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Bots and Simulations => DNA - General => Tips and Tricks => Topic started by: PurpleYouko on March 14, 2005, 01:11:53 PM
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Ever noticed that when your little robot reaches enough energy to reproduce, he sometimes doesn't but just keeps right on feeding? The reason is that he can't make a baby when there isn't room in front.
This can sometimes be a critical mistake if you want to colonize the screen before the enemy does.
Here is how you make your robot reproduce without missing a beat.
Start by defining a nice custom variable at the start of the genome. .newmom is my favorite.
def newmom 55
cond
*.newmom 0 >
start
0 .newmom store
628 .aimsx store
stop
cond
*.nrg 6000 >
start
1 .newmom store
628 .aimsx store
50 .repro store
0 .shoot store
stop
Your robot should spin 180 degrees, pop out a baby then spin straight back and carry right on feeding.
What does the "0 .shoot store" line do?
Figure it out. It isn't that difficult!
:D PY :D
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One of my questions:
Which commands are executed in which order? If we could have a list it'd be good to know. I'll look through the source and try it myself.
Knowing that turning happens before reproducing is critical for this to work.
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Turning before shooting is kind of important too.
Turning is actually about the first thing that is done other than changing memory location like .newmom.
A list of the hierarchy of all the commands would be quite useful.
:D PY :D