[Tutorial] Develop a new AI

[niektb]

@JuKu96: because of the new forum software

[JuKu96]

Just now, niektb said:

@JuKu96: because of the new forum software

Is this an known problem and will be fixed or an feature?

[niektb]

You just need to edit it, and put those linebreaks back in AFAIK

[JuKu96]

@niektb I have re-formated the code now.

Thanks for help!

Edited October 19, 2017 by JuKu96

[Grugnas]

I am not very familiar with AI code. does AI support upgrades research?

[Grugnas]

should i use the name of the mod as module parameter?

I tried to use the bot name in caplocks but i keep having the error:

"failed to create AI Player   simulation/ai/imabot/data.json:   can't find the module that should contain the constructor "IMABOT" "

EDIT: i really don't know how, but i fixed it.

Edited October 24, 2017 by Grugnas

[coworotel]

Hey @JuKu96, are you still working on your AI? Maybe I could use some help.

[coworotel]

So far I managed to do this, but I'm struggling to find why this.events is always undefined...

Engine.IncludeModule("common-api");

var PEDRA = (function(){
var m = {};

// Constructor of PedraBot (first function to be called by Pyrogenesis)
m.PedraBot = function PedraBot(settings)
{
  API3.warn("Pedrabot: initializing...");
  API3.BaseAI.call(this, settings);
};

m.Pedrabot.prototype = new API3.BaseAI();

m.Pedrabot.prototype.OnUpdate = function(sharedScript)
{
  API3.warn("Pedrabot: " + this.events.length + " events.");

  let time = this.gameState.getTimeElapsed()/1000;
  API3.warn("Pedrabot: elapsed time: " + time + "s");

  for(let i in this.events)
  {
    // Why this.events is always undefined?
    API3.warn("Pedrabot: " + this.events[i].entity.templateName);   
  }
};

return m;
}());

The warnings show but it appears undefined instead of the length of this.events.

Edited June 29, 2018 by coworotel

[coworotel]

The line

m.PedraBot.prototype = new API3.BaseAI();

makes PedraBot inherit from BaseAI (I guess?).

I've found in baseAI.js (part of the common-api):

m.BaseAI.prototype.HandleMessage = function(state, playerID, sharedAI)
{
	PlayerID = playerID;
	this.events = sharedAI.events;

So this.events in pedraBot is the same as this.events in BaseAI.

Now, when is HandleMessage called on BaseAI? I don't know. There's no call to it in Petra as well.

sharedAI.events is defined in shared.js (part of common-api):

/**
 * General update of the shared script, before each AI's update
 * applies entity deltas, and each gamestate.
 */
m.SharedScript.prototype.onUpdate = function(state)
{
	if (this.isDeserialized)
	{
		this.init(state, true);
		this.isDeserialized = false;
	}

	// deals with updating based on create and destroy messages.
	this.ApplyEntitiesDelta(state);
	this.ApplyTemplatesDelta(state);

	Engine.ProfileStart("onUpdate");

	// those are dynamic and need to be reset as the "state" object moves in memory.
	this.events = state.events;

Now when is onUpdate called on sharedAI? No idea... Every turn maybe (by the engine)?

Is BaseAI.Init also called by the engine upon beginning of the game?

I'm also assuming that sharedAI is an object of "class" SharedScript, which is initialized through method SharedScript.Init, called by the engine. Not sure though...

I'm a bit lost in this. It doesn't help that I'm not skilled in javascript...

Would greatly appreciate any help.

Edited July 7, 2018 by coworotel

[Guest]

WARNING: ({Create:[{entity:1093}, {entity:1094}, {entity:1095}, {entity:1096}, {entity:1097}], Destroy:[], Attacked:[], ConstructionFinished:[], DiplomacyChanged:[], TrainingStarted:[], TrainingFinished:[], AIMetadata:[], PlayerDefeated:[], EntityRenamed:[], OwnershipChanged:[], Garrison:[], UnGarrison:[], TerritoriesChanged:[{}], TerritoryDecayChanged:[], TributeExchanged:[], AttackRequest:[], CeasefireEnded:[], DiplomacyRequest:[], TributeRequest:[]})

Thats what this.events looked like for me. So, I guess

this.events[i].entity.templateName

would be undefined. Could you instead change that line to:

warn(uneval(this.events));

and see what happens.

Unfortunately, I do not know more than that. Not really familiar with AI code.

[coworotel]

13 hours ago, (-_-) said:

Could you instead change that line to:

warn(uneval(this.events));

and see what happens.

 

That worked (0 A.D. dies if I put this in onUpdate btw).

So in fact it's not this.events that was undefined... Thank you very much!