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Welcome To Darwinbots => Newbie => Topic started by: Art Thou on April 09, 2006, 05:19:19 PM

Title: Help with autosaved files
Post by: Art Thou on April 09, 2006, 05:19:19 PM

Hi all!

What I do with the .dbo files saved by the program? How can I read the DNA?

Thanks!

Title: Help with autosaved files
Post by: Numsgil on April 09, 2006, 05:54:59 PM

I believe .dbo are organism binary files.  They can contain either a single bot or a multibot.  You'll need to load this bot into the simulation to see what it's DNA is.  I believe there's an insert organism command in the edit file menu.

Title: Help with autosaved files
Post by: Griz on April 09, 2006, 10:08:05 PM

what is the Snapshot to Excell zip (http://www.darwinbots.com/FTP/snapshot.zip) thing do?
I thought it was used to read all those saved bot files.

Title: Help with autosaved files
Post by: Numsgil on April 09, 2006, 11:27:09 PM

There's a snapshot command in Darwinbots that creates a "snapshot" of all the current bots as a comma deliminated file.  The snapshot to excel utility converts that comma deliminated file into something that excel can easily manage by removing bots with identical DNA and giving the percentages of each genome.

Eventually I'd like to move all that into the program itself, but it's really on the back burner.