finally, 0.8.3.0 (Orbiter pather)

Yes I finally decided to release it yesterday, after some extended testing.

The goodies include:
1. Orbit pather and Bastos movement engine. Now zolo will move randomly, and if waypoints are close or crossed, it will go across them instead of follow the same order again and again (if your waypoint goes across entire area in as a mesh, the movement will be totally random). In a way it is similar to IS, except you define the mesh.

2. bot will run to mobs near by actively (if orbit pather is enabled)

3. Ghost res will be smarter now, instead of run the entire normal waypoint to get corpse, now it will select the shortest path to corpse.

4. Turn with mouse now.

With Orbiter pather, you can export the WOW mesh data as waypoint and the bot will move in the 3D world freely. However I think that might put me in risk of violate copy right law (I think that is the reason Judge ruled against glider, as I read the copy section, the violation is not in memory reading, but the use of WOW internal data), so the users should map their waypoints themselfs, not use WOW mesh data.

So many stuff to do

Yep, I got several fixes that are almost ready, but still need facial changes. The moving with mouse also needs some tuning, and if you want to move with mouse, you better install some kind of hot kill program to kill the bot on key stroke, else it will be VERY hard to use the mouse to stop the bot.

And no, I won't add that functionality to the bot, as it will show up as a virus on some of the scanners on virus total.

Yet another fix

Yep, the bot will attack totoms made by itself in attack all mode. That will have to be fixed. Will have to fix that in the next release as well... So many stuff.

Busy day

A lot of stuff form work, and I was not able to do anything today. The algorithms are pretty much done since yesterday after a tiny fix, but I don't have time to publish it.

And another down side is the server is crashed, this will need sometime to fix. I hope all users got their keys correctly. I will try to get to it sometime tomorrow.

Failure on bastos engine

Yep, was not able to get it to work as expected. Will try some more. And to not make Blizzard put too much attension on me, I will test the engine with emulator instead of on WOW. I will take the time to do some grinding while I debug the bastos engine on emulator.

Orbiter pather and Bastos movement engine

Yep, after some tries again today, I found just the pather is not enough. So my original idea of a "propulsion" system is still needed. I will have to allocate additional system resources for that.

Tonight is again raid night, so I will start the implementation tomorrow on the propulsion system, and I will name it bastos movement engine, credit to John Bastos, who got banned using zoloFighter. The difference of his ban is that he is a long time user, and used carefully, but was still banned. The new system will not totally prevent bans, but at least it will be good enough that it won't follow the same waypoint the same order again and again and other can tell that you are a bot by observing you for 2 minutes.

The Orbit engine is born!

Yes, I have finally made a good model of a smarter path finder for zoloFighter, and I named it Orbit :-)

The implementation has been changed several times, the main goal is to make a smart path finder and scheduler. Initially I thought of a propulsion based system to "push" the bot forward, but that is a bit complex in turn of memory usage. And after some tweak and fixes, I finally decided for our current model.

I am still in the stage of tweaking. The first try, duel to some internal bug, I was using the old system instead, and because some of the randomization in the javascript, it looks like Orbit was working, but was not. I was so happy (at the time).

Anyway, right now Orbit is doing well at times and doing bad at other times, but the main part is working now. So I will give myself a pat on the back and catch the raid on my guild :-)

I will have a very busy week next week, so the release of ZoloFighter+Orbit will be sometime next next week.