[simspark-devel] Agent selection

[Sander v. D. <sgv...@gm...>]

Hello all,

I have been working on making it possible to select individual agents to
kill or to move away. The result of this can be found at the agentselection
branch of the simspark SVN repository:

svn co
https://simspark.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/simspark/branches/agentselection

Alternatively, you can apply the patch attached here to the trunk. It has
been computed relative to rev 194, but works on the current head, rev 197,
too. The patch adds some new commands to the external monitor:

- n: Cycle through agents. A red marker disc shows which agent is currently
selected
- e: Clear selection
- lctrl+s: Go into specific-agent-selection-mode. A specific agent can now
be selected by pressing l or r and then a number. So the sequence 'lctrl+s,
l, 4' selects the agent with uniform number 4 of the left team
- m: Move selected agent FreeKickDist meters back
- x: Kill selected agent

Have a look and give it a test, let me know if there are any issues or if
you have any suggestions to improve it. One obvious improvement would be to
be able to use the mouse to select agents, but I have not figured out a good
way to do it yet, because the external monitor does not know which bodies
belong to which agent. Ideas are welcome.

Cheers,
Sander

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Adaptive Systems Research Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Hertfordshire
United Kingdom