Vanishing Bots R954

[kofac]

I run PeqDatabase R946 and just updated to latest Bot Code R954. Mainly to see if I can fix a bunch of zone crashes. Not sure if its bot related but my PC used to be rock solid.

Where as since pretty much the bot code changes its just very patchy. Seems worse if I have more bots. I raided King & Queen in Chardok on Friday with 28 bots and another player. We had about 10 crashes in under 20 minutes. Normally its just zoning but this was all the time.

So I have just updated to R954 to see if it helps any. But what happens is when bots are spawned. If there not casting they turn invisible. Its only for casters my Rouge bot stayed visible at all times. If you move them they pop back into view. But as soon as you stop and there not casting they disappear.

Not sure if this is happening to anyone else but thought would post up just in case. Also is the Changelog ok it used to get updated every time the code updated. But now it seems a bit hit and miss its reporting last update was 8/17/09.

[kofac]

After some more testing its all bots even non casters disappear when stood still.

[shanekukacka]

Happens to me also, one thing I noticed as well was if the bard bot dissapears every so often she will stop singing all songs until I give her an item then her songs resume again. Hope this helps figure out whats going on :)

[leslamarch]

Yeah same here, its seems it has been doing it since the new MQ detection code.

[Domel]

Looks like r933 did it.

bot.cpp had this removed:

1031 //60 seconds, or whatever the rule is set to has passed, send this position to everyone to avoid ghosting
1032 if(/*global_position_update_timer.Check() && */!moving){
1033 SendAllPosition();
1034 }

[WildcardX]

I put the code block back in as of r955. Thanks for reporting this.

[Domel]

Ack ! Looks like SendAllPosition() got removed, I got it to work by changing it to SendPosition()

change bot.cpp to this:
1033 SendPosition();

[WildcardX]

Thanks! I'll make that change to the repo also.

[WildcardX]

Got it into the repo as of r956.

[pfyon]

Ah, that might explain why make failed for r955.

[Tharkun]

I thought that was a feature of the bots... something only the lines of the bots not aggro'n some random mob that was in range.

To used the AI's where the I is disputable I guess.