what the usage of actionDelay?

[sijiaxu]

I'm curious about what type of action need some delay before executing this action?

dotaservice/dotaservice/lua/bot_generic.lua

Lines 70 to 78 in 6e91ff1

	for _, action in pairs(data.actions) do
	if action.player == player_id then
	if action.actionDelay == nil then
	-- Make sure this defaults to 0 if not present
	action.actionDelay = curr_step
	else
	action.actionDelay = curr_step + action.actionDelay
	end
	table.insert(actions, action)

[Nostrademous]

@TimZaman he introduced that to allow bots to do delayed actions (currently not enabled or used). The reason is that we communicate with the bots every X frames (depending on setting). So when we tell the bot to attack a unit he could do it immediately, or wait 1 frame and do it, or wait 2 frames and do it ... after 5 frames (if that is X) we send it a new action to do.

The code supports this, we just don't currently use it.

[TimZaman]

Seems super hard for the bot to learn to i didnt use it in my model

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On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 08:30 Nostrademous ***@***.*** wrote: @TimZaman <https://github.com/TimZaman> he introduced that to allow bots to do delayed actions (currently not enabled or used). The reason is that we communicate with the bots every X frames (depending on setting). So when we tell the bot to attack a unit he could do it immediately, or wait 1 frame and do it, or wait 2 frames and do it ... after 5 frames (if that is X) we send it a new action to do. The code supports this, we just don't currently use it. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#45 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHXSRHisAkrhSZ_bJKRpQh4Jm9BnRqH5ks5vFes9gaJpZM4aKrRg> .

[sijiaxu]

ok. I got it, thanks!