Name: Introduction and Collecting Minerals - Python AI in StarCraft II tutorial p.1
Uploaded: 2020-04-06T08:33:15.000Z
Duration: 14 min 50 s
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what is going on everybody and welcome to tutorial series that I have been looking forward to for quite some time and that is building a eyes in Starcraft two.

So if you don't know, Starcraft two is it's just a strategy game, very much like command and conquer.

Past simple

Age of Empires were played those, um, where you've got workers and you still you started with some workers you collect some resource is you build more buildings, research upgrades, you amass an army and you annihilate your enemy.

So it's a little more complicated than that, but that's basically it.

So, uh, around like mid 2017 deepmind, the machine learning slash deep learning company partnered with Blizzard, the creators of Starcraft two, to create an AP I around the game to help people create artificial intelligence is to play the game deep mines.

Main interest seems to be more like creating reinforcement learning algorithms, but with the A p I, you could do anything from just creating simple, rule based bots all the way up to yes, like a reinforcement learning algorithm that you would hope could could defeat other players.

Unfortunately, the game is unbelievably complicated.

And to my knowledge, there exists no reinforcement learning algorithm that's actually decent at playing the game yet just because of the extreme level of complexity to the game.

Now, um, what you need, Thio play is pretty simple.

The Starcraft two is free to play now, so you just need to just download it and install and all that.

And then we're going to be using Python Dash S C two to interact with the actual AP I itself quick shut out, by the way, to my two recent sponsors needs vich and Werther's original ah user named Werther's original not actually Werther's original the company.

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Go to battle net, basically making account head to the download section and download Starcraft two.

I believe there's a way to get it on Lenox.

I I really don't know anything about putting it on Lenox.

I may eventually be finding out, but, uh, at least for now, Windows and Mac So Ah, once you have that, you're going to need Python Dash S C to not to be confused with pious See too.

So python ESI two is a different wrapper than pious, cto pious.

It's really more focused around reinforcement learning, and it's a more complicated package.

I think this one's a little easier to get started with, and you could definitely do reinforcement learning all that.

Um, something's Maur oriented towards deep learning and stuff that will probably save you time later on down the roads.

We may find ourselves using that package later, but for now, Python Dash s C two.

Once you have those packages, you also need the map packs.

Now, I've linked to them in the text based version of tutorial, and I'll try to put them in.

The description of the tutorial is well, but here they are.

So what you're gonna want is at least one of these, I would say Just get them all.

Might as well have a bunch of maps that you can plan.

Um, but you should at least probably grab like season one.

We're just going to be playing on that first map in there.

So, anyway, I was gonna show you, perhaps in there and then when you have those, you want to extract those to your actual starcraft two environment.

So let me pull up, see if I have one up or not.

I don't, But let me just pull it up real quick.

So if you go to wherever you like installed lights, pride like your see dry and then program files or something like that let me find mine.

Starcraft So actually installed mine in J Dr.

I didn't want to give up precious, solid state space for the game.

Um, inside of here is the actual game itself.

You probably don't have a maps directory yet.

And then inside a year is where you're gonna extract your actual maps.

So don't make make sure you just don't extract maps directly into the maps directory because it's not gonna find them for whatever awesome reason it just won't.

So, uh, moving this aside, I'm going to assume most people pride didn't even have this game installed.

So probably here, I would recommend you pause and wait till you actually have the game downloaded and installed.

Otherwise, what we're gonna go ahead and do now is proceed to the actual part of the tutorials.

So this is actually what's running right now off here, and I'm gonna go ahead just close out of this.

On and always get this Always takes me, like, forever to clear this thing out.

I thought I could just, like, right click.

Okay, so, um, working with this is actually pretty darn simple, but it's just kind of like getting used to the patterns that you have to have to use.

So in order to make use of the package, we're just gonna need to import SC to make that a little bigger.

Uh, and then we're gonna go from sc two dot import.

From SC to import run game, that's just gonna have us actually be able to launch the game and play the game based based on certain parameters, we're going to import maps were gonna import race, and they were gonna import difficulty.

So the only thing I don't really talk too much about is race.

You've got Tehran pronounced someway tzar ge, and you have pro toss and Tehran appears to me to be more like humans.

Zorg's like some sort of bugs and then pro toss is like technology slash robots based.

So we're gonna be playing as protests seems the most fitting.

Um, but there are other races in each race has their own kind of perks and disadvantages and stuff like that.

So again, just more complexity that we need Thio Probably worry about let way later on down the road.

And the difficulty is for the bought that we're just gonna play against just to have somebody to play against.

You can also play against your own body, but especially like starting off, you probably want to play against the, you know, just built in box.

There's, like, easy a medium and a heart, and then once you can, like, consistently, beat the hard.

But then, sure, you might want to go ahead and compete against maybe your own body or a variety of different bots.

Then what we're gonna do is from SC two dot player.

We're gonna import that bought in computer.