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Why aren't you using 2.42?
Elite:
In 2.37.6, .tielen1 affects the birth tie. It can be used as a kind of anti birth tie gene:
cond
*.robage 0 =
start
32000 .tielen1 store
stop
Do we want this behavior to be 'fixed' or left as it is?
I find the tie ports much easier to use than tie phases myself. They're more compact and you can manipulate two ties at once rather than having to set .tienum for each tie you want to alter.
Numsgil:
I think birth ties should be totally inaccessible to the bots. The birth ties aren't representing actual ties as much as they're representing the incomplete seperation of parent and child.
That you can get rid of them with anti birth tie genes is itself somewhat of a problem, but it's such a legacy part of the program I would never dream of changing it.
Elite:
How about, for reproduction, rather than having bots spawn with a birth tie having them slowly divide instead, like real microorganisms do. Or have some sort of yeast-like budding system.
How about having the centre of the child bot start at the centre of the parent and slowly migrate outward until the two circles separate.
How hard would that be do do graphics-wise?
Numsgil:
I don't really know how to draw anything that's not a regular polyhedron, but since the new graphics are in OpenGL anything is technically possible. I just don't know how to do any of it
What gets difficult is the collision detection and vision algorithms. Having bots be spherical makes so many things more managable.
What about if the birth tie isn't stretchy, but behaves like a sturdy rod? That would look and behave rather similar to an elliptical cell dividing.
PurpleYouko:
--- Quote ---In 2.37.6, .tielen1 affects the birth tie. It can be used as a kind of anti birth tie gene:
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EEP!!
That was never supposed to happen. It isn't even supposed to work on non-hardened ties.
I'm with Num on this. Birth ties should never be accessable to the DNA.
--- Quote ---I find the tie ports much easier to use than tie phases myself. They're more compact and you can manipulate two ties at once rather than having to set .tienum for each tie you want to alter.
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That was rather the point. Glad you like the concept.
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