Is there a method to pause the game? about dotaservice HOT 19 CLOSED

Yeah reset is in the order of seconds. 50 seconds would be a lot. By 'pause' I am assuming you preload games, and no you cannot do that because only one host can run one dota game at a time. So you need to run in VM's which is exactly what dotaservice does: you put it in a docker container.

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Yeah reset is in the order of seconds. 50 seconds would be a lot. By 'pause' I am assuming you preload games, and no you cannot do that because only one host can run one dota game at a time. So you need to run in VM's which is exactly what dotaservice does: you put it in a docker container.

of cause cache with dota2 in docker containers

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dotaservice bonanza at my place, these are all containers running dota:

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that is not exactly what i need.
when the container is created, dota2 is not started until we call reset().
once we call the reset() we have to consume the events asap otherwise the game goes to the end.

my scenario is that: i have N core on a host, and 1 container each core.
I want to prepare N inited dota game, so that i can start next batch in 1 sec.

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OK! Yes that sounds like a fair optimisation. The only way to do that must be calling reset into dota's stdin (its console) and somehow restart the game with all the settings exactly. I think that's going to be tricky and error-prone, and will probably hard to get stable.

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found dota_pause for console cmd

] dota_pause CDOTAGamerules:Pause = true PlayerId=0 fUnpauseDelay=3.00 fPauseDelay=0.00 --- CSODOTALobby.game_state: DOTA_GAMERULES_STATE_PRE_GAME +++ CSODOTALobby.game_state: DOTA_GAMERULES_STATE_GAME_IN_PROGRESS ] dota_pause CDOTAGamerules:Pause = false PlayerId=0 fUnpauseDelay=0.00 fPauseDelay=3.00

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dota_pause twice for unpause

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@TimZaman I found that the increment of world_state.dota_time is constant.
If i reset the game and sleep for long time, it seems that the dota_time is unchanged, so the dota seems synchronize with dotaservice. if thats true, we dont need pause at all.
Is that ture? how dotaservice sync with dota game?

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There is a lua function that gives pause.
DebugPause() <-- that's it. no need to use console to do it necessarily.

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There exist a bunch of functions that are not mentioned in any API. DebugPause() was introduced early in API development by Chris C. per my request when there were ways to crash the game via bot commands and we needed better ways to debug the situation when invalid targets and dangling unit handles existed.

I believe it is the equivalent of pressing F9 in game.

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No arguments.

It doesn't wait within lua. It does return. The protobufs continue to come every X frames and the main LUA thread that controls the bots keeps iterating every frame but never enters the individual bot's Think() function. The dotaTime and the gameTime stay the same, realTime continues to increment.

This is all based from my recollection of about 2 years ago, best to just test it.

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Here is when it was added:
https://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=277988&highlight=DebugPause

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The increment isn't contant. See my notes in NOTES.md. Dotaserivce indeed syncs with the dota game of "pauses" if you want to call it that ('blocked' is the better term). See code.
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:11 AM 李睿昕 @.***> wrote: @TimZaman https://github.com/TimZaman I found that the increment of world_state.dota_time is constant. If i reset the game and sleep for long time, it seems that the dota_time is unchanged, so the dota seems synchronize with dotaservice. if thats true, we dont need pause at all. Is that ture? how dotaservice sync with dota game? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#13 (comment)>, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHXSRHvVO9Zb95abpL9aDDt3_lgtyjTgks5u5Ul4gaJpZM4ZUp1y .

but consider the following code , why the increment is constant 1/3 sec?

