Spring RTS Engine

I have a solution. Installing the new Vista SpringLobby gave the same problem. HOWEVER, placing my base, mods and maps in c:\users\myusername\spring directories did fix the problem, leading me to believe that SpringLobby is simply ordering UnitSync.dll to search for the files in the wrong place. Or ...

Alright. Springlobby (version 1.10423) does not show maps when I choose single player and select a mod and map, and crashes if I hit "start". In multiplayer, it crashes if I hit "Host New..." and then "Host", OR if I try to join a game. It seems to be related to UnitSyn...

The mod could be different each day for each planet, and the map could be a randomly chosen appropriate map to that planet. Like, today if you pick mars, it'll be AA, but tomorrow it might be XTA or FF. Then, once you pick the planet, it'll be a mars-style map. So XantheTerra or mars or whatever. Bu...

Screenshots or death. OK, OK. I'll get them, just give me a little bit. The Kill window shouldn't have a bug after 32000+ kills. If you get more than two billion I make no promises. Right now, it's one point per kill. If you want damage, metal produced, or some other score feature, I'll work on giv...

Yeah! I finally got the rts source to compile. No sound or LUA, but it has a kill/loss window, and the tooltip shows how far you are towards finishing up capturing, reclaiming, or resurrecting. Download it here: http://www.fileuniverse.com/?p=showitem&ID=3743 . Let me know what you think. Edit: ...

I wasn't thinking so much in terms as making hundreds of units coming out of thin air (as is interesting to see), as much as using information cheats, like finding out where the enemies are headed or seeing everything on the map. You know, the "traditional" AI advantages. Also, I found a h...

Well, i suppose if you kept a list of what's around, you could copy what's going to get deleted and then reinsert it...or something...

Anyway, I'll fiddle with the different ways and see what comes up.

Well, it worked with 0.70b3, so I'll have to double-check it with 0.71b1. I'll bring a demo file or screenshots next time or else everyone can wait for the source code in OTAI's next version. I've also found that it's possible for the AI to very easily get other players' data. Should that be somethi...

I hope that this hasn't been posted somewhere else, but here's how to make the AI Cheat without anyone having to type ".cheat". You have to call the GetCheatInterface() from the GlobalAICallback you get in the GlobalAI::Init(). This returns a pointer to a AICheats class or NULL if in a mul...

Cool. Now I don't have to make the letters out of lines. Thanks a lot!

Alright... Plenty of questions here... All from AF... If you want to package OTAI with XE8, I'd be perfectly fine with that. I like AI vs AI battles as much as anyone. As for code cleaning, right now I'm pulling most of the code out of the GlobalAI.cpp and putting it into individual unit type classe...

It shouldn't have to be up to the modder to tell that AI makers how to make AIs! The formula for calculating stall is fairly simple: [/code] Stall=False if(Resource + (Income - Usage) * BuildTime < 0) Stall = true If you want to factor in the costs of future projects, all you have to do is figure ou...

Okay, got a new version again, 1.13. I spent a lot of time trying out that MFC threading and getting frustrated before giving up on that. I also cut the max number of buffered commands from eight to four, although some commands aren't buffered at all. @ignesandross: Feel free to test however you lik...

Does your AI refer to the unit later, after destruction? That could likely be the problem, if your AI is trying to get information about it later.

Very interesting topic. I'll put my two cents in: Context is everything. Figuring out how something happened is the biggest barrier to AI learning. What is an "event" is much harder than interpreting it once you have it. If 20 peewees, 10 Hammers, a Jethro, and a flea are ordered to attack...

Well, good luck! It takes a lot of time and imagination to do AI programming, and we could all use the challenge.

All right! New Version: OTAI 1.11 - Command Buffering has replaced most calls to the callback, limit of eight commands per frame. - Finally got around to using Krogothe's new metal class (with minor changes). - Adjusted when/how to put up defenses so that a field of LLTs aren't used to cover one mex...

I've been sorting by the command type. Attacks and builds and self-destructs get high priority, move gets medium, and reclamation and resurrection get low priority. What I would like is a way of randomly choosing a pending command, but weighted for priority, so that sometimes a low-priority command ...

Impressive!

I wasn't aware that any serious work was being done on real-time AI. I would like to see how a "real" AI would handle all the various confusions and mods in Spring.

Actually, several containers sort on their own, whenever something is added to them (set, mostly). All you need is to define a less-than operator to deal with them. // Header class UnitInfo { UnitInfo(); ~UnitInfo(); int priority; friend operator<(UnitInfo &A, UnitInfo &B); }; operator<(Unit...