Zapper
| zapper | |
| Author(s) | Beaming |
| Extends | AdvancedRobot |
| Targeting | kdTree, Random, kdTree assisted random |
| Movement | Wave surfing with exact path predictor |
| Released | 2019 |
| Current Rating | 1on1 80.13 (64th) |
| Current Version | v4.35 |
| Code Size | MegaBot |
| Code License | open source and comes with no string attached |
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Contents
Background Information
What's special about it?
It is my attempt to write a better monolithic (single file) bot.
How competitive is it?
In 1 on 1 it is still quite weak and hovers just above top 100.
What is under the hood?
It is a wave surfer with kd-tree danger zones and kd-tree powered guns which decide between each other who has a best hit rate. Among common tree coordinates, it uses virtual/real wave, and was hit actually happening. Also, it takes in account time if gun needs it. The whole calculation is done on one nearest neighbor cluster. But weighted differently. Kd-tree coordinate weights for distance calculation are renormilized at the beginning of each battle (this seems to be a novel approach).
How does it move?
It creates a danger profile for an enemy wave based on kd-tree and surfs it. Depending on enemy hit rate it weights real and virtual hits/waves differently. For low hit rates enemies, it avoids real hit locations, but fore a better aiming opponents it avoids virtual hits too.
How does it fire
It used kd-tree with different weights for several guns, and select the best hitting one. There are also HoT and random guns (simple and kd-tree range limiting) in the mix.
Great, I want to try it. Where can I download it?
It is in the official rumble so just use the link from RoboRumble/Participants
Thanks
I still suffer from "not coded here syndrome" so my code is quite original. But this bot would not work without Skilgannon and Rednaxela kd-trees.
Nevertheless, I owe to many people who made this wiki and its content available. Special thanks to Voidious and his wonderful RoboRunner tool which I used.
I extend my appreciation to Xor who is active in this Wiki, who keep me motivated to continue to improve. Additional, thanks for bug fixes in the robocode engine and RoboRunner.
