User:Wompi - Revision history

Wompi: Kowari - basic notes

2013-03-29T12:33:58Z

Kowari - basic notes

Sheldor: Fixed a few errors.

2012-12-15T20:51:07Z

Fixed a few errors.

Wompi: update

2012-07-03T12:55:31Z

update

Wompi: updated

2012-05-12T13:22:15Z

updated

Wompi: updated bot description

2012-05-11T10:18:16Z

updated bot description

Wompi: link to subpage

2012-04-17T23:07:18Z

link to subpage

Wompi: new user page

2012-04-17T21:52:04Z

new user page

New page

== Background ==

I'm a (now - 1972) old geodesist who worked most of the time as software developer. I live in gemany, but spend a couple of years in australia. Thats probably the reason why all my bots have aussi animal names. And please don't ask me why my english is so bad. My first robocode experience was in Jan 2012 and i wished i had known earlier about it. For me it is a great oportunity to fetch back some long lost math skills.

I still struggle with the robocode basics, but i slowly get the hang of it. Most improvement so far - my mind accepts trigonometry as natural and easy again. I'm mainly inerested in melee/team activities, because that gives good thinking problems and i like the dynamic behind it. Right now i play with virtual bullets, waves and a melee radar.

== Bots ==

* [[Wallaby|wompi.Wallaby]] - micro melee bot and the best i came up with so far. It has a good PlayItForward gun with wall backtracking and averaged enemy velocitys. The radar is a simple gunheat lock. And the movement is shameless stolen from two nanobots ([[DustBunny|mld.DustBunny]],[[Caligula|oog.nano.Caligula]]). I had a somewhat good aggressiv orbiting movement, where i won every testmatch with, but it was rather useless for the competition. So i was in need for a little test movement to get a feeling for the ranking dynamic. And thats where the two nanobots came in. It works quite good, but i have to change it to something selfmade in the near future. It uses antigrav movement until the herd is thinned and than it goes oscillating to closecombat.

* [[Quokka|wompi.Quokka]] - nano melee bot with somewhat naive circle movement and linear gun. It's 21th of the nano melee rumble, but mainly because i would see how the movement works
* [[Echidna|wompi.Echidna]] - modular coded bot who can handle almost everything what i came up with so far. Couple of guns (HOT,PlayItForward,Linear,Circular,Displacement Vector gun, PatternGun), Radars (Simple Spin,GunLock, MeleeFieldScan, WeightedScanField), Movement (Antigrav,BattleFieldSegmenter, MinimumRisk, Orbiting)
* [[Wombat|wompi.Wombat]] - this should be my mega bot, but until i don't get the basics this one is stalled. Idear for this one is to implement a melee field statistic supported by ants
* [[Bilby|wompi.Bilby]] - nano and concept bot, handles little code snippets

* [[Turret|wompi.Turret]] - stationary target which can be equipped with all my guns (they don't shot each other, kind of my first team)
* [[Stone|wompi.Stone]] - like a SittingDuck but can be commanded to certain fieldpositions

== Goals ==

* well, of course to make a well written bot
* maybe to find something new (always exciting)
* to have fun (i have no doubt about that)
* to see how ants might be work for robocode bots

== Code Snippets ==

This is mostly for me a reminder but feel free to use it if you like

[[Category:Bot Authors|Wompi]]

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 * [[Wombat|wompi.Wombat]] - This should be my mega bot, but until I get the basics this one is stalled. An idea for this one is to implement a melee field statistic supported by ants.
 * [[Numbat|wompi.Numbat]] - A melee bot with [[oldwiki:PatternMatching/SingleTick|Single-Tick Pattern Matching]] based on  [[oldwiki:SingleTick|SingleTick]], a tutorial bot of [[User:Simonton|Simonton]]. Supports my weighted melee radar and Wallaby movement.
 === Teams ===

