Index

1. Programming Proverbs

• 6. ‘‘Use procedures (methods or functions).''
• Henry F. Ledgard, ‘‘Programming Proverbs: Principles of Good Programming with Numerous Examples to Improve Programming Style and Proficiency'', (Hayden Computer Programming Series), Hayden Book Company, 1st edition, ISBN-13: 978-0810455221, December 1975.

2. Overview of dhewm3 code

• lines of code for the id engines

  

• the 0 lines of code for the doom3 is due because doom3 includes them in game
• dhewm3 is about 681075 total lines of code
  • however this includes many tools and libraries
• actual engine is closer to 137905 lines of code
• abstraction and polymorphic code employed
• all assets are stored in human readable text form
  • this works well on our fast machines now, this design also guides our python bot library
• templates are used in low level utility classes (mainly idlib) but are never seen in the upper levels
  • no STL used
• well commented code base
  

3. Overview of dhewm3 and Python Bot code

4. Python Bot Overview

• note, the bot code is only partially complete
• layered approach
• top layer, botlib will ultimately be the interface to user level bots ( python_doom_marine_1.py )
• will contain both access to basic movement and access to navigation mechanisms
• maintains the transform between the doom3 map and penguin tower map

5. botaa

• contains area awareness code for the python bot
• parses the equivalent pen map and creates internal simple 2D map of the world in Python
• implements Dijkstra's algorithm for routing to pickups and player/monsters

6. botcache

• provides the same interface as
  • botbasic but it caches all results
  • which allows the higher layers ( botaa ) the ability to query the bot without having to worry about the overhead of the remote procedure call
• it also contains a method
  • reset which deletes the cache, forcing all future requests to be sent over to the dhewm3 engine to retrieve up to date values

7. botbasic

• provides socket connection to the dhewm3 engine
• it also implements the underlying remote procedure call mechanism
• generally maps onto basic commands
  • such as: move, fire, reload, turn, aim, etc

8. Homework: read how Remote procedure calls work

• you need to understand the concept of remote procedure call argument marshalling
  • make sure you have read Tanenbaum's description of how RPC's operate
  • and how marshalling is employed and why it is necessary
• Andrew Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, Prentice-Hall International
  • sections 10.3, 10.3.1, 10.3.2

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