Darwinbots Forum
Code center => Bugs and fixes => Topic started by: Botsareus on November 19, 2005, 06:52:53 PM
-
I am looking for the 'defult settings' for 2.4.A and the 'F1 settings' for 2.4.A it turns out that 2.4.A has repopulation of vegs set to 0 when you turn on F1, I think thats a horable idea.
-
Bots, are you a newbie?
Why are you in the newbie forum?
-
Moved to bugs and fixes, cause that's where the thread is heading, I can feel it.
F1 settings simply don't change whatever the veggy repop values are. It's not programmed to.
A good F1 setting might be 30 vegs repopulated, with a threshold of 10 and a cooldown of 0.
No default settings exist as of yet, you may need to experiment to get a good setting going.
-
I got bugged down with settings like:
"Is the big blue screen a liquid or a solid bc all I want to do is make accurate F1 settings"
or
"To have friction=3 do I need to set 'zaxis-gravity'=3 or what?"
-
F1 does (I think) automatically set all physics constants.
-
Nope.
And I found out somthing else too:
When you load a simulation the 'big blue screen' gets unset again...
-
Look under advanced physics.
The controls in the main GUI are simply ways to set some predefined physics constants. The actual constants themselves are what I propose F1 is setting more or less correctly. Maybe not the newer ones (Planet Eaters) but definately the older ones like friction and brownian motion.
The physics do not preclude having settings that are indicative of both solids and fluids.
-
Here is what I did:
I set Z axis gravity to 3
and I set The big blue screen is a intermindiate fluid.
Is this ok?
But when I load it from a save sim , big blue screen gets unset again...
-
Z axis gravity is simply a multiplier for friction effects. If kinetic and static coefficients for friction are 0, Z axis gravity basically does nothing.
The 'is it a fluid or solid' simply sets wether the resistive force is constant (in the case of friction on a solid surface) or proportional to velocity (Drag in a fluid). That is, it effects Z axis gravity and the coefficients, and viscosity and density.
-
If kinetic and static coefficients for friction are 0, Z axis gravity basically does nothing.
kinetic = 3^0.5
static = 3^0.5
Z axis gravity = 1
SOLID = metal (or???)
is this good?
DO NOT FORGET: WHEN I LOAD THE SETTINGS AGAIN, I HAVE TO FIX IT ALL THE TIME id.e. SET IT TO SOLID ALL THE TIME... :tantrum: :D
-
Yes, that's fine.
-
whats the difference between metal or sandpaper? (does the advanced physics change?)
bug alert , bug alert teuteuteuteu
DO NOT FORGET: WHEN I LOAD THE SETTINGS AGAIN, I HAVE TO FIX IT ALL THE TIME id.e. SET IT TO SOLID ALL THE TIME...
:lecture:
Thank you for your coapiraton (I am still thinking about that dreaded polarity problem)
-
Let me be very explicit.
All those little drop down menues you see that aren't in the advanced physics panel are simply little shortcuts to effecting the controls you see in the advanced physics panel.
It's the advanced physics panel sliders that are saved and loaded to disk.
If the shortcut dropdown menus don't appear to be set to anything, that doesn't mean the physics constants aren't.
-
I GOT IT! YES! (sorry for lack of understanding of anything thats not too explisit)
(I will mess arround at home, get the right friction going. thanks for your help)