Bramm

Greetings Blueboy and other Bot Developers, I've been a fan of this work for some time now and am fascinated with what has been accomplished in the solution over the past few years. I was thinking about developing a relative position controller as an academic excercise (Im currently in grad school studying controls), and figured this could be interesting with a squadron of bots. This would probably be more useful in non combat situations when the team is dungeon crawling or navigating a road and could prevent the pile up resulting from all bots tracking an equivalent follow the master command. For such a real time algorithm, it looks like everthing is in place... master xyz position, bot xyz position, and a 1 hz time update rate with the p_time variable? Also it looks like the mbot relocate command can be used for positioning... what do you think. Enthusiastic to make a contribution! Sincerely, Bramm <relevant code snippet> / This is called from Unit.cpp and is called every second (I think) void UpdateAI(const uint32 p_time float x, y, z; pTarget->GetContactPoint(m_bot, x, y, z, 3.666666f); m_bot->Relocate(x, y, z); <\\relevant code snippet>

Good evening Blueboy, I'm not running any other patches or mods in the setup. From what I've seen, the crashes have occurred after spawning and grouping the bots and performing some amount of combat. I can't really pinpoint it to using an instance yet although this was the fact for one of the more recent occurences. I just updated to the a more current Revision 9573 and merged the updated blueboy thread and haven't seen anything yet. If I do, I will go add the monitor flag per your suggestion in #914 and report in w/ findings. Thanks, Bramm

Just a quick update to help troubleshoot some of the crashes, per post #892 I've updated w/ this patch (commented the typedefs) to Revision 9518, sd2 1627 w/ the following log: Revision: * * 9518 7ad3aeecc84b474dd52ed90e65414bfeecefea76 Date 10:3:2010. Time 21:34 //===================================================== *** Hardware *** Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Physical Memory: 1047532 KB (Available: 105532 KB) Commit Charge Limit: 2520240 KB *** Operation System *** Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (Version 5.1, Build 2600) //===================================================== Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION Fault address: 007AA0FC 01:003A90FC C:\\mangos\\mangosd.exe Registers: EAX:00000000 EBX:7F524158 ECX:7F467A60 EDX:00009729 ESI:00000000 EDI:008F50B0 CS:EIP:001B:007AA0FC SS:ESP:0023:07E3F244 EBP:07E3F274 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000 Flags:00010206 Call stack: Address Frame Function SourceFile 007AA0FC 00000000 PlayerbotAI::HasAura+C 007AE9CB 00000000 PlayerbotAI::CastSpell+17B 007AE7F4 00000000 PlayerbotAI::CastSpell+A4 008A7BCD 00000000 PlayerbotMageAI::DoNextCombatManeuver+27D 007AB64A 00000000 PlayerbotAI::DoNextCombatManeuver+1CA 007AE3D1 00000000 PlayerbotAI::UpdateAI+641 0050784F 00000000 Player::Update+F0F 004DF3BA 00000000 Map::Update+CA 006904B8 00000000 MapManager::Update+128 00630FD0 00000000 World::Update+780 004527FE 00000000 WorldRunnable::run+8E 008F50C9 00000000 ACE_Based::Thread::ThreadTask+19 002A1B84 00000000 __WSAFDIsSet+FFFFFFFFFFFCCB4C 78543433 00000000 _endthreadex+44 785434C7 00000000 _endthreadex+D8 7C80B729 00000000 GetModuleFileNameA+1BA Call stack: Address Frame Function SourceFile 7C90E514 00000000 KiFastSystemCallRet+0 7C802542 00000000 WaitForSingleObject+12 00259C04 00000000 __WSAFDIsSet+FFFFFFFFFFF84BCC 002C64AA 00000000 __WSAFDIsSet+FFFFFFFFFFFF1472 002C266F 00000000 __WSAFDIsSet+FFFFFFFFFFFED637 0064913A 00000000 WorldSocketMgr::Wait+4A 77B8D804 00000000 0000:00000000 77B8D804 00000000 0000:00000000 6C696146 00000000

Hello Blueboy, very impressive work sir. I've been successfully running your patch for a few days now and I must say the AI has come a long way since I last attempted to bring in this work. Nice! I have run into a couple crashes occasionally after populating about 3 bots in a group -- the purpose of this message is to attempt to provide some helpful info on the nature of this crash for future dev. In the mean time, I'm going to update to your latest patch as described above. Please let me know if this info is helpful at all or how I may offer assistance with this effort. Thanks. Sincerely, Bramm MaNGOS/0.16.0-DEV, Revision 9469 udb 0.11.6, pack 387, acid 3.0.3, sd2 1608 from Server.log 2010-03-04 19:25:27 ERROR:SESSION: received not allowed opcode CMSG_LFD_PLAYER_LOCK_INFO_REQUEST (0x036E) 2010-03-04 19:25:27 ERROR:SESSION: received not allowed opcode CMSG_LFD_PARTY_LOCK_INFO_REQUEST (0x0371) 2010-03-04 19:25:55 ERROR:SESSION: received not allowed opcode CMSG_LFD_PLAYER_LOCK_INFO_REQUEST (0x036E) 2010-03-04 19:26:10 ERROR:SESSION: received not allowed opcode CMSG_LFD_PLAYER_LOCK_INFO_REQUEST (0x036E) 2010-03-04 19:26:49 ERROR:SESSION: received not allowed opcode CMSG_LFD_PLAYER_LOCK_INFO_REQUEST (0x036E) 2010-03-04 19:26:54 ERROR:SESSION: received not allowed opcode CMSG_LFD_PLAYER_LOCK_INFO_REQUEST (0x036E) 2010-03-04 19:27:35 ERROR:SESSION: received not allowed opcode CMSG_LFD_PLAYER_LOCK_INFO_REQUEST (0x036E) 2010-03-04 19:27:35 ERROR:SESSION: received not allowed opcode CMSG_LFD_PLAYER_LOCK_INFO_REQUEST (0x036E)