Advanced Melee AI

[paulo101977]

Quoted just to confirm that this works for me. To anyone having problems, try the following:
-The Path where you have saved/unzipped the AMAI files (including the InstallTFTToMap.bat) should not contain any blanks.
-The map on which you want to install AMAI should not contain any already existing triggers, scripts etc (for example, w3champions maps may cause issues because of this). Just take a plain melee map.

To install in a path with spaces, the segment containing the space must be double-quoted. Something like:

InstallTFTToMap.bat "C:\Users\paulo\Documents\Warcraft III"\Maps\AMAI_test

perl InstallTFTtoDir.pl "C:\Users\paulo\Documents\Warcraft III"\Maps\AMAI_test

 

[paulo101977]

We can use a utility to see which scripts are being saved more than once. Like for example: "MPQ Archives - Warcraft III Maps"

 

[gartoll]

Here are 300 maps. Both AMAI vs AMAI and AMAI vs Blizz A.I. Simply put it in your documents folder. It includes every map that comes automatically with Reforged and almost every map from Liquipedia's "Other competitive maps". Reminder that several maps are missing because I either could not find them or found them with w3c triggers (these break AMAI last time I tested. Note that Synergy, Friends and maybe Vanguard Point will not work because the spawns are too close. You can edit them within like 10-15 mins through the world editor

Google Drive links:
AMAI vs AMAI: AMAI vs AMAI – Google Диск
AMAI vs Blizz: AMAI vs Blizz A.I – Google Диск
I forgot to copy the original maps and hvave them somewhere without AMAI at all so you either search the map you want or put the right teams if you want Blizz vs Blizz A.I. (like let's say that you want to play 2v2 with Blizz A.I. on Feathervile, put it team 2 vs team 4

 

[komarovba]

Good afternoon. I was writing AI for my map with non-standard races. I did it in a standard AI editor, getting a .wai file. I don't always like the way AI works, I would like a faster and more flexible solution, similar to how it is with you. I understand correctly, this can be achieved by editing the ai file, and it is completely written in the jass language. Thank you in advance for your answer!

 

[paulo101977]

Good afternoon. I was writing AI for my map with non-standard races. I did it in a standard AI editor, getting a .wai file. I don't always like the way AI works, I would like a faster and more flexible solution, similar to how it is with you. I understand correctly, this can be achieved by editing the ai file, and it is completely written in the jass language. Thank you in advance for your answer!

I believe that AMAI is not yet ready for custom races or any other standard race (not orc, human, elf, or undead) in the game. But I'm not the best person to talk about it, because I'm just starting the project and only with the installation process. I'm looking to do something in the Deep Learning sense, but it's still going to be a long time coming out. Maybe this kind of solution fits what you want.

 

[Strategy Master]

Good afternoon. I was writing AI for my map with non-standard races. I did it in a standard AI editor, getting a .wai file. I don't always like the way AI works, I would like a faster and more flexible solution, similar to how it is with you. I understand correctly, this can be achieved by editing the ai file, and it is completely written in the jass language. Thank you in advance for your answer!

You can by heavily editing AMAI and creating a new version pack with different races in it (how ROC and TFT are separate folders). Its been done in the past with various old long forgotten projects. And yes AMAI makes things easier in terms of writing the actual AI scripts with the strategy editor. But you have to setup all the AMAI csv and txt files with the new units and dependencies so that initial setup takes longer (assuming no bugs to fix with moving away from standard races)

 

[Strategy Master]

3.2.2 Released

Added​

• New AMAI installer (powered by Electron) for a user friendly way to install to maps or directories (Thanks paulo101977)
• Commander is no longer installed by default if you use the bat scripts. You must use the new `InstallCommanderToMap.bat' file.
• Added a script DisableCommander.bat if you want to disable the commander post install.
• Counter strengths are now translated.

Changed​

• The install AMAI to a directory perl script supports passing an additional argument "false" to not install the commander.

Removed​

• (DevTools) Stopped AMAI.mpq being generated, it is an old leftover from the old ways to run AMAI.
• (DevTools) Removed ancient AddToMPQ.exe and use MPQEditor for all operations under the hood.

Fixed​

• Re-installing AMAI should no longer increase map file size. Also maps file size after install appear to be about 40% smaller.
• Fixed some memory leaks mainly with the commander, this was more of an issue now that dialogs are being regenerated.
• Fixed Norwegian Commander caused by translating text to empty strings. Such behavior so should no longer break commander logic.
• Fixed an issue where air creep strength was assumed to be 0 which could cause AI to attack air creeps without a way to attack them.
• Fixed an issue where invisible pathing units were not moving on very large maps with lots of mines and neutral buildings and players.
• Reduced lag impact that invisible pathing units have on game start for large amounts of players.
• Fixed an issue where an ai could surrender and give all there buildings to Player 13.
• Invalid strategy commander message is now translated.

 

[0.0]

Much thanks for all the work done!

 

[komarovba]

Good afternoon. Not really into the subject, but I think you, as a jass-ai pro, can help me. I made an AI for my upgraded alliance. At first I did it in the AI editor, then I decided to try writing through jass and ran into two problems.

1) the function for creating a new thread, namely "call StartThread(function UpdateForgeAssignment)" does not work, more precisely, it does not do anything from it, or does it much later than it can.
2) for some reason, the UpdateConditions function does not work, and to be precise, it does not update the gCond_Pehotinec variable, according to the logic of which, it should return false if there is a CASTLE, but it still returns true. The AI is in the attachment, and please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
3) And please tell me how I can debug my script? BJDebugMsg does not work. Well, that is, how can I send messages to players from a bot?

This is the third place where I write.

