Having problems with PlayGame.jar or ShowGame.jar?

[olgeorge]

Hi guys!

I wonder if you can help me.

I run ShowGame in the following way:

java -jar tools/PlayGame.jar maps/map7.txt 1000 1000 log.txt "java -jar example_bots/RandomBot.jar" "java -jar example_bots/DualBot.jar" | java -jar tools/ShowGame.jar

The output us following:
WARNING: player 1 timed out.
WARNING: player 2 timed out.
Turn 1
Draw!

Then the vizualizer starts, displays a bunch of neutral planets and nothing happens.

So, why are the bots timed out? It's hard for me to deal with it since I'm not familiar with all the java stuff

Thanks!

[olgeorge]

Wow, PlayGame-1.2.jar does it just fine!

Sorry(=

[71_FIL]

I think I've gone through this thread thoroughly but I'm still having a problem. Was happening on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) and happening too on Centos. Must be something I'm doing wrong.

> java -jar tools/ShowGame-1.2.jar < log.txt
Exception in thread "Thread-2" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
at ViewerPanel.run(ViewerPanel.java:85)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[71_FIL]

Sorry too! Should be running without trying to use the log as the input. Run the full command as shown. For reference.

[ito725]

it times out, make the time-out time longer, it dosen't seem to be in any sensible units, (i use 60000). i use leopard and that fixed it for me.

also make sure ur using the right version of java, took me a long time to realize that mac os x uses 1.5 as the default.

[n.podbielski]

How to run this visualization with bots written in OTHER languages than java?
I tried c# and python. Running bots as console programs working fine, but running them in visualization dosn't work

D:\dir>java -jar tools/PlayGame.jar maps/ma
p7.txt 1000 1000 log.txt "mybot.exe" "java -jar example_bots/DualBot.jar" | ja
va -jar tools/ShowGame.jar
WARNING: player 1 timed out.
Turn 1
Player 2 Wins!

How make this work?

PS.
Damn you, java!

[SamothRefoe]

[mago10]

My bot's ships disappears without a reason. doesn't happen with example bots.
putting the code below or changing the value of XXX changes the number of turns to disappear. Lower values of XXX takes longer to disappear:

if (pw.MyFleets().size() >= XXX) {
return;
}

(after this I execute the bot normally, so if the size is < XXX, I start fleets without watching the condition again so I can start more fleets than XXX)
(used command: java -jar tools/PlayGame-1.2.jar maps/map7.txt 1000 1000 log.txt "java MyBot" "java -jar example_bots/BullyBot.jar" | java -jar tools/ShowGame-1.2.jar)

here they are some test with different values of XXX:

without the code:
Turn 16
Player 2 Wins!

XXX=10:
Turn 18
Player 2 Wins!

XXX=5:
Turn 77
Player 2 Wins!

XXX=4:
game finishes correctly
Turn 98
Player 1 Wins!


EDIT: Solution found, it was my error, an illegal move. For debugging you can use the solution posed in

[JimmFlimm]

I have a problem, I am using the c# starter package.

The bot sais the distance between my planet and the destination is 2, but in PlayGame.jar/ShowGame.jar the distance is actually 1, because on turn 1 I send the fleets to this planet and in turn 2 I already have it

edit:
calculated manually
distance is supposed to be 1.6241512550567194309118650732308 before ceil, so something must be wrong with the PlayGame.jar/ShowGame.jar right? or am I missing something?

edit2:
nevermind I didnt realize the visualizer shows the gamestate AFTER the actions has been made >_<

[qulinxao]

my bot in MyBot.cs //sending in zip to ai-contest good.
but dont cant test local, why?
try:
java -jar tools/PlayGame.jar maps/map7.txt 1000 1000 log.txt MyBots.exe "java -jar example_bots/DualBot.jar" | java -jar tools/ShowGame.jar

in output:
ERROR: failed to start client: MyBots.exe
Exception in thread "Thread-2" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
at ViewerPanel.run(ViewerPanel.java:85)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


what wrong? (testing 2 java bots again each other was good)