Option to select ai karts (bots) from the lobby in network games

[doitux]

It would be great to have the option to select ai karts (bots) from the lobby in LAN games like you can do it in local games.

[Benau]

Not interesting

[doitux]

Really sad! For some online games with less players it would be a great fun to have bots with you, like in other online games.

[Benau]

Because playing with weak bots is not fun, also you said about lan games.

[doitux]

For me it is especially when playing on my own dedicated server with friends. Is there any option in the gui to add bots there which i was just missing until now?

[Benau]

There is for lan server in 1.1 stk

Did you create private wan server?

[Benau]

This is 1.1 stk

[doitux]

I'm running a dedicated server on my private server.
In the server config i have set:

The server is also 1.1:

[admin@huxiwe ~]# cd games/supertuxkart-1.1-src/cmake_build/bin/ [admin@huxiwe bin]# ./supertuxkart --version [info ] main: ============================== [info ] main: SuperTuxKart, 1.1. [info ] main: ============================== [admin@huxiwe bin]# ./supertuxkart --server-config=your_config.xml --network-console
When i connect the client i click "online" --> "enter server address". Than i type the IP of my server there.

This is how the lobby looks like:

And this is how the settings look like:

I would love to have on options for bots there. Is there a way to get it? Any switch in the server config file i was missing?

[Benau]

Not possible because the ai process is seperated (and really complicated to add such functionality)

You need to use another terminal and run bin/supertuxkart --connect-now=127.0.0.1:2759 --network-ai=x

[doitux]

I tried this before but i get:

`[admin@huxiwe bin]# ./supertuxkart --connect-now=127.0.0.1:2759 --network-ai=6
[verbose ] main: Error messages and other text output will be logged to /home/admin/.config/supertuxkart/config-0.10/stdout.log.
[info ] [FileManager]: Data files will be fetched from: '../../data/'
[info ] [FileManager]: User directory is '/home/admin/.config/supertuxkart/config-0.10/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Addons files will be stored in '/home/admin/.local/share/supertuxkart/addons/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Screenshots will be stored in '/home/admin/.local/share/supertuxkart/screenshots/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: User-defined grand prix will be stored in '/home/admin/.local/share/supertuxkart/grandprix/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 0 will be loaded from '../../data/challenges/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 1 will be loaded from '../../data/gfx/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 2 will be loaded from '../../data/grandprix/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 3 will be loaded from '../../data/gui/icons/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 4 will be loaded from '../../data/gui/screens/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 5 will be loaded from '../../data/gui/dialogs/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 6 will be loaded from '../../data/replay/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 7 will be loaded from '../../data/shaders/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 8 will be loaded from '../../data/skins/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 9 will be loaded from '../../data/ttf/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 10 will be loaded from '../../data/po/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 11 will be loaded from '../../data/library/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 12 will be loaded from '../../data/models/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 13 will be loaded from '../../data/music/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 14 will be loaded from '../../data/sfx/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 15 will be loaded from '../../data/textures/'.
[info ] [FileManager]: Asset 16 will be loaded from '../../data/tracks/'.
..:: Antarctica Rendering Engine 2.0 ::..
FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p10 hostBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p10 DMR amd64
[info ] HTTPRequest: Sending userid=56497&token=************************ to https://online.supertuxkart.net/api/v2/user/saved-session/
[info ] GrandPrixManager: Loading Grand Prix files from ../../data/grandprix/
[info ] GrandPrixManager: Loading Grand Prix files from /home/admin/.local/share/supertuxkart/grandprix/
[info ] STKHost: Host initialized.
[warn ] LayoutManager: Widget 'timeout-message' has a height of 0 (left_space = 0, fraction = 1.000000, max_width = )

[info ] ConnectToServer: SETUP
[info ] ProtocolManager: A 15ConnectToServer protocol has been started.
[info ] ConnectToServer: Trying connecting to 127.0.0.1:2759 from port 58524, retry remain: 3
[info ] ConnectToServer: Trying connecting to 127.0.0.1:2759 from port 58524, retry remain: 2
[info ] ConnectToServer: Trying connecting to 127.0.0.1:2759 from port 58524, retry remain: 1
[info ] ConnectToServer: Trying connecting to 127.0.0.1:2759 from port 58524, retry remain: 0
[info ] ConnectToServer: Trying connecting to 127.0.0.1:2759 from port 24498, retry remain: 10
[info ] ConnectToServer: Trying connecting to 127.0.0.1:2759 from port 24498, retry remain: 9
`

[Benau]

Do u know what is the server port (replace with 2759), the server log will tell you the private port of server

[doitux]

Mon Jan 27 17:06:45 2020 [info ] STKHost: Host initialized.
Mon Jan 27 17:06:45 2020 [info ] STKHost: Server port is 2759
Mon Jan 27 17:06:45 2020 [info ] ServerLobby: Resetting the server to its initial state.
Mon Jan 27 17:06:45 2020 [info ] ProtocolManager: A 11ServerLobby protocol has been started.
Mon Jan 27 17:06:45 2020 [info ] main: Creating a LAN server 'HL-Arena'.

So, it seems to be 2759, right?

[Benau]

Do you run that command in the server?

[doitux]

Yes! ;-)

[Benau]

try type your public ip address in server?

[doitux]

I tried this and than i get:
[info ] ConnectToServer: SETUP
[info ] ProtocolManager: A 15ConnectToServer protocol has been started.
[info ] ConnectToServer: Trying connecting to my.pub.lic.ip:2759 from port 49484, retry remain: 3
[info ] ConnectToServer: Connected to my.pub.lic.ip:2759
[info ] ProtocolManager: A 11ClientLobby protocol has been started.
[info ] STKHost: Listening has been started.
[info ] ProtocolManager: A 15ConnectToServer protocol has been terminated.
[info ] ClientLobby: Synchronous message of type 2
[info ] ProtocolManager: A 11ClientLobby protocol has been terminated.
[info ] STKHost: Listening has been stopped.

The server console displays than:
Mon Jan 27 17:37:42 2020 [verbose ] ServerLobby: Player refused: invalid player

[Benau]

well i don't understand why your freebsd is blocking loopback connection...

you can edit your server_lobby.cpp in server

    if (((encrypted_size == 0 || online_id == 0) &&
        !(peer->getAddress().isPublicAddressLocalhost() ||
        peer->getAddress().isLAN()) &&
        NetworkConfig::get()->isWAN() &&
        ServerConfig::m_validating_player) ||
        (ServerConfig::m_strict_players &&
        (player_count != 1 || online_id == 0 || duplicated_ranked_player)) ||
        (peer->isAIPeer() && !peer->getAddress().isLAN()) ||
        (peer->isAIPeer() &&
        ServerConfig::m_ai_handling && !m_ai_peer.expired()) ||
        (peer->isAIPeer() && m_game_setup->isGrandPrix()))

to

    if (((encrypted_size == 0 || online_id == 0) &&
        !(peer->getAddress().isPublicAddressLocalhost() ||
        peer->getAddress().isLAN()) &&
        NetworkConfig::get()->isWAN() &&
        ServerConfig::m_validating_player) ||
        (ServerConfig::m_strict_players &&
        (player_count != 1 || online_id == 0 || duplicated_ranked_player)) ||
        (peer->isAIPeer() &&
        ServerConfig::m_ai_handling && !m_ai_peer.expired()) ||
        (peer->isAIPeer() && m_game_setup->isGrandPrix()))

to allow ai connection from any address

[doitux]

Thx that works!