RLBotGUI

About

RLBotGUI is a streamlined user interface that helps you run custom Rocket League bots for offline entertainment. It relies on the RLBot project to work its magic: https://github.com/RLBot/RLBot

Works on Windows and partially works on Linux.

Useful program arguments for bot devs

• --debug: Tricks JavaScript into think that the GUI was compiled in debug mode (won't check for updates on launch)
• --console: (Windows only) will spawn a console window that will output all text, and will inherit console if available
• --no-pipe: Auto-enables --console, on Windows; Won't use the in-GUI console for RLBot-related things, but instead directly to a real console (work-around for some print flushing issues in Python & allowing for maximum print-spam)

Screenshots

You can download, update or create bots

In Story Mode, you can take over cities by beating challenges and can also recruit teammates and purchase upgrades for your car!

Features & fixes unique to the Rust port

Back-portable

• Add new bots into their proper place in the bot list instead of the end
• Deferred bundle logo loading and missing python package checking
• Better error messages when downloading or upgrading the botpack
• Letting the user close Rocket League in between matches without restarting the GUI
• Full self-updating of the GUI: Implemented for Windows and Ubuntu users & reserved spot on AUR
• Prints get dumped asynchronously to log.txt in content folder
• "Upload GUI log for help" button in Menu (top right) which uploads the log.txt file to HasteBin
• DotNet runtime detection for C# bots to display warning message
• The selected bot tab persists between launches

Unique to this version

• Launching of the GUI without Python
• Managing Python from within the GUI
• Running RLBot with a custom Python executable
• Easy Python pip fixing if something breaks; top right -> menu -> "Edit/Repair Python Settings"
• Real-time non-blocking subprocess stdout & stderr capture redirected to built-in GUI console for debugging purposes
• In-GUI completely isolated Python installation for Windows users
• Mini-console for quick & easy user status updates (installing packages, etc.)

User Installation

Windows

Download the installer from the latest release in this repo.

It will put "RLBotGUI" in your Windows start menu and desktop.

Debian-based Linux distros

1. Add the public GPG key of the ppa to your system: wget -O- https://virxec.github.io/rlbot_gui_rust_apt/apt-repo/pgp-key.public | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/rl-bot-gui.gpg
   • NOTE: You might not see the prompt, but you may need to enter in your sudo password.
   • Deprecated method: wget -O- https://virxec.github.io/rlbot_gui_rust_apt/apt-repo/pgp-key.public | sudo apt-key add -
2. Add the repository to your system: echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://virxec.github.io/rlbot_gui_rust_apt/apt-repo/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rl-bot-gui.list > /dev/null
   • Deprecated method: sudo add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64] https://virxec.github.io/rlbot_gui_rust_apt/apt-repo/ stable main'
3. Refresh app list: sudo apt update
4. Install the GUI: sudo apt install rl-bot-gui

Arch-based Linux distros

NOTE: If you wish to compile the GUI on your own system, replace rlbotgui-rust-bin with rlbotgui-rust-git!

Using yay: yay -S rlbotgui-rust-bin

Using paru: paru -S rlbotgui-rust-bin

Without using an AUR helper:

1. Setup: sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
2. Clone PKGBUILD: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rlbotgui-rust-bin.git
3. Navigate to the folder: cd rlbotgui-rust-bin
4. Install using PKGBUILD: makepkg -si

Other Linux distros (no easy updates)

We have a pre-compiled binary, icon, and .desktop for you! Get the linux-basics.tar.gz from here.

If you want to have a script that checks for updates, you could:

1. Download this JSON
2. Compare the tag_name from when you last download the binary to the current tag_name
3. Download the asset with the name linux-basics.tar.gz using browser_download_url
4. Unzip the .tar.gz and put the files in their proper places on your system

MacOS (no easy updates)

Warning: RLBot (not the GUI, the underlying RLBot project) is currently broken on MacOS.

