[Cs5500] Fwd: [Cs4800] Tips for running local tournaments

[Karl Lieberherr]

In the Avatar Designer Guide there should be a little section for Mac Users
describing all the issues that David found?

External users of SCGCourt will be in a similar position as David.

-- Karl

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Richards <dirich at ccs.neu.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs4800] Tips for running local tournaments
To: Dennis Zografos <dzog at ccs.neu.edu>
Cc: CS4800 Mailing List <cs4800 at lists.ccs.neu.edu>


I think I found my problem.

It's useful to note that it seems you need javacc in your path when you run
the server/avatars
as well as when you generate the templates.

-Dave

On Nov 3, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Dennis Zografos wrote:

> Yes.
>
> To totally rule out something with your avatar,
>
> what happens if you use two baby avatars instead?
>
>
> ----- "David Richards" <dirich at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Were you (or anyone else) able to actually run a tournament?  As soon
>> as my tournament started, I got a whole slew of
>> null pointer exceptions from both the server and clients in places
>> that didn't seem to touch my avatar code directly.
>>
>> -Dave Richards
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Dennis Zografos wrote:
>>
>>> Some tips for getting local SCG tournaments up and running, from my
>> experiences:
>>>
>>> * You might need to install a copy of javacc (in all major repos,
>> including MacPorts)
>>>
>>> * At the "Generate Java files using Demeterf" step, <outputfolder>
>> should be set to `/GenericSCG/gen'
>>>
>>> * The `PlayerMainHSR' class (as referenced in Step 3) does not
>> exist; use `PlayerMainBabyHSR' instead. (`PlayerMainBabyHSR' is no way
>> specific to the Baby avatar; this is just a naming thing)
>>>
>>> * This will be obvious to most, but, the documentation lists a
>> constant "8020" for your avatar port (note: this is a
>> listening/"server" socket, NOT a connect/"client" socket); if you are
>> running multiple avatars locally, you will have to assign different
>> ports to each of them
>>>
>>> --Dennis
>>>
>>>
>>> (note: information herein not authorized by course staff)
>>>
>>> (note2: I may conduct a tournament tonight if the official warm-up
>> fails to materialize; details perhaps forthcoming)
>>>
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