shroudstone

Shroudstone is principally a tool to automatically rename replays of your Stormgate ladder games.

Say goodbye to

  CL44420-2024.02.03-08.28.SGReplay

and say hello to

  2024-02-03 08.28 L 03m03s Pox IvI Veni Vidi Vici - Broken Crown.SGReplay

Shroudstone also acts as a general Python/CLI toolkit for working with Stormgate replays - right now it's probably not useful for much else, but hopefully it will grow over time :)

Caveats

Shroudstone works by decoding the contents of replay files, which contain little more than the raw actions of each player. This means some of the information that is used is technically a guess, and might not be 100% accurate:

• 1v1 match results are determined by who leaves the game first. In most ladder games this is the loser "gging out"; but if you e.g. win by destroying all your opponent's buildings and then leave the game before your opponent, Shroudstone will incorrectly mark your game as a loss.
• Likewise, game durations are determined by the time at which the first player leaves the game - this can also be incorrect in the case of a win by elimination or in non-1v1 games.

Previously, Shroudstone used data obtained from the Stormgate World API to fill these gaps (in the case of 1v1 ladder games). Unfortunately, Frost Giant are no longer providing access to this data to the community, so this will no longer be possible going forward. See Stormgate World's post on the matter for more information. Thanks to the Stormgate World team (and contributors) for their great work, it was cool even if short-lived.

Installation & Usage

On Windows: .exe download

Simply download the latest standalone executable and double-click it to launch the user interface. (The first time you do, you'll probably get a Windows Defender SmartScreen popup - you did just download some random program from the internet, after all! If you trust me, click "More Info" and then "Run Anyway".)

Assuming you have a normal Stormgate install with a single account, everything should be autodetected and you'll be faced with the main user interface:

Just click "Rename My Replays Now" to run the renaming process on your existing replays.

If you enable the checkbox "Automatically rename new replays" and leave Shroudstone open in the background while you play, then the process will run every 30 seconds, renaming new replays as they are created.

On Windows: Using pip

1. Install Python 3.11 using the Microsoft Store or the official installer. If using the official installer, make sure to check the "add python.exe to PATH" option.
2. Open Command Prompt and type pip install shroudstone to install shroudstone.
3. You can now invoke python -m shroudstone gui from the command line to launch the user interface, or python -m shroudstone --help for usage instructions for the command-line interface.

If you're already a WSL user, you should also be able to pip install shroudstone inside your WSL session and have at least the CLI work.

On Linux: using pip

If you're running Stormgate on Linux+Steam+Proton, this should also work for you!

1. Ensure python 3.8+ and pip are installed using your system package manager. (e.g. on Ubuntu, run sudo apt install python3-pip.)
2. Run pip install shroudstone in a terminal.
3. Launch the GUI with shroudstone gui, or check out shroudstone --help if you want to use the CLI.

Updating

Regardless of your operating system, if you installed using pip install shroudstone originally, you can update to the newest version with a simple pip install --upgrade shroudstone.

If you downloaded the .exe, just download a new one to replace it!

Notes

• Stormgate names your replays using your local time. After renaming, the times will be in the UTC timezone, as on the Stormgate World leaderboard.
• Your settings are saved in %LOCALAPPDATA%/shroudstone/config.json on Windows or ~/.local/share/shroudstone/config.json on Linux/WSL. Note that if you're using Python from the Microsoft Store, this %LOCALAPPDATA% might not be what you expect - use python -m shroudstone config-path to find out exactly where it is.
• If using the CLI, your replay directory path and replay format strings can be configured by passing command-line options to python -m shroudstone rename-replays; but you probably want to use the config file instead so you don't have to provide them every time. Use python -m shroudstone edit-config to edit the configuration file.

Customizing replay names

You can customize the filenames of your renamed replays by editing the format string in your configuration, either through the GUI or in your config file.

The default format string for 1v1 matches is

 {time:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M} {result:.1} {duration} {us} {f1:.1}v{f2:.1} {them} - {map_name}.SGReplay

which results in e.g.

  2024-02-03 08.28 L 03m03s Pox IvI Veni Vidi Vici - Broken Crown.SGReplay

Note the usage of :.1 to take just the first letter of the race and result strings.

Format strings for 1v1 matches can use the following values:

• us (str): Your nickname (as it appeared in the replay)
• them (str): Opponent nickname (as it appeared in the replay)
• f1 (str): Faction/Race you played (Vanguard or Infernals or Maloc or Blockade)
• f2 (str): Faction/Race opponent played
• time (datetime): Creation time of match
• duration (str): Game duration (e.g. "15m10s")
• result (str): Your game result (Win, Loss, Undecided)
• map_name (str): Name of the map on which the game was played (extracted from replay file)
• build_number (int): Build number of Stormgate version on which the game was played (extracted from replay file)

For other matches (e.g. co-op), the default format string is

  {time:%Y-%m-%d %H.%M} {duration} {players_with_factions} - {map_name}.SGReplay

which results in e.g.

  2024-02-03 01:23 20m10s Pox M, Alice B, Bob M - WreckHavoc.SGReplay

Format strings for generic matches can use the following values:

• players (str): Comma-separated list of player nicknames
• players_with_factions (str): Comma-separated list of player nicknames, each followed by the initial letter of their faction (e.g. M for Maloc)
• time (datetime): Creation time of match
• duration (str): Game duration (e.g. "15m10s")
• map_name (str): Name of the map on which the game was played (extracted from replay file)
• build_number (int): Build number of Stormgate version on which the game was played (extracted from replay file)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome - feel free to open a PR, or message Pox on the Stormgate Discord if you want to discuss with me first.

Developing

Assuming you have python 3.8+ and pip installed on your system, all you need to do to start working on shroudstone is to clone the repository and install the python package in development mode. See here for more information, or follow this recipe to get started using a virtual environment:

Create a working directory:

mkdir shroudstone-workspace
cd shroudstone-workspace

Download the code and setup a python virtual environment:

python -m venv .venv
git clone https://github.com/acarapetis/shroudstone.git

Finally, install and run the code:

.venv/bin/pip3 install -e shroudstone/
.venv/bin/shroudstone

To run the tests, just install and invoke pytest:

.venv/bin/pip3 install pytest
.venv/bin/python -m pytest

Note that the tests require python 3.9 or higher.