We are investigating what went wrong with your uploads. Will get back to you with what happened, but they will most likely go into a failed to upload state.
Ok when would I be able to reupload
Uploaded my bot again, please confirm the previous bots wonât overwrite my latest upload.
The broken uploads should reflect as broken when we deploy the website again.
You can assume that if your upload is higher up in the player portal that it is considered to override all lower down uploads.
Hi Guys,
I am struggling to get a Java bot to build. I have tried a few things but still cannot get it working. With the last attempt I am getting an error that the âBot file not foundâ. This happened even though I did include the bot.json in the root directory of the zip file. Do you perhaps have a sample structure we can use for the zip files of the Java source? Or can you perhaps see what I am doing wrong please?
Iâm struggling to upload my c++ bot. It is in the pending verification state for the last 12 hours. When downloading the logs it says {âMessageâ:âCannot find the file for this userâ}. Any ideas?
Hey @Leon,
Weâre currently trying to find out what is happening to your bot.
Something strange is happening where it isnât uploading correctly to our storage, Iâm going to clear your current submissions, so can you please try to upload again and Iâm going to find out where the upload is going wrong.
Also what browser are you using to upload the bot?
Hey @Voltan ,
The BotLocation property in your bot.json needs to point to the location where your executable will be after having been built.
In your case it should be â/targetâ
Please have a look if that solves your problem.
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Thanks. Iâm using Firefox 67.0 on Ubuntu 18.04. The upload failed again. I tried with Chrome 74.0.3729.169 and the everything succeeded.
Ok cool, thanks, weâll try and fix Firefox uploads ASAP, but for the interim use Chrome then.
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Something weird when uploading a Python bot: if you set the botLanguage to âpythonâ in the bot.json file, the server doesnât accept the upload, with the error message âInvalid bot language was specified. Refer to game engine documentation for all currently supported languages.â But âpythonâ is what is used in the sample bot, and what works with the game runner.
On a hunch, I changed it to âpython3â - now the server accepts it, and plays a game fine, but the game runner (locally) isnât able to run it as it canât find the language.
Not sure whatâs going on here but it would be nice not to have to change the bot.json file between uploading and playing locally.
(Also, it failed without requirements.txt, which I excluded because I didnât have any requirements! But worked fine once I uploaded a blank one.)
Worked fine in Firefox though.
Hi @Malman
Yeah, that is an alignment issue on our side. It is supposed to be python3 throughout, but the old value still lingers from last year. We are going through everything now to make sure it all says python3.
We will look into the requirements.txt issue, but Iâm glad you have found the workaround with the empty file that works.
It could be that it is Firefox on Linux specifically.
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Thanks, that makes sense.
Might even be worth just treating Python 3 as the only real Python and calling it âpythonâ. Anyone still using Python 2 really should migrate: it is six months to EOL: https://pythonclock.org/
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The bot I uploaded has âpythonâ, should I leave it as that or re-upload a submission with âpython3â?
Hi @marcin_k
To be safe rather upload one with python3. Weâll make sure that this is corrected ASAP after Early Bird
A bit concerning that Iâm the first one to mention it, the day before the deadline - especially when Python was the most popular language last year, so presumably there are lots of Python bots again. I hope there arenât a whole lot of bots submitted that wonât be able to run in the tournament because they say âpythonâ!
Itâs also a bit weird that âpython3â works for playing games on the server but not on the local game engine - hope it works for the tournament too, now that people are submitting with âpython3â.
Sorry for the confusion, it is something we should have picked up sooner.
Although, this is a mere config mismatch. The python and python3 languages are the same in execution, just not in name. To reassure the contestants that their bots run on our server configurations we implemented the reference matches. If you upload your bot with python3 and the reference match runs correctly, your bot will run just fine in the tournament.
If you however see anything wrong with the reference match when you upload it with the language python3, please donât hesitate to let us know so we can fix it.
I just was thinking about @marcin_k who uploaded a bot with âpythonâ and apparently didnât notice the failure at the build stage, so came to ask here, and wondering how many others might be in a similar position - expecting everything to work because it ran locally.
The reference match ran as expected with âpython3â.
Hi guys!
Would it be possible to add more info to the build logs if your build fails? Trying to upload my c++ bot atm and all I have is âerror code 2â to go onâŚ
I mean I saw the build failed. Just wanted to check if all the âpythonâ bots would be retroactively fixed and rebuilt or if I should upload a âpython3â one