Changing boost amounth

[casper2002casper]

Is there a way to change the amounth of boost a player has? I'm trying to write a plugin to determine the fastest way to kickoff using a evolutionary genetic algorithm. But I can't find a way to reset the boost to 34 after a kickoff.

[Bakkes]

Yes, this is possible. First you have to make sure the game event has unlimited boost disabled. Then you have to disable unlimited boost on the local car. After this you can set the boost amount.

Something like this should work:

TutorialWrapper tutorial = gwi->GetGameEventAsTutorial();
BoostWrapper boost = tutorial.GetGameCar().GetBoost();

tutorial.SetUnlimitedBoost(false);
boost.SetUnlimitedBoost(false);

boost.SetBoostAmount(34);

[casper2002casper]

Ah thank you, I didn't realise there was a boostwrapper. EDIT: It seems like when you set unlimitedboost to false more than once it becomes enabled again.

[casper2002casper]

Is there any documentation on how to use SetInput? Like does it only use that input for one frame or untill there is given a new one?

[Bakkes]

The setinput in the wrapper is currently not working, because it requires a very specific timing for it to be set in order for it to work.

If you want to take control of the input of the car you should create a botplugin. I've created a simple one for you to check out here. Make sure your class extends bakkesmod::plugin::BotPlugin and your declaration contains PLUGINTYPE_BOTAI, like so BAKKESMOD_PLUGIN(SimpleAI, "SimpleAI", "0.1", PLUGINTYPE_BOTAI)

Now implement the on_tick method and within this method you can modify the input like you want it to be. Just change the values in ControllerInput * input and it should automatically be applied to the car every frame.

Hope this helps.

[casper2002casper]

Thank you for all your help. I now only have the problem that PLUGINTYPE_BOTAI isn't defined, I had the same problem when I used PLUGINTYPE_FREEPLAY so I used to just set it to 0, but I don't know the interger value for PLUGINTYPE_BOTAI.

[Bakkes]

Ah my bad, I forgot to update the bakkesmodplugin.h file. The values are

const unsigned char PLUGINTYPE_FREEPLAY = 0x01;
const unsigned char PLUGINTYPE_CUSTOM_TRAINING = 0x02;
const unsigned char PLUGINTYPE_SPECTATOR = 0x04;
const unsigned char PLUGINTYPE_BOTAI = 0x08;
const unsigned char PLUGINTYPE_REPLAY = 0x10;
const unsigned char PLUGINTYPE_THREADED = 0x20;

So you have to use 0x08. They should be included in the next update.

[Bakkes]

I've pushed the new bakkesmodplugin.h file, please replace this one with the one you're using now and it should all be working. See 19b4bb6ecb876b629c71befdbbe89db88321d564