If you have only Windows 95, you must download also the WSH, either from the link in this page, or directly from Microsoft's site. Otherwhise, you can install Internet Explorer 5.0, that includes it.
Moreover, you can download the bot manager you prefer, if it's supported. You can find the latest version on Bot Epidemic.
Obviously, for every bot/mod, more the symbols, higher the score (in author's opinions).

Bot Raiser

raiser13e.zip Bot Raiser version 1.0 (SoF gold) 40 kb
WSH.exe Windows Scripting Host for W95 575 kb

Supported Bot Managers

The blue link leads you to a local copy of the file, the red is linked to the home page.

hidebot11.zip Hidebot v 1.1 945 kb

* Due to their excessive size, these files aren't available locally, but only as link to the original site (you can find the other links in the dedicated section).

** These extensions requires also the complete original mod

*** At the moment these bot manager can't use additional skins

 

 

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