Botz is an addictive 2D-Robot creation utility. With it, you can design your own Robots that walk, crawl, roll, or bounce. If you can get the hang of it, its very addictive! Special thanks to MaskingTape for help with the fullscreen code! The Botz homepage is now up, at: http://members.theglobe.com/SilverBolt01/index.html
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What a program. I'm not that much of a good programmer, but I can tell that this is good. It's just one thing - isn't this originally an applet found on a site on the net? Is that yours as well, or did you just make a program that controlled the applett? (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
All I can say is WOW. I've been programming in VB for some time now, but i've never seen anything like this before! Great job! Hope to se more of your work in the near future! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Brilliant program. Really amazing, but I haven't built any decent robots yet because I can't see the cursor when it moves into the picturebox. The game is bitblt'ing too fast and the cursor goes all faint so you can't see what you're doing. Maybe you could manually paint the cursor in the main drawing loop. You still get an excellecnt vote from me because the simulation is so accurate! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Again thank you all for your support. I'd just like to announce that the botz homepage is up, although still under construction, at http://members.theglobe.com/SilverBolt01/index.html Also, on one of the questions that have been asked: yes this project wasn't originally my idea and I got my diea from sodaconstructor www.sodaplay.com, however, I wrote this code from scratch. So far I've been answering questions by email but I felt this one needed to be answered publicly.
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In my opinion in this case it equals. There was nothing to help you from that applet. The code you wrote is incredible, whether the idea was new or not. All my thumbs up ! Keep up great work ! BTW, a small note: In muscle simulation, when there are two link handlers over the same location, it is impossible to remove any of the two. Email me for more details
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I dabble in artificial life programming, and this is essentially a world with physics and an object. Here's a challenge for you: can you make this code act in such a way that more than one robot can inhabit the world in such a way that they interact? Perhaps by checking for line collisions between different ones or based on a bounding circle. Big challenge, I know, but here's a neat incentive. If you can do that, you could then easily create a neat robot game for the Internet where people pit their robots against each other. Just some fodder for thought. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Do u know what would be cool? If u could export these as gifs or something and put them on the web and stuff? and, have more features like colors and all that stuff. This thing is too cool. =) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Kevin, I really have to commend you on this one, not only is this an excellent piece of code, its good enough to compile and use by itself for hours of enjoyment, great job! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Wicked Prog Man! But, I can't for the life of me figure out how to edit the Muscle Simulation Graph thingy... you know so I can make my own muscle movements. Please let me know.. ^_^ Thanks (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hey, I found a bug that might be essential in the 1.2 release, when you save a botz file with air friction settings, the program does not load those settings, Ithink it has something to do with the initialization routines, but I can't quite get it to work right... even if I did tho, my botz files would only work on my comp. I hope that you can fix this problem soon, thx. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I only have VB4.0/32bit and I couldn't open the project, so I had to open it up form-by-form, module-by-module. Unfortunatley, Saving, Opening, Toolbar icons, the window underneath the toolbar, were all destroyed. I'm looking at the code, and I'm a bit astonished. I can't even understand anything except the saving and opening Subroutines:). Could you please send me the Executable? I'd appreciate it, otherwise I'll have to try and rebuild it all on my own. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I cant prais this program enough, it is tops. That idea of James Carnicelli's ( 2 bots fighting ) just sounds awsome, please keep me informed of further updates. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
holy cr@p this is awsome! can't wait until next release! keep up the programming, you SHOULD sell this (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Just read the other guys rip off of this, shame about that because this is a good program. Have you done any more work on it since this post ? The idea of having 2 robots (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Looks cool..I guess, apart from the fact that it's not working; Run-time error '6': Overflow... Anyways, the authors WEB site has been dead since june 2000'..a shame! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
This is great! I downloaded this many times, but allways got the same overflow-error. Was not patient ennough... the err is in the File_Parse-sub - but it only comes up, if you are using ',' as your win-delimiter for decimals. If you're german (as me) you should just exchange the Mid$(msg, 2) or simillar code with Val(Mid$(msg, 2)) than the programe runs - wow! Great! (have not looked if the save-subs should be handled in a similar way)
Cheers Wilfried (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
This is great! Only one weird little problem...the dots (vertex) fell off of one of my bots when i loaded it! odd... (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Kewl prog. dude!I found no real bugs or errors and da prog itself rox! Hmm I did do some lil fixing here and there and now it's like...well newayz i cant say nethin da work iz urz not mine. 5 starz frum me! Peace! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Aw man this stuff is like crack. Ican't get off of it!! You are Coooooooooool. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
11/30/2006 11:09:32 PM:
It's great to come back and look at all the positive feedback, even as late as sept 2005, wow! I'm actually here to grab my own code to look at something. Cheers everybody! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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