Spring RTS Engine

it is stable right now if you use it on maps with "sharp" metal spots (not on small divide), because cain's metal spot finder class had some problems with it (don't know if he released an updated version, but tell me if so) apart from capturing enemy units i had no crashes, but i didnt tes...

I'll do that after teh first release; due to my studies i dont have much free time right now and i first want to spent it on improving the ai itself...

probably i should consider it beeing a complement that aai will crush all other ais - but i just showed you nothing more than two pictures. so keep cool and avoid predictions that are not supported by facts besides zaphod surely is not jealous and he helped me a lot, without his advice it would have...

i dont think there would be any benefit at all; each ai is based on a different philosophy and we all code in a very different way. there is very few common ground as there aren´t any rules how to make an ai. its not about just putting together several parts... i often discuss things with zaphod;...

dont overestimate learning effect right now, i hope to be able to improve that in the future. in the beginning, all units are considered equally effiecient against other unit categories; it saves its updated values after each game, so after some time, pewees or aks get much lower eff. values - stump...

what i definitely should implement before release:
- aai doesnt use constr. units right now
- improve the scout code
- improve base defence
- improve search for suitable construction sites

AAI doesnt use any predefined buildscripts or hardcoded unit defs at all; it reads everything it needs directly from the unit definitions and sorts units into groups (like mexes, power plants, scouts, etc.) the only thing it has to know is the name of the starting units of every side; i tested it wi...

These are two pictures of the first working (= builds units and tries to attack enemy) version of my ai called AAI i hope to be able to release a first version soon after the release of the next ta spring version (which comes with my extended ai interface) http://www.fileuniverse.com/images/AAI%201_...

hmm i got another solution: you select the same team as on of the ai players, and then use cheat function to become spectator...

it works...

It may be very stupid to ask, but i want my ai to fight vs another ai; so if i add 2 ais in the spring client and select spectator for myself, the start button becomes deactivated...

does anyone know when there will be a new release, so all ais work with the same spring.exe that comes with the "official" update?

i (or zaphod to be more precisely) updated spring cvs so it now provides the attacker in EnemyDestroyed and UnitDestroyed

i just talked to sj, he proposed to use the units experience instead; i´m not quite happy with that, so im thinking of etending the ai interface..

what do other ai devs think about it?

ok agreed, but this still only provides my ai with information about enemy killers, it´s necessary to get the own killers as well... theres only enemydestroyed(int enemy), but i don´t know how to get the killer from that edit: its not absolutely necessary, but it´ll take more time to get se...

that means i would have to check it every time, damage is beeing dealt to a unit - isn´t that a waste of cpu power? at first, i wanted to keep it very simple: if a unit gets killed by another type, the effincy of the killer is increased a little bit and vice versa for the killed unit. the increas...

To be able to implement some basic learning system for my ai, i want the ai to store information about which unit types get often killed and which often kill others. the first thing is not a problem, but is there any way to do the second one? there is EnemyDestroyed(int enemy), but theres no direct ...

lol thanks cain :) i´ve been trying to hunt that bug for hours

i confused UnitDef->id with the unit ids spring assigns to units in the game...

how stupid...

GetUnitDef(int id) return a null pointer when called during initialization of an ai

however, GetUnitDef("ARMCOM") works fine for me; is it possible that the unit ids are not set when spring ai intefrace calls InitAI() ??

well i dont know the context, but it is stupid in that way, as you can´t prove empirism itself (i think he refers only to natural sciences)

but most of the time those (natural) science vs. religion guys never heard anything about scientific method, logic and things like that.....

i tried it out, on some maps it crashes right at the beginning (hill heaven for example) on other maps (hills and plains) it builds metal makers like hell but nearly no other buildings (especially it doesn´t build more tahn one or two mexes)