Re: Rounds running!

Olivier Michel <[email protected]> Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:23:46 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cybernetics.webot.contest
Organization Cyberbotics Ltd.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bothari wrote:

>Hi !
>
>It's really cool to see the contest ON again.
>
>I've just noticed that all the possible fight have been done 
>and can be found in :
>http://roboka.org/archive/28_May_2004/
>  
>
Yes, actually I had to run several rounds before it finally worked as I 
wanted.

>It's really cool. I was particularly interested by the match 
>gollum nutrina. As nutrina wins this one, I am surprised you 
>point gollum as the second best actual robot instead of nutrina...
>  
>
gollum was one of the best during the first tests...

>This off contest fight are cool for futur opponent to adjust 
>their robot before next day match :) It will be a good 
>incitation for people to work on their robot as they can see 
>what will append if they do nothing :))
>
>I find nutrina 'frog' way of getting up interressting and 
>quite efficient (even if it is not yet 100% efficient).
>  
>
Hehe...

>The change for the hand seems to be they now are 'solid'.
>(you can check it by clicking on the robot in webots to see 
>the solid boxes).
>Cool :)
>  
>
I am happy you liked it.

>I know there is a lot of requirements in your todo list, but I 
>just want to add one :)
>
>What do you think about robot color personalization ?
>I don't know if it is difficult or not to implement. It is 
>probably not, as we already have this for the led.
>
>I think it is better to limit the choice among a limited set 
>of color (to avoid sky color robot :).
>But even 4 colors or lighter/darker degree of the current one, 
>and the possibility to set one for each part of teh robot 
>(head, back, arm, legs, hand) we will get so cute robot :)
>would be cool.
>
>So the same thing used for the led but for each robot's part, 
>with no possibility to change them (could be written in a 
>robot_color.txt file on the server ?)
>
>It was just an idea :)
>  
>
Ok, I'll add this to my TODO list...

>Just a question as a conclusion: can we have some info about 
>what you plan now to work on (cf all the propositions of 
>modifications/ideas done before : which one are refused, 
>postponed, or planned to be implemented soon or later).
>  
>
The most important thing is now to enable collision detection inside the 
same robot to avoid that a robot can pass his arm through its body.

The secondly most important thing is to allow for off-contest matches 
that could be started by users on demand when the round is not running.

>Thanx in advance.
>
>Bothari, who has just solved it's ankles problems :) and now 
>face the gravity center positionning difficulties :/
>  
>
Still progressing ;) Good luck for the rest of the contest!

-Olivier



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