ale-sys 0.1.2

Rust bindings to the Arcade Learning Environment
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/* *****************************************************************************
 * A.L.E (Arcade Learning Environment)
 * Copyright (c) 2009-2013 by Yavar Naddaf, Joel Veness, Marc G. Bellemare,
 *  Matthew Hausknecht, and the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence
 *  Laboratory
 * Released under the GNU General Public License; see License.txt for details.
 *
 * Based on: Stella  --  "An Atari 2600 VCS Emulator"
 * Copyright (c) 1995-2007 by Bradford W. Mott and the Stella team
 *
 * *****************************************************************************
 *  videoRecordingExample.cpp
 *
 *  An example on recording video with the ALE. This requires SDL.
 *  See manual for details.
 **************************************************************************** */

#include <iostream>
#include <ale_interface.hpp>
#include <cstdlib>

#ifndef __USE_SDL
#error Video recording example is disabled as it requires SDL. Recompile with -DUSE_SDL=ON.
#else

#include <SDL.h>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  if (argc < 2) {
    std::cout << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " rom_file" << std::endl;
    return 1;
  }

  ale::ALEInterface ale;

  // Get & Set the desired settings
  ale.setInt("random_seed", 123);

  // We enable both screen and sound, which we will need for recording.
  ale.setBool("display_screen", true);
  // You may leave sound disabled (by setting this flag to false) if so desired.
  ale.setBool("sound", true);

  std::string recordPath = "record";
  std::cout << std::endl;

  // Set record flags
  ale.setString("record_screen_dir", recordPath.c_str());
  ale.setString("record_sound_filename", (recordPath + "/sound.wav").c_str());
  // We set fragsize to 64 to ensure proper sound sync
  ale.setInt("fragsize", 64);

  // Not completely portable, but will work in most cases
  std::string cmd = "mkdir ";
  cmd += recordPath;
  system(cmd.c_str());

  // Load the ROM file. (Also resets the system for new settings to
  // take effect.)
  ale.loadROM(argv[1]);

  // Get the vector of legal actions
  ale::ActionVect legal_actions = ale.getLegalActionSet();

  // Play a single episode, which we record.
  while (!ale.game_over()) {
    ale::Action a = legal_actions[rand() % legal_actions.size()];
    // Apply the action (discard the resulting reward)
    ale.act(a);
  }

  std::cout << std::endl;
  std::cout << "Recording complete. To create a video, you may want to run \n"
               "  doc/scripts/videoRecordingExampleJoinXXX.sh. See manual for "
               "details.."
            << std::endl;

  return 0;
}
#endif  // __USE_SDL