#Sc2 record ai actions code
#Sc2 record ai actions free

In order to code an artificial intelligence agent with Starcraft 2, we're going to make use of python-sc2 from BurnySc2. If you understand things up to this point, then you know basically as much about Starcraft 2 as me, so congratulations!

So, to begin, my general thoughts with Protoss are:īuilding Void Ray units for attack, and some cannons for defending the main base from early attacks, along with of course gathering resources, building units, and building the necessary buildings. I am mostly just doing this for fun, I have no real intention to be ultra competitive, but I have already enjoyed myself quite a bit competing against the bots. I am no Starcraft 2 expert, and my main intention is to eventually move from hand-coding everything to using reinforcement learning for at least some of the actions. If that's still somewhat confusing, no worries, it'll probably make more sense as we get going. To collect resources, we have worker units that can mine the resources, and we'll need a special building, the 'assimilator' to collect gas. The Stargate requires some Vespene Gas and minerals to be built. Each building requires resources to build, but the Nexus, gateway, and cybernetics core all just need minerals to be built. You can find the source for this image, and check out the other races from: Protoss Units.įrom here, for example, if we wanted to build the Void Ray unit, we would need a Nexus first, then build a gateway, then a Cybernetics Core, then finally a Stargate, which can build Void Rays. The Protoss buildings and units order, for example is:

Your building and unit names will vary a bit, but many of the concepts are the same.

#Sc2 record ai actions free

To start in this series, I will be playing as Protoss, purely because I like the way the units and buildings look most, but you're free to try to play as a different race. Within Starcraft 2, there are 3 different 'races' that you can play as, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Certain buildings and units require other buildings to exist before they can be built. The layout of the game is: There are resources (minerals and gas), you use these resources to build buildings and units. In order to be highly competitive, lots of factors can indeed come into play, but if you're looking for a fun environment to try your programming and maybe even deep learning/reinforcement learning skills, this is a pretty good choice. For those of you who are new to Starcraft 2 (SC2) or it's been a while, the game at a basic level is actually fairly easy to understand. I visited this topic some years ago, but quite a bit has changed, so I figured I would revisit it again. Welcome to a tutorial for building artificial intelligence agents within Blizzard's Starcraft 2 game.