Game engine in C++

[albert]

Hi,

I have reimplemented the game engine (i.e. PlayGame.jar) in C++. You can get the code here:
http://github.com/albertz/planet_wars-cpp

The implementation is currently very close to the Java one. However, I probably will refactor and extended it a bit because I will use it in my bot implementation.

I also reimplemented the game viewer. The code is at the same place. More details .

Maybe it is also useful for someone else.

[codeRage]

It might be useful.. but is it faster than the Java one?

[albert]

I didn't really do any performance comparison but I am pretty sure it is. It basically mostly the same code, just translated to C++. And in most cases, this results in faster code. Also, you save the huge overhead of the JVM.

Also, if you need some game simulation code in your C++ bot, you don't really have any other choice.

[DanielVonFange]

Nice, albert.

[Stardragon]

I think what I'd like best is if the game player were somehow merged with the visualiser: sometimes it can be a drag to play the game in one thing and load it into the next. I'd like to have more direct feedback on what my bot is doing. :-/

[theli_ua]

i sometimes get different match results with official java engine and this one

on a side note it would be nice to implement support for building natively on windows (it does not work atm due to some posix-specific things, i have it running in cygwin)

[albert]

Uh, it gives different results? Can you post/attach two game replays which differ, one with Java and one with the C++ engine?

If it differs because of a timeout of one of the bots, that can be kind of random.

My code is based on the most recent Java code (from the Google Code project). I have read that the released Java tools may contain some bug when there are multiple fleets arriving at a planet at the same time. Maybe that is the case here. Check out if the current Java code produces also the same result.

I don't have Windows here, so I cannot really implement and test the code under Windows. You probably need to rewrite most of the Process class (see utils.{h,cpp}) (there is no fork under Windows but it may be work by just using CreateProcess instead; and then you must somehow get access to the stdin/stdout stream of that created process). Everything else should probably work.

If you do so, please send me a patch so I can include that.

[petesimard]

Can you post the instructions for compiling this on Cygwin? I'm a bit of a linux noob.

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[albert]