[Pogamut-list] SafeRunToLocation failing when the sockets are under heavy burden?

[yayu]

Re: SafeRunToLocation failing when the sockets are under heavy burden?

Author: yayu

Hi deus,

i have the same problem. i'm makeing a bot to my thesis. I have coded the method to search the path to 
a item similar to safaruntolocation, retrieve the array of NAvPoint and run to its. The map i'm using hacve 200 NavPoint and it take 5 second to computing the path to the first Item, but  the bot have the same problem that u.

    I hope solution this problem soon,

    Best regard,

Matias.



> Hey gang, 
> 
> We're Master students of ITU of Copenhagen, trying to develop our Unreal Bots, but we ran into an interesting, unexpected, and quite frustrating problem:
> 
> When doing a simple saferuntolocation (which works flawlessly if used on its own) we get unexpected results (like having the bot run around between two navpoints for a while before going forward, or in extreme cases hitting a wall and just staying there) when we do a lot of computationally expensive things in the doLogic - and more importantly, things that involve other socket-accessing methods such as getMap, getMemory etc etc. We had to dumb down our code to test what the problem was, and it turned out the following result:
> * If we access all the spawn points for ammo/health/armor/weapons of the map once, and calculate their distance to the player, then the bot can saferuntolocation quite well (although there might be some slight nervousness at some points).
> * If we call the same method as above in a loop 3-4 times (just for stress testing), calling saferuntolocation after this loop will result in a bot that often just runs back and forth between navpoints quite far from its goal.
> * If we call the same function as above in a loop about 10 times, there is a very big chance that the bot, while doing saferuntolocation, will hit a wall and never be able to move away from it.
> 
> Is there any solution to this? Or aren't we getting something in the Pogamut architecture or the Pogamut-GameBots connections? It would be a huge shame if there is no solution, since the stress we applied for testing is nothing compared to our plans for the final Unreal Bot implementation! :)