render with custom output types #752
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Hi, I was wondering if it would make sense to extend the
rendermethod to support other output types thanuint8.Specifically,
rendermethod ofTFPyEnvironmentconverts all outputs intouint8.I am aware that the type makes sense for plotting images (and
rendermethod is primarily designated for this purpose), but when I create a custom environment, I would like to be able to pass general array from the environment, e.g. an array offloat32values, and then print / plot it my way. Let's say I have quite a complex environment that produces observations with transformed values. Such observations are good to feed into agents (neural networks), but they are not useful for debugging / illustration when checking my agent on an eval environment. What's more important is that it's hard to convert the transformed values into a useful representation for humans. Therefore I thought I could userendermethod to fetch the observation in a "human-understandable" form (i.e. not transformed).I noticed the note in docstring that the conversion into
uint8is due to compatibility reasons, but I believe it could be still extended (e.g. through a new parameter) in such a way that the default behaviour would satisfy this conversion touint8- to keep the compatibility intact.Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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