AI TAR archive?

[jogi]

Hello there

I'm just starting out with writing my own AI. Thanks to the wiki, I was able to get the TestAI running in one of my games. However, it took me a bit of trying, before I figured out how exactly it's done. It only worked, after I put the files in a tar archive (just putting the source-folder into the ai folder did not work). My question is: Is this always necessary, or is there an option to change that, since its not mentioned in the article? (I also read substatial parts of the AI-Developer section of the wiki, without finding anything about it)

If the TAR-file is actually required, should I perhaps write an addition to the wiki-article?

Some Backgroundinfo:
I'm using version 1.2.3 from the ubuntu-repositories, and I want to include the AI from the

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~/.openttd/ai/

folder.

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~/.openttd/content_download/ai/

works the same way (TAR required, even when mentioned in the wiki)

[Zuu]

Do you have something like this as the path to info.nut of your AI? (the name of the "test-ai" directory is not critical, but if you don't have a directory there for each AI, I'm unsure if it will work)

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~/.openttd/ai/test-ai/info.nut

Edit: If the comment above doesn't solve your problem, you could try with OpenTTD 1.3 to see if that works better. It is two years newer and if you are affected by a bug, it might have got fixed.

[jogi]

Yes, on my latest try, it was:

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~/.openttd/ai/TestAI/Info.nut

If I open a game, and issue the listai-command, I don't see my AI, but if I run

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tar -cf testai.tar TestAI

the AI shows up, independent of the version (1.2.3 or 1.3.0 from your Link)

Basically, I know how to get the AI running, but I'm just curious, should the ai also be recognized, if it is not in the tar archive?

[Brumi]

The game should be able to see your AI even if it is untarred.

Could you please post your files here so that we can have a look?

[jogi]

These are the files, which I put into

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~/.openttd/ai/TestAI/Info.nut

(They're Basically just the TestAI from the wiki with some names changed)

[Zuu]

I think that info.nut and main.nut should have lower case names.

[jogi]

Yep, that's it. Thank you for the advice.

I got the names from this wikipage, where they were capitalized: http://wiki.openttd.org/AI:TestAI

(I changed them already)