Allow for multiple bot spawn positions to be saved and loaded

[Cyberschorsch]

Loading multiple bots previously saved on a map is a great feature! A good addition in my mind would be to be able to save and load bots just like handling nades.

This would improve practicing executes and taking map control greatly.

[Cyberschorsch]

I am working on this feature now.

My first goal is to extend the .savebot and .loadbot commands to allow passing ids which specify loading bot positions from a file in a subdirectory with the map name.

[PlamAtom]

I am very excited, if you need someone to do testing, just let me know.

[Cyberschorsch]

You can check my latest dev build:

csgo_practice_mode.zip

Example usage:

Place bots anywhere you want on the map (e.g. CT-Bots on B-Site Dust 2) Command: .savebots ct_b_site

Now you can load the bot positions like this:

.loadbots ct_b_site

This allows for saving and loading multiple setups.

[PlamAtom]

Hey I tested the whole thing out a little bit. I would provide feedback here. I think it is unnecessary to say things that I like because it is generally an incredible progress for Practicemode that you can save multiple bot positions and easily load them without moving files on the server and without the issue that you could make a mistake and overwrite files by accident. From bots that show callouts to prefire bots or even if you want to train specific entrypaths really awesome. Thank you a lot.

"Disadvantages":

• 1 - (Can be ignored) I don't think it's bad that you can load the same bots multiple times. If you have a replay where these saved bots are killed by replay bots, they will not respawn. In three months I overlappen bots like two times on accident, so this happens so rarely that it doesn't matter. You can just type .nobots and issue solved.

• 2 - (Quality of Life improvement) Missing menu so you can use more complex names without a text file to remember them. For example, it makes sense for prefire bots to be split off according to individual areas so that you can load exactly the prefire bots you want, without blowing the server with a single load of all prefire-bots.

Examples:

[12] Banana Prefire-Bots (All) [13] Adamo Prefire-Bots (All) [14] A-Site Prefire-Bots (All)

I like it very much. I find it incredible that thanks to Splewis, I can mimic the behavior of players in demos and then have a somewhat accurate demo made ingame. On the other hand, the bots save, that's really big. Therefore, a big warm heartfelt thank you to both of you at this point.

Maybe someday I'll publish my practice data so everyone can use it but that will definitely take a long time because I'm an extreme perfectionist. Thank you very much again.