[Warkral]

Originally Posted by Uleat

You mean from the old command system?


(Aside from the rework of the command infrastructure..)

They both will 'set' a bot's following distance to the given value.

With the old system, if you wanted to 'clear' the value, you just set it to (hopefully) the default distance..or camp and respawn the bot.

The new system's command has a 'clear' option to set it to the server's default - a bonus since following distances are now saved and loaded upon bot spawning.


In addition, this command takes advantage of the 'Actionable Bot' selector syntax.

^followd set 150 will set your target bot's following distance to '150'

^followd set 150 byname <bot_name> will set the following distance of a spawned bot named <bot_name> - which, of course, you must own

^followd set 150 targetgroup will set all owned bots in target's group (I know botgroup is affected..but, I think client's should work too - if the grouping issue gets resolved)

^followd set 150 spawned will set all spawned bots that you own

^followd set 150 all will set all spawned and non-spawned bots (all is not listed as an option..but, is not filtered out)

(Of course, using the [clear] argument affects the same change across the specified grouping.)


Suppose you had 1 botgroup spawned and 5 bots in your group.

Use ^followd set 200 spawned

All spawned bots now have a following distance of '200'

Now, go down your group (and botgroup) and use ^follow byname <bot_follower>, with your target being the 'to follow' entity (first being you and subsequent targets being
the previous follower) and move down your spawned bots.

This will give you a nice, evenly-spaced single-file line of bots.


Most non-bot attribute commands allow the use of some-to-all actionable bot syntax.


EDIT:

Note: ^follow and ^followd are not the same command.

Also, 'follow target' is not currently saved due to the complexity of spawning and assignments.


EDIT2: Yes, I just read N0ctrnl's post. The 'set' in the old command was part of the command name..whereas it's an argument with the new system :P

Excellent, thank you! I'll play around with it for a few days and get used to it before I ask any more questions about it.