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                    THE BOT JOHNNY (c) 1998 Semprini
                           Version 2.00 beta 3
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                        http://jb.quake2.co.uk/
                          semprini@buttle.com
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                              README FILE
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IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, READ THE DISCLAIMER.

PLEASE email semprini@buttle.com about how you get on with the program,
good or bad (if the latter, constructive comments please...!)  A large
number of features have been added on request.


---IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU ARE UPGRADING

NOTE - the settings for BJ1.x are NOT compatible with this new version,
so if you want to keep them, use BJ_CONVERT (available separately) to
convert them to the new format.

Also, note that no features have been REMOVED from BotJohnny, but I
have been reorganising the interface A LOT.  If you can't find
what you want, it'll probably be in the pull-down menus or on the
OPTIONS tab.


---RELEASE NOTES

For help please consult the HELP FILE that comes with BotJohnny.  There
is a Troubleshooting section, so please read that if you are having any
problems.


---CURRENTLY KNOWN ABOUT ISSUES

x  ERASER CTF:
   If you set up specific CTF teams using 16 or more bots between them
   and you then set your own team it seems to overload the server.  You
   may find the map loads twice and, once it starts, you see all messages
   twice (eg -
   "Morbo has captured the red flag
   Morbo has captured the red flag"
   The current solution is to de-select your team from the MAIN tab and
   launch like that (however this only allows you one more CTF team).
   Either that or spawn Random bots instead)  This isn't ideal, of
   course, and I will try to correct this in a future release.

x  GRAPHICAL SKIN SELECTOR
   If you hold down the mouse button over the scrollbar (ie to make it
   skip through loads of entries at once) it stops after a couple.  This
   is annoying but has been done to avoid a crash that happened if too many
   pictures were loaded in rapid succession.  However, the crash can still
   occur sometimes, sorry.

x  CUSTOM MAPS
   BJ might be defaulting to "don't show custom maps" when it shouldn't.  Or something slightly weird
   is going on that can prevent the custom maps from showing the first time.


---FEATURES NOT READY FOR THIS RELEASE

A few minor things are not ready for this release as follows:

x  The SPAWN box on the MAIN tab still does not yet work for Deathmatch Teamplay
x  When setting profile locations, it won't clean up after itself (ie delete the files no longer
   in use)
x  The "arena map" icon isn't 100% - it may end up getting replaced by the normal map icon.
x  It's possible that some areas of the help file may be out of date.  Please let me know if you
   find anything.



---IMPORTANT NOTE

Some options may have little effect depending on whether "Deathmatch",
"Capture The Flag" or "Deathmatch Teamplay" is selected.  At a later
date various bits and pieces will be greyed out, or there will be
visible warnings or something.  This also goes for the different
bot types.

Anyway, the TEAM tab is only really useful if "Deathmatch Teamplay"
is selected.  The CTF box on the main tab is only really useful if
"Capture The Flag" is selected.  The BOTS tab is only really useful
if "Deathmatch" is selected.


---HOW TO USE THE DAMN THING

Firstly, two programs now come with the official BotJohnny release.
"EraseJohnny.Exe" is the main program, so run this one..!

"ProfileManager.exe" is the Profile Manager.  This allows you to
rename and delete profiles, edit various aspects of the bot "Plug-Ins",
edit the sex of various models, manually edit the custom map categories
and so on.  You can access this program by clicking the "Profile" button
at the top left of the BotJohnny main window.  It is also used to edit
the game paths, bot settings and custom maps lists directly from
BotJohnny's PATHS tab.

Note, if you downloaded the full version you should also have a file
called "Bots.exe" present.  If this is sitting in your BotJohnny
folder, it will be run automatically when BotJohnny starts.  This extracts
extra files that you need that cannot be included in the main archive
(erm.. technical reasons..)  When this has been completed, it will ask if
you want to delete this file as it is no longer needed.  Answer YES here
unless you have serious reasons for doing otherwise, or it will extract
it every single time you run.  Which will be a pain in the arse.  :)

There are buttons to read proper help files from both BotJohnny
and Profile Manager.  Context sensitive help is also available by pressing
F1.

I am kind of hoping that it should all be easy to use anyway...!!



---DISCLAIMER

The author of BotJohnny can, in no way, take any responsibility for the use of
the program, even if it decides to delete your hard disk and slip amphetamines
up your modem.  **You use this program at your own risk**.

It is strongly recommended... I mean, I URGE you really, truly, please back up
your Eraser config files (BOTS.CFG, MAPS.TXT, CHAT.TXT, AUTOEXEC.CFG) before you use
BotJohnny as they WILL be changed by the program.  These are now backed up automatically
for you into a sub-folder of "Eraser" called BACKUP, but you must accept responsibility
for checking that this has been done.  ;-)

Of course, this program is free.  But comments are welcome.  Unless they consist
entirely of abuse.



NOTE - everything else has been moved into the help file..!
