Diablo II Bot Dev

[Spilled]

Hi, im trying to learn how to create a Diablo II Pindle Bot. How would i go about creating this to run my character through pindle runs using Diablo II Loader? Is the game ran in a sub window? If so how would i control the character and what messages would i send the sub window? Any help or tutorial would be much appreciated I am interested in learning this. Thanks in advance.

[MyndFyre]

What is "Pindle"?

[Hdx]

Pindel is a spacific monster in D2, that is always at a spacific place, and he drops good itls, and give decent EXP. This guy just wants to get items w/o doing the actuall playing. And i assume he heard about AutoIT, that would be a decent lang. to make a "bot" like that in.
~-~(HDX)~-~

[Spilled]

How would i go about making such a program as this in the language that im currently using? Any help is appreciated thanks in advance.

[Yegg]

What language are you using? I'm assuming it is Visual Basic 6?

[Blaze]

http://www.hiddensoft.com/AutoIt/

I think this is what hdx was talking about. Its a really simple scripting language.


edit:
http://www.hiddensoft.com/AutoIt/diablo.php Hehe

[Spilled]

Yes, the current language im using is VB6 and im pretty sure it possible to make this program in VB6. What im asking is how would i get the controls of the character in VB6 and go about controlling his movements to do pindle/meph/andy runs whichever i decide to make it for. Thanks in advance all.

[iago]

It's easy!

- Make the standard connection to Diablo II
- Also connect to the realm server
- Log in with the appropriate character
- Tell Battle.net that you're creating a game
- Tell Battle.net that you're entering a game
- Decompress the incoming packets
- Find the appropriate information to move to the right location
- Send game packets that'll get you to that location
- Find the appropriate information about the monsters from the decompressed packets
- Send the information to attack those monsters
- Find the info about the dropped items
- Send the info to pick them up

Now, if you narrow your question down to any of those steps, you might get more help.

[Spilled]

Actually i was more planning this bot to be exterior and get the handles on Diablo II Loader and run it from there, Somewhat like jhj bot worked. Ideas?

[Yegg]

You want this bot to control mouse movements and click action? Maybe even some keyboard events? So it would work like your "basic advanced" macro?

[Spilled]

jhj bot in no way moves your mouse, but moves your guy without mousemovement. How would i do this?

[Yegg]

Apparently that bot is sending packets to the game server, and it is sending packets through a socket that has established a connection to the game server. Do what iago suggested. There are some open source diablo game bots on bnetweb.com and zeroforce.net.

[LivedKrad]

This is news to me, how are the packets compressed iago? I was comparing the packet format for D2GS (in-game) to a packet I logged while in the game. Seemed uncompressed to me, however I could be completely wrong and need to be enlightened by your infinite knowledge.

P.S.- I think I may have found the answer to our question regarding the murder rate of America.

[iago]

This is news to me, how are the packets compressed iago? I was comparing the packet format for D2GS (in-game) to a packet I logged while in the game. Seemed uncompressed to me, however I could be completely wrong and need to be enlightened by your infinite knowledge.

The Server -> Client are compressed with some kind of Huffman compression algorithm.

Besides that, it seems like the "bot" probably injects a .dll and takes over certain events, and makes false function calls.  Assuming that's true, doing it in VB isn't possible.  VB is too high-level, you don't have the kind of control you get with C.

[Yegg]

Are you sure that a language such as VB6 has a task that it cannot handle? Especially those kind of dll files. I think it could handle it.