Game engine in C++

[delt0r]

But these echo bots don't produce any fleets. Whats the point? To test sever performance you need fleets and combat.

[Terr]

[igner]

[odinsbane]

In regards to the difference in game play. In the java version they use a tree map. This guarantees the order, so in a three way tie, I think the nuetral wins. I don't know if this is guaranteed in the c++ version.

mbs

[delt0r]

A little OT.

Terr, don't use scanner, its really slow. I don't know why, but StringTokenizer with Integer.parseInt parsed 400000 fleets in 0.1 secs while it took scanner 6.6 seconds. Don't get me wrong, java can be really really really slow done wrong (much more so that C++) and the provided api's have a pretty large spread in quality.

Of course YMMV.

[albert]

[odinsbane]

I thought a discrepancy was unresolved from previously, @theli_ua. I haven't tried to compile/run the code. I didn't realize std::map was a sorted map. I was just offering a suggestion.

Ill give it a try this weekend though.

[Terr]

[StillAlive]

Hi albert,

I'm new to programming in general and am trying to set up your game engine and viewer with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on windows 7. What I've done is downloaded the zip file from your site http://github.com/albertz/planet_wars-cpp, grouped the files into a project and hit "compile". I listed the errors I got while compiling at the end of my post. I seem to be missing SDL.h, sys/time.h and unistd.h.

How should I find those .h files? Also, how do I encorporate my own mybot.cpp, planetwars.h and planetwars.cpp into your game engine? Finally, how do I test my bot against another?

Sorry for these basic questions. I'll appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.


1>viewer.cpp(10): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'SDL.h': No such file or directory
1> utils.cpp
1>utils.cpp(7): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'sys/time.h': No such file or directory
1> showgame.cpp
1>showgame.cpp(10): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'SDL.h': No such file or directory
1> SDL_picofont.cpp
1>c:\users\user\desktop\andy's folder\stillalive with albert's code\albertz-planet_wars-cpp-2994b0a\SDL_picofont.h(16): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'SDL.h': No such file or directory
1> process.cpp
1>process.cpp(14): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'unistd.h': No such file or directory
1> playnview.cpp
1>c:\users\user\desktop\andy's folder\stillalive with albert's code\albertz-planet_wars-cpp-2994b0a\process.h(14): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'unistd.h': No such file or directory
1> gfx.cpp
1>gfx.cpp(10): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'SDL.h': No such file or directory
1> game.cpp
1> engine.cpp
1>c:\users\user\desktop\andy's folder\stillalive with albert's code\albertz-planet_wars-cpp-2994b0a\process.h(14): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'unistd.h': No such file or directory

[albert]

First, you need SDL for the viewer. (That is easy. Just download it and install as described. Or if you don't want the viewer, just skip that.)

Then, this code (or some small parts of it) currently only runs on Linux/Unix/MacOSX (or probably anything except Windows). don't have Windows here so I cannot really test and port it to Windows, sorry. But maybe someone else already did the work or is interested in it and can share the work with you.

Another solution would be to use Cygwin which is kind of a POSIX layer on top of Windows and other people here reported that it compiles fine on Windows with Cygwin. However, that may have some other drawbacks (not sure exactly; probably the performance is a bit worse).