Bots avoid bumping into friends

[sunzenshen]

Description

Bots when they are not going anywhere in particular will check if they are touching a teammate and then move away.

Toolchain

• Windows MSVC VS2022

[sunzenshen]

This probably needs to be combined with some sort of objective handling code, as currently the way the bot_seek_and_destroy behavior works, the bots will spread out a bit and then try to get closer to the objective again.

bot_avoid_bumping_friendlies.mp4

[AdamTadeusz]

perhaps this value should be lowered while we look at this erratic behavior around the objective? A standard humanoid hull is 32 hu wide, that seems like a good value, though I don't know exactly what end result you are looking for.

[sunzenshen]

32 hammer units seems to work okay with normal 5v5 player numbers:

bot_avoid_bumping_friendlies_32u_spacing.mp4

[AdamTadeusz]

[AdamTadeusz]

are we certain we don't want the bots to avoid bumping into enemies?

[sunzenshen]

I think the likelihood that bots are going to be in close proximity with their enemies is relatively low. In the case where they did get into a situation where they are bumping into their enemies, I don't want to interrupt the bot's combat routine to mess with their movement keys like this function does. My speculation is that this function was more for a Left 4 Dead situation where an enemy like a Witch was passive, and you don't want your friendly AI to accidentally walk over them.