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Stryke:
Hi. I've been using Darwinbots for a few weeks now, and recently joined the forums. The DNA is (or seems) really complicated and I am going through the tutorials to try to understand it. I just found Purpleyouko's great tutorial on the xwiki and that will probably help me alot. Just a matter of time before I start making bots (hopefully). Darwinbots is alot better than the evolution sims I've tried before.

shvarz:
Welcome to the forum, Stryke!

The DNA may seem a bit complicated, but you'll quickly get a hang of the basics I am sure.  I am as far from programming as you can imagine, but even I picked up bits and pieces :)

Besides, you don't need to know how DNA works to run evolution sims   :D

PurpleYouko:
Hi Stryke. Welcome to DB.

Like Shvarz said, you will find that you get the hang of the basics of DNA programming quite rapidly.
If you want to get into combat bot programming then you will need to learn the complex stuff but if you are just in it for a bit of fun or to run evolution sims then the basics are enough.

Thanks for the praise of my tutorial. It is in fact a bit old, incomplete and even a little out of date now. So much has changed over the last year.

Endy:
Hi Stryke.

There should be a Download beneath the xwiki with all the bots and files. The basic bot tutorial should also help.

Honestly I started with Carlos's old help file and just kept on working with it, I still remember how thrilled I was just to see the plant start turning in the opposite direction :laugh: . The only reason it looks so complex is because it's the result of some extreme fine tunning(we won't even mention single gene bots).

It's actually better to use simplier bots in Evo Sims, since it allows them more room to evolve in.

Endy B)

Stryke:

--- Quote ---Besides, you don't need to know how DNA works to run evolution sims   :D
--- End quote ---
Yep, that's exactly what I've been doing. Just sitting back and letting the robots evolve for me instead of actually programming them :D .

Oh, and I've downloaded most of the bots already, Endy. Hardly any of them worked until I found the link to the newer version of DB and upgraded.

And PY, I'd like to get into the combat bot stuff. Then possibly try to evolve them.

And also, when I save a simulation and try to load it later, it won't load. For me, It's a big problem with evolving the bots; they like to be more genetically diverse the longer into the sim, and I'd have to save all of them individually. I have the latest version that was on the FTP server. Oh, and it won't save the sim or the best robot periodically. I guess it's just my computer.

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