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Bot Tavern / Kelp-like alga?

« on: December 17, 2007, 08:22:43 PM »

Well, after messing around with two different alga (both based on alga_minimus and probably some others for little tidbits of code), I was wondering how I would make a plant whose top cell floats and then has cells tied to it who simply dangle below (the sim would be with gravity of some nature).  Ideally, the top cell would be able to create both cells below it and other plants, while the lower cells would simply collect energy.

here's what I've come up with for maintaining a certain depth, I'm not sure if this is the best way, but it certainly creates a solid layer of floating alga when these genes are added to alga_minimus

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cond
 *.aim 314 !=
start
 314 .setaim store
stop
 
cond
 *.depth 5000 >
start
 2 .up store
stop

cond
 *.depth 3500 <
start
 0 .up store
stop
So, any ideas for how I would create the different identities for the two types of cells, and how I could just generally go further with this one?

Thanks

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Newbie / Hey / Noob-ish question

« on: December 17, 2007, 06:24:28 PM »

Hey guys

I've been messing with DarwinBots for about a week now, and have a question about two possible alga and how I would go about making them:

the first is thus:
I've created a simple multibot, but I've noticed that the little "herbivore" I've made manages to utterly destroy it every single time, so I was wondering if there was some way that I could make it grow to be  certain number of bots in size (say, 10) and then all further offspring would be "shot" off in random directions, so that the species would have a better chance of survival.

Any ideas about how to do this?  Or where I would find how to do this?

my second idea:
After messing with gravity, I created an alga that maintains a depth of 5000 and I've discovered that it survives a lot better than minimus or my multibot alga, and Now I was wondering if I could combine the two, because it seems that a multibot is supposed to be better, but my little guy keeps winning.  my idea was thus:
have a multibot where the first cell "floats" at whatever depth I choose and then the offspring dangle below it.  Unfortunately I don't know how to only make the first bot float.  Also, it seems that I should have the top bot start creating other strands of itself after creating the first attached bot, allowing the attached one to continue to grow down.


I don't know how hard these would be to do, and I'm not even sure if anyone checks these forums anymore... but, I figured that it's no harm in asking and it could seriously help.

Thanks