default.properties

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# world related properties
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worldWidth  = 512
worldHeight = 384

# the amount of food present
# values close and less to popSize bring life to competition
foodCount   = 30


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# population properties
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# the amount of organisms per generation
popSize         = 32

# the number of elite organisms
eliteCount      = 4

# the maximum amount of mutations per organism per round
maxMutations    = 6


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# organism properties
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# the maximum program size for each organism
progSize        = 256

# the amount of registers available to each organism
registerCount   = 24

# this was the old default value which allowed super-instant direction changes
#maxSteerForce   = 10.0

# testing lower steer forces to discourage immediate direction setting
# 1.5 seems to be a good value
maxSteerForce   = 2.5

# this influences the maximum movement speed of the organisms
maxSpeed        = 4.0

# the int scale factor is used to scale up double values to integers
# when passed to an integer-only EvoVM register or to scale down
# output values back to doubles for further processing by the world.
# this value is very important, as it significantly influences a lot
# of the other scaling factors, like maxSteerForce and maxSpeed
intScaleFactor  = 8192.0


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# radarsense properties
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# a good default value for fine beam control
radarSweepSpeedScaleFactor = 64.0