OpenBW Introduction - Page 15

On April 06 2017 22:06 BossPurple wrote:
How is engine coming along? is it playable?

On June 20 2017 03:06 imp42 wrote:
Although it has been a bit quiet lately, we've been very busy working on OpenBW.

Finally we have published all source code repositories and introduced a first version of the BW AI IDE.
It contains a version of BWAPI compatible with OpenBW. That means, you can now develop and run Broodwar bots using free and open-source software on Linux. *

The OP has been updated with a dedicated module at: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/517127-openbw-introduction#anchor_bwaiide containing all relevant information.

The source code Github repository is can be found here.

Happy coding!

* the only files that are NOT open-source are the 3 MPQ files from the original Broodwar. They are however free, since Blizzard made the original game available for free.

Edit: Original announcement here

On August 15 2017 23:34 Quatari wrote:
Hi, Chris Coxe, author of ZZZKBot here. Is there a project or instructions somewhere to help/explain how to set up some kind of tournament manager system/environment for running many headless concurrent games on Linux that uses OpenBW (i.e. similar function as StarcraftAITournamentManager but headless)? I noticed https://github.com/tscmoo/bwheadless but I haven't looked through the project very deeply and I'm wondering how to run multiple concurrent games on Linux without bots clobbering each others' data etc. Any idea what maximum frame rate is typically for a (headless) game for a OpenBW bot vs OpenBW bot on Linux, compared with, say, StarcraftAITournamentManager on Windows VMs? I prefer developing & running in Linux/WINE and I'd eventually like to eventually switch to Linux (sooner rather than later). If the frame rate is better, and if it's easy to test my bot against many other bots, and considering it's headless (so no need to wait for rendering and game menus/lobbies and game countdowns), this is even more reason why bot writers should consider switching to Linux. Thanks for these amazing projects!

Also, I would give anything to know how to learn the skills for how tscmoo wrote the game engine for OpenBW without any BW source code? I know how to examine MPQ files and read disassembly for EXEs/DLLs etc and I know a little about how BW's ISCRIPT and animation frames/sprites system works but how did he write the source code for the game engine and make it so identical to BW? Surely he didn't do it just by reading disassembly? Any tools/advice for how to do it? I've used disassemblers and decompilers before but was there an easier or different way than that? Is there a particular function that is the entry point for BW's game engine logic when a game starts? Which EXEs/DLLs/MPQs file? Any advice or reference material for how I would get started if I wanted to have a go myself?

On September 01 2017 05:52 Quatari wrote:
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Another question - if WINE isn't used, presumably it means that you can't run bots on Linux that were built for the normal BWAPI (i.e. built for Windows)? Maybe it's a stupid question. What I would like ideally is to be able to get away from needing Windows OS to test my bot against existing bots like the vast majority of the AIIDE/CIG/SSCAIT bots. Thanks

On September 24 2017 08:05 ninazerg wrote:
"Because if they won't do it, we'll do it ourselves"

This line makes me a bit sad, because of hard work put in by yourselves, and people like tec27, who did so much to make Brood War accessible and modern, only to be usurped by Blizzard. I, however, think that fan-made interface stuff like Chaoslauncher and MCAlauncher are superior to what Blizzard has put forth for SC:R.

On September 24 2017 07:59 sunvssky wrote:
We are a korean.
Is openbw in progress?

openbw는 진행중인가요?
openbw가 진행중이라면 잘 됬으면 좋겠군요.
혹시 이 글을 보시는 한국인이 있을까요?
ㅡ어느 한 스타 초짜가ㅡ

On October 01 2017 05:51 imp42 wrote:


Hey Sunvssky

Yes, OpenBW is still being developed!
All the code is easily accessible at github.com/OpenBW now. Documentation will be added step by step.