Makin' a Bot

BotAPI provides you with controllable bots to control Game Entities.

Hence it is very important to know how to make a Bot bind to a specific entity for controlling it.

To bind the Bot one has to perform three simple steps :-

• Get a reference to the Entity.
• Create a compatible Body and bind the Entity to it.
• Create a Bot and bind the Body to it.

You can skip the last two steps if you want the Bot to decide a Body automatically.

Creating the Bot manually

Creating the Body

Assuming, for this example, that we have a reference to the EntityPlayerSP object, i.e. the Player object controlled by the user, as player.

The Body compatible with the EntityPlayerSP in this case is the mod.jd.botapi.Bot.Body.PlayerBody and so we make an instance of the PlayerBody as such

Body body = new PlayerBody(player);

Creating the Bot

After creating the Body above (as body), the Bot can be instantiated as such

Bot bot = new Bot(body);

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NOTE : All Bots must be killed by the kill() method after use, to stop the Bot's thread and unregister it from the EventBus.

This is done as such

bot.kill();

If the bot is not killed, it will keep executing and thus consume CPU time.

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Creating the Bot directly(letting it find a Body automatically)

Assuming, for this example, that we have a reference to the EntityPlayerSP object, i.e. the Player object controlled by the user, as player.

The Bot can be instantiated directly with the entity instance(here player) as such

Bot bot = Bot.getInstanceFromFactory(player);

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