ant creation contest for everyone phun and algodoo

[CasperFalandysz]

hello im planing to make a realistic ant that moves by itself and behaves likely a real one and then i just wanted to get some inspiration for the project so anyone brave enough show me you skills and make me a "ant"

RULES;
it has to find the food whiten 3minutes

it must be able to walk (people with algodoo is allowed to use inertia multiplier, people with phun will have to stay to lucid or so )

it must be STRONG and able to hold the food (leaves)

it shall have 8 legs (or 6 cant remember the amount of legs a ant have but 8 I guess) that it uses to walk


POINTS is giving by this way; max score is 100%



the look 25% (the way it moves legs and so while walking and some other stuff) [25%]

the time it is about finding all food 50% -15% per minute it is about it' [50%]

if it is self thinking (walking in some direction finds a leaf and starts a process for getting it) can be done with thyme/scripts/mechanics, mechanics give more points than script [25]

if it has anything nice/cool like digestive (it has to be digesting it slowly about 6+ seconds for a leaf) [bonus points, points not getting dragged from in time]

OTHER;

this competitions ends 1/2/2011
I have found a price for the winner xD but it is a secret until 1/2/2011 xD

ask if I forgot anything important ?

normal mode here http://www.algodoo.com/algobox/details.php?id=50635
hard mode here ;coming soon;
"a all new kind of contest" (I guess xD)

NOTE; if anyone makes a good swarm of ants working together as one that person will win big time but it will be hard

[Rideg]

I'm defently going to try this one

[TC42]

Ants have six legs.


If I've read the rules correctly, the ant must be autonomous, right?
And yes, you have forgotten to include starting scene...

[CasperFalandysz]

oh yeah xD will upload one now. and no it dont have to be but it give more points

[Ravenplucker]

It is obscenely hard to make something that small due to how Algodoo/phun handles physics. I suggest upping the size limit a lot.

[davidz40]

Size limit is what makes this interesting

[CasperFalandysz]

bigger sizes is allowed since the map is bigger but if anyone wanna make it realistic then go ahead but then make map smaller also

[TC42]

It is obscenely hard to make something that small due to how Algodoo/phun handles physics. I suggest upping the size limit a lot.

So make a big ant, and scale it down

[Someone Else]

Are we allowed to collaborate on this? Because I could probably make a pretty confident 6-legged walker, but it would crawl right over the leaves. Or if I could make the ground immortal, it could simply kill the leaves as it walks by. But neither of those would make you happy. I do have some ideas for very fast digestion, but I do not want to release them here.

But, DOES ANYONE WANT TO COLLABORATE WITH ME IF IT'S LEGAL? If so, because this is a contest, we would have to communicate thru PM, but that probably wouldn't be a big problem.

Really, with enough time, I think I could do about everything you mentioned, except for (a)thinking, and (2)eating.
However, I am not sure -11 days will be enough.

I would not be surprised if Raydeg is the only person who has posted here so far that would be able to create a fully-functioning swarm of ants. Kilinich or RaRaMalum could probably do it, too, but they haven't posted here yet.

It does seem weird, somehow, that the two people I have collaborated with most recently have already posted here.

[CasperFalandysz]

collabs is allowed as long as the result is good, and about the leaves I would prefer it picking them up with its mouth and then slowly digesting the parts in the mouth good luck anyone, and yeah I guess rideg could make a ant swarm but he have to many projects ATM, so he don´t have time xD

[Rrobba]

Ants have 6 legs.

Also, can this be from an over-head view?

[CasperFalandysz]

then it would match the map and it would be harder I guess but I can make a map and call it advanced for people wanting to try bird view ant making

[Rrobba]

Ok then. I'll get started on something.

[Someone Else]

Now that I know that collaboration is indeed legal, I need somebody to collaborate with. I have built a six-legged walker that gets across the map pretty confidently, but, as I said earlier, it does not know the difference between ground and leaf. Oddly enough, its stride really does look like an insect. And it does not use any stabilizers, other than its own legs. If it could pick up a leaf, the weight would likely crush its legs, so it would need to somehow retract them and sit down to eat. Also, the legs like to get out of sync, so I will need to scale it up, make a drive shaft, and scale it back down. No big deal.
But I doubt I can bake it differentiate between food and nonfood without help.
So, does anyone want to collaborate?

[CasperFalandysz]

BTW there was a bug with the red thing hitting stuff and the leaves not hitting heterocollide:=true that is fixed now