Intro

This tutorial should take about 20 minutes.

Brobot builds the framework for your automation application by writing Java code for you. This framework is referred to as the State Structure. Once you have a State Structure, writing your application should be easy!

These are the steps we will follow in this tutorial:

1. Setup, easily my least favorite part of any project. Hopefully, it will run smoothly, but if it doesn't, we'll get it working. Send me a message to jspinak@hotmail.com if you get stuck.
   
2. Let Brobot capture screenshots while we perform tasks manually
   
3. We'll select the screenshots we want to keep. These screenshots represent the environment that we want to automate.
   
4. Then we'll crop images from the screenshots that we want to use in our automation application.
   
5. We'll use Brobot to analyze the quality of our selected images and regions.
   
6. Brobot will use the images and regions to build the State Structure for our application.
   
7. Now you have your State Structure! You can use it to write your automation application. In the last section are some suggestions on how to do that.
   

Requirements

Any software that can cut and save images.

Some suggestions:
Mac: Preview
Windows: Photos, Paint
Linux: XPaint, Pinta

Some other stuff

This demo is meant as a guide to Brobot's State Structure build tool, as well as an introduction to its image analysis capabilities and how to use them to create a more robust application. The tutorial is done using the game Black Desert Online as the environment because it is a pretty, complex, and fun environment that provides clear use cases for Brobot's functionality. You won't be able to automate gameplay because Black Desert has an anti-cheat. Brobot is an automation framework and not a cheat engine, and has no capabilities to bypass anti-cheat software.