tEdbot tEdbot A client side Quake bot
"I could kill you at any time...but not today"

Description
Vital Statistics and Current Status
Demos (.DEMs)
References and Links




Description

tEdbot is a Quake client bot, and was dreamt up one day between myself (Grant Davies) and my friend (Ramanan Rajeswaran).
Current Status
Name: tEdbot
Type of bot: client
OS: MS-DOS or Win95
Networking: IPX in DOS, TCP/IP in Win95
Fully autonomous? Yes! It's NOT a proxy bot. There's a command-line interface like Terminator's (except more commands) but it will happily run without any human interference. The CLI can be used to obtain stats about what the bot can see, what he's doing, change his current objectives, etc.
Features: decent navigation through entire level, weapon/item/backpack collection, persistent player attacking, deep item searches, missile avoidance, unpredictable running and strafing in close combat (hard to hit), predictive fire (rarely misses with any gun)


Demos in .DEM format
Note that some of the recordings have a 'Report' text file attached to them. You should read this to see some statistics about that frag-fest, and also to read our notes about tEdbot's performance.

Date Filename Size Players
1 Dec 97 dem1.zip 175k zipped tEdbot (DX4/100)
Ramanan (RUMble) (Pentium 150)
Mark (Mad Monk) (Pentium Pro)
16 Dec 97 dem2.zip 317k zipped tEdbot (DX2/66)
Ramanan (RUMble) (Pentium 150)
Grant (gRinX) (DX4/100)
16 Dec 97 dem3.zip 647k zipped tEdbot (DX2/66)
Ramanan (RUMble) (Pentium 150)
Grant (gRinX) (DX4/100)
21 Dec 97 dem4.zip

Report 		843k zipped tEdbot (DX4/100)
Ramanan + Grant (RUMble) (Pentium 150)
Anthony (SlimeMaster) (Pentium 150?)
Paul (Den) (Pentium 120?)
29 Dec 97 navtest1.zip 10k zipped -[Navigation Test]-
tEdbot (DX4/100)
[Server] (DX2/66) (just testing)
2nd Jan 98 navtest2.zip 28k zipped -[Navigation Test]-
tEdbot (DX4/100)
[Server] (DX2/66) (just testing)


References and Links
id software (of course) Hell, you know why...
Olivier Montanuy and Terminator Bot source code This guy must have a PhD in QuakeMaths! We found the source just a *tad* difficult to read, so we tried not to rely on it too much :-)
Mike Warren's MikeBOT web site Quite a few nice algorithms which made tEdbot semi-respectable.
All contributors to the Unofficial Quake Specs
Uwe Girlish - Unofficial DEM specs
Jim Rorie - QuakeBot C/S Specs: The Bot Smith's Handbook v0.95
Iikka Paavolainen - Bachelor of QuakeMaths
StoogeBot Predictive firecontrol with lag!