Playor v.0.2 by ZogStriP

Description

Playor is an application that plays Project Hoshimi games in a console. This tool is really fast and useful to test your Artificial Intelligence because once it has been launched, it will directly start the game and save automaticaly a replay and a log file at the end of the game.

You just have to configure your Visual Studio project in order to launch Playor when you press F5 or CTRL+F5!

If you have any remarks or suggestions, please go to the forum and post !

How To install and use Playor?

Here is a step by step to help you configuring Visual Studio to use Playor.

Step 1 - Installation

The only thing you have to do here is to decompress the zip archive you just downloaded anywhere you want.
Step 2 - Preparation

You have to prepare the Playor to be able to play games.

To do so, you just have to fill :
- the missions folder with both .tsu and .brief files.
- the players folder with the players' dlls (or discovery and intermediate strategies) you want to use.
- the pierre folder with dlls, discovery or intermediate strategy file you want to use for Pierre.
Step 3 - Configuring Visual Studio (Pro)

You have to configure Visual Studio Professional to use Playor when testing your Artificial Intelligence.
- Step 1 - Copying your player's dll into the players folder
  
  You have to indicate to VS that you want to build/compile your dll in the players folder of Playor.
  
  You must edit the properties of your project, and change the output path in the Build tab:
- Step 2 - Makes Playor the starting application of your project
  
  You have to configure VS in order to be able to launch Playor correctly.
  
  You must go to the Debug tab and fill some textboxes.
  
  In the Start Action part, you have to select Start external program and then browse to the Playor.exe file.
  
  In the Start Options part, you have to type in some command line arguments (see the help) and to set the working directory to the Playor folder!
Step 4 - Coding

I let you doing this part as you want ;)
Step 5 - Testing your code

Just press F5, if you want to Debug, or CTRL+F5 if you want to run in the release mode (a bit faster).
It will launch the Playor application and start the game. Just wait 5 minutes and you will find a new replay in the replays folder and a log file in the logs folder.
Step 6 - Enjoy

Have fun with Project Hoshimi !

Update Notes

[0.2] - List of features:

#BUGFIX - No more bug when detecting a ContextSwitchDeadlock (Reported by Nemanja)
Display improved (information were not writen at the right position in the console) (Reported by Nemanja)

[0.1] - List of features:

Directly launch a game between one or two players on a map
Automatic replay and log saving
Display start and end time
Count the number of total played games
Display some informations about teams :
- Name
- Score
- Number of Bots
- Number of Needles
- Is Ai Alive ?
- Number of done objectives

You can download this version here : Playor

Playor v.0.2

Description

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How To install and use Playor?

Step 1 - Installation

Step 2 - Preparation

Step 3 - Configuring Visual Studio (Pro)

Step 1 - Copying your player's dll into the players folder

Step 2 - Makes Playor the starting application of your project

Step 4 - Coding

Step 5 - Testing your code

Step 6 - Enjoy

Help

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Update Notes