keithenneu / dota2comm

Commuication between Lua and any outside program

Dota2Comm

This is some code I wrote to allow for communication between the Dota2 Bot Lua Api/Sandbox, and just about every outside program you could imagine.

Modules

• dota2MemComm: A backend reading and writing into Dota's memory.
• dota2FileComm: A backend for getting data into the Lua VM using lua files. No way out.
• interactiveConsole: A usecase demonstration which allows the execution of any Lua code from a bot's context

Backends

X	MemoryComm	FileComm
Speed	quite fast	rather slow (3-4ms for reading)
To Lua	1023byte per message (adjustable)	infinite
From Lua	infinite	not possible. Prints to Dota2 console.
Platform	currently implemented for windows	all
Language	all (which can handle dlls; python module included)	all (currently implemented in python)
shady	a little :D	definitely not.

Contact

If you

• find any bugs
• want to know something
• have a suggestion
• Anything else

just let me know. Open an issue, write a pm, or whatever you want.

Contributors

Huge thanks to lenLRX for adding support for multiple bots and fixing a lot of stuff.

dota2comm's Issues

a mistake?

dota2comm/dota2MemComm/dota2comm.cpp line 167
there is an "and" in the code

Use case

I recently saw your project. It's some great stuff. But I don't know where to use this :) I mean I know what your project is. It can "control" bots in real time from outside the dota client. And I'm so confused :) I want to use this interesting project but can find use cases :) Its strange. Can you write some use cases ?

not working on python3 64 bits?

I am testing interactiveConsole on win10 64bit python3.5.2-64bit and on Dota2-64bits.

I compiled the code on vs2015 and x64 config, and it fails
then i compiled with win32 config and it works

Support for OSX

Any plans on porting this to OSX? Or has this been tested on it? This is a really solid project btw. Cheers!

Real player and node client

Sorry but I have one more question. I can find answers by myself but it will take lot of time.

1. Can this "project" control/communicate with real player in normal match ? or only bots in local lobby.
2. There is few projects like this https://github.com/Arcana/node-dota2. That can "emulate" dota client. (work with GC messages). Can your project (with some rewriting maybe) somehow work with emulated client in Node environment or it needed full normal client ?