Using bots to test map flow/gameplay

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Hello.

Last night I decided to muck about a bit and to my surprise, I now have a really basic arena map going.

Anyway, I am at a point now where I reasonably satisfied with the map and I would like to test how the map flows with bots, if it is possible, but I can’t figure it out :confused:

I did a bit of googling but couldn’t really find anything useful.

Thanks.

EDIT: I guess I should be more detailed, I’d like to set up say 5-10 bots that will attack/find me or what ever so I can see how the map flow goes, if it feels to cluttery, or if things don’t work and what I need to change etc that sort of thing…

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Here are two tutorials:

://www.youtube/watchKDazrBx6IY (I dont know if this still works, because I heard something that the “move to location” doesn’t work anymore)
?v=VAAHKNoIg0w&list=PLV0qBSMhzPz4-x3bYt2q01c2PjXmUl1eX

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Thank you. I’ll go through them tomorrow and see what does or doesn’t happen.

As for now, I am having problems with rebuilding the lighting, I go to select production quality, than click build lighting, the box that appears when it says it’s starting the swarm agent appears and very quickly disappears :confused:

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Does it also disappear in the systray? (there should be a little swarm icon when you build your light) + have you started the UE4 with admin rights?

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It doesn’t appear in the system tray. I just get the box coming up very quickly, can’t even read it, and than it goes and nothing else happens.

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Hard to say what could be wrong, but probably this message shortly pops up: https://answers.unrealengine/questions/59983/bug-unreal-editor-421-light-build-failed-swarm-fai-1.html

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No dice, still doing the same thing, started swarm agent manually, still does the same thing.

I don’t get any error messages saying swaragent failed to start or anything.

I am guessing there’s a bug somewhere in the map or something?

Only thing I can think of

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What exactly is in your map? + which light settings do you use?

Btw, I could you also post the light build problem onto answerhub? :slight_smile: https://answers.unrealengine/index.html

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Okay, well it’s definitely a problem with the map somehow.

I deleted all my lighting stuff but two directional lighting, also tried it with one directional lighting, same thing.

When I went to delete the last directional lighting it said it was referenced by character so I didn’t delete it.

Should I try deleting all directional lighting and doing that all from the start?

I did a test with another map, just placed a box and some stairs and did a lighting build and it all started fine, so that tells me there’s something up with my map.

I did a map check and it reported back no errors.

EDIT: can maps be too big to be able to run a lighting rebuild? I doubt my little basic arena map is too big.

I’m at a loss now. I have light mass importance volume in.

EDIT: I am on 4.3 if it helps?

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Welp…

That’s me throwing in the towel…

Did a bunch of cleaning up on the map tonight.

-Removed objects that collided with one another as much as I could

-Tidied up some of the more complex areas that previously had gaps and **** in them by using box geometry and stuff and filling it in

-Did a general clan up to make sure things were level with the map and weren’t sticking out as much as I could

  • Did a test build and built it as messy as I possibly could to see if the light build worked, it did.

So it’s almost definitely a problem with the map but I honestly cannot figure it out.

I guess I’ll make a post on answer hub tomorrow night but for now I need to sleep on it.

I guess in an unexpected way this problem has been kind of good, as it is pushing me into figuring out how to clean up a map and as I did it I found areas I forgot to texture before, so I guess that’s a plus haha.

Thanks for been patient with me but I guess it’s time to make a post on answer hub :slight_smile: