Author Topic: I am going to try to help with the Chloroplast version.  (Read 8794 times)

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Re: I am going to try to help with the Chloroplast version.
« Reply #15 on: November 25, 2011, 04:19:10 PM »
Which brings me back to my original question: Can I get an example robot where the ties are acting weird ?

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Re: I am going to try to help with the Chloroplast version.
« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2013, 03:59:37 AM »
most of the MBs in the beastiary have ties that are somewhat spastic and 'strange' if you ask me...
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Re: I am going to try to help with the Chloroplast version.
« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2013, 11:52:40 AM »
I am just not going to change robot radios when implementing chloroplasts, it is not a perfect fix, but it should do.

The main problem was due to the way tie physics are calculated very big robots allowed the tie to go negative.

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Re: I am going to try to help with the Chloroplast version.
« Reply #18 on: March 09, 2013, 01:18:08 AM »
'go negative'?
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Re: I am going to try to help with the Chloroplast version.
« Reply #19 on: March 09, 2013, 03:37:47 PM »
Here is an illustration:

tie is measured from the center of the robot although it is displayed from the robots edge so we have:

( xx)xxxxxxx(xx )

now the tie length limit before it snaps is:

 xxxxxxxxxxxx

if the robot is too big, say:

(                 )

then the tie will snap at any rate.


It is a little more complex then that, because this new explanation I just gave you has nothing to do with 'go negative.' But, it does if you look at the code.
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Re: I am going to try to help with the Chloroplast version.
« Reply #20 on: March 10, 2013, 12:54:46 AM »
ok got it
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