You're going to have to compile the GUI yourself:

1. Follow the Tauri prerequisites guide.
2. A system with at least 8GB of RAM is required. 4GB will not work.
3. Clone this repository into your home directory: git clone https://github.com/VirxEC/rlbot_gui_rust.git
4. Navigate to the right folder: cd rlbot_gui_rust/src-tauri
5. Build the GUI: cargo build --release
6. The compiled binary is target/release/rl-bot-gui
7. To check for updates, run git fetch then git pull in the project directory - if there's updates re-run cargo build --release to compile the new binary.

Dev Environment Setup

Prerequisites

• 16gb of RAM (minimum 8gb required, might not be able to have other apps open while compiling)
• 64gb+ free space (assuming fresh Windows install with no build tools, Rocket League, git, IDE, etc)
• For non-Windows: SSD (debug binary is around 500mb on Linux)

Windows

1. Download the rustup tool
2. Run the exe, and Rust will be installed on your system. If you're prompted to Automatically install Visual Studio 2022 Community edition, you must type y. You should then be prompted to install the required C++ Build Tools and Windows SDK as seen here:

• To update the rustup tool, run rustup self update in your terminal
• To update Rust, run rustup update stable in your terminal

Other

Follow the Tauri prerequisites guide.

Setup

1. Clone this repository
2. Navigate to the src-tauri folder
3. Running via:
   • cargo run - the GUI will compile and launch.
   • cargo run --release - the GUI will compile with optimizations (like production) and launch.

Live Reload

• Install Tauri's CLI: cargo install tauri-cli --version "^1.0.0"
  • NOTE: This will download the CLI source and compile it. If you have yarn and don't wish to compile from source, you can:
  • In the project directory, run yarn add -D @tauri-apps/cli
  • And then replace cargo with yarn. The generated package.json and yarn.lock will be auto-ignored.
• Host the assets folder on localhost port 5500 - the Live Server extension for VS Code can do this:
  • Open the assets folder in a new VS Code window
  • In VS Code's settings.json, add the following:

    {
       "liveServer.settings.host": "localhost",
       "liveServer.settings.ignoreFiles": [
          "src-tauri/**",
          ".vscode/**",
       ]
    }

  • Run the Open with Live Server command
• In the src-tauri folder, run cargo tauri dev. The GUI will now:
  • Auto-reload when something changes in the assets folder
  • Auto-recompile when your code changes in the src-tauri/src folder
  • You should also now have two windows, one with the assets folder open for HTML/CSS/JS dev work and the other for Rust dev work

Building the GUI installer for users

Taken from the Tauri guide:

Note that for Linux, you should build on the oldest version of Ubuntu possible. Ubuntu 18.04 is recommended for the best compatibility.

Method 1: 100% compile from source

This will not only compile the GUI from source, but also the Tauri CLI. Once the CLI is compiled, you don't need to do it again.

1. Navigate to the src-tauri folder
2. Run cargo install tauri-cli --version "^1.0.0"
3. In the project directory, run cargo tauri build

Method 2: Do it quickly with yarn

This will download a pre-compiled version of the Tauri CLI.

1. Run yarn add -D @tauri-apps/cli
2. In the project directory, run yarn tauri build

How to update items in the appearance editor

1. Install and run BakkesMod
2. In Rocket League, press F6 to open the BakkesMod console, and enter the dumpitems command
3. Find the output items.csv in the folder where your RocketLeague.exe is, usually C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/rocketleague/Binaries/Win64
4. Replace assets/csv/items.csv with the new file
5. Change encoding of the new file to UTF-8. Here's how to do that in VS Code:
   • use the Change File Encoding command (or click the UTF-8 button in the bottom right)
   • select Reopen with Encoding, select the one with Guessed from content (probably Windows 1252)
   • now do that again, but Save with Encoding and UTF-8
6. Don't forget to bump the version number in src-tauri/Cargo.toml