
15-03-2004, 13:47
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Why did I come back?
AKA: Jamie Bliss
 FRC #4967 (That ONE Team)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Posts: 2,071
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Programming Competition: Autonomous Simulator
NOTE: I created this thread to move specific discussion away from this thread: Interest in Programming Competition?.
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Originally Posted by SilverStar
Point taken well, but if something is to be ready when Nationals are over, I think it would be best to plan ahead.
1. Yes, the simulator would be available to teams ahead of time.
2. Who is writing the simulator? I don't know. Maybe I'll make it a sourceforge project.
And, I think the visual simulator will be a Java/C++ hybrid, not Flash.
OR - the simulator could be a Direct3d application that would download real time data from NRG's server.
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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303
There's an idea. DirectX covers video, audio, multi-player, and probably some other things. But realtime may be a little excesive (Maybe not- you may just stream position data and sound)
If you go DirectX, can we send virtual models of our bots with an INI describing motor data?
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Originally Posted by SilverStar
That is a great idea for motors being describing in an INI. Virtual models would be possible if someone can write a model loader in Visual Basic for DirectX 9.0. I've begun writing the simulator, I'll probably have incremental downloads accessible at the RoboCoder (any ideas for a better name?) site:
http://nrg.chaosnet.org/coder
I would have to precompute each match's results at our computers. Then I would make the simulator download the latest match and play it so that each robot followed the path I precomputed. Then after the match, you could resubmit code to improve. I would then precompute the next match's results, and the cycle continues.
I'm trying to figure out a way to spread the word, how would I go about doing this?
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