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Bots and Simulations => Bot Tavern => Topic started by: Ramiro on March 09, 2007, 03:45:41 PM

Title: I miss SWARM
Post by: Ramiro on March 09, 2007, 03:45:41 PM

Hello, been a while since the my alst post.

I have moved to 2,43 and SWARM does not form swarms any more!!! Has anyone have a new version of this bot?

I use it as veggies for my evolution sims (as some kind of hervivorous herd)

Please help. I love this bots

Title: I miss SWARM
Post by: Elite on March 10, 2007, 01:40:10 PM

I've released another version for 2.43. It's in The Bestiary (http://www.darwinbots.com/Forum/index.php?showtopic=2036)

I've fixed it so all the coding now works, and took the oppertunity to use Eric's eyeXwidth command to give it 360 degree vision, which has really helped with the swarming. And now with an antivirus gene to give it a chance at F1 against virusbots without affecting it's usual behavior

I've attached a swarming vegetable: essentially SWARM 2.0 with all the attack genes stripped out and some minor modifications for collision avoidance and random reproduction staggering

Title: I miss SWARM
Post by: EricL on March 10, 2007, 02:45:28 PM

I would be interested in understanding why the old version did not swarm in 2.43...

Title: I miss SWARM
Post by: Elite on March 10, 2007, 05:48:00 PM

It was using come conditionless coding that depended on negative storing not functioning. Negative stores are absoluted now, so it was storing when it shouldn't.

Title: I miss SWARM
Post by: EricL on March 10, 2007, 07:18:10 PM

Okay, cool.  I don't mind breaking things if it was done consiously for good reasons....