Day/night cycle still not satisfying

[Griz]

Ok, I've done all the procedures I'm supposed to, but the installer fails to put some files into the registry and the program never gets installed. But I HAVE been able to use this program WITHOUT installing it. For some reason it doesn't work now.

same happened to me upon installing ...
I must have clicked on two dozen, 'never mind, keep going' things ...
and even tho I got all those 'did not install' messages ...
including one's about the registry ...
but they seem to be all uneeded as ...
it worked.

it's got to be something in that, Testlund ...
install again ...
and keep clicking on the error messages all the way thru.

don't know what else to tell you.
seems like there is an option early on in the install ..
that asks you about 'custom' or 'standard' install.
I think I clicked standard, not knowing enough to customize.

that's it for 'help' from me. ;)

[EricL]

Testlund: The VB install should still complete sucessfully even with the failures.  I've installed it twice in the past week on different machines and if you just hit ignore to get past the install errors, you'll get there.  That said, I can email you a zipped up DB exe if you want.

Griz: Leagues are still way broken.  I'm working on it.  Stay tuned.

[Testlund]

You think you can do that Eric? My email is testlund2004@yahoo.se. Now everybody's gonna spam me.  :P

I've tried the install procedure several times with custom on both my C:\WinXP partition and G: partition. Get the same result everytime. It doesn't make sense that the same procedure should work sometimes and sometimes not. It's the same data. Ok, I will try the standard install that Griz mensioned one last time, but you can go ahead and email me the file anyway.

[EricL]

Just sent it to you Testlund.  Has all my posted fixes plus some new UI fixes.  let me know as you find stuff you want fixed.

-E

[Testlund]

Cool! I guess I can't do a complete bug report from an exe file, but at least I can tell you if I run into problems. I'm downloading VB6 again from the server to give it a last try, then I will probably run your exe under the night.

[Testlund]

Umm.... Looks like the day/night cycle still needs a little tweaking. I have it set to 10000 but it choses it's own value when it wants to change. I think actually that it changes every 10000 but not at 10000, 20000, 30000 etc. Instead it changes at 3000 or 7000 and so on.

[Griz]

Just sent it to you Testlund.  Has all my posted fixes plus some new UI fixes.  let me know as you find stuff you want fixed.

-E

was going to have you send it to me as well ...
as I haven't had time to keep up with all the changes ...
but seeing as you're still finding/making more fixes ...
and I don't have much time to experiment right now
anyway ... I'll wait until you work thru a few more.
when you get it fairly stable, maybe you could then
upload it here or to the wiki as a 2.4.A2 or something.

great work ...
thanks for pumping some juice into DB ...
and getting me and others interested again.

[PurpleYouko]

Umm.... Looks like the day/night cycle still needs a little tweaking. I have it set to 10000 but it choses it's own value when it wants to change. I think actually that it changes every 10000 but not at 10000, 20000, 30000 etc. Instead it changes at 3000 or 7000 and so on.

That is because the counter doesn't get reset when you restart your sim.

When you load up darwinBots the first time, it should work but if you restart after 3000 cycles, the day/night counter still reads 3000 so it will change 7000 cycles into your new sim.

If anybody wants to address this then please make the alterations in the source code. It should be easy enough.