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DotaService is a service to play Dota 2 through gRPC
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some basic questions #27

Closed sijiaxu closed 5 years ago

sijiaxu commented 5 years ago

First, really thanks to your guys work, it makes developing dota2 ai bot much much easier.

so several basic questions:

  1. it seems dotaservice use a dota2 headless client, is it based on the official dota2 client（how to make?） and can it update with the official update?
  2. does the headless client support ai vs ai mode like the mode in the official client's lobby? I want to implement the self-play training using this mode
  3. does dotaservice has the api doc, or where can i find the api code?

Really thanks!

Nostrademous commented 5 years ago

First, really thanks to your guys work, it makes developing dota2 ai bot much much easier.

so several basic questions:

  1. it seems dotaservice use a dota2 headless client, is it based on the official dota2 client（how to make?） and can it update with the official update?

NOTE: THIS IS DESIGNED FOR LINUX OR OSX ONLY

Yes, it uses the official dota2 client. There are two ways to run the service: 1) headless (this uses the docker container) - read https://github.com/TimZaman/dotaservice/blob/master/docker/README.md directions to get it up and running 2) locally (this allows you to run it headless or with a rendering GUI). To do this download Steam and Dota2 via steam normally as you would on a Linux or OSX system.

  1. does the headless client support ai vs ai mode like the mode in the official client's lobby? I want to implement the self-play training using this mode

It will support self-play, although for now we have just been playing around with solo play to test how well it scales (via parallelization) and testing some AI designs.

  1. does dotaservice has the api doc, or where can i find the api code?

Currently an API doc doesn't exist, but honestly, if you can read code you don't need one as the code is available open source. There are example code stubs in the README.md and the examples/client.py is also another good example for interacting with the service. In reality, however (and sorry for the brutal honesty), it comes down to "can you code"? If you can, you will be able to figure 99% of things out just by looking at the source.

Really thanks!

sijiaxu commented 5 years ago

great! I will have a try on my ubuntu first.