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Guide Bot Beta is available for everyone! Demo + Video!

by Yuri Dobronravin · 02/17/2010 (9:57 am) · 16 comments

www.logicking.com/images/guideBot/guideBotLogoSmall.png

Greetings!


Finally! I'm very proud to announce that Guide Bot Beta can be evaluated by everyone. Users that made a pre-order already received they copy. You can still have the Beta for the same price. Beta discount offer will be available till the February, 28. Price will grow up after that day.

Please visit Guide Bot's Homepage for more info.



This version of Guide Bot should be used with T3D Alpha 1.1
If you're GAME MECHANICS KIT owner you should use GMK 1.2.7. We are working on T3D Beta 1.1 port right now, it will be available
within a week along with GMK 1.2.8 update.

Current Guide Bot non-GMK version has some limitations - no grenades and dynamic obstacles in the demo. This is because T3D Beta has change a lot of physics stuff, and we've decided not to mess with old Alpha code. Following version of Guide Bot will fix it.

For this reason non-GMK user have received the same discount as GMK
owners, but starting from next Guide Bot release, which is due to be released on first week of March, price for non-GMK owners will go up.


This is scheme from user's guide of how Guide Bot works.
www.logicking.com/images/guideBot/giBotScheme.png

Below is the video demonstration of fighting with between AI and user controlled GI Soldier Bots. You can see how AI is maneuvering during the fight, using dynamic objects to take cover, throwing grenades, and avoiding exploding barrels.

You can test it by yourself:

DOWNLOAD DEMO GAME (34.94 Mb)




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Torque 3D Owner Tek0
#1
02/17/2010 (10:14 am)
Awesome work! I'm loving it. You are my hero!

Torque 3D Owner Cyril Rousselet
Gallica Game Studio
#2
02/17/2010 (10:19 am)
Nice work !

Torque 3D Owner John E. Nelson
#3
02/17/2010 (11:00 am)
Yuri, this sounds fantastic, thanks!
Can hardly wait to put it to work.

Torque 3D Owner Ken Johnston
Indiestructable Systems
#4
02/17/2010 (11:22 am)
This is absolutely great, i am immensly enjoying this product, way to go guys!

edit: in the video it loos as if your muzzle flash is mounted to the wrong mount point (at about 1:55) it apears to flash at the soldiers hands is this something else other then a muzzle flash and intentional or a mistake?...

Torque 3D Owner Yuri Dobronravin
#5
02/17/2010 (11:35 am)
>edit: in the video it loos as if your muzzle flash is mounted to the >wrong mount point (at about 1:55) it apears to flash at the soldiers

Good spot, Ken. Yes, it true. We still need to work with machine gun and polish all effects.


Torque Owner Stephen Scott
#6
02/17/2010 (3:26 pm)
@ Yuri: Will GuideBot be coming out as a TGEA release (when it has its final release)? or will it only be T3D?

Torque Owner Javier Canon
#7
02/17/2010 (4:08 pm)
ill test it, very cool!...

Torque 3D Owner Yuri Dobronravin
#8
02/18/2010 (2:18 am)
@Stephen Scott
We have no current plans to port it to TGEA, but it maybe quite possible in a month or two. It depends on how many TGEA users are potential buyer of Guide Bot.

Torque Owner Javier Canon
#9
02/18/2010 (10:04 am)
Quote:We have no current plans to port it to TGEA, but it maybe quite possible in a month or two. It depends on how many TGEA users are potential buyer of Guide Bot.

I think that you may need a conversation with GG, so you know how many people buy T3D with source and binary, and how many people owns TGEA...

Torque 3D Owner Zealander
#10
02/19/2010 (4:55 am)
I just finished testing it and can say - It is amazing addon, i like it so much.

I have now 4 full animated poses for soldier (stand,crawl,on knee,crouch), shooting, throwing a grenade, death animations for all this poses + comprehensive AI system and great plans for new features and polishing.

+ all source code and 3dMax models , so i could modify the soldier like i want, add new anumations, models, lods and so on.

Thank you Yuri for making my game development much more easier!!!
Incredible stuff for it's money!

Torque 3D Owner Sean Rice
HNGamers
#11
02/21/2010 (10:51 am)
Yuri, I would love to have Guidebot in my TGEA kit, I think this is a major upgrade to the existing bots that I am currently using and I would like to have a much "tougher" opponent in my game. Consider this as one vote for TGEA.

Torque 3D Owner ando
#12
02/22/2010 (12:21 pm)
I also would be very intrested in a TGEA version

Torque 3D Owner John E. Nelson
#13
02/24/2010 (5:51 am)
Yuri, Any update on the T3D Beta 1.1 port and the GMK 1.2.8 update?
I wanted to wait to implement both updates at the same time.


Torque 3D Owner Yuri Dobronravin
#14
02/24/2010 (6:01 am)
John, we are working on GMK 1.2.8 right now. T3D Beta 1.1 is quite different to Alpha, and we have to make a lot of changes. Hopefully update will be released next week, or even on this weekend.

Torque 3D Owner John E. Nelson
#15
02/25/2010 (8:24 am)
Yuri, I already bought it, I just wanted to wait to integrate it into the new beta. Looking forward to testing it with the GMK.

Torque 3D Owner Husam Saoudi
#16
02/26/2010 (7:41 am)
I just bought GMK, and GuideBot. It's Christmas again, in February :)