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DB Art / Seasnake

« on: October 04, 2008, 08:36:01 PM »

Hey Ericl,

Would you mind posting that latest version in the Bestiary? The one currently in there is just 1.0. Thanks!

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Darwinbots3 / Mutation protection

« on: September 30, 2008, 09:06:58 PM »

Hi,

I just noticed that, whenever there is a mutation in real-life organism, it almost never occurs in a vital area, like a metabolic pathway, even though such vital areas make up most of our DNA. Therefore, most organisms must have some sort of mutation protection for their vital genes. So, for DB3, or maybe even the next version of DB2 (since it should be an easy change), we should add a feature where a coder can select which portions of the bot's DNA are vital for life, like the reproduction code, and those portions will be, say, ten times less likely to get a mutation. That way, we will never have to deal with something "evolving" until it's unable to eat. What do you think?

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Darwinbots3 / New bot shape

« on: September 29, 2008, 10:14:30 PM »

Primordial Life is interesting, however I think that evolving such a creature would be something to aspire to rather than have it built-in. I do think, however, that certain substances, such as chlorophyll and muscle, will act as a sort of substitute for these "body parts".

Well, in nature, don't different bacterial species have different shapes as well? In fact, if we want true multicellularity, then doesn't that require specialized tissues, with specialized cells? Besides, it will make it far more interesting, even at the single-cell scale.

Well, no I wouldn't take bacteria as a good example for different shapes. Diversity in shapes overall between animals, plants and fungus is there anyway, I just wanted to nitpick  .
Substances like chlorophyll will as I see it make for a big part specialised cells. They are the reason after all leafs are green.

So, I am sorry for missing your point. What did you meant?

Well, basically I meant that I don't think multicellular life could have gotten as complex as it has if all our nerve, muscle, spleen and skin cells were just rods. Letting a gene control bot shape would allow you to let algae evolve a large surface area, for example, or let multicellular animals evolve all the different shaped cells we have now.

Also, I don't think it's practical to give every cell the abilities we do, like to see. This is, first of all, nothing like real life. They should have a gene that controls the ability to respond to light/sound/smell/whatever for a cost. That way, there's also less processor consumption and an incentive to become multicellular, so you can sense as many things as possible, since each cell can only do one.

Just a thought.

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Darwinbots3 / New bot shape

« on: September 29, 2008, 03:56:55 PM »

Primordial Life is interesting, however I think that evolving such a creature would be something to aspire to rather than have it built-in. I do think, however, that certain substances, such as chlorophyll and muscle, will act as a sort of substitute for these "body parts".

Well, in nature, don't different bacterial species have different shapes as well? In fact, if we want true multicellularity, then doesn't that require specialized tissues, with specialized cells? Besides, it will make it far more interesting, even at the single-cell scale.

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Bug reports / Internet Mode error!

« on: September 29, 2008, 03:44:56 PM »

Resetting the program tends to fix it once it gets in that "unable to disconnect" state.

The problem is it's ALWAYS in the "unable to disconnect" state, ever since I start the program. Resetting does nothing.

Also, once in a while, it finally says it teleported in something, like seasnake 8020..., but I see nothing there. The only thing I've ever successfully teleported in was flyfruit, twice, after two days on the IM. Ugh!  

Anyone else get this on their machine? Is it a problem with vista? Thanks!

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Bug reports / Internet Mode error!

« on: September 28, 2008, 04:32:19 PM »

Hi, in internet mode, I keep getting this:

9/28/2008 2:15:24 PM: Time out getting FTP Directory of bots
9/28/2008 2:16:56 PM: Time out disconnecting

OVER and OVER... Nothing works.

Also, when it did work, I would get this all the time:

9/28/2008 1:41:07 PM: Error disconnecting Unable to connect to remote host

I know EricL said to wait, and it goes away as the teleporter works once every few hours, but does this really happen to everyone? Does IM usually only work once every few hours?

