Launching game via terminal

[coworotel]

Hello,

I'm trying to experiment with the AI. I made a folder inside the mods folder and basically copied Petra and changed one or two lines. It works ok when I open the mod via the UI, but I'm trying to launch a match directly using the mod via terminal. I tried:

pyrogenesis -mod=mymod -autostart="random/mainland" -autostart-seed=-1 -autostart-players=2 -autostart-civ=1:athen -autostart-civ=2:brit -autostart-ai=1:pedra -autostart-ai=2:pedra -autostart-player=-1

Instead of opening the match (as it does without the -mod=mymod part) it just goes to the mod settings screen. Am I doing something wrong?

Any help is welcome.

[elexis]

Didn't check, but you might have to launch with -mod=public and -mod=mymod, also you might mean petra and not pedra

[coworotel]

13 minutes ago, elexis said:

Didn't check, but you might have to launch with -mod=public and -mod=mymod

That loaded the game, but I think my mod wasn't loaded. Maybe I have to install it somehow? If I enable it via mod settings UI and "start mods" it works fine.

13 minutes ago, elexis said:

you might mean petra and not pedra

Pedra is my bot

It means "stone" in portuguese, just as petra in latin. Appropriate since it's just a small modification of Petra.

Edited June 29, 2018 by coworotel

[Stan`]

What is the name of your mod folder ?

[coworotel]

So far is mymod

[Stan`]

Where did you put it ?

[coworotel]

I created the folder mymod in /home/myuser/.local/share/0ad/mods

Inside this folder I have the mod.json with:

{
	"name": "mymod",
	"version": "0.0.1",
	"label": "A Mod",
	"description": "A mod",
	"dependencies": ["0ad=0.0.23"]
}

Then in simulation/ai/pedrabot I have basically a copy of petrabot (data.json and many js files) just with the names changed from "petra" to "pedra" wherever they occur. I put a warning in the initialization of the AI to know if it's working and when launched via UI it displays the warning and units behave just like they should (after all it's still Petra code). But when launched via terminal it doesn't show the warning and the units don't move at all.

[Stan`]

Try to put it in 0AD install folder. 

[coworotel]

I put it in /usr/share/games/0ad/mods/ but the result is exactly the same. I don't know now if it is because of permissions or something like that since I have to copy with sudo, or has to do with the fact that all other mods I see are in zip files and mine is just the plain directories and js files.

[Splizard]

Where did you find the available command line options? I noticed the game starts in observer mode with your command. Can it be started as a normal match?

[coworotel]

@Splizard https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/binaries/system/readme.txt