How to Start Soccerserver

1.

Start sserver. sserver is shell script made by configure.

% sserver
Soccer Server Ver. 5.12
Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998  Electrotechnical Laboratory.
Itsuki Noda, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Hitoshi Matsubara.
wind factor: rand: 0.000000, vector: (0.000000, 0.000000)

A window of soccermonitor appears on CRT.

2.

When all clients are ready, click the kick-off button on a window of soccermonitor. If you have not yet programmed your own client, you can use the sample clients.

• using a sample included in the soccerserver software, you can get used to protocols between clients and the soccerserver:

  
  
  % cd sampleclient/
  % ls
  client*          client.c         client.h         client.o
  Makefile         Makefile.tmpl    Makefile.tmpl2
  tk325% client     <---  connect Server with default parameters -
  hocalhost 6000. You can change them as argument. 
  (init "Myteam")    <---  This program sends 'stdin' data to Server.
  send 6000 : (init "Myteam")
  recv 33097 : (init l 1 before_kick_off)
                     <---  display data received from Server.
                           It says Left side, Uniform Number = 1 & PlayMode.
  recv 33097 : (see 0 ((goal r) 66.7 33) ((flag r t) 55.7 3) 
  ((flag p r t) 42.5 23) ((flag p r c) 53.5 43))
          :          <---  Continuosly displaying the recieving data, 
                           you can key in (move 0 0), for example.
  recv 33097 : (see 0 ((goal r) 66.7 33) ((flag r t) 55.7 3) 
  ((flag p r t) 42.5 23) ((flag p r c) 53.5 43))
          :
                     <--- You can notice messages appears in left 
                          lower window of soccermonitor.
  

• The soccerserversite contains several sample clients. These programs have been contributed from RoboCuppers and have not been updated to the newest soccerserverversion. So, you need to check whether you are running the corresponding soccerserverversion. Changes file in distribution shows the history of soccerserver.