[Release] BabBot

[nilum]

I'd like to help tanis2000. Check your PMs

[tanis2000]

I'd like to help tanis2000. Check your PMs

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[tsincaat]

Good luck with the bot tanis! Nice to see work continuing on it

[tanis2000]

Things are looking great at the moment. The latest SVN build includes checks for buffs, items in your inventory, resting, looting, personalized fighting routines. We still need to fix some small issues with pathing and it will finally be good enough to be called a working beta.

[blamani]

I think id would be better to use the ids as well ,that you can see on sites like wowhead for buffs/debuffs/spellid/npcids to make it independent of the clients locale.
Also sometimes different spells have the same names /tooltips.

[GordonGekko]

Things are looking great at the moment. The latest SVN build includes checks for buffs, items in your inventory, resting, looting, personalized fighting routines. We still need to fix some small issues with pathing and it will finally be good enough to be called a working beta.

sounds good! how do you select people for the beta phase?

[tanis2000]

sounds good! how do you select people for the beta phase?

It's mainly been a first come first served for now. I would like to have another 5 or 6 testers in the team before calling it closed for the time being. And I have to say that we've been lucky with the guys who are in the testers team as we have people who were scripting for other bots, some developers, people with different systems to run the bot on.. I guess we couldn't ask for more

Anyway I planned a release for this week, so keep looking for news here and on our forums. As we release the new version I'll also take care of updating the first post of this thread with some up to date information.

[tanis2000]

I think id would be better to use the ids as well ,that you can see on sites like wowhead for buffs/debuffs/spellid/npcids to make it independent of the clients locale.
Also sometimes different spells have the same names /tooltips.

I leave to scripters the choice of using IDs or names for them. We are including support for both. I have never played with a client that is not the US or UK one, so I don't know much about how localization works in WoW. Feel free to contribute hints and tips as they are welcome and I can't see why we shouldn't listen to suggestions

[raze1225]

1 question. wont blizz just contact you and ask you to shut it down like every1 else??

[tanis2000]

1 question. wont blizz just contact you and ask you to shut it down like every1 else??

That could happen. But I see it as something very difficult to shutdown an Open Source project. We are hosted on a shared environment and I doubt they would be able to know who we are and where we live in order to send us a lawsuit. And even in a worst case scenario, people can just fork the project and keep it going. GPL is pretty much like a virus. Once it spreads, it's hard to contain it.

Anyway time will tell.. for the time being we're going to further develop the bot

[blamani]

To react to combat a few gliderclasses did parse the wowcombatlog. I dont know how the combatlog is created, but very often blizzard doesn't provide all possible information, so people dont know too much. Raids and PvP for Example. These Actions still happen, you can see them, so the client gets the information . How about feeding this information to the combatlog. I was thinking about something like showing the sources,destinations and spellcast_X events that often are nilled out or completely hidden.

[ayadew]

good luck to the devs

[tanis2000]

A quick update to let you know that the example paladin script is now roaming through waypoints, chasing mobs, looting them, resting, fighting and healing during fights.. aka it's an almost complete grinding example.

We still have some issues to iron out before the next release though so stay tuned

[Rocker]

Sounds nice, can't wait, has it been only tested on a pally, or have you tried other classes as well?

[blamani]

paladin seems to be the basic examplescript to test babbot. there should be more classes available in the future when the basic functions work well.