In light of recent events, I feel I need to write a piece about this topic. So, my time is mostly spent on SCHNAIL (StarCraft Human’N’ AI League) nowadays, and I get to deal with a lot of problems across …
(This is an ongoing series. This part is enjoyable without previous knowledge, but if you’re new, I suggest you start from the beginning)
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After so much delay, the time …
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A slight detour from the JPS problem first. I needed a way to write tests for stuff that can only be tested in-game, so I implemented a smoke test …
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What a coincidence in naming. I plan to finish my “derping around with already solved problems while not improving my bot in any meaningful way” adventure with this post. …
This week’s guests were Adam Heinermann (An O.G. BWAPI developer), NiteKat, and Hannes Bradberg. Discussion about history, tournament, and of course, nukes were had. Happy listening! (You can subscribe to the blog, or just to the podcast RSS in the …
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Time to implement the very smart things I outlined in the last part. I decomposed it to many parts. First of all, a helper method to check if a …
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The last time, I was thinking about getting the WalkPositions on a line between two points. For this, I first create a rectangle with all the WalkPositions in …
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In the last part I implemented a threat map for visible units. For unseen units, the problem is actually a little bit different. My intention is that I should …
I decided to put up the podcasts to YouTube as well, because some people like to listen there. Here is the link for it, you can subscribe to the Undermind there as well. Happy listening!…
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I’m continuing with the actual thing I’d like to use, which is a map of threatened WalkPositions. I need a method for “all WalkPositions in range of a unit”.…