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 == Background ==
-I'm a (now - 1972) old geodesist who worked most of the time as software developer. I live in gemany, but spend a couple of years in australia. Thats probably the reason why all my bots have aussi animal names. My first robocode experience was in Jan 2012 and i wished i had known earlier about it. For me it is a great oportunity to fetch back some long lost math skills.
+I'm a (now - 1972) old geodesist who worked most of the time as a software developer. I live in Germany, but I spent a couple of years in Australia. That's probably the reason why all my bots have Aussie animal names. My first robocode experience was in Jan. 2012 and I wish I had known about it earlier. For me it is a great opportunity to fetch back some long lost math skills.
-I'm mostly interested in melee and team activities because it is fun to watch.
+I'm mostly interested in melee and team activities because they are fun to watch.
 == Bots ==
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 === Melee ===
-* [[Wallaby|wompi.Wallaby]] - micro melee bot and the best i came up with so far. It has a good circular targeting gun with wall backtracking and averaged enemy velocities. The radar is a simple gun heat lock. The movement combines minimum risk with antigravity and oscillation.
+* [[Wallaby|wompi.Wallaby]] - A micro melee bot and the best I've come up with so far. It has a good circular targeting gun with wall backtracking and averaged enemy velocities. The radar is a simple gun heat lock. The movement combines minimum risk with antigravity and oscillation.
-* [[Quokka|wompi.Quokka]] - nano melee bot with somewhat naive orbit movement and precise circular targeting gun. It's 22th of the nano melee rumble, the movement is still to weak. The gun is somewhat special within the nano class, because it fully supports circular targeting with wall handling and wall backtracking.
+* [[Quokka|wompi.Quokka]] - A nano melee bot with somewhat naive orbit movement and a precise circular targeting gun. It's only 22nd place in the nano melee rumble, because the movement is still too weak. The gun is somewhat special within the nano class, because it fully supports circular targeting with wall handling and wall backtracking.
-* [[Echidna|wompi.Echidna]] - modular coded bot who can handle almost everything what i came up with so far. Couple of guns (HOT,PlayItForward,Linear,Circular,Displacement Vector gun, PatternGun), Radars (Simple Spin,GunLock, MeleeFieldScan, WeightedScanField), Movement (Antigrav,BattleFieldSegmenter, MinimumRisk, Orbiting)
+* [[Echidna|wompi.Echidna]] - A modular bot that can handle almost everything that I've come up with so far. It has multiple guns(HOT, PlayItForward, Linear, Circular, Displacement Vector gun, PatternGun), Radars(Simple Spin, GunLock, MeleeFieldScan, WeightedScanField), and Movements(Antigrav,BattleFieldSegmenter, MinimumRisk, Orbiting).
-* [[Wombat|wompi.Wombat]] - this should be my mega bot, but until i don't get the basics this one is stalled. Idear for this one is to implement a melee field statistic supported by ants
+* [[Wombat|wompi.Wombat]] - This should be my mega bot, but until I get the basics this one is stalled. An idea for this one is to implement a melee field statistic supported by ants.
-* [[Numbat|wompi.Numbat]] - melee bot with [[oldwiki:PatternMatching/SingleTick|Single-Tick Pattern Matching]] based on  [[oldwiki:SingleTick|SingleTick]] a tutorial bot of [[User:Simonton|Simonton]]. Supports my weighted melee radar and Wallaby movement.
+* [[Numbat|wompi.Numbat]] - A melee bot with [[oldwiki:PatternMatching/SingleTick|Single-Tick Pattern Matching]] based on  [[oldwiki:SingleTick|SingleTick]], a tutorial bot of [[User:Simonton|Simonton]]. Supports my weighted melee radar and Wallaby movement.
 === Teams ===
-* [[TassieDevils|wompi.TassieDevils]] - my first entry to the twin team action. Incredible fun to play with and i really like it. The first step wasn't that impressive because it lost to almost every team - beside the almighty [[LunarTwins]]. Looks like the tassies can be a major threat to the leading team with survival rate of 70%. Right now i have plenty of code size left (almost 1000byte) and many ideas to spend it. The Twins are based on  [[Wallaby|wompi.Wallaby]] and share the same code for gun, movements and radar. I implemented a very basic team force system which lets the tassies stay together or far away from each other. These can handle aggressive close combat teams and mid range splitters.  The source will be released if i can clean the code somewhat, right now i'm to shy to show my ugly programming "skills". But it is, like said, all based on wallaby.
+* [[TassieDevils|wompi.TassieDevils]] - My first entry to the twin team action. Incredibly fun to play with and I really like it. The first release wasn't that impressive because it lost to almost every team - beside the almighty [[LunarTwins]]. Looks like the tassies can be a major threat to the leading team with survival rate of 70%. Right now I have plenty of code size left(almost 1000 bytes), and many ideas to spend it on. The Twins are based on  [[Wallaby|wompi.Wallaby]] and share the same code for gun, movements and radar. I implemented a very basic team force system which lets the tassies stay together or far away from each other. These can handle aggressive close combat teams and mid range splitters.  The source will be released if I can clean the code somewhat, right now I'm too shy to show my ugly programming "skills". But it is, like I said, all based on wallaby.
 <br>Next step is to fix the poor performance against StopAndGo movers.
 === Misc ===
-* [[Bilby|wompi.Bilby]] - nano and concept bot, handles little code snippets
+* [[Bilby|wompi.Bilby]] - Nano concept bot, handles little code snippets.
-* [[Turret|wompi.Turret]] - stationary target which can be equipped with all my guns (they don't shot each other, kind of my first team)
+* [[Turret|wompi.Turret]] - Stationary target which can be equipped with all my guns (they don't shoot each other, kind of my first team).
-* [[Stone|wompi.Stone]]  - like a SittingDuck but can be commanded to certain field positions
+* [[Stone|wompi.Stone]]  - Like SittingDuck, but it can be commanded to certain field positions.
 == Goals ==
-* well, of course to make a well written bot
+* Well, of course, make a well written bot.
-* maybe to find something new (always exciting)
+* Maybe find something new (always exciting).
-* to have fun (i have no doubt about that)
+* Have fun (I have no doubt about that).
-* to see how ants might be work for robocode bots
+* See how ants might work for robocode bots.
 == Code Snippets ==
-This is mostly for me a reminder but feel free to use it if you like<br>
+This is mostly a reminder for me, but feel free to use it if you want.<br>
 [[User:Wompi/MeleeRadar|MeleeRadar]] [[User:Wompi/GraphicDebugRobotPath| DebugRobotPath]]
 [[Category:Bot Authors|Wompi]]

