# RealTimeBattle User Manual, version 1.0.8

## Erik Ouchterlony and Ragnar Ouchterlony, Johannes Nicolai ( jonico@users.sourceforge.net)

4 October 2005

## 1. Introduction

- 1.1 More information
- 1.2 Requirements
- 1.3 Background
- 1.4 License
- 1.5 Bug reports

## 2. Usage

- 2.1 Command line options
- 2.2 Control window
- 2.3 Start new tournament window
- 2.4 Robots and arena directories
- 2.5 Arena window
- 2.6 Score window
- 2.7 Message window
- 2.8 Options window
- 2.9 Statistics window
- 2.10 Running without graphics
- 2.11 Tournament files
- 2.12 Log files
- 2.13 Replaying
- 2.14 Statistics files

## 3. Structure

- 3.1 Robot motion
- 3.2 Energy
- 3.3 The radar
- 3.4 The robots position
- 3.5 Shooting
- 3.6 Collisions
- 3.7 Cookies and Mines
- 3.8 Time
- 3.9 A game
- 3.10 A sequence
- 3.11 A tournament

## 4. Robot construction

- 4.1 Reading messages
- 4.2 Messagetypes.h
- 4.3 Cheating
- 4.4 Messages to robots
- 4.5 Messages from robots

## 5. Options

- 5.1 Environmental options
- 5.2 Robot options
- 5.3 Shot options
- 5.4 Extras options
- 5.5 Time options
- 5.6 Window sizes
- 5.7 Miscellaneous options

## 6. Arena construction

- 6.1 Arena commands