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GregM · Lux Newbie Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 257

You can now find a new bot on the plugin manager: BotOMatic. BotOMatic is a bot whose strategy and chat personality you can customize. This works through a graphical interface you can access while playing a game with the bot. Just play a private network game with BotOMatic and type "botomatic setup" to access a bot setup window. Instructions about how to work with BotOMatic can be found at http://sillysoft.net/wiki/?BotOMatic

Some examples of things you can create with BotOMatic:

-a "bots first" bot that will try to make a human win the game. You might have the bot say "OK!" whenever someone says "bots first?" in the chat.

-a Jerrybot that insults people and tells whoever kills it that it will suicide on them for x games.

-a Bushbot with an appropriately stupid strategy and plenty of insults. There is a "never take over" option for this, too.

-Any kind of chat personality you can think up, paired with the strategy of any other bot

I hope people find this interesting.

Bertrand · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject:

Great idea, looking forward to trying it.

When I type "botomatic setup", nothing happens.

In the log, I found the following message:

java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError
at org.mcglynns.lux.BotOMatic.setPrefs(BotOMatic.java:1119)
at com.sillysoft.lux.B.N(Unknown Source)
at com.sillysoft.lux.gui.G.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

GregM · Lux Newbie Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 257

Hmm. What version of Lux are you using? What version of Java? On that line BotOMatic uses a Board class function dustin gave me to get a certain location in the file system. I think that error means the function has somehow disappeared. It works for me on Lux version 5.31, with Java 5. Confused

Bertrand · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject:

I had Lux 5.3, but I retried it with lux 5.31: the error message is gone, but nothing happens when I type botomatic setup. Should I see a Swing popup?

From the log:
Lux version 5.31 is now starting under user Bertrand
-> OS: Windows XP 5.1 x86
-> VM: 1.5.0_06 / 49.0

hoodie · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject:

You rock, Greg! I can't wait to try it.

hoodie · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject:

I'm on Mac OS 10.4.6, running the newest version of lux, and I can't get the setup window either.

GregM · Lux Newbie Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 257

dustin · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject:

It's very likely that BotOMatic will only work on Lux 5.31 and not earlier versions.

Also note, you'll need to have a player set to be BotOMatic in the game for the "botomatic setup" command to work (yes, this might be obvious to everyone, but I thought I would mention it).

hoodie · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:01 am Post subject:

ding ding ding we have a winner
I installed 5.3.1, deleted 5.3, and still somehow was still running 5.3. With the re-installation, I was able to get the botomatic setup window.

Very Happy

Bertrand · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject:

I retried it just now, and to my surprise it works! The only difference I can see is that I had 6 botomatic players in the game, and yesterday I had only 1. I'm pretty sure that I made no typing errors yesterday. Mysterious.

Eice · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject:

Hm...I believe dustin had a botomatic in his room that greeted people when they enter...how can you get a bot to greet people when they enter if they don't say anything?

Other then that I like customizing the bot, very nice greg :D

GregM · Lux Newbie Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 257

dustin · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:33 am Post subject:

Yep, that's it. I have it set to reply for "* has joined >>". I had to make a change in Lux for this to work, so it requires version 5.5.

Drifter · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:49 am Post subject:

So would "* no mere guest >>" or "* guest mode >>" work as well for for BotOMatic to talk smack for people guesting in/out? Sorry for the code question, remember I am a pixel pusher, not a programmer.

dustin · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:43 am Post subject:

I do not think that the guest things would work. Trying it out would tell you for sure.

Drifter · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:57 am Post subject:

Just throwing out another one of my goofy ideas so others can maybe try it.

PJB · Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:54 pm Post subject:

Am i correct that the "botomatic setup" doesnt work on a headless host?

dustin · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:01 pm Post subject:

I believe you are correct in that PJB. But you should still be able to manually edit the BotOMatic settings file (located in the Agents dir I think), or start a normal instance of Lux and use that to start the "botomatic setup" command. The same settings will apply to all BotOMatics on the computer.

PJB · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:16 am Post subject:

I started a normal instance of lux and used the "botomatic setup" and setup the bot how i wanted it. Now it works in the room when i use the Lux interface for hosting but it doesnt work in the headless rooms. Ill try to set it up manually.

Thanx