Hey, this is an old video, and I first saw it a long time ago, but the thought occurred to me today that maybe one of you guys would want to play around with this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9YLOztR35c
Basically a guy named TChouky found a way to script the bots in the game to do whatever he wanted, at certain intervals of time, and by doing so he could perfect tricks, runs, etc. This wasn't just limited to the bots but to his own character. I don't know how difficult this is, but I thought it was a neat idea and had good potential.
However, he recently came out with a vid called Anti-Conformist, which was supposed to be the same concept but with a frag video, simulating insane "frags" or series of frags that would otherwise be all but impossible for a human to perform. I thought this would be amazing to see! However, the frags were poorly synchronized, and the situations weren't very believable or exciting.
So anyway, this led me to at least post this for people here, and see if anybody wanted to take a stab at mastering this. There are certain maps they play, where the goal is to get from the beginning to the end as quickly as possible using any combination of these jumps, which fits the speedrun bill. I think it's also a pretty cool way of extending the TAS perfection feel to something more modern, like Q3 (old though it may be).
The only issues are: I don't think he will tell you how he does this, because at the end of the video (or maybe it's at the end of the article showcasing the video, I forget) he says "don't ask" for the mod to do this. So that would mean somebody that knows something about programming or scripting would have to figure it out, which probably would be the most difficult thing. Then it would just be a matter of finding somebody here willing to do it.
So, what are your thoughts?
