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| Submitted on: 5/27/2000 7:44:16 PM
By: Kevin Laity
Level: Advanced
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By 36 Users
Compatibility:VB 5.0, VB 6.0
Users have accessed this code 10781 times.
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| | | Botz is an addictive 2D-Robot creation utility. With it, you can design your own Robots that walk, crawl, roll, or bounce. If you can get the hang of it, its very addictive! Special thanks to MaskingTape for help with the fullscreen code! The Botz homepage is now up, at: http://members.theglobe.com/SilverBolt01/index.html
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5/27/2000 7:56:10 PM:Jon Jarvis
Wow! It is like this program at school
caleed Interactive Physics! Excellent
Work!
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5/27/2000 8:01:35 PM:Kevin
Veryy Cool!!
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5/27/2000 8:05:07 PM:SteSoft Software
COOOOOOOOOOOOl
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5/27/2000 9:36:19 PM:Brian
WHOA!!! Hours of FUN!!!
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5/28/2000 6:03:33 AM:Fredrik Stai
What a program. I'm not that much of a
good programmer, but I can tell that
this is good. It's just one thing -
isn't this originally an applet found
on a site on the net? Is that yours as
well, or did you just make a program
that controlled the applett?
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5/28/2000 10:09:25 AM:Matt
Where can I get the "updown control"
use in this project ?
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5/28/2000 2:37:42 PM:IGCODING
All I can say is WOW. I've been
programming in VB for some time now,
but i've never seen anything like this
before! Great job! Hope to se more of
your work in the near future!
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5/28/2000 4:11:26 PM:[peer]
The original applet is from
http://www.sodaplay.com
The net one
is pretty cool, and I've been wanting
to have a version that can save for
quite a while.
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5/29/2000 1:44:02 AM:WHOA
oh my god.... this is the best thing i
have EVER SEEN DONE IN VB.... HOLLY C*AP
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5/29/2000 3:57:07 AM:Simon Price
Brilliant program. Really amazing, but
I haven't built any decent robots yet
because I can't see the cursor when it
moves into the picturebox. The game is
bitblt'ing too fast and the cursor goes
all faint so you can't see what you're
doing. Maybe you could manually paint
the cursor in the main drawing loop.
You still get an excellecnt vote from
me because the simulation is so
accurate!
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5/29/2000 9:42:21 AM:Mike Firsikov
Brilliant indeed. I am astonished
!!!
Great work.
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5/29/2000 9:54:24 AM:Kevin Laity
Again thank you all for your support.
I'd just like to announce that the botz
homepage is up, although still under
construction, at
http://members.theglobe.com/SilverBolt01
/index.html
Also, on one of the
questions that have been asked: yes
this project wasn't originally my idea
and I got my diea from sodaconstructor
www.sodaplay.com, however, I wrote this
code from scratch.
So far I've been
answering questions by email but I felt
this one needed to be answered
publicly.
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5/29/2000 3:20:38 PM:Mike Firsikov.
In my opinion in this case it equals.
There was nothing to help you from that
applet. The code you wrote is
incredible, whether the idea was new or
not. All my thumbs up ! Keep up great
work !
BTW, a small note: In muscle
simulation,
when there are two link
handlers over the same location, it is
impossible to remove any of the two.
Email me for more details
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5/29/2000 10:49:10 PM:Beuno
Amazing work!
PLEASE update this
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5/30/2000 6:57:23 AM:§m¤¢k
This code is amazing!!!
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6/5/2000 6:34:09 PM:!nnovation Software
OH. MY. GOD.
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6/5/2000 6:39:52 PM:!nnovation Software
two words :
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6/6/2000 12:33:33 PM:Detonate
Phenomenal.
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6/13/2000 2:15:00 PM:James Vincent Carnicelli
This is just way too cool :)
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6/13/2000 2:27:41 PM:James Vincent Carnicelli
I dabble in artificial life
programming, and this is essentially a
world with physics and an object.
Here's a challenge for you: can you
make this code act in such a way that
more than one robot can inhabit the
world in such a way that they interact?
Perhaps by checking for line
collisions between different ones or
based on a bounding circle. Big
challenge, I know, but here's a neat
incentive. If you can do that, you
could then easily create a neat robot
game for the Internet where people pit
their robots against each other. Just
some fodder for thought.
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6/14/2000 4:42:34 AM:Jonathan Allen Feucht
I can't believe my eyes. I give you all
the thumbs I have.
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6/14/2000 2:51:33 PM:Dustin Davis
All i can say is D@MN! This program is
very sweet. Exellent job man.
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6/15/2000 7:23:12 PM:Daniel Errante
holy $%(*
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6/15/2000 7:30:41 PM:Daniel Errante
I would vote this for best code of all
time on planet source code
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6/15/2000 7:35:13 PM:Daniel Errante
ok i know this is my third time posting
in a row but jeez
this is soooo cool
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6/15/2000 7:42:25 PM:Daniel Errante
Do u know what would be cool?
If u
could export these as gifs or something
and put them on the web and
stuff?
and, have more features like
colors and all that stuff. This thing
is too cool. =)
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6/16/2000 2:32:45 AM:\/īŽč® Tč¢.
I wish I had more thumbs than 3(no
typo)!! I would put them all up!
