Spring RTS Engine

It sounds like Apache Thrift was a step in that direction, but then I didn't see any further discussion of it. I guess what I'm proposing is that as a community we pick some sort of open way that would make it easy to add additional language support, and then we work towards that goal. I don't know...

In web development, there's something called the OpenAPI Specification (formerly known as Swagger). It's a way of describing an API that makes it simple to generate a client for an API, in any language. There's code generators for all the popular languages, and it's not too difficult to directly con...

Honestly, AIs written in anything other than lua are kind of pariahs at this point. Gamedevs have zero control over non-lua AI, and those AI generally only work for a single game, if that. LuaAIs can be adapted and worked on after that author has long since abandoned them. A perfect example of this...

Silentwings wrote: ↑06 Dec 2018, 11:23 I agree, non-lua AIs remain current - that said, I can't see why anyone would write an AI in C# when you have C++ already available.

Because that developer likes C# better, or doesn't know C++? Everyone has their language preferences.

Is there anyone still interested in C#? I'm working on a Java AI but I keep finding myself wishing it was C#. The Thrift stuff sounded promising to me, but it's been six years now... In the time since anyone has last discussed a C# AI, .NET Core has become available, meaning that some of the Linux/M...

I'm in the process of writing an AI. It's very unsophisticated. It only knows how to build a couple unit types and doesn't how to search for enemies yet (other than drive South). If you're interested in playing against it, let me know and I can help you get it set up.

abma wrote:

msm8bball wrote:this would be easier if the AI interface could capture this error better?

what do you mean with "this"?

I mean debugging to figure out what was wrong would be easier if it was able to give a more descriptive error message.

It turns out that while my project was building successfully, the signalr-client-sdk.jar I was calling needed two additional JARs (Google's JSON library and Java Web Sockets library). This only became apparent at runtime once I made a standalone Java executable tried to use signalr-client-sdk.jar. M...

My AI deploys and runs without crashing. I want to utilize a library in an external JAR file (signalr-client-sdk.jar). I've placed the JAR file in the /jlib directory under my AI, alongside vecmath.jar and JavaOO-AIWrapper.jar etc. I add a line of code in my AI's init method instantiating an instanc...

Failed locating the client version of the JVM, please contact spring devs. is JAVA_HOME correctly set? maybe unsetting already fixes it. Ah! I forgot I installed the 64bit Java the other day to compile SignalR Java client library. That set my JAVA_HOME to the 64 bit Java. Unsetting the JAVA_HOME al...

abma wrote:should be fixed with https://github.com/spring/spring/commit ... 0a9ddaff5a

please try again with >= spring 101.0.1-373-g9d13eb6

Unfortunately, that did not fix it.
http://paste.springfiles.com/view/2990b921

I'm having this same issue again. Tried leaving JAVA_HOME unset, tried setting it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_55\bin and C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_55.

No luck. Any ideas?

I started the topic, perhaps I should have some say in what the topic is? Although I didn't mention C# in my original post, the intent of the post is "let's get a managed high level AI language working". Java or C# would fit the bill nicely Lua is higher than both of those. Name one reaso...

That's the theory, not the practice. What happens in practice is developers use Windows-only classes and libraries that cannot be ported to Mono for legal (patents) or technical reasons. Mono is considered by many linux users/developers to be a bloated dependency with inherent portability and legal...

I've never understood why Java developers make everything so complicated. What's wrong with exporting a basic set of proceedural functions or simple classes in the interface and letting AI writers apply their own abstractions (Factories, Getters, Services, Gateways, etc) on top of that? I've made o...

I've never understood why Java developers make everything so complicated. What's wrong with exporting a basic set of proceedural functions or simple classes in the interface and letting AI writers apply their own abstractions (Factories, Getters, Services, Gateways, etc) on top of that? Coming from...

Slow AI's > not working AI's My views on this are that pureint was supposed to improve AI's. And maybe it has, but at the same time it's also made them unusable. So we need to modify Spring to make it easier to integrate AI's, or we need to modify the interface our AI's are using. Whichever is easie...

A few days ago, my mind wandered back to Spring and I thought to myself "I wish I could write an AI in .NET". I'd settle for being able to write a functioning Java AI right now, that you can have more than one instance of. When I test my AI, it's much easier to put a bunch on the map and w...

Thanks, that helped me narrow it down. Apparently every frame I was trying to access a List<Unit> that hadn't been initialized yet. I guess I was expecting a null reference exception.

[f=0000000] Warning: AI for team 0 (ID: 0) failed handling event with topic 6, error: -5 [f=0000001] Warning: AI for team 0 (ID: 0) failed handling event with topic 3, error: -5 Seeing these errors a lot. What do they mean? And is there a place where I could look up what those error codes mean myse...