commandcenter | StarCraft AI bot that can play both StarCraft : Broodwar | Artificial Intelligence library

StarCraft BW: You must have StarCraft: Broodwar version 1.16.1 installed, as well as BWAPI. StarCraft 2: You must have an up-to-date retail version of StarCraft II installed to run the bot. You must also download and install some maps to use with the bot, which you can find here: https://github.com/Blizzard/s2client-proto#downloads. Please note that there is a password provided on that page to extract the maps from the zip files. The bot comes with a configuration file named BotConfig.txt in which you can modify build orders, print various debug information to the screen, and set some bot parameters. You can define multiple builds orders in the 'Strategies' section of the file, and choose which named strategy to implement when the bot plays a specific race. Unit names in the build-order are case sensitive, and must be exactly how they appear in-game with no spaces. Some of the options in the configuration file are currently not implemented, such as the KiteWithRangedUnits option. Please note that this config file is in JSON format, and the bot will not run unless it is well-formatted JSON. The configuration file must be in the same directory as CommandCenter.exe in order for the bot to run correctly. If you have made an error in the JSON syntax and can't find it on your own, you can use an online JSON Validator to check for you. By default when you run CommandCenter.exe, it will play as Random race vs. a Random race built-in SC2 Easy AI. You can modify which races are played in the configuration file via the "BotRace" and "EnemyRace" options. You can also modify which map to be played by specifying the "MapFile" option. Please note that the MapFile option is relative to your StarCraft II maps directory, which by default is located in your StarCraft_Install_Directory/maps/, and the bot will not run without specifying a valid map file. If the bot crashes or does other nasty things, please bear with me while I make it more stable :).
Download and install Visual Studio 2017
To play BW, you must download and install StarCraft BW v1.16.1 as well as BWAPI
To play SC2, you must download and install the StarCraft II AI API. The easiest way to do this is to download the Precompiled Libraries at the bottom of the page, and simply extract them to a folder on your PC. If you are getting the SC2API via cloning the Blizzard github repo and compiling it from scratch, you may need to point VS to different directories for include and lib than the ones described below.
Clone this git repository to a folder on your PC
Open "CommandCenter/vs/CommandCenter.sln" in VS2017
If you compile the CommandCenter project with the x64 Platform, it will compile the SC2 bot
If you compile the CommandCenter project with the x86 or Win32 Platform, it will compile the BW bot
Set the VS Project include and lib folders to point to the directories Right click the CommandCenter project in VS2017 Select "Properties" Select the correct configuration that you want to build in the top left ("Release" or "Debug") Select the target platform you want to build (x64 = SC2, Win32 = BW) Select "VC++ Directories" on the left Select the "Include Directories" option in the table on the right Click the dropdown arrow on the right and click Edit... Modify the existing directory entry to point to your (SC2API|BWAPI)/include directory Select the "Library Directories" option in the table on the right Click the dropdown arrow on the right and click Edit... Modify the existing directory entry to point to your (SC2API|BWAPI)/lib directory
From the "Build" menu, click "Build Solution"
The binary "CommandCenter_API.exe" should appear in the CommandCenter/bin/ directory
Run the CommandCenter bot by either: Double clicking the executable in the CommandCenter/bin/ directory Running the program from the console Click "Local Windows Debugger" in VS to launch the program from within VS. To do this, you need to set the "Working Directory" option under "Debugging" to "$(ProjectDir)/../bin/" (I don't know why this option won't save)
If you are running the BW version of the bot, you must then start BW via Chaoslauncher with BWAPI injected
The CommandCenter/bin/BotConfig.txt file must be in the same directory as the .exe to run properly
With these steps you should be able to build and install the SC2 API and include it into CommandCenter. It has been tested successfully for aba2d3813571c344090f3de5b58a5c912cd5acb3, so if the install instructions below don't work checkout that version of the SC2 API. and repeat the instructions.
Build SC2 API project
Install the SC2 API libraries and headers to your system
Build the bot