Thanks, and sorry for all the errors I keep posting. At least it runs now, though.

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Bug reports / New Error!

« on: September 28, 2008, 04:26:21 PM »

Alright, for all hope Try this installer.
Right click on it and choose run as admin.

This should work (I think) and should let DB run normal.

If it doesn't work.
Did you get the file from the internet(google). If so, I gues you're unlucky enough to get a wrong version or something. .Here is The file you need.

Edit: link added.
And if you're thinking you're doing the admin-thing wrong. The way you did it in the other topic works as far I know.
It seems a little far fetched. I must say, but it is vista......

Thanks, it works now!!!

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Bug reports / New Error!

« on: September 27, 2008, 02:57:12 PM »

Here's the error:

When I do regsvr32 C:\Windows\system32\msstdfmt.dll, I get

The module "C:\Windows\System32\msstdfmt.dll" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x8002801c.

I'm assuming this isn't admin related because it didn't mention anything about not being in admin mode.

Also, how do I run as admin anyway? This is vista obviously.

This is the sequel to "Another one..."

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Evolution and Internet Sharing Sims / internet sharing problem

« on: September 27, 2008, 02:24:11 PM »

In the internet log window, I keep getting

"Error disconnecting Unable to connect to remote host"

Does anyone know a solution?

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Bug reports / Another one...

« on: September 16, 2008, 11:30:58 PM »

I just tried to change the sim costs, and I get Run-time error '713'...

"Class not registered.
You need the following file to be installed on your machine.
MSSTDFMT.DLL"

Thanks in advance (again)
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Okay, another error...

when I do regsvr32 C:\Windows\system32\msstdfmt.dll, I get

The module "C:\Windows\System32\msstdfmt.dll" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x8002801c.

I'm assuming this isn't admin related because it didn't mention anything about not being in admin mode.

Also, how do I run as admin anyway? This is vista obviously.

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Darwinbots3 / New bot shape

« on: September 16, 2008, 10:44:04 PM »

Have you seen the program "primordial life" ( http://www.io.com/~spofford/ )? I think that is the best: to have the bot SHAPE, not just behavior, be able to evolve. What do you think? maybe one of the lines could be a "linker" line to enable multicellularity?

Have you seen the program "primordial life" ( http://www.io.com/~spofford/ )? I think that is the best: to have the bot SHAPE, not just behavior, be able to evolve. What do you think? maybe one of the lines could be a "linker" line to enable multicellularity?

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Bug reports / Error 339? (solved!)

« on: September 16, 2008, 10:37:50 PM »

I discovered how to do it, but it's more in-depth than that thread makes it appear. Here's how to do it:

1:Start>search for cmd.exe, R-click, make shortcut to it on desktop
2:R-click it, choose run as administrator
3:type in regsvr32 comct232.ocx (you must be in system32)
4:try running it again, find what it says it is missing now (/\/\/\/.ocx)
5:go back to 3, typing in /\/\/\/.ocx instead, until there are no more errors!

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Bug reports / Error 339? (solved!)

« on: September 16, 2008, 03:12:48 PM »

I just downloaded and installed DB2.1 & 2.43.1L . When I try to run a new sim in DB 2.1, it just crashes. When I try to run a new sim in DB 2.43.1L, I get this:
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Run-time error '339':

Component 'COMCT232.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid

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This is on vista. Thanks in advance for any help!

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Newbie / Evolution sims

« on: May 15, 2008, 01:42:37 PM »

What I mean is like in this thread: http://www.darwinbots.com/Forum/index.php?...ic=2677&hl=

Did you get it to work?

Also, has anybody else made an interesting evosim?

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Newbie / Evolution sims

« on: May 06, 2008, 04:23:58 PM »

...I ran a large field with low food with a neural network like structure as a base. ...

A Neural net? Cool. Could it actually learn? Also, how did you get mutations to only affect the neural net's weights, instead of modifying instructions and turning your A.N.N (artificial neural net) into gloop?