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6/19/2000 12:34:06 PM:Travis Rosenbaum
Kevin, I really have to commend you on
this one, not only is this an excellent
piece of code, its good enough to
compile and use by itself for hours of
enjoyment, great job!
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6/21/2000 12:15:20 PM:Caleb
Awesome! Great Program!
Keep Up The
Good Work!
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6/21/2000 2:29:05 PM:Saure
Wicked Prog Man! But, I can't for the
life of me figure out how to edit the
Muscle Simulation Graph thingy... you
know so I can make my own muscle
movements. Please let me know..
^_^
Thanks
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6/26/2000 3:16:14 PM:Travis Rosenbaum
Hey, I found a bug that might be
essential in the 1.2 release, when you
save a botz file with air friction
settings, the program does not load
those settings, Ithink it has
something to do with the initialization
routines, but I can't quite get it to
work right... even if I did tho, my
botz files would only work on my comp.
I hope that you can fix this problem
soon, thx.
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6/29/2000 10:31:26 AM:Mark Hamilton
I only have VB4.0/32bit and I couldn't
open the project, so I had to open it
up form-by-form, module-by-module.
Unfortunatley, Saving, Opening, Toolbar
icons, the window underneath the
toolbar, were all destroyed. I'm
looking at the code, and I'm a bit
astonished. I can't even understand
anything except the saving and opening
Subroutines:). Could you please send me
the Executable? I'd appreciate it,
otherwise I'll have to try and rebuild
it all on my own.
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7/3/2000 4:41:28 PM:skulldugrey
This is the coolest thing I have ever
seen in vb.
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7/4/2000 6:41:31 AM:Branden
u could have sold this if u wanted
to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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7/8/2000 4:59:03 AM:Dan Messenger
I cant prais this program enough, it is
tops. That idea of James Carnicelli's (
2 bots fighting ) just sounds awsome,
please keep me informed of further
updates.
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7/25/2000 1:22:04 AM:Beuno
Congrats on the good coding!
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8/29/2000 3:09:10 AM:Steven
Really COOL
Please e-mail me if there
are any updates.
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1/11/2001 12:41:24 PM:Rogerio
Sincerely I don't understand a thing:
HOW this program is so eulogized if it
doesn't work !
I made the
download of the program and the only
thing that he does it is I to show a
lot of msgbox saying: "Run-time error
'6': Overflow"
I see at code and
are many vars declared as Single, but
at certain moment, the program try to
attributes values double for them !
Very interesting same!
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1/16/2001 6:12:43 PM:WOW
holy cr@p this is awsome!
can't wait
until next release!
keep up the
programming, you SHOULD sell this
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1/16/2001 7:11:13 PM:Dan Messenger
Just read the other guys rip off of
this, shame about that because this is
a good program. Have you done any more
work on it since this post ? The idea
of having 2 robots
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1/16/2001 7:13:32 PM:Dan Messenger
...sounds great but the code would be
very complex.
Please reply by
email
Thnx, -Dan
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3/31/2001 5:35:24 PM:Robocop_2000
Looks cool..I guess, apart from the
fact that it's not working;
Run-time
error '6': Overflow...
Anyways, the
authors WEB site has been dead since
june 2000'..a shame!
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6/18/2001 8:15:57 PM:Kevin
cool, but one thing
how do i do the
muscle movements like your botz example
bots
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6/18/2001 8:16:56 PM:Kevin
and please add a function to reset the
bot after testing
cause some of my
botz have been ruined because you dont
have that feature
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6/19/2001 3:34:23 AM:Kevin
you should make a website to upload....
trade.... and share botz
you could
be a famous (maybe)
this isnt the
greatest game... but i give it 5
stars
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6/24/2001 8:56:51 PM:Kevin
i got all the bugs fixed in my
version....
so when ya gonna make
those battling botz... soon i
hope
and i think ya should make an
OCX so people can DISPLAY their
botz.....
that would be cool
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2/5/2002 3:31:20 PM:Wilfried
This is great!
I downloaded this many
times, but allways got the same
overflow-error.
Was not patient
ennough... the err is in the
File_Parse-sub - but it only comes up,
if you are using ',' as your
win-delimiter for decimals.
If you're
german (as me) you should just exchange
the Mid$(msg, 2) or simillar code with
Val(Mid$(msg, 2))
than the programe
runs - wow! Great!
(have not looked if
the save-subs should be handled in a
similar way)
Cheers
Wilfried
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6/26/2002 7:39:41 PM:kpgraci@rtconline.com
This is great! Only one weird little
problem...the dots (vertex) fell off of
one of my bots when i loaded it! odd...
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7/11/2002 6:23:46 PM:JJ
Hey!!! You're site doesn't work. It
would be great if all your future
projects could be posted.
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12/18/2002 7:51:09 PM:The Unknown Coder
ITS THE SAME AS SODAPLAY! this is a fun
program , but does get boring.great
coding there!
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12/26/2002 6:48:40 AM:Martin Dinov
Kewl prog. dude!I found no real bugs or
errors and da prog itself rox! Hmm I
did do some lil fixing here and there
and now it's like...well newayz i cant
say nethin da work iz urz not mine. 5
starz frum me! Peace!
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