help....again

[PurpleYouko]

Have a look at my ant-bots in the "interesting behaviour" section of the beastiary.

[MrMound]

[CODE]
cond
*.roboage 3 <
start
0 0 angle .setaim store
stop[CODE]
so this would make my robot go to 0 0 when he was born?
(I just want to make sure this is right because its a key gene in my bot)

[PurpleYouko]

It won't make him GO to 0,0.

It will make him FACE the coords 0,0 (top left corner I think)

[Numsgil]

Yes, you'll need to use the distance operator (dist I think) to see when you actually reach 0,0.

[MrMound]

cond
*.roboage 3 <
start
0 0 angle .setaim store
50 .up
stop

so his will make him go to 00

[Numsgil]

Move towards it yes.  But he could be way at (a billion, a billion) and so 50 .up might not be enough.

I'd do something like:

cond
0 0 dist 200 >
start
0 0 angle .setaim store
10 .up store
stop

feel free to change 200 with whatever other sort of radius you want to use.  Remember that most bots have a radius of like 60, so the closest a bot can ever really get to 0,0 would be like (60,60).

[MrMound]

all right thaks guys hopfully this will make my bot work better

[Numsgil]

A more energy efficient method might be:

cond
0 0 dist 200 >
start
0 0 angle .setaim store
10 .velup sub 0 floor .up store
stop

[Botsareus]

Thats only if you run it in 2.4

for others try

cond
start
0 0 angle .setaim store
0 0 dist N div .up store
stop
end

If you know a good number for "N" now..., it problebly won't work anyway. I have no idea how to make a robot not over shoot its target location.

[Numsgil]

Actually that gene would work in anything post 2.36 I beleive.

[PurpleYouko]

It could be a little expensive though.

0 0 dist 10 div .up store

This will accelerate toward the coords at a rate of 1/10 of the distance per cycle. This will be pretty much maxed out acceleration in a lot of cases. You might want to put a ceiling on that.