import asyncio
import time
from grpclib.client import Channel

from dotaservice.protos.DotaService_grpc import DotaServiceStub
from dotaservice.protos.dota_gcmessages_common_bot_script_pb2 import CMsgBotWorldState
from dotaservice.protos.DotaService_pb2 import Action
from dotaservice.protos.DotaService_pb2 import Empty
from dotaservice.protos.DotaService_pb2 import Config
from dotaservice.protos.DotaService_pb2 import HostMode
from dotaservice.protos.dota_gcmessages_common_bot_script_pb2 import CMsgBotWorldState

async def main():
remote_host = '127.0.0.1'
config = Config(
ticks_per_observation=10,
host_timescale=10,
host_mode=HostMode.Value('DEDICATED'),
)
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
channel = Channel(remote_host, 13337, loop=loop)
env = DotaServiceStub(channel)
state = await asyncio.wait_for(env.reset(config), timeout=60)
time.sleep(10)
action_pb = CMsgBotWorldState.Action()
action_pb.actionType = CMsgBotWorldState.Action.Type.Value(
'DOTA_UNIT_ORDER_NONE')

for i in range(5):
    await asyncio.sleep(i)
    state = await asyncio.wait_for(env.step(Action(action=action_pb)), timeout=60)
    world_state = state.world_state
    print(world_state.dota_time, world_state.game_time)
channel.close()

asyncio.run(main())

the output is
-89.5666732788086 31.5665283203125
-89.23334503173828 31.899856567382812
-88.90001678466797 32.233184814453125
-88.56668853759766 32.56651306152344
-88.23336029052734 32.89984130859375

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Floating point math isnt constant so the reported game time isnt perfect.
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2018, 21:40 李睿昕 @.*** wrote: The increment isn't contant. See my notes in NOTES.md. Dotaserivce indeed syncs with the dota game of "pauses" if you want to call it that ('blocked' is the better term). See code. … <#m_-8209969957807654932_> On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:11 AM 李睿昕 @.***> wrote: @TimZaman https://github.com/TimZaman https://github.com/TimZaman I found that the increment of world_state.dota_time is constant. If i reset the game and sleep for long time, it seems that the dota_time is unchanged, so the dota seems synchronize with dotaservice. if thats true, we dont need pause at all. Is that ture? how dotaservice sync with dota game? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#13 (comment) <#13 (comment)>>, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHXSRHvVO9Zb95abpL9aDDt3_lgtyjTgks5u5Ul4gaJpZM4ZUp1y . but consider the following code , why the increment is constant 1/3 sec? import asyncio import time from grpclib.client import Channel from dotaservice.protos.DotaService_grpc import DotaServiceStub from dotaservice.protos.dota_gcmessages_common_bot_script_pb2 import CMsgBotWorldState from dotaservice.protos.DotaService_pb2 import Action from dotaservice.protos.DotaService_pb2 import Empty from dotaservice.protos.DotaService_pb2 import Config from dotaservice.protos.DotaService_pb2 import HostMode from dotaservice.protos.dota_gcmessages_common_bot_script_pb2 import CMsgBotWorldState async def main(): remote_host = '127.0.0.1' config = Config( ticks_per_observation=10, host_timescale=10, host_mode=HostMode.Value('DEDICATED'), ) loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() channel = Channel(remote_host, 13337, loop=loop) env = DotaServiceStub(channel) state = await asyncio.wait_for(env.reset(config), timeout=60) time.sleep(10) action_pb = CMsgBotWorldState.Action() action_pb.actionType = CMsgBotWorldState.Action.Type.Value( 'DOTA_UNIT_ORDER_NONE') for i in range(5): await asyncio.sleep(i) state = await asyncio.wait_for(env.step(Action(action=action_pb)), timeout=60) world_state = state.world_state print(world_state.dota_time, world_state.game_time) channel.close() asyncio.run(main()) the output is -89.5666732788086 31.5665283203125 -89.23334503173828 31.899856567382812 -88.90001678466797 32.233184814453125 -88.56668853759766 32.56651306152344 -88.23336029052734 32.89984130859375 — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#13 (comment)>, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHXSRNTaYMfJ_9tMHujjXxqycieiax5Uks5u5dy8gaJpZM4ZUp1y .

I am not focus on if it is perfectly constant.
I found that no mater how much time i sleep before calling first step().
the dota time is always -89.5666732788086.
so i don't need a 'pause' at all?

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it is hard to pause the game. but i think my problem solved. now the start time is about 9s.
i found that i must call DotaServiceStub.clear before reset.

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