SourceBots

SourceBots is an AI system to create Bots (CPU controlled players) for the Source Engine in a similar way to the NPC's AI.

SouceBots can be implemented in:

• Source SDK 2013
• Alien Swarm branch

⚠️ Although the code works, this code is part of the first C++ project of the developer and it has several optimization problems. Not suitable for production use.

⚠️ This project is not actively under development but PR's are welcome.

🌎 Most of the comments and debug messages are in Spanish.

🍕 Features

• Create Bots and program their AI with a code similar to the NPCs AI.
  • 🔗 Each set of tasks is separated into "schedules".
  • 🔗 Each schedule executes tasks (actions to be performed by the Bot) from top to bottom.
  • 🔗 Each schedule has interrupt conditions, the conditions are obtained in each frame according to the Bot status.
  • 🔗 Each schedule has a level of desire. The Bot will start the schedule with the highest desire and will try to finish it (if no interruption condition occurs).
  • 🔗 If necessary, you can add or modify the operation of the tasks in each schedule.
• 🔗 Movement, vision, memory and others are componentized. You can add or remove capabilities according to the type of Bot you want to create.
• 🔗 Move to entities or vectors using the Navigation mesh.
• Aim to entities or vectors.
• Detection of friends, enemies, neutral targets and objects such as weapons.
• 🔗 Ability to prioritize enemies.
• 🔗 Create squads and make decisions respecitively.
• 🔗 Hitbox detection and customization of the "preferred" hitbox when aiming.
• 🔗 Memory system to store information such as strings or numbers as well as positions of visible entities, including enemies and allies.
• 🔗 Easy configuration depending on the difficulty of the Bot.
• 🔗 Map entities to create Bots in events, highly customizable.

📖 How to start

The wiki has some help documents including installation and initial configuration.

🧪 TODO

You can find all comments with the word TODO, try to fix as many as you can!

Some of them:

• Optimization problems.
• Detect and fix memory leaks.
• Navigation problems.
• Melee weapons
• Doors
• Make the code easier to read.
• Add English comments.
• Being able to use the AI in NPC's (Like NextBot)

🎬 Videos

You can watch this YouTube playlist to see examples of Bots and a bit of the history of the project's development.

📞 Contact

You can contact me at:

• @kolessios
• Steam
• kolessios [at] gmail.com