# Basic Guide This guide will show you how to use a pre-trained model in an example Unity environment, and show you how to train the model yourself. If you are not familiar with the [Unity Engine](https://unity3d.com/unity), we highly recommend the [Roll-a-ball tutorial](https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/s/roll-ball-tutorial) to learn all the basic concepts of Unity. ## Setting up the ML-Agents Toolkit within Unity In order to use the ML-Agents toolkit within Unity, you need to change some Unity settings first. Also [TensorFlowSharp plugin](https://s3.amazonaws.com/unity-ml-agents/0.4/TFSharpPlugin.unitypackage) is needed for you to use pre-trained model within Unity, which is based on the [TensorFlowSharp repo](https://github.com/migueldeicaza/TensorFlowSharp). 1. Launch Unity 2. On the Projects dialog, choose the **Open** option at the top of the window. 3. Using the file dialog that opens, locate the `UnitySDK` folder within the the ML-Agents toolkit project and click **Open**. 4. Go to **Edit** > **Project Settings** > **Player** 5. For **each** of the platforms you target (**PC, Mac and Linux Standalone**, **iOS** or **Android**): 1. Option the **Other Settings** section. 2. Select **Scripting Runtime Version** to **Experimental (.NET 4.6 Equivalent or .NET 4.x Equivalent)** 3. In **Scripting Defined Symbols**, add the flag `ENABLE_TENSORFLOW`. After typing in the flag name, press Enter. 6. Go to **File** > **Save Project** ![Project Settings](images/project-settings.png) [Download](https://s3.amazonaws.com/unity-ml-agents/0.4/TFSharpPlugin.unitypackage) the TensorFlowSharp plugin. Then import it into Unity by double clicking the downloaded file. You can check if it was successfully imported by checking the TensorFlow files in the Project window under **Assets** > **ML-Agents** > **Plugins** > **Computer**. **Note**: If you don't see anything under **Assets**, drag the `UnitySDK/Assets/ML-Agents` folder under **Assets** within Project window. ![Imported TensorFlowsharp](images/imported-tensorflowsharp.png) ## Running a Pre-trained Model 1. In the **Project** window, go to `Assets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall` folder and open the `3DBall` scene file. 2. In the **Hierarchy** window, select the **Ball3DBrain** child under the **Ball3DAcademy** GameObject to view its properties in the Inspector window. 3. On the **Ball3DBrain** object's **Brain** component, change the **Brain Type** to **Internal**. 4. In the **Project** window, locate the `Assets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/TFModels` folder. 5. Drag the `3DBall` model file from the `TFModels` folder to the **Graph Model** field of the **Ball3DBrain** object's **Brain** component. 6. Click the **Play** button and you will see the platforms balance the balls using the pretrained model. ![Running a pretrained model](images/running-a-pretrained-model.gif) ## Using the Basics Jupyter Notebook The `notebooks/getting-started.ipynb` [Jupyter notebook](Background-Jupyter.md) contains a simple walkthrough of the functionality of the Python API. It can also serve as a simple test that your environment is configured correctly. Within `Basics`, be sure to set `env_name` to the name of the Unity executable if you want to [use an executable](Learning-Environment-Executable.md) or to `None` if you want to interact with the current scene in the Unity Editor. More information and documentation is provided in the [Python API](Python-API.md) page. ## Training the Brain with Reinforcement Learning ### Setting the Brain to External Since we are going to build this environment to conduct training, we need to set the Brain used by the Agents to **External**. This allows the Agents to communicate with the external training process when making their decisions. 1. In the **Scene** window, click the triangle icon next to the Ball3DAcademy object. 2. Select its child object **Ball3DBrain**. 3. In the Inspector window, set **Brain Type** to **External**. ![Set Brain to External](images/mlagents-SetExternalBrain.png) ### Training the environment 1. Open a command or terminal window. 2. Navigate to the folder where you cloned the ML-Agents toolkit repository. **Note**: If you followed the default [installation](Installation.md), then you should be able to run `mlagents-learn` from any directory. 