RLBot is a program to play rocket league by reading values from the process memory as input and outputing button presses to the game. RLBot works for 1v1 exhibition games of player vs player opponent. I use vjoy + pyvjoy + x360ce to acheive the controller simulation. All autonomous bots that are created should be fed game values as input and perform whatever processing they wish before outputting key presses as output. The idea is to allow player made bots to be interchangeable. One of the bots being worked on, and my initial project, requires Google Tensorflow.
Host a tournament for players to pit their created bots against each other! Need to layout official rules for this (ex. Allowed process time and make official input/output vector rules).
- Sanitize player controller press vectors
- Handle overtime. Right now I don't check time on the clock so when overtime comes up, I never reset pointers when the cars get reset.
- Handle demolitions. This may...never happen. When a player gets demo'd the pointers all move around and I don't know any pattern for where they go yet.
- General bug fixes as they come up
Thanks to Kevin Hughes' TensorKart which helped influence and modify my original design for the project and gave me direction.
Windows 10, Rocket League, vjoy + pyvjoy + x360ce at least. If you are running the tensorflow bot than definitley need (Python 3.5, Google Tensorflow).
RLBot is fed values which are read from process memory or derived values from read inputs. These values include amount of boost, xyz positional coordinates for player, ball, and opponent, rotational values, relative velocities,
and score from the game to name a few. Look at PlayHelper.py for all values. The way values are read from process memory is very finicky and may require modifying pointer trails in PlayHelper.py. I use CheatEngine to find pointer trails.
Pointers have been tested on multiple machines with consistency so this should work out of the box. If there is a game update it is possible pointers will need to be updated and this repository will need to be updated.
Run "python runner.py" after the game is loaded and all bots and the ball are loaded on the playfield. A GUI window should pop up after a second displaying game values. I try my best to make sure these values are correct and the display is there so we know for sure! I assume that replays after goals are not skipped so if you skip a replay you might need to wait a few seconds before the program starts working again.
In order to get player 2 to join in you need to press start initially, you also need to press a at the team selection menu. I have a couple scripts that just wait a couple seconds and then press and release the button for this purpose. So to run them you can just minimize out rocket league, start the script, and pop back into the game and it'll press the button for you.