Darwinbots Forum
General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Numsgil on January 15, 2006, 05:25:28 AM
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http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/2491/neatlookingbots3wa.gif (http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/2491/neatlookingbots3wa.gif)
Has to be the coolest thing I've ever seen. I jacked the life of shots way up (I'm working on that now) and this is what I got.
Is anyone interested in seeing the program so far? I'd have to wrap up a few loose ends for it to work on many different people's computer, so I don't want to do that quite yet if there's no interest (most things are still not working quite right yet).
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looks cool :)
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don't wanna spoil the experience :)
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Nice! :)
BTW where have all the buttons gone?
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I haven't added them yet ;)
Although zoom is controlled by the mouse now, so those buttons won't be needed.
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I was meaning to ask about that. Could we add Left, right, (left and right)/middle click functions?
How's the speed of the new program? As long as the new shot times don't slow it down too much, I'm all for it. B)
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Shot times were me just screwing around. They're absolute hell on speed. I don't see them as real features.
The sim is maybe 20 or 30% faster as is. That's assuming no graphical dispaly. OpenGL is a billion times faster than Visual Basic graphics, so there's actually not that huge a speed hit when you turn graphics on. I've had to artificially limit sim times during testing to be honest.
The real beauty is that I can experiment with different algorithms to make it faster that would have been more difficult with Visual Basic.
We can add any sort of mouse clicks/button combos pretty easy. The GUI library, once I figured it out, is pretty easy to manipulate. There are a few frustrating things I still don't understand, but I'm getting there.
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Okay I was just a little bit worried. :) I gotta admit some of the graphical stuff we're able to do with DB is pretty cool; sometimes its fun just to fool around with using the bots as a giant paint program.
Could we maybe come up with some speed control buttons? Maybe even a input box that users could set.
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I think so. There's definately a need for a way to control the speed now that the graphical display is loads faster.
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It's kinda hard to see:
Another picture (http://img466.imageshack.us/my.php?image=odd1jw.jpg)
The larger bot is normal sized. The smaller bot has been -6 shooted. I'm sure it's a bug, I was getting quite a few bots like that.
However, interesting note. When they're that small, it's absolutely impossible to hit it with a shot.