Ongoing development forum thread

[azcguy]

For development chat, questions etc

[Dreathean]

Hi Azcguy, I know it's very early alpha still and you aren't looking for bug reports - so I just want to say thank you for making this, it will be a huge game changer for working with the playerbots!

I assume with the inventory panel you will be able to adjust what they have equipped seamlessly? Hopefully there will be a config option to make sure they don't override what you choose for them to equip in that case, as right now some classes aren't making the correct gearing decisions (issue posted on the playerbots github).

I'm excited for when you feel this is ready to be tested, or at least the inventory portion though the rest are going to be great additions as well!

[azcguy]

Thank you! The gear equip/use already works with emulator.

liyunfan1223 recently merged a commit into playerbots that allows you do disable auto-equip if i understand it correctly.
In my vision this is good because you will be manually equipping and managing your bots through ui.
It can be "tested" already but you will need to download emulator addon and follow instructions on how to run it on 2 accounts so one account emulates a bot, and first is the master with the main addon.

Current state is, while im completing all of the functionality of the addon, im simultaneously designing the protocol with which the addon (or any other addon that uses this protocol ) will communicate with the server. I need to complete the addon ui so that i know 100% how the protocol will work, only after that i will be working on integrating the emulator code to playerbots c++.

liyunfan1223 is also participating and will create the base protocol code in c++, because i am scared i will design classes badly.
When the base is done i can write the query/response code myself safely, and maintain it if there are any changes to message structure, add/change commands.

[Dreathean]

That is awesome! And yes I totally agree the best scenario is full control over your alt-playerbots and this looks to be a phenomenal tool to accomplish that.

And ah you're right, setting this off should prevent it from making any of it's own gearing decisions. Excellent!

I will see if I can get the setup running with the emulator addon but am excited for when it is ready to be integrated directly with the playerbots code!

[opicron]

This is outright awesome. Hope you can find the time or help to flesh this mod out further! Anything I can do to help?