Bots apply nav pathing penalties based on weapon limits

[sunzenshen]

Description

Bots consider relative level of exposure of a NavArea when deciding paths through the NavMesh

• Bots with shotguns shy away from NavAreas that have many visibility connections
• Bots with pistol caliber weapons slightly avoid areas but to a lesser degree
• Bots with scoped/semi-auto weapons favor exposed NavAreas with long sightlines
• Generally, a minor penalty is applied for NavArea exposure for bots to avoid wide open exposed NavAreas, unless they have a scoped/battle rifle

Toolchain

• Windows MSVC VS2022

[sunzenshen]

Gallery of interesting paths now that bots are incentivized to avoid the most wide open areas when traversing the map:

Bots now generally hug walls as those NavAreas have fewer visibility connections along that edge:

A bot with a Supa takes the slightly long way around to take advantage of the closed off visibility area:

The cars, particularly the bus and truck, provide defilade protection when advancing:

The nudge away from exposed NavAreas encourages bots to use the defiladed ponds as cover.

The NavArea valleys under the rocks also have a reduced visibilty penalty for traversal and are now relatively less costly for bots as path choices:

An NSF Recon bot with a ZRL advancing to the garden (bottom center) moves to a NavArea that has many visibility connections due to exposure to both the garden and the pathway:

A bot with a semi-auto battle rifle uses a path that has wide open views:

[Rainyan]

@sunzenshen What was the console command to display those orange paths as shown in the screenshots above?

[sunzenshen]

@sunzenshen What was the console command to display those orange paths as shown in the screenshots above?

nb_debug path

[sunzenshen]

Changing the CNEOBotPathCost penalty from distance to cost for weapons enhanced the bot tendency to hide behind cover, which results in bunching up, so I further increased the path reservation penalties to encourage taking alternate paths or to dividing up a room.

This is the script I paste into the console for observation:

(Divided up into forcing TDM mode, speeding up the round resets, showing grenade paths, showing pathing, and speeding up the rounds 2x.)

sv_neo_gamemode_enforcement 3; sv_neo_gamemode_single 0; neo_vote_game_mode 0; mp_restartgame 1;

sv_neo_bot_grenade_debug_behavior 1; mp_chattime 2; sv_neo_preround_freeze_time 2; cl_neo_grenade_show_path 1; sv_neo_grenade_show_path 1;
sv_neo_pvs_cull_roaming_observer 0;

nb_debug_path;
host_timescale 2;

[Rainyan]

LGTM, cool to see the bots taking more nuanced routes!