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Hands-On Reinforcement Learning with Python
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Hands-On Reinforcement Learning with Python

by Sudharsan Ravichandiran
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
318 pages
9h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Hands-On Reinforcement Learning with Python

Basic Doom game

Before diving in, let us familiarize ourselves with a vizdoom environment by seeing a basic example:

  1. Let's load the necessary libraries:
from vizdoom import *import randomimport time
  1. Create an instance to the DoomGame:
game = DoomGame() 
  1. As we know ViZDoom provides a lot of Doom scenarios, let us load the basic scenario:
game.load_config("basic.cfg")
  1. The init() method initializes the game with the scenario:
game.init()
  1. Now, let's define the one with hot encoded actions:
shoot = [0, 0, 1]left = [1, 0, 0]right = [0, 1, 0]actions = [shoot, left, right]
  1. Now, let us start playing the game:
no_of_episodes = 10for i in range(no_of_episodes):         # for each episode start the game    game.new_episode()     # loop until the episode ...
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ISBN: 9781788836524