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Hi, I\'m finally at home today, the weather isn\'t good enough :( to ski. Will go tomorrow, weather should be excelent :) and with lot of powder snow :) Anyway, I updated the source to implement a good AI tester, i will upload changes to sf soon. It plays around 100 games per minute in 3x3x6 (with L...

I\'ve got an average of ~2000 cubes for the bag generator with your evaluation function and i\'ve got also around 1100 with the uniform gene. Now I understand better your method and i must say that I learned something. At least in 3D Mania, it is good when you have to make a hole to try to make it a...

Re, I made more tests and I saw that the high average value I\'ve got is linked to the random generator. The public source code of the game use a classic uniform generator (rand function) and the provided binary use a bag generator (more information about this in the README file) this code is not pu...

Hi Lieven, I\'m sorry to not having integrate any part of your code in the present release but i would like to understand better your method first. I know that the present AI is far from perfect. As you may noticed, the AI is quite bad in 3x3xY EXTENDED. Concerning test in 3x3x6 BASIC i made only fe...

Hi there B)

Sorry again for this late update. The release
2.4 is now out !
Have fun :)

http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/version.php

All comments are welcome.

I added a frame limiter in the next release. It should solve the problem.
Available soon.

Hi there, Sorry for this very late answer but I got much job during the last 2 or 3 months. Thank you Lieven for your improvement tips :) I have few remarks: - It seems that your evaluation function gives much importance to holes. I don\'t think that this always good, I rather think that there shoul...

> I am mainly working on basic set, with small > dimensions. it plays 3Dmania pretty well > (averaging > around 10.000 blocks before ending). > I will post the code here once it is tweaked and > cleaned up properly (hopefully i get it to play > indefinitely at least in > 3Dmania). Thank you very muc...

Hi, > I managed to get 3Dmania on the lowest depths > (3x3x6) a bit better (gets around 300-500 cubes > average, which is better than what it was and also > a bit better than the original BL). Great :) > Ideally, the comp should be able to run infinitely > in this mode (like humans would if the leve...

Hi there, B) I\'ve just ended the basic programmation for the BL2 DEMO mode. Now, i\'m looking for a good evaluation function. If you are insterred in testing and designing an evaluation function for BL2, grab the source from cvs (D3D/WIN32 only) and recompile it. I added a \"Demo Mode\" m...

Hmm strange, :S It looks like as if the DECLARE macro in MenuPage.h has not been understood by the compiler. Check that the marco is correct. For instance, check that there isn\'t a blank line after the backslash or even an other character. the backslash MUST end the line. #define DECLARE(className,...

> How about > > f=10000*layersdeleted-500*holes-100*thickness-10*smoothness+1*bordersfirst > > ... Yes i think something like that could be good. The smoothness is a very good idea and should be more important. As Fred said it could also be interesting to build an AI that makes multi-line (but may b...

Hi, Thanks :) and Welcome to the forum. 1. There is no plan yet to add a demo mode. In fact this is not really simple to implement. Of course, calculating all possible moves is not difficult but you have then to make an evaluation function as in a strategy game. In other terms, give a note to a pit ...

That\'s cool :) Blockout II is not on the freshmeat homepage may be because i didn\'t make a release for the project. I added one. Will see if the project will be shown... > jeanluc, would you like to submit to there? Yes, why not. I didn\'t have time now. If you can do it it would be cool otherwise...

First page :)

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That\'s great !

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