Spring RTS Engine

Then we use the tried and tested method everybody else uses outside our community and attach version numbers to stuff. E.g. Instead of an AI saying it supports EvoRTS, it says it supports EvoRTS <= 5.0 or something to that effect. Then if the game moves on, fine, the AI dev tests and updates to 6.0....

Well, very well... Happy to see your interest abma, though I don't know what are the steps to fix your issues, at least I understand that not all is loosed! Now the next step is get a road map to get a ShardLuaAI working framework. To do this is absolutely necessary the convergence between spring e...

Someone have a vague idea about a "Shared ShardLua Road map" ? make shard load the lua ai from an archive file or directly the game archive. thats imo the best solution: - no git submodules required - can be updated independently - is only downloaded when needed - ... There are no VFS API...

also ALL automatic builds were randomly broken due to removals / renames of git repositories. This is why Shard is cloned to https://github.com/spring/Shard as all other submodules required to compile the spring engine. I'm fine with having a separate repository that I can PR against, it improves r...

The problem with wrapping native AIs in Lua is that it's not something that's easy to do, lua is a scripted language running in a VM, all manner of chaos could happen just trying to build that.

Killing AI players who do nothing before a set time is also another option

If an AI has done nothing with its units 20 seconds into the game I'd say its a safe assumption it doesn't support the game, having a hardcoded list of AIs shouldn't be necessary. Eitherway the end result is a superior experience to the current one. As a sidenote, AIInfo.lua could contain a list of ...

I would like to note the following things: - When a native AI doesn't support a game, it shouldn't attempt to play it and say so. It also shouldn't crash - LuaAIs are gadgets and have full control over event handling With those 2 things in mind, lets remember that LuaAIs have to figure out which tea...

Is there a better tag we can use? Such as the name of the game? Or '[game:name]'? https://github.com/spring/spring-website/blob/master/wwwroot/includes/news.php#L37 idea was/is to add icons for the known "tags". This might work for the homepage, but it falls flat if you try to share thing...

Historically we've tried to show that the Spring Engine is not a game, but an engine, but our community news has items that start with '[game]'. When shared this kind of implies the opposite.

Is there a better tag we can use? Such as the name of the game? Or '[game:name]'?

Ah, when I tried using it I was directed towards Anaconda and similar as it was easier to get up and running quickly

I'd suggest using Anaconda to install Jupyter, which has a windows installer. The rest is primarily python, so in theory it should all be doable

https://www.continuum.io/downloads

My understanding is that Jupyter already has some plotting stuff, it just needs a data source, which you've provided

I made several modifications to the Shard AI, I don't think they'll fix the problem, but they'll make diagnosing the problem significantly easier, as well as show up any unexpected situations. The infolog suggests that the Shard AI lua files are either missing, misplaced, or are missing certain thin...

Jupyter lets you write up notebooks that contain code that runs. E.g. you can include a data set then tell it to print out a lot of graphs and it will go away and do all the necessary work. You can write python directly in the doc and transform the results and do some basic data science and analysis...

This looks very useful

TLDR:

Hello! Have there been any recent advances?

Oh dear, that's a hard crash, I'll look into the cause and see about a fix, but it'll require recompiling Shard once done. Thanks for the infolog!

That is incorrect For the Native Shard that comes bundled with spring, If Shard is located at: spring/engines/103.0/AI/SKIRMISH/Shard/dev/AI Then Shard will search for files here: spring/engines/103.0/AI/SKIRMISH/Shard/dev/AI and here: spring/engines/103.0/AI/SKIRMISH/Shard/dev/AI/SHORTGAME Where sh...

This file seems to implement a number of translation functions:

https://github.com/eronoobos/ShardSprin ... /shard.lua

Systematising this would be useful so that these aren't dangling functions in the global namespace

That interface provides the means for Shard to use the Spring Gadget API, but it does something needs to load and create an instance of Shard, and pass events to it. That part is missing. I can infer a few things based on a read of Eronoobos' work, I can infer that this file is what SpringLobby need...

Nooo I mean the whole subfolder to override Shard files for a game thing, you definitely need to put Shard inside the game. So this folder: https://github.com/tomjn/Shard/tree/master/data/ai Is fine as is, you don't need to create another subfolder for each game, e.g. BA will still work without this...