[Plugin] A ChuckyEgg Attempt! - Party Dude Pro, breaker breaker roger smack 'em!

[Balancebora]

First I'd like to say this plugin is great and then tell you whats going on with my bots. Maybe some other people have said the same issues but I'll give my personal experience.

When my leader bot goes through the portal the follower bot is confused. I think other people were complaining about this. However my bot doesn't make any attempt to find the leader again it just runs back and forth like an idiot. I was assuming that at least if the follower didnt go through the portal it would just teleport back to town and rejoin the leader. After 30 sec of waiting for this I just clicked on the portal myself out of frustration. After doing that the follower was like oh the leader is no where near me and instead of chasing him down in the instance he ported back to town and rejoined the leader.

Thanks again for all your hard work hope my experience can help with improvements

 

[mrcoldblood]

sry for being stupid question but how to set up these step
Configure PartyLeaderPro and PartyDudePro, being sure to set the same:
path to the database (must end with a \ )
name of the folder that will hold the database

 

[ChuckyEgg]

First I'd like to say this plugin is great and then tell you whats going on with my bots. Maybe some other people have said the same issues but I'll give my personal experience.

When my leader bot goes through the portal the follower bot is confused. I think other people were complaining about this. However my bot doesn't make any attempt to find the leader again it just runs back and forth like an idiot. I was assuming that at least if the follower didnt go through the portal it would just teleport back to town and rejoin the leader. After 30 sec of waiting for this I just clicked on the portal myself out of frustration. After doing that the follower was like oh the leader is no where near me and instead of chasing him down in the instance he ported back to town and rejoined the leader.

Thanks again for all your hard work hope my experience can help with improvements

I'm afraid that until I can get the followers to use the portals and waypoints, they will have to TP back to base and use the banner in-order to attempt to keep up with the leader.

There's one portal (there may be more) where it does take ages for the followers to register that they have lost the leader (Act III), and they so take a LONG time to realise this.

I'll work on solving this portal/waypoint issue next.

I really wouldn't use this plugin anywhere that uses a lot of portals, or ones that take the followers into places they cannot TP out of (Act 3 has a lot of these areas). Not until I can figure out how to solve these problems. (portal usage / cannot use TP).

sry for being stupid question but how to set up these step
Configure PartyLeaderPro and PartyDudePro, being sure to set the same:
path to the database (must end with a \ )
name of the folder that will hold the database

In the config window of both PartyLeaderPro and PartyDudePro, you need to set the path to where you want the communications database stored (e.g. C:\Temp\ )
and the name of the folder (e.g. Comms )

The path must exist.

The PartyLeaderPro plugin will create the folder.

Both plugins need to know where the communications database will be, and therefore the same information needs to be entered in both plugins' config windows.

Hopefully this will help you

If not, then please shout


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NEW VERSION UPLOADED - 1.0.3​

Follower looting issue has been fixed....

Please see the ChangeLog for version 1.0.3 on the 2nd post of the 1st page of this thread, for more information on fixes/changes, issues, and future objectives

NEXT: Portals and Waypoints.... get those followers to use 'em!

 

[Diabloguy69]

honestly this is something the devs of DB needs to look into and make compatible with their program. this would be such a nice feature and encourage many many more DB sales.

 

[shinavaka]

still a lot of stuttering trying to pickup loot and missing it outside of combat, in combat is fine

 

[ChuckyEgg]

honestly this is something the devs of DB needs to look into and make compatible with their program. this would be such a nice feature and encourage many many more DB sales.

I agree

I'm surprised it's not been made a feature of Demonbuddy.

still a lot of stuttering trying to pickup loot and missing it outside of combat, in combat is fine

Odd, the followers are picking up all the loot for me. Perhaps this is happening under certain conditions.

Which act/area are you farming ?

What plugins are you using ?

 

[kayes]

Hi CE,

Trying to get this working, but after I have followed the steps, creating folders (with permissions) and configured the bots the leader always crash when I press start on DB. Also, in the folders I created "comms" and "temp" I can't see that my leader have created anything in them.

Any clues? :S

Edit:
I checked the log, and it seems I have problem with the database folder..

[15:28:14.048 D] Joined a game![15:28:14.078 N] ========== Grid segmentation resetting!!! ============
[15:28:14.078 N] Game joined, Reloading profile.
[15:28:14.428 N] Loaded profile Empty
[15:28:14.428 N] PROBLEM! Tried to start a new game, but the database is missing. We are now leaving and will recreate the game and party!
[15:28:19.968 N] Diablo III Exited, Demonbuddy terminating

Edit2: I checked the folders, and even if I checked to not be writeprotected it wont save it. Windows 7

 

[ChuckyEgg]

Hi CE,

Trying to get this working, but after I have followed the steps, creating folders (with permissions) and configured the bots the leader always crash when I press start on DB. Also, in the folders I created "comms" and "temp" I can't see that my leader have created anything in them.

Any clues? :S

Edit:
I checked the log, and it seems I have problem with the database folder..



Edit2: I checked the folders, and even if I checked to not be writeprotected it wont save it. Windows 7

It does not sound like you used the config windows of the plugins.

[15:28:14.048 D] Joined a game![15:28:14.078 N] ========== Grid segmentation resetting!!! ============
[15:28:14.078 N] Game joined, Reloading profile.
[15:28:14.428 N] Loaded profile Empty
[15:28:14.428 N] PROBLEM! Tried to start a new game, but the database is missing. We are now leaving and will recreate the game and party!
[15:28:19.968 N] Diablo III Exited, Demonbuddy terminating

The red message is why it crashed, it failed to load a profile. Hmm, did you load a profile for the leader ?

