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Newbie / Enemy Recognition.

« on: May 04, 2010, 07:37:49 PM »

So I've been fiddling around with a bit of code for a while, as I mentioned in my greeting message, so my bot uses more of its eyes to find food instead of spinning and moving around randomly.

So my bot's eyes are set up like so:

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cond
start
 628 .eye3dir store
 90 .eye1dir store
 -628 .eye7dir store
 -90 .eye9dir store
stop
Eyes 3 and 9 aren't doing anything right now, but I'm considering doing something with them later.
Eyes 1 and 9 are moved further apart slightly to give a wider field of view.

I've set it up so that if it sees something in eye 1 or eye 2 (or indeed eyes 8 or 9), but not in eye 5 it'll turn to face it.
However no matter what I try, I can't make the bot not turn to face a member of its own species and as a result they'll often end up going around in circles with each other and getting eaten.

Here's an example of what I've been trying:

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cond

 *.refeye *.myeye !=
 *.eye5 0 =
 *.eye1 0 >
 *.eye2 0 > or

start
 100 .aimsx store
stop
Does the condition  *.refeye *.myeye != only work if it's referring to a robot in view of eye5?

I've been scratching my head and not getting very far because of this problem, can anyone hint as to what may be wrong?

Thanks.

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Newbie / Greetings

« on: May 03, 2010, 06:59:56 PM »

Hello there!
Discovered you at the silly early hours of yesterday morning, and found it to be really rather addictive (once I'd wrapped my head around some of the funnier bits of the code)  

I've made couple of basic robots so far, mostly just modifications of Animal Minimalis with bits and pieces added here and there.
Although I did start to have lots of fun with viruses, in particular retroviruses and watching docile Alga evolve into a swarm aggressive and near-indestructable monsters that flooded the field.

Currently working on my first completely own-written (ok...there's a little bit of Animal Minimalis in there shhh) robot which is trying to make use of most of its eyes to search for food. May post it somewhere if I'm feeling particularly proud...or something goes horribly wrong, either or.

So anyway, hello Darwinbots forum