ZeroK Single Player

It'd be great to play ZeroK single player on a custom map in the spring lobby, add some AI play. However every time I start the map loads then nothing. No players get added. Other games work fine like Tech Annihilation or NOTA.

Yes I know I can create my "own" missions and upload them to the ZeroK lobby to play which takes about 30 minutes too long when I just want to load a game and play it.

Yes I know there are many single player games like Chickens that I've played many times and am quite bored of.

@Leggir how are you trying to do this? By 'spring lobby' do you mean the lobby program called Spring Lobby? Tell us more about what you are doing. How do you start a map? Which lobby do you use? Do you add any AIs?

xponen said he is working on a skirmish vs. AI tab for ZKL. For now Aquanim's method is the best you can do for a custom skirmish vs. AI.

Yes I mean the lobby program called Spring Lobby.
1. click on SinglePlayer Tab.
2. Choose ZeroK from the game drop down menu.
3. Choose map from the map menu.
4. Click on add bot, and choose CAI.
5. Choose Start.
When the map loads it says game begins in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and then the map is blank, there's no AI and I'm not inserted.

Untick official on map search

@Leggir:

1) What engine version are you running?
2) What ZK version are you trying to run?

What you are describing seems like a spawn gadget crash, which is likely to occur if you're running an unsupported engine or game version.

Can you pastebin the file ~/.spring/infolog.txt after experiencing this failure mode?

quote: ZeroK 0.9.6 version.

The version number you provided doesn't seem correct. It's either an excessively old version (3 years at least) or you're mixing up engine and game versions.

Current stable version of Zero-K is 1.2.9.9 .
Currently ZK uses Spring engine version 91.0, but it should also work on the bleeding edge (currently at 97.0.1-450-g502a946) and 96.0 engine should work as well, though is not actively supported.

The infolog file should be generated always unless there's a severe crash before game even loads - which is not your case. It might, however, not be where you are looking for. If you're using engine version 96.0, try looking in ~/.config/spring/infolog.txt.