The Problem message was implemented by me, obviously. And is displayed if the folder itself does not exist, therefore my bet is that you have not entered this information in the config windows of all the plugins (PartyLeaderPro and all the PartyDudePros).

The temp folder, needs to exists prior to running the bot, and as you have done, you created that, but the plugin itself will create the database folder, which is comms in your example.

So, when you bring up the Demonbudiies, you need to go the plugins tab, highlight the plugin (PartyLeaderPro or PartyDudePro, and click on Config.
I think I'd better add some images for this, as it's not always obvious and not everyone will be aware of the option to configure the plugins.

Here you go, this might explain the configuration of the plugins better than I have (I'll add the image to the 1st post):

 

[kayes]

Thanks, I misunderstood the comms and temp folder part

I get invites now, but my follower just take the portal back to town after screaming " I HAVE LOST THE LEADER!!!! "

 

[kayes]

Now I get this : [19:53:16.801 N] EEK! Could not access the file!

would post a log, but they are 45Mb ++

Edit: now the follower looted something, but it wont follow leader :S

 

[ChuckyEgg]

Now I get this : [19:53:16.801 N] EEK! Could not access the file!

would post a log, but they are 45Mb ++

LOL, sounds like you are having nearly as much fun as me
I'm sitting here with 2 computers in bits, and the one I'm currently using looking like it needs a rebuild! Nightmare!

EEK! Could not access the file!

That's not good... trying to remember where ....

ah ha....

Okay, it means that the follower has not acquired its party ID. Each follower grabs an ID, each being unique, and has its own database file. If a follower failed to get its ID, it won;t know what its file is called.
If it got that message and had managed to get its ID, it would have said something like EEK! Could not access the dude1State file!

I need to make it so that people can form a party anywhere and any time, no matter what happens.

When you start this off, make sure the leader is on its own (nobody has joined). The leader should be okay starting from the menus, or in game, but from the menus is ideal.

Ideal way to start the off.... all chars in separate locations... leader in the menus.... followers in game and on their own.

It should work fine
Leader in game, or in menus
followers in game, on their own or in another party

Yep, I do need to make the party formation a LOT more robust

 

[kayes]

Hehe, give me a sec

Ill update as I go, lol

 

[ChuckyEgg]

Cool

Thanks, I misunderstood the comms and temp folder part

I get invites now, but my follower just take the portal back to town after screaming " I HAVE LOST THE LEADER!!!! "

That I also need to improve upon. There are areas of Act III and Act IV, where the use of the plugin is a nightmare..... I really need to get the followers to use the portals. If I can get them to do that, it will go a long way to making the party plugin very usable.

Use of portals is a high priority (waypoints a lesser issue).... I just need to get some quality time, and not have my computers commit hara kiri on me!

Now for some telly time - Red Dward, season 10, episode 1.....let's see how it compares to the old days

 

[kayes]

Oh well, now one of them are deleting the whole comm folder, LOL

4856 2012-10-09 22.19.txt is the follower's log.

 

[ChuckyEgg]

Oh well, now one of them are deleting the whole comm folder, LOL

4856 2012-10-09 22.19.txt is the follower's log.

Okay, I have just found a failing in the party creation and the creation of the database.

Just clicking Done, does not create the database. You also need to disable then re-enable the plugin.... damn, I'd better fix that

So, after entering the details in the config window, and exiting the window by pressing the Done key, you then need to disable then re-enable the plugin.

I'd better add that to the To-Do list, as it would be better if it created the folder when the Done button is pressed

Thanks for the logs, it did make it easy to see what was going wrong

 

[kayes]

Glad I could help.

I kinda turned everything around. The plan was for my barb to help my lvl 59 wiz to level, but I ended up just loading a champion profile for Hell and followed the barb manually

Will defently try this out after you have worked out the small bugs

 

[mrcoldblood]

great plugin

 

[tesslerc]

Isn't it possible to pass via db the following (example):
Portal SNO ... Time 14:23
Now the bot knows what to click, make it search for that and if not found then town and banner

 

[shinavaka]

I agree

I'm surprised it's not been made a feature of Demonbuddy.



Odd, the followers are picking up all the loot for me. Perhaps this is happening under certain conditions.

Which act/area are you farming ?

What plugins are you using ?

Custom act 3 profile without the sticky areas in town/no bosses
RadsProfileManager Gilestrinity 1.6.2 and yours. Seems to happen Out of combat only, in-combat or shortly after combat everything works fine

 

[ChuckyEgg]

great plugin

Thanks

It will be once I get sort the things out like Portal usage and team combat.

Isn't it possible to pass via db the following (example):
Portal SNO ... Time 14:23
Now the bot knows what to click, make it search for that and if not found then town and banner

Yep, that's exactly how I'll attempt to do it.

Custom act 3 profile without the sticky areas in town/no bosses
RadsProfileManager Gilestrinity 1.6.2 and yours. Seems to happen Out of combat only, in-combat or shortly after combat everything works fine

Okay, I'll drop some loot along the Queen / Sarkoth route, and see if I can solve this looting issue.



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NEW VERSION - 1.0.4

Config window DONE button now creates the comms folder and database.
Out Of Range of leader now has a check in place to see if the leader comes back into range, thus resulting in it not needing to TP back to town. Follower will more than likely still TP to town if it has gotten some way into the TP action.

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Now I have to rebuild my computer !
I love programming, I'm not keen on building/rebuilding computers