Jubot: A Marginally Improved Ai

[Jubalbarca]

How do I use the timewarp mode, can anyone tell me?

[Ykkrosh]

Shift-D to open the developer thingy, enable time warp, hold down space to fast-forward, press backspace to jump back a few seconds (except that's fragile and definitely won't work when you've got AIs).

[Jubalbarca]

Thanks.

[Jubalbarca]

Iberians now partially supported; only their basic cav, inf, and wimmenz are trained thus far though.

[Pureon]

Cool

[historic_bruno]

How do I use the timewarp mode, can anyone tell me?

Also, you can open the console with ` key, and type in Engine.SetSimRate() and pass it a value like 20.0 or 100.0 or something I find that works a bit more reliably than time warp and also it doesn't eat memory.

[Jubalbarca]

Okay, back at last; time to get on with the rest of the Iberians methinks.

[Jubalbarca]

Iberians now have a full unit training list and building list. Not that it did them much good in their test against a celtic JuBot; they got very severely mauled despite early successes raiding my little Hellenic base.

[Pureon]

BTW I used your AI in the Alpha 5 preview

[Jubalbarca]

I noticed it getting rinsed rather, yeah. We'll have to talk closer to the time on its inclusion and whether you want me to be able to add it to the SVN version or not and so on.

In other news, I'm working on a nassssty new military base strategy for the AI to use (the current ones are "full assault" of about 30 guys, a cavalry-only raid, and a generic infantry attack which is pretty useless but annoying).

[Pureon]

I noticed it getting rinsed rather, yeah.

Only because I added 100 extra units to my side in the scenario editor

[tinoesroho]

How do you install this?

[Jubalbarca]

Instructions are in the Exilian thread.

[Jubalbarca]

Would any of you Devs like the new version to play with?

[Mythos_Ruler]

Yes, plox.

[Jubalbarca]

Ok, I don't think I can commit to the SVN but I'll upload it on Exilian later.

[Pureon]

Would any of you Devs like the new version to play with?

Yep, I would!

[Thorfinn the Shallow Minded]

Thorfinn is not a developer and doesn't have the game installed anymore, but he certainly would use your artificial intelligence if Thorfinn did have the game installed.

Edited April 22, 2011 by Thorfinn the Shallow Minded

[Pureon]

Welcome to the team Jubalbarca

[Jubalbarca]

Thanks!

Pureon and Mythos: since I should be getting SVN commit access soon, I'll wait until I do and put it up that way.

[Jubalbarca]

Committed in theory; can anyone confirm this?

[historic_bruno]

Committed in theory; can anyone confirm this?

Seems to work, but I get a few warnings:

WARNING: JavaScript warning: simulation/ai/jubot/military.js line 180 anonymous function does not always return a value
WARNING: JavaScript warning: simulation/ai/jubot/military.js line 205 anonymous function does not always return a value
WARNING: JavaScript warning: simulation/ai/jubot/military.js line 229 anonymous function does not always return a value
WARNING: JavaScript warning: simulation/ai/jubot/military.js line 253 anonymous function does not always return a value

[fcxSanya]

Committed in theory; can anyone confirm this?

Trac confirms that you committed something

[fcxSanya]

Seems to work, but I get a few warnings:

WARNING: JavaScript warning: simulation/ai/jubot/military.js line 180 anonymous function does not always return a value
WARNING: JavaScript warning: simulation/ai/jubot/military.js line 205 anonymous function does not always return a value
WARNING: JavaScript warning: simulation/ai/jubot/military.js line 229 anonymous function does not always return a value
WARNING: JavaScript warning: simulation/ai/jubot/military.js line 253 anonymous function does not always return a value

In such cases:

if (foeposition){
  var dist = VectorDistance(foeposition, currentPosition);
  return (ent.isEnemy() && ent.owner()!= 0 && dist < 50);
}

it is probably better to add the line:

return false;

at the end.

Edit:

or store return value in some variable:

var isTarget = false;
if (foeposition){
  var dist = VectorDistance(foeposition, currentPosition);
  isTarget = (ent.isEnemy() && ent.owner()!= 0 && dist < 50);
}
return isTarget;

[Jubalbarca]

Yeah, I know, just haven't gotten round to fixing that since it doesn't cause any actual issues running the AI and designing a 3-pronged attack strategy sounded much more fun.

I'll fix it soon.