Advanced Melee Artifical Intelligence Mod For Warcraft 3
Created by AIAndy, Zalamander and the Strategy Master.
Official Release Links available from: https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/advanced-melee-ai.62879/
As was originally hosted on http://www.wc3campaigns.net/forumdisplay.php?f=601
| AMAI Version | War3 Support |
|---|---|
| 2.5.4 | Min 1.24+, 1.29+ basic support |
| 2.6.0 | Min 1.24+, 1.29+ enhanced support |
| 3.0 | Min 1.32+ |
AMAI release comes with the standard AI scripts pre-built for you.
It is suggested to create a subfolder in your "maps" folder like "maps\AMAI" and copy the maps you intend to use AMAI with there. For Warcraft 1.30 onwards you need to use http://www.zezula.net/en/casc/main.html to extract a copy of official maps.
Run InstallTFTtoMap from a commandline, to install AMAI to maps e.g InstallTFTToMap.bat "C:\mymap.w3m"
Advanced Melee AI is made to be used on 'melee' maps only so please don't try to use it on custom maps (e.g towerdefence), it will make no difference on such maps.
Note: If you want to use the old AMAI.exe to install AMAI to maps you must have run MPQEditor htsize "C:\mymap.w3m" 64 from a commandline to garuantee the AI will be installed correctly.
If you have perl installed you can use InstallTFTtoDir.pl "C:\Documents\Warcraft III\Maps\AMAI" to install AMAI to all maps in a directory and subdirectories.
After installing AMAI on your map just start Warcraft3: RoC or TFT and play the map against and/or with computers to make use of AMAI.
To build scripts from source code or to make custom changes you must install perl (via strawberry or activestate).
Additionally you need to install the Tk module if you want to run the Strategy Manager UI Client as described in the manual.
Activestate uses the package manager to install modules, while strawberry you need to use the CPAN client to install a module.
Tested with strawbery perl 5.30 and Tk 804.034
- Use makeTFT.bat to create the scripts for the AI.
- Run InstallTFTToMap.bat "C:\mymap.w3m" to install the AI scripts to Warcraft 3 maps.
- Run up a custom game and select the map to play.
- Use makeROC.bat to create the ROC scripts.
- Run InstallROCtoMap.bat "C:\mymap.w3m" to install the AI scripts to Warcraft 3 maps.
- This version is intended to be played in the ROC version of the game. This version is currently not supported in 1.32+.
- Use makeVAITFT.bat to create the AMAI vs AI scripts.
- Run InstallTFTToMap.bat "C:\mymap.w3m" to install the AI scripts to Warcraft 3 maps.
- This special version will make odd teams run with AMAI and even teams run with the standard blizzard AI.
- Personality Profiles: Each AI opponent has a set profile which modifies how it reacts or plays the game. Some can be real chickens and never dare to attack you while others will rush you down.
- Dynamic Strategies: Constantly monitors the current situation of the game and always try to pick the best suited strategy to counter the enemy forces.
- The computers will pick from all strategies depending on what kind of units the enemy has, how long the game has been going and what favorite units the current profile has.
- Enhanced Micromanagement Control
- To help keep as many units as possible alive by fleeing by town portal, zeppelin or foot.
- This includes better use of items and healing items.
- Makes the enemy force suffer as much as possible by focusing fire on the most vulnerable enemy units first if they are in range.
- Will buy neutral heroes and units.
- Can occasionally attempt tower rushes and militia/ancient expansions.
- Enhanced Team Play
- Coordinates with allies what it will be attacking or will join allies in attacking a target.
- Human players have access to the Commander, letting you give commands.
- Asks for aid if running out resources.
- Surrenders : Based on profiles some AI's will give up when it detects its losing, while others will fight to the death.
- Chat Support
- AMAI will taunt enemy players, and share its build strategy with team players.
- Includes Support for 10 different languages.
- Easy to use Strategy and Profile editor.
- Supports an unlimited amount of your own profiles.
- Supports an unlimited amount of your own strategies.
- Auto Building feature for example: a AMAI computer only needs to know that it shall build a hero and 15 footmen. It will automatically build all needed buildings, workers and farms in order to get this as fast as possible.
The Commander allows you to give orders to your ally AI's.
To disable the commander rename/delete the blizzard.j file within Scripts/ before running the install script.
You must disable the commander if you want to play on an older version of warcraft 3.
If you installed The Commander to the map there will be language selection dialogs to select a language. Another dialog may also appear with options
- No Commander
- With Commander - Press 'ESC' to bring up the commander menu.
- Computers Only - Same as commander except you dont play at all and instead can only issue orders to try and make your ally ai win
It's now possible to set a default language and gametype so the dialog will not appear when game starts, instead the setting you made will apply at once. To find the settings edit and search for "game_mode" in the Blizzard.j file located directly in the same folder as this readme file. You should directly end up viewing the two rows below.
string language = "" // Possible values: "" (dialog), "English", "Deutsch", "Swedish", "French", "Spanish", "Romanian"
string game_mode = "" // Possible values: "" (dialog), "commander", "no_human", "ai_only"
Now enter a setting you prefer in one or both of these rows, an example will follow.
If you make the first row look like this: string language = "English" // Possible values: "" (dialog), "English", "Deutsch", "Swedish", "French", "Spanish", "Romanian"
The language selection dialog will not show up again when the game starts, instead the specified language "English" will always be used by the computers. The game_mode setting works exactly the same way but that setting will only apply if you play a game where different game modes are available like if you got an allied computer in the game, else the normal melee game type will always be used.
AMAI is designed to work with melee maps.
If you make a custom map you need to make sure in the world editor it is also set to Latest Patch dataset and still using the melee AI. If you don't do this the AI will get stuck upgrading past tier 2 as it will use the vanilla patch.
To change the patch data set use the following menus from the world editor.
scenario - map properties - options - game data set - Change from Default (based on map melee status) to Latest Patch
If your custom map has custom units you will need to make custom changes to AMAI which can be followed in the Manual.
AMAI has built in support to be able to write new strategies and profiles using the Strategy Manager UI Client . The Manual folder contains more details.
- Hrothgaar
- WargH
- DK Slayer (For the Commander)
- English - Chad Nicholas,
- Swedish - Zalamander,
- German - AIAndy, Sagan,
- French - JUJU, WILL THE ALMIGHTY,
- Spanish - Vexorian, Moyack,
- Romanian - Andas_007,
- Chinese - Dr Fan,
- Russian - RaZ and Darkloke,
- Portuguese - imba curisco ghouleh,
- Norwegian - Aray
- Hrothgaar,
- WargH,
- ster,
- Tommi,
- xWOLF,
- Feannor,
- Jum-Jum,
- and anyone else missing a mention here.
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