Bots:Adding bots to your map

Making the .aas file

In order to add bots to your map you will need a tool called bspc. In some versions of Radiant this tool is included with the installation. If not you'll need to download a version suitable for your operating system.

Please note: You should ALWAYS add the surface sounds before creating a .aas file.

The bspc tool is invoked from the command line, generally from the same folder as the .bsp of your map. A minimal bot build would use the following command line.

bspc -bsp2aas YOURMAPNAME.bsp -forcesidesvisible -optimize

There are other options / switches avaiable which might or might not help performance.

• reach <filter.bsp> = compute reachability & clusters
• cluster <filter.aas> = compute clusters
• aasopt <filter.aas> = optimize aas file
• aasinfo <filter.aas> = show AAS file info
• output <output path> = set output path
• threads <X> = set number of threads to X
• cfg <filename> = use this cfg file
• optimize = enable optimization
• noverbose = disable verbose output
• breadthfirst = breadth first bsp building
• nobrushmerge = don't merge brushes
• noliquids = don't write liquids to map
• freetree = free the bsp tree
• nocsg = disables brush chopping
• forcesidesvisible = force all sides to be visible
• grapplereach = calculate grapple reachabilities

Of these, grapplereach is probably the only other switch worth trying for Urban Terror bots.

After running bspc you should find a .aas file with the same name as your map in same folder as your .bsp. This file will need to be copied to the maps folder of your pk3