Comments on: D-Robots and Delphi Robot Rage

By: Ken Adam

Ken Adam — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:19:39 +0000

Have you established any of the (undocumented) limitations/meanings of some of the parameter values?
I assume that “accel” must be less than 1 (from the values returned by GET), but I don’t have any feel for the impact of (e.g.) sensitivity.
I ended up spending all day yesterday experimenting - and I still tend to get stuck against walls but with BOT_OBSTACLED returning false.

I presume the original author has abandoned the project, since his website hasn’t been updated in a long time. Pity there is no source to develop this further (a running scoreboard would be interesting, for example).

(And yes, I’d also written a log wrapper which works)

By: Jim McKeeth

Jim McKeeth — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:21:21 +0000

That appears to be a limitation. I haven’t found a work around yet.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:16:32 +0000

Coincidentally, that’s what I’m seeing as well - even for something as simple as BOT_GET_X. It just freezes in-place.

Not all internal functions do this, though, only seems to be the BOT_* ones. I wrote a small WriteLog procedure to call Log with a prefix to the given string (to more easily tell my logs apart from the other bots), and that works fine.

By: Ken Adam

Ken Adam — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:43:05 +0000

I tried a quick bot this morning, but it seems that if I put “BOT_” calls inside a procedure, they do not return. (bot gets stuck doing last action, and no “log” messages are printed)
Simply pasting the code inline works as expected.

Is there something special I need to do?

By: Jim McKeeth

Jim McKeeth — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:21:26 +0000

I’ll post some more detailed info tonight. There is an editor that is included with D-Robots. It will run your robot from within there too.

By: Lachlan Gemmell

Lachlan Gemmell — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:17:50 +0000

So I write a pas file as described in the helpfile then what do I do with it? How do I run it?