A C++ library for simulating Rocket League games at maximum efficiency

RocketSim is a complete simulation of Rocket League's gameplay logic and physics that is completely standalone. RocketSim supports the game modes: Soccar, Hoops, Dropshot, Heatseeker, and Snowday.

Speed

RocketSim is designed to run extremely fast, even when complex collisions and suspension calculations are happening every tick. On an average PC running a single thread of RocketSim with two cars, RocketSim can simulate around 20 minutes of game time every second. This means that with 12 threads running RocketSim, you can simulate around 10 days of game time every minute!

Accuracy

RocketSim is not a perfectly accurate replication of Rocket League, but is close enough for most applications (such as training ML bots). RocketSim is accurate enough to:

• Train machine learning bots to SSL level (and probably beyond)
• Simulate different shots on the ball at different angles to find the best input combination
• Simulate air control to find the optimal orientation input
• Simulate pinches

However, the tiny errors will accumulate over time, so RocketSim is best suited for simulation with consistent feedback.

Installation

• Clone this repo and build it
• Use https://github.com/ZealanL/RLArenaCollisionDumper to dump all of Rocket League's arena collision meshes
• Move those assets into RocketSim's executing directory

Documentation

Documentation is available at: https://zealanl.github.io/RocketSimDocs/

Bindings

If you don't want to work in C++, here are some (unofficial) bindings written in other languages:

• Python: https://github.com/mtheall/RocketSim by mtheall
• Rust: https://github.com/VirxEC/rocketsim-rs by VirxEC

Official Python bindings are currently in the works.

Performance Details

RocketSim already heavily outperforms the speed of Rocket League's physics tick step without optimization.

Version performance comparison:

OS: Windows 10 (Process Priority = Normal)
CPU: Intel i5-11400 @ 2.60GHz
Ram Speed: 3200MZ
Compiler: MSVC 14.16
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Arena: Default (Soccar)
Cars: 2 on each team (2v2)
Inputs: Randomly pre-generated, changed every 2-60 ticks for each car
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Single-thread performance (calculated using average CPU cycles per tick on the RocketSim thread) (1M ticks simulated):
v1.0.0 = 30,334tps
v1.1.0 = 48,191tps
v1.2.0 = 50,763tps
v2.0.0 = ~50,000tps
v2.1.0 = 114,481tps

Issues & PRs

Feel free to make issues and pull requests if you encounter any issues!

You can also contact me on Discord if you have questions, my username is zealanl.

Usage & Legal Notice

RocketSim was written to replicate Rocket League's game logic, but does not actually contain any code from the game whatsoever.

RocketSim is intended to be used for creating machine learning environments, as well as other hobby projects (provided they don't violate Rocket League's terms of use/service). The use of RocketSim to create and sell a playable Rocket League clone is heavily discouraged. Please do not do this!

Cheating & Bots

RocketSim is widely used to train machine learning bots for Rocket League, and unfortunately some of these bots are being used to cheat in Rocket League in ranked matches.

As the creator and owner of RocketSim, I, ZealanL, am strongly against cheating/botting in Rocket League and avoid supporting anyone or anything I suspect to be involved with malicious activity.

To Epic Games & Psyonix

If any of you guys have an issue with this project, let me know on Discord and we can resolve it! I will be happy to make changes if needed.