Out of interest, which bots use Shrapnel Surfing?? Im thinking of making a comback into the Robocode world and I had an idea to try WaveSurfing using this method. --Wolfman
Yes Wolfman, please make a comeback, we've missed ya! Start with enlighten me on what shrapnel is. It's not part of my limited english vocabulary. -- PEZ
From www.dictionary.com : "Fragments from an exploded artillery shell, mine, or bomb.". I guess that the reason it is called Shrapnel Surfing is that you are trying to avoid all the bits of "flying shrapnel" (bullets & their respective movement vectors). As for making a comback, I'll see what I can do, but I have limited programming time due to now working full time. And im full time programming at work so sometimes the last thing I want to do when I come back from work is to do some more. :o
-- Wolfman
Is it the AntiGravity surfing you figure on implementing? That would be cool to try. CassiusClay/Butterfly is very much like AntiGravity. Only the space in which the gravity forces work is one-dimensional. -- PEZ
Yeah its the anti-gravity style movement that I was planning on implementing. I dont know how good or bad my implementation is going to be. I allways try to come up with my own methods of doing things. 95% of the time my own methods dont seem to work very well, but I have fun trying them out. And its nice to say that I didnt copy code from Bot X and Bot Y to make my own. :)
-- Wolfman
Has anyone tried implementing this in a bot? I'm thinking of making Yoda a multi mode surfer and the thought of GoTo? surfing and True surfing as the two modes seemed boring. if you have tried putting Shrapnel Surfing in a bot i would much like to hear about your experience and thoughts. -- Gorded
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