 

[gartoll]

So installing 3.2.2 ON TOP of the 3.1.1 AI doesn't decrease size. In a few days I will provide my map pool with 3.2.2 AMAI. BTW can you tell me if there's a way to install AMAI vs Blizz via the installer? Didn't look for that one.

Also installer didn't do the job for me? For some weird reason? Maybe I'm doing something wrong, will check

Thank you for the update and huge thanks to Electron for the installer/

 

[komarovba]

now I have been experimenting for a long time and came to a sad conclusion for myself. For some reason, the AI can't run multiple infinite threads. When running in the main function ,
call StartThread( function UpdateForgeAssignment )
call StartThread( function WorkerBuildPriorities )
call StartThread( function WorkerAssignment )
call StartThread( function StartHarvestPriorities )
call StartThread( function AttackAssignment )

In which there are infinite loops, it runs only the first 3-4. The rest are just ignored. This is very sad, I will think about another solution.

 

[Strategy Master]

@gartoll Yes installing it over older versions won't give the savings as the map mpq file is already messed up at that point. But on top of 3.2.2+ should be fine.

You need to compile the AI vs AMAI version like normal than copy the scripts over to the installer (or run installer if you extracted AMAI to the installer resources folder anyway)

@komarovba Correct only so many threads allowed in AI scripts, what I've noticed when you start adding more is it appears to start to kill threads even if one is running it will halt half way. AMAI is able to use 5 threads and we have built a scheduling system into one of the threads so we can queue actions into it.

 

[komarovba]

@komarovba Correct only so many threads allowed in AI scripts, what I've noticed when you start adding more is it appears to start to kill threads even if one is running it will halt half way. AMAI is able to use 5 threads and we have built a scheduling system into one of the threads so we can queue actions into it.

I'm not doing it on an AMAI bot.
I've been experimenting with different options all day and damn, I can't get anything good.
I always get that only two threads work.
call StartThread( function WorkerAssignment )
call StartThread( function AttackAssignment )
And I assume that call CampaignAI (HOUSE, null) this is also the launch of a separate yet.
This thing is very annoying. I'm not going anywhere from the big conditions, it saddens me.

 

[paulo101977]

I'm not doing it on an AMAI bot.
I've been experimenting with different options all day and damn, I can't get anything good.
I always get that only two threads work.
call StartThread( function WorkerAssignment )
call StartThread( function AttackAssignment )
And I assume that call CampaignAI (HOUSE, null) this is also the launch of a separate yet.
This thing is very annoying. I'm not going anywhere from the big conditions, it saddens me.

You can take a look at how AMAI scripts work and try to tweak from there.

Have a look here too: How to make a Campaign AI - WC3 Modding Information Center

I did an experiment once, based on this link

 

[gartoll]

So downloading became really easy now. It's impossible to have trouble, just put your 3.2.2 AMAI folder into your resources folder that comes with the AMAIInstaller.
However, if you still face problems, here are my 300 maps updated. The map pool barely changed and this time I added all of them as Blizz vs Blizz. Yet again, it has every single blizz map along with most of the maps that liquipedia considers competitve (click a map and expand the "other competitive maps" thing), the FML map pool and some others map in order to reach that number

Files: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Es8E4xUxWxIrmVwrU4FvrfRdba31yfo/view?usp=sharing

 

[Mustang]

Any way to implement the support of custom units/buildings for custom races?

 

[KrasumSpell]

The installation on maps via command line doesn't work for me anymore. The installer issues the error spawnSync MPQEditor.exe ENOENT. What to do?

 

[Ravager16829]

The installation on maps via command line doesn't work for me anymore. The installer issues the error spawnSync MPQEditor.exe ENOENT. What to do?

Are you using the older versions of AMAI? I highly recommend getting the latest one (installer + latest version of AMAI binaries).
That way, you can use the "amai-electron-manager.exe" to install this mod instead of the commandline provided in AMAI binaries. Remember to place the binaries inside the "resources/AMAI" folder.

 

[KrasumSpell]

Ok, I got the installer to work. There mustn't be a second subfolder called AMAI, which is created by just unzipping.
The command line still doesn't work for me anymore though (it did in the past). It issues ECHO Cannot be found error for the map. But w/e, Installer should be good enough I guess.

 

[Kazakh]

I'd like to use the profile manager, but it needs perl with tk and I can't manage to install tk. Tried to install it through activeperl, but there's an error, and I can't find the 5.8 version which apparently has tk already included on it. I'm not familiarized with coding platforms so I don't know if there's an easier way to do it or if I'm messing things up. I use windows 11.

Another question: AMAI stops working as soon as I modify a map even though I keep it melee. I added taverns to a blizzard map and now I only get the default AI. I also can't manage to install it on hive melee maps, it says that it was installed correctly but I'm always getting the default AI.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Weigazod]

Excuse me. Is there anyway to prevent the AI from quitting too soon?

I am using v 2.6.2

 

[Fiseltut]

Love this mod! Great work here!

I have one question though. To me it seems like the ai retreat their units when their healthbar reaches the red stat, wich would mean this is percentage based. I wonder if there is something i can change to make it a set hp, like 200 hp or something.

The problem right now is that grunts are maneuvered very well because their hp pool is large, but archers are only 2 hits away from death when they try to retreat.

Thx in advance

 

[YouMoMCallME]

The AI Humans constantly sends workers to the enemy base in an attempt to build a tower and all the workers just dying
Also, the AI continues to build new workers and send them to the enemy base until it loses.
Amai 2.6.2

Is it supposed to be like this ? The AI is building a tower very far from his base.

There is not a single tower at the base for protection

On the additional base the defensive towers are present

AI often does not pick up artifacts

Will there be further improvements to AMAI for the old version of Warcraft 3 (1.28) ?

 

[gartoll]

Will the A.I. be updated for the 1.35 balance changes?