3. Run `mlagents-learn --run-id= --train` where: - `` is the relative or absolute filepath of the trainer configuration. The defaults used by example environments included in `MLAgentsSDK` can be found in `config/trainer_config.yaml`. - `` is a string used to separate the results of different training runs - `--train` tells `mlagents-learn` to run a training session (rather than inference) 4. If you cloned the ML-Agents repo, then you can simply run ```sh mlagents-learn config/trainer_config.yaml --run-id=firstRun --train ``` 5. When the message _"Start training by pressing the Play button in the Unity Editor"_ is displayed on the screen, you can press the :arrow_forward: button in Unity to start training in the Editor. **Note**: Alternatively, you can use an executable rather than the Editor to perform training. 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If `mlagents-learn` runs correctly and starts training, you should see something like this: ```console INFO:mlagents.envs: 'Ball3DAcademy' started successfully! Unity Academy name: Ball3DAcademy Number of Brains: 1 Number of External Brains : 1 Reset Parameters : Unity brain name: Ball3DBrain Number of Visual Observations (per agent): 0 Vector Observation space size (per agent): 8 Number of stacked Vector Observation: 1 Vector Action space type: continuous Vector Action space size (per agent): [2] Vector Action descriptions: , INFO:mlagents.envs:Hyperparameters for the PPO Trainer of brain Ball3DBrain: batch_size: 64 beta: 0.001 buffer_size: 12000 epsilon: 0.2 gamma: 0.995 hidden_units: 128 lambd: 0.99 learning_rate: 0.0003 max_steps: 5.0e4 normalize: True num_epoch: 3 num_layers: 2 time_horizon: 1000 sequence_length: 64 summary_freq: 1000 use_recurrent: False graph_scope: summary_path: ./summaries/first-run-0 memory_size: 256 use_curiosity: False curiosity_strength: 0.01 curiosity_enc_size: 128 INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: Ball3DBrain: Step: 1000. Mean Reward: 1.242. Std of Reward: 0.746. Training. INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: Ball3DBrain: Step: 2000. Mean Reward: 1.319. Std of Reward: 0.693. Training. INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: Ball3DBrain: Step: 3000. Mean Reward: 1.804. Std of Reward: 1.056. Training. INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: Ball3DBrain: Step: 4000. Mean Reward: 2.151. Std of Reward: 1.432. Training. INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: Ball3DBrain: Step: 5000. Mean Reward: 3.175. Std of Reward: 2.250. Training. INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: Ball3DBrain: Step: 6000. Mean Reward: 4.898. Std of Reward: 4.019. Training. INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: Ball3DBrain: Step: 7000. Mean Reward: 6.716. Std of Reward: 5.125. Training. INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: Ball3DBrain: Step: 8000. Mean Reward: 12.124. Std of Reward: 11.929. Training. INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: Ball3DBrain: Step: 9000. Mean Reward: 18.151. Std of Reward: 16.871. Training. INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: Ball3DBrain: Step: 10000. Mean Reward: 27.284. Std of Reward: 28.667. Training. ``` ### After training You can press Ctrl+C to stop the training, and your trained model will be at `models//editor__.bytes` where `` is the name of the Academy GameObject in the current scene. This file corresponds to your model's latest checkpoint. You can now embed this trained model into your Internal Brain by following the steps below, which is similar to the steps described [above](#play-an-example-environment-using-pretrained-model). 1. Move your model file into `UnitySDK/Assets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/TFModels/`. 2. Open the Unity Editor, and select the **3DBall** scene as described above. 3. Select the **Ball3DBrain** object from the Scene hierarchy. 4. Change the **Type of Brain** to **Internal**. 5. Drag the `_.bytes` file from the Project window of the Editor to the **Graph Model** placeholder in the **Ball3DBrain** inspector window. 6. Press the :arrow_forward: button at the top of the Editor. ## Next Steps - For more information on the ML-Agents toolkit, in addition to helpful background, check out the [ML-Agents Toolkit Overview](ML-Agents-Overview.md) page. - For a more detailed walk-through of our 3D Balance Ball environment, check out the [Getting Started](Getting-Started-with-Balance-Ball.md) page. - For a "Hello World" introduction to creating your own Learning Environment, check out the [Making a New Learning Environment](Learning-Environment-Create-New.md) page. - For a series of Youtube video tutorials, checkout the [Machine Learning Agents PlayList](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2vGYjWbI0R08eWQkO7nQkGiicHAX7IX) page.