New client

Orakio · Post by **Orakio** » 13 Sep 2006, 13:08

I'm making a client. It's for my own use primarily, well actually it's going to be more of a bot, the client is secondary. It's open source though. I want to add a few new features such as changing the player's position in relation to fixed, automatic team balancing with things like experience, etc.... It would be designed to be a public bot. So I would like to make it possible for it to try and find maps that people want that it doesn't have, as well as things like commands to change mod, etc.

Source so far

iamacup · Post by **iamacup** » 13 Sep 2006, 16:28

i wouldnt recommend some of these variable names in an OS project

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 	public static String enc(byte[] in)
	{
                short[] fuckyoujava=new short[in.length];
                int i;

                for(i=0;i<in.length;i++)
                {
                        fuckyoujava[i]=in[i];

                        if(in[i]<0)
                                fuckyoujava[i]=(short)(128+fuckyoujava[i]|128);
                }

		String out="";

		for(i=0;i<(int)(in.length/3);i++)
			out+=encThree(fuckyoujava,i*3);

		return out+(in.length%3==0?"":in.length%3==1?encOne(fuckyoujava,in.length-1):encTwo(fuckyoujava,in.length-2));
	}

Orakio · Post by **Orakio** » 13 Sep 2006, 16:29

Not my fault java doesn't support unsigned.

Post by **hollowsoul** » 13 Sep 2006, 17:00

Nothing wrong with the language in the code for variable names.
Take a look @ linux source some time i.e
http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/

Not as if a normal end-user is gonna notice it.

And in this case showing author annoyance @ java brillant support for unsigned :)

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 13 Sep 2006, 18:27

Penguin?

j5mello · Post by **j5mello** » 13 Sep 2006, 18:30

linux!!

Quanto042 · Post by **Quanto042** » 13 Sep 2006, 19:06

LUNIX!!!

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 13 Sep 2006, 19:16

AAAA!

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 13 Sep 2006, 21:02

Quanto042 wrote:LUNIX!!!

Lunix is a Unix shell for the Commodore 64.

Orakio · Post by **Orakio** » 14 Sep 2006, 02:06

haha penguin

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 14 Sep 2006, 07:07

This thread owns.

Orakio · Post by **Orakio** » 14 Sep 2006, 08:59

So anyway is there an RFC or something for the TASserver/client? It would save me allot of time if I didn't have to keep reading the TASServer source and packet sniffing. Although somethings make sense other things are a little more confusion such as client status, various battle information...

I guess I'd have to find this betalord person.

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 14 Sep 2006, 09:12

clicky

Orakio · Post by **Orakio** » 14 Sep 2006, 10:23

Ah excellent, thanks. This is very useful.

I probably would have been able to find that if I didn't make the assumption I'd find everything Server/Client related in the TASClient/TASServer code folders. :/

Orakio · Post by **Orakio** » 18 Sep 2006, 14:56

I'm still working on this client It's still in an early state but can just about handle joining channels and PMs. If anyone wants to suggest any cool features I might include them.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 18 Sep 2006, 17:08

The altaclient that zydox and licho use to make game servers has a ton of cool features, you might check that out.

Egarwaen · Post by **Egarwaen** » 18 Sep 2006, 20:08

LordMatt wrote:The altaclient that zydox and licho use to make game servers has a ton of cool features, you might check that out.

Especially since Altaric can't maintain it anymore, and a lot of people like the features he added.

Orakio · Post by **Orakio** » 18 Sep 2006, 22:07

Hmm well I can see some advantages in making a new client. It's primarily for my own use to make a client and bot but if I'm going to make it I might as well make it also useful for other people to make the work more productive. Altaclient seems to be windows only and probably a modified version of the delphi client. A java client would be much easier to port to linux.

Anyway I already plan to have some of the features altaclient has.

I plan to have something to automatically sort teams, base on experience and/or cpu.
Show more info about the unit being selected for restrict.
A few tools for auto colour selection.
Bot commands such as start battle <mod> list mods, end batttle, end game (kill spring.exe), download map <map name> various start rect commands, etc
Feature to set time out for battles.
Command to auto kick things such as bots if people try to add their own, people with low cpu, spectators before a battle starts, etc.
If it's possible I might check out the reply format and see if I can make it run replays other things wont. I've had times where I can't play a replay I should be able to because the mod file has an eirrelevant change.
I haven't investigated the the protocol fully, but it may be possible to trick the server that you have left a game to run multiple instances of spring allowing to host more than one game, if this is possible and there's a headless (no graphics) spring varient available then I may include it as a feature however it may also mess up game time.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 19 Sep 2006, 00:27

I wasn't suggesting you maintain Altaclient, just that it has a lot of features that people would love to see in your client.

Michilus_nimbus · Post by **Michilus_nimbus** » 19 Sep 2006, 17:40

I've been working on a similar project myself for quite some time now. It's coded in Python, and hosts battles on demand. If you want to see it in action, contact me by PM or try and catch me in the lobby.

Orakio wrote:I haven't investigated the the protocol fully, but it may be possible to trick the server that you have left a game to run multiple instances of spring allowing to host more than one game, if this is possible and there's a headless (no graphics) spring varient available then I may include it as a feature however it may also mess up game time.

I'm afraid the "in-battleroom" status is set server side, so it's impossible to host 2 battles. Unless of course you spawn 2 instances of the same bot.
A "headless" spring doesn't exist (yet), but the option to start it minimized and to make it quit after the game ends will be in next version.

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