It's been half a year since we released! There was a ton of work since the last release:

Major Changes

• Much better python support, it's a first class citizen at this point (#161, #215)
• Use Frame diffs in network code, 3x speed up in communication (#167, #169, #173, etc...)
• Non blocking mode in BWEnv, so your commands will always get through within the tournament time limit (#211)
• Network code now use binary serialization for another big speedup (#226, #227, #229)

Minor Changes

• Creep is properly supported (#166, #185)
• IPv6 and automatic port selection (#172)
• Lots of bugfixes (#175, #178, #179, #180, #186, #193, #197, #203, #204, #223, #243, ...)

Give it a try!

Major release

This a major release of TorchCraft.

Major Changes

• Adds text drawing commands (#94)
• Adds status flags for units (#95, #96, #98)
• Separates map into a walkability map, buildability map, and ground height map (#102, #109 )
• Adds ZSTD compression support to replays (#103, #130, #131, #146 )
• Python support has been tested, and is now in Beta.

Minor Changes

• Adds Start Locations to server side handshake (#92)
• Cleaned up dependencies for lua (#99)
• Adds last command of unit (#100)
• Replayer push now does a copy of the frame (#112)
• BWAPI errors are now reported directly to TorchCraft (#110)
• Secondary orders (such as training of units) are supported (#115)
• Adds copy and move support for Frame and State objects (#142)
• More checks for a faulty replay (#147)
• Supports IPv6 on non-Windows systems (#155)

Bugfixes

• Game maps now save properly. Before now, there was a transposition that was scrambling the map data (#105)
• Several Python objects had memory management issues (#123, #140, #141, #145 )
• TorchCraft works properly with multithreading (#135)

• Fixed a couple of bugs wrt the way we handle the map data
• Enhanched visibility data
• New namespace for basic replayer types
• Added ability to save replays with a different keyframe straight from lua
• Buildability data and enhanced unit visibility info
• Unit type data can now be looked up with `BW::UnitType
• Added a lifted attribute to Unit
• Exposed poll method in the C++ client

Minor release:

• no more compilation errors in BWEnv
• fixed frame diff bug when all neutrals die
• enabled IPv6 connections
• added BWAPI_DIR instruction for building on windows
• fixed invalid use of pcall causing TorchCraft to crash
• added custom_launcher option in config.
• Added config and maps in release zip.

Release Notes

• Docker image no longer requires a separate vncserver
• Most client code is now in C++, for better performance
• Use flatbuffers for server-client communication
• Removed dependence on lzmq
• Added possibility to specify timeouts for TorchCraft client
• Replays now 4x smaller by only storing frame diffs
• Added drawing commands to TorchCraft

... And many other small bugfixes!

Release Notes

• Added some more visual layers.
• Added produces table into API.
• Other minor fixes.

Install

• download and unzip torchcraft-v1.0-0.zip
• copy all the content of bin/ into your StarCraft folder
• copy either:
  • the BWEnv DLL to where you point ChaosLauncher (or your DLL injector)
  • the BWEnv EXE into your StarCraft folder

Notes

• Compiled against BWAPI 4.1.2.
• Supports all functionalities up to initial release.

What works perfectly

• Micro maps
• Unit movement and attack

What's been tested but not incredibly extensively but should work

• Buildings, spells
• Full games
• Self play
• Everything on WINE
• Sending images over

What might be a little buggy occasionally

• Torchcraft on Docker