RLHostBot

A python based discord bot that in tandom with rocket league and some mods will allow on demand hosting for your copy of the game on a machine.

not at all a short title lol

The idea is that you have another computer or server with a copy of rocket league, bakkes and some plugins installed, and then this bot running with your discord token and information. This copy of the game will host matches for you instead of needing to it on your copy.

Installation

Files

config.env

You'll need to configure an env file and an example is provided:

BOT_ID=this is the id of the bot
MY_ID=this is the id of the owner (basically going to serve as an admin)
DISCORD_TOKEN=secret token provided form discord
BAKKES_SERVER=ws://127.0.0.1:9002 (ws[WebSocket]://IP:port, the provided is default)
RCON_PASSWORD=password (rcon password, again this is default)
RL_PATH="C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/rocketleague"(path to RL; provided is an example)
CUSTOM_PATH=(path to custom maps)
GAME_PASSWORD=(this is predefined at the moment)

Note: GAME_PASSWORD is the password to join the game this is defined by you based on the game settings and isn't working via plugins at the moment. To set up a password, start a local lan match with a password, and that will save it. Ideally this will be removed and can be auto-generated per match or defined by discord commands but for now this is the best we go.

If you wish to change the rcon password, you can change this with bakkesconsole: rcon_password "new password"

rcon_commands.cfg

I've attached what commands I recommend whitelisting however you can do what you want. The provided file is under sample_files You will at the least need to add:

hcp
rp
rp_custom_path

Plugins

You will need to install the 2 provided plugins for now as well. You will need to manually install RLHBotCompanion.dll and moddedRP.dll located in the plugins folder I provided. To do this put it in your ...bakkesmod/plugins folder. Eventually Rocket Plugin will support hosting from command but until this all that we have is a quick mod I wrote up. The other plugin I might plublish sooner or later but it is also needed to get status updates on the game. If you don't have cpp installed you will likely need this too: https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

Python

To install all the necessary packages run: pip install -r requirements.txt

If you wish to run the map_info.json scraper install all the necessary packages there too: pip install -r scraper_reqs.txt

Note: if you are using a virtual python env like conda (such as I am using), you may need to install some of these packages via anaconda:

conda install -c anaconda pywin32
conda install -c conda-forge selenium
conda install -c anaconda beautifulsoup4
etc...

python 3.9 doesn't appear to be compatible so get 3.7 or 3.8

Running the bot

Assuming everything is configured and ready to go:

You should be able to run python main.py or python bot.py for now. I plan on having a terminal like back door but until then, you can run in debug mode to change the values on the fly if needed.

There is a provided scraper for map information gathering as it'll will occasionally be needed to add maps and what not but is not necessary if you plan on adding a limited number of maps. These files, including a chrome driver for version 89 is included in scraper_stuff

map_info.json and your maps directory should be in sync. Without them it'll just list path/file. Map files are assumed all .udk files

Naoki95957/RLHostBot