editing VPK files?

[coty9090]

I have been trying to edit botprofile.db so i can change the bot amount and names in CS:S, but it's in one of the VPK files and when i tried editing it, the server messed up. So how can i edit the botprofile.db without screwing up the server? I tried using GCFScape.

[Edge100x]

You should be able to put that file directly onto the server and it will be read instead of what's in the VPK.

[coty9090]

Tried that already with no luck.

[soja]

Taken from a 5 year old gamebanana thread on editing bot names:

Noooo. You need to extract the botprofile.db file from the gcf to anywhere you'd like. Then you edit it. When you're done editing, move it to your /counter-strike source/cstrike folder. Don't edit anything in the GCF directly.

Bot amounts are generally edited with "bot_quota number".
You can make bots fight each other without humans using "bot_join_after_player 0", although I don't recommend setting that in a shared hosting environment

[coty9090]

I want bots to go over the half limit slots on the server. (say total 64 slots and the bots take up 33+ instead of stopping at 32.)

[soja]

It depends on the map. Stock maps support 20 players per team(has nothing to do with bots). Most custom maps are designed for 64 players.

If you are on a smaller map with not enough spawn points you can use spawntools7 to add spawn points: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=1054201

[coty9090]

I have spawn tools 7, created more spawn points, but i need my edited botprofile.db to be read instead of the one in the vpk.

[soja]

Have you tried putting it in the cstrike folder? Make sure there are no editing mistakes, like missing quotes or brackets.

[coty9090]

Yeah, i had to manually put quotes around EVERY bot name... got it to read my botprofile.db

Only problem i am having now is that it won't add more bots even though i added a ton with spawn tools 7 and put more bot profiles in... It only increased the total by 2... so 34 bots now.

[soja]

Yeah, i had to manually put quotes around EVERY bot name... got it to read my botprofile.db

Only problem i am having now is that it won't add more bots even though i added a ton with spawn tools 7 and put more bot profiles in... It only increased the total by 2... so 34 bots now.

Post the contents of the map config in /cstrike/addons/sourcemod/configs/spawntools7/map_config.cfg
Put the info on something like pastebin.

It will look like gibberish most likely, but I just want to compare it to our configs we have for our gungame server.

EDIT: Also, something to note is the ONLY limiting factor for the number of bots in CS:S is spawn points. If you are editing your botprofile just to get say 64 bots in a game, it is useless.(This is different in CS:GO)

[coty9090]

This is for cs_assault

http://pastebin.com/B4Dq4MQz

[soja]

Looks fine, on a default server I can load at least 40 bots(the default stock map spawn limit). What are you using to add bots?

[coty9090]

I tried the default bot_quota but it stuck at 35, and i'm using iBots by TnTSCS

[coty9090]

Thanks soja, but i found why it wasn't working... Had some bot cvars in server config that was screwing it up.

[soja]

ah derp xD

Didn't know you were using custom bots. All of my instructions were for default CS:S bots