Hi all,

A lot of people were talking about making zombots. A few even had a clue how to implement the astar algorithm for waypoint-based pathfinding.

I hope to get one step further by adding mesh-based pathfinding.

Vid: http://www.xfire.com/video/59f3c4/

Background info: http://www.ai-blog.net/archives/000152.html

there was already a bot mod using A-Star for AI navigation but it was way too slow, bots stopped at every waypoint for about 1 second. No clue if it could had been optimized...

mesh-based pathfinding seems faster, good job so far!

Got it working on a slightly different map too: now using non-triangular mesh parts, no lagg when using 128 moving models simultaneously.
Really pushing limits here :)

No astar yet, currently relying on linearity in map for pathfinding (only one way to get from each point to every other point)

Astar has been implemented along with a lot of bugfixes. Bots now stay inside the mesh but try to get as close as possible to a player if said player is outside the mesh.

Now thinking about adding a jump-ability to the bots.

Altough... im losing a bit of interest in cod2. Seems like its dead and buried already and no one told me.

Just added the ability to flank a player if the normal route has become a slaughterhouse:

http://www.xfire.com/video/5a443a/

Many people still play on Zombie servers in CoD 2.

Just added jump to zombies.
Still quite buggy though:

http://www.xfire.com/video/5a4fad/

(the crash in the video has since been resolved)

I've been following this post for a while, and although i havn't played 2 for a long time now, i'm finding this interesting. Keep it going

Fixed the bugs.
http://www.xfire.com/video/5a5198/

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