Problem with 3.4 source code?

[Ulciscor]

Well this is nothing big but is just odd. The little symbol that is supposed to be inside each bot appears to be outside instead.



I've just restarted with a new symbol and it's fine now.  :wacko:  :blink:


Also tried Helios out and it freaked out, then I got a "subscript out of range" in

  IntStack.val(IntStack.pos) = value

[PurpleYouko]

Oh No!

Inside out robots!  :unsure:

[Ulciscor]

It seems that the symbols aren't being resized for growing/shrinking bots.



Do you mind if I poke around to try and solve some of these myself? I can post either whole forms/modules or just blocks of code as appropriate.

[Ulciscor]

You don't even wanna see what's happening with ties.  :rolleyes:

Are you going to start hating me pretty soon?  :P

Take a look-see!

[Numsgil]

1.  Ties don't have a breaking length at the moment.

2.  Helios freaks out because as it reproduces to make it's body, the distances between bots change.

3.  Feel free to fix any and all problems.  I'm much better at editing source code (editing in the same way that a magazine Editor edits) than writing it.

If you want alot of fun, turn on gravity.  The bots will actually bounce off the bottom like it's a trampoline.  Weeee!  This bot is fun too to experiment with the new tie physics:

Code: [Select]

cond
start
.tie inc
stop

cond
start
100 *.numties div .sharenrg store
stop

cond
*.nrg 25000 >
start
10 .repro store
stop
end
Just drag those babies around with the mouse, and they'll tie to anything and everything.  Use the console to fixpos one with gravity on, and the rest will hang and bounce around quite realistically.

[Botsareus]

Forgive me for a being a little off topic yet again , but this is interesting:

What is the "inverse square root" of a number , and how the hell are you using it in db?!

I think you do indeed have bit manupilation in vb, there is a convirt into bytes function, and then you use an erray loop and do your and xor not or whatever right using vb code itself.
What kind of bit manupulation are you talking about?!


Edit:

This is sad: vb indeed has no way to convirt numbers into a bit array unless you do it yourself ( I beleave convirt using hex() first )
However: the vb's and or xor not opperators actualy do bit compare, read the msdn on it , its at the bottom of each page.

[Numsgil]

There's this really neat function that finds that inverse square root of a numkber FAST.  And think about it.  Usually you're dividing by the square root anyway.  And if you need the actual square root, you just take the square times the inverse square root.

If you're interested in it, you can look in the DLL source code I included in 2.4, and see how I use it in the Common.bas file.

[Ulciscor]

The inverse square root is the reciprocal of the square root of a number, isn't it?

The inverse square root of 4 is 4^(-0.5) or 1/(4)^0.5, which equals a half.

[Numsgil]

Exactly.  Turns out the inverse square root of a number is easier to calculate than the square root using certain numerical methods.

I had an article at one time explaining how the cryptic function worked, but I'm not sure what happened to it.  I do know it was lifted from Quake 2 source.

[Zelos]

how do I make so I can get it as exe file and use it? the source code I mean

[Zelos]

can someone answer plz

[Numsgil]

I assume you have visual Basic (henceforth refered to as VB).

Load up the source code into VB (I assume yo uknow how to do this).

File->Make Darwin2.4, put it in your DarwinbotsII folder.

[Zelos]

ive tried installing VB on 2 pc but it dont work, it keeps saying that somefiles cant be copied so it quit

[Ulciscor]

2.4 is only available as source code atm, so you need VB.

Are you having trouble installing the VB from the DB server? If so try reading the readme in the zip file, as you can get errors if you select to install programs other than VB such as Visual C.

[Zelos]

I install the basic, nothing mroe than it want to install from the begining but I still get errors