The most important thing (IMO) is that one should be able to load a simulation previously saved. That doesn't work for me in version....2.37.....whatever... Either nothing happens when trying to load or I get a crash.
sucks doesn't it!?!?
buku frustrating ... I know.
see ... the folks who already have it working ...
aren't really all that interested in the plight of us stooopid newbies
who have no idea what all these settings do or how they work.
so I think you're pretty much on your own. ;)
ideally, we will eventually have the basics available at the wiki ...
but I haven't had time to play there much lately ...
or share the lessons learned from making my own mistakes ...
and Endy has shipped out to sea for awhile.
am working on getting PY's bot tutorial there in total right now ...
just hard to stay motivated if no one is going to care if it's
there or not ...
ie ... if I don't see people participating at the wiki ...
giving feedback and making this a for real group effort.
perhaps I'll start a 'Complaint Dept' page ...
where any/all can put forth their concerns to be addressed.
hmmmm ...
not a bad idea.
as you know, I had many of the same problems as you in the past.
now this doesn't always happen to me with 2.37.6 ...
but certainly does on many, if not most, occasions.
I suspect it is because I am trying to load in a sim that either has
robots or settings that were not previously saved with the version 2.37.6
and since I have lost track of which is which ...
well, it happens a lot and simply freezes up my computer.
so I suggest you select 'new sim' and once you have it set up ...
save it under a name of 2376_whaterver.sim ...
this is what I do now ... and when I load this one in ...
it works.
same is true of having the required bots and settings in the correct
folder ... ie ... the Settings and Robot folders in the same DarwinBotsII
folder as your executable.
any of this that isn't correct will indeed crash your azz.
2.4.A slow?
well, from downloading a setting you provided before ...
I imagine you still use a very large field and many, many bots ...
so yeah ...
it will certainly drag along.
I try to keep my field at the minimum, veggies < 100 and settings
that keep my bots under 100 as well so I can at least run a resonable sim.
also ... I drastically minimize mutations ... and as a result no longer suddenly
get a bot reproducing 100 or more at a time.
anyway ...
use 2.37.6 to get a sim of choice working ...
save it ...
restart and reload it ...
and see it that works.
it does for me.
I have a couple of interesting sims I now run in 2.4.A ...
using the MultiVeg and some of the CircumOribit bots I have altered ...
so will upload that for you to check out.
and good luck. ;)