DNA Scripts

[Old Henk]

Hi,

At current, we have DNA scripts, which really come in handy during evolution sims.

I don't know how far you've progressed with this PY, but I've come up with some more 'script handlings'

"ifs"

• If bot has more the X descendants
• If bot age is more then X cycles
• If number mutations is more then X
• If bot Memloc X is more then X

"Thens"

• Save robot DNA (in autosave folder)
• Change this bot's color into X
• Kill all other bots and start new simulation with X of these bots

Hope some will be implemented...

Henk :)

[Numsgil]

Eventually I'd like to see the scripts turned into a massive thing that can control the entire simulation while you're away.

So good work Henk, keep them comming.

[Zelos]

the last one whit kill all the others can be useful. I think you also shall be able to make it evolutio like. like when we add the astronomy stuff. then we can have meteor impacts and valcanic eruptions than increase the albedo/absorbation of the atmosphere which cause the plants to get less energy and then it gets a food shortage. and then mmost bots die out.

[Botsareus]

I like this one too....

[Shen]

A couple more trigger ideas.

IF

More/Less than X Bots/Veggies


THEN
Increase/Decrease Veggie Feedrate/Repop

[PurpleYouko]

That is pretty much what the old system used to do anyway.

[Old Henk]

That is pretty much what the old system used to do anyway.

It did? How?  :huh:

[PurpleYouko]

The program kept track of the total energy contained in all the veggies then determined the feed rate depending on this value.

Loads of big veggies = low or zero food (even saw negative sometimes)

very low small veggies = huge food.

Up until V2.36 that was how it worked. The new feed rate setting that Num added was the first time we ever really had a ny control.

[Greven]

Actully we could integrate python or something similar into DB, although I dont know how, a little research might be worthwhile... I dont, that is how civilization 4 is made (or their scripts)

[Numsgil]

The problem is that I don't know the first thing about Python

Seriously though a professional scripting language might either be perfect or way overkill.  I just don't know enough to guess.

[Numsgil]

I'm looking at Lua at the moment.  It seems to look very similar to VB, which is a plus I think.

I'm trying to think of when the best time to run script events would be.  Can anyone think of some sort of event they might like to run that would be difficult or impossible to accomplish if the scripts all executed at the start of every cycle?

[Greven]

I looked a little at Lua, seems nice. About the time of execution, a script that does something for the bots that die in a round etc. Can come up with numerous things....

[Henk]

I'm trying to think of when the best time to run script events would be.  Can anyone think of some sort of event they might like to run that would be difficult or impossible to accomplish if the scripts all executed at the start of every cycle?

Wouldn't that be very processor-intensive? How about having this interval user-definable? ie "check this script every N cycles"

Henk

[Numsgil]

Here's what my basic problem is:

I can either move the entire Engine update into a script, and allow users to modify it that way to set up their sims, or set up a bunch of in-cycle script checks.

If I move the engine update into a script, that's potentially alot of code.  It depends exactly how much or how little I can get away with and still satisfy the needs of people.  It could easily turn into a grand old mess given my inexperience.

If I just set up a bunch of in-cycle script checks, it creates alot of code mess, which I'd like to avoid if at all possible.

[Elite]

I would really appreciate some of Henk's original script suggestions.

I was trying to rapidly evolve a self-replicator, but the DNA kept getting obliterated by the point mutations when one did evolve. I had to do it by hand.

Pausing the sim if a bot reproduces would be a very useful feature for me