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 == Bots ==
-* [[Wallaby|wompi.Wallaby]] - micro melee bot and the best i came up with so far. It has a good PlayItForward gun with wall backtracking and averaged enemy velocitys. The radar is a simple gunheat lock. And the movement is shameless stolen from two nanobots ([[DustBunny|mld.DustBunny]],[[Caligula|oog.nano.Caligula]]). I had a somewhat good aggressiv orbiting movement, where i won every testmatch with, but it was rather useless for the competition. So i was in need for a little test movement to get a feeling for the ranking dynamic. And thats where the two nanobots came in. It works quite good, but i have to change it to something selfmade in the near future. It uses antigrav movement until the herd is thinned and than it goes oscillating to closecombat.
+* [[Wallaby|wompi.Wallaby]] - micro melee bot and the best i came up with so far. It has a good circular targeting gun with wall backtracking and averaged enemy velocities. The radar is a simple gun heat lock. The movement combines minimum risk with antigravity and oscillation.
+* [[Quokka|wompi.Quokka]] - nano melee bot with somewhat naive orbit movement and precise circular targeting gun. It's 22th of the nano melee rumble, the movement is still to weak. The gun is somewhat special within the nano class, because it fully supports circular targeting with wall handling and wall backtracking.
 * [[Echidna|wompi.Echidna]] - modular coded bot who can handle almost everything what i came up with so far. Couple of guns (HOT,PlayItForward,Linear,Circular,Displacement Vector gun, PatternGun), Radars (Simple Spin,GunLock, MeleeFieldScan, WeightedScanField), Movement (Antigrav,BattleFieldSegmenter, MinimumRisk, Orbiting)
 * [[Wombat|wompi.Wombat]] - this should be my mega bot, but until i don't get the basics this one is stalled. Idear for this one is to implement a melee field statistic supported by ants
@@ Line 15: / Line 14: @@
 * [[Turret|wompi.Turret]] - stationary target which can be equipped with all my guns (they don't shot each other, kind of my first team)
-* [[Stone|wompi.Stone]]  - like a SittingDuck but can be commanded to certain fieldpositions
+* [[Stone|wompi.Stone]]  - like a SittingDuck but can be commanded to certain field positions
 == Goals ==
@@ Line 27: / Line 26: @@
 This is mostly for me a reminder but feel free to use it if you like<br>
-[[User:Wompi/MeleeRadar|MeleeRadar]]
+[[User:Wompi/MeleeRadar|MeleeRadar]] [[User:Wompi/GraphicDebugRobotPath| DebugRobotPath]]
 [[Category:Bot Authors|Wompi]]