Movement

Movement is one of the two most important parts of a robot (the other being Targeting). It is how your robot moves around the battlefield. Your Movement is what stops the enemy's Targeting from correctly guessing where you will be when a bullet reaches you.

The implementation of a movement system may well find a specific point it wants to move to. To do that you need a goTo() method. You can find out more on /CodeSnippetGoTo, /CodeSnippetBasicGoTo and /GoToBot

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PatternMovement?

• LinearMovement - Moving in a straight line. Vulnerable to LinearTargeting.
• Oscillators - Moving in a set pattern, which repeats (although the period can be hundreds of ticks long). Vulnerable to PatternMatching.
• CircleBots - Moves in circles. Vulnerable to CircularTargeting.
• WallBots - Moves along the walls. Vulnerable to LinearTargeting, except when near corners.
• RamBots - Moves to hit the enemy. Vulnerable to most targeting, but gets extra ram bonus.
• StopAndGo - Movement reacts on enemyfire. Effective against LinearTargeting and CircularTargeting, vulnerable to PatternMatching and GuessFactorTargeting.

OneOnOneMovement?

• AntiGravityMovement - Works by imagining forces repeling your robot from the other robots, and the walls. Works well in Melee & 1on1.
• PerpendicularMovement - A general term describing a lot of movements systems. They move at right angles to the enemy so their bearing changes as much as possible.
  • RandomMovement - Moves in a randomly determined way, often combined with other techniques to avoid moving in undesirable ways. Check RandomMovementBot for an implementation.
  • DynamicDistancing - selecting a distance from the enemy using past experience.
  • CircleStrafing
• Cannibals - Copy the direction of the enemy (often using MirrorMovement). Vulnerable to AntiMirrorTargeting, and to bad enemy movement.
• ProvocativeMovement - Moving in a way that aids your Targeting, rather than harming your enemy's.
• ChaoticMovement - Similar to RandomMovement, in that is moves in a completely unpredictable way.
• ArbitraryMovement - Moves in an arbitary, but often unpredictable way.
• NeuralReinforcementLearningMovement - Moves in a learned fashion, using a NeuralNetwork
• TrackMovement
• FlatMovement - Moving in such a way that all possible targeting methods should hit roughly equally. (Creating a "flat" graph if one were to graph the movement.)
• WaveSurfing - Moving with respect to where bullets are fired from, usually combined with GuessFactor data about how the enemy has hit you.
  • True Surfing - Continually re-evaluates moving forwards or backwards, "surfing" EnemyWaves similarly to a real surfer.
  • GoTo-Style - Calculates the range it could get to before the closest wave "breaks", and goes to the safest part of the wave (or all waves).
  • Shrapnel Surfing - Calculates the most dangerous part of the oncoming wave(s), and moves furthest from that area.
  • Reverse/Forward Sensors - A form of True Surfing that does *not* use Precise Prediction, but tries to approximate similar results.
  • Experiments - Miscellaneous WaveSurfing experiments.
  • Precise Prediction - Using very precise prediction code to get extremely exact results from your WaveSurfing. Could be used in any of the WaveSurfing methodologies.

MeleeMovement?

• CornerMovement
• AntiGravityMovement - Works by imagining forces repeling your robot from the other robots, and the walls. Works well in Melee & 1on1.
• MinimumRiskMovement - Picks a selection of possible moves, and follows the run with least risk (ie. furthest from enemies)
• BombSheltering - in melee, hides behind weak enemy bots to avoid being hit
• WantedTerrain

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Challenges

• MovementChallenge - Test your movement in a controlled environment.
  • CurveFlatteningChallenge: Try to avoid being hit by one of the GuessFactor guns around (in days long past).
  • AntiPatternMatcherChallenge: Try to avoid being hit by the champion of the PatternMatcherChallenge.
• MovementChallenge2K6 - Updated with some much scarier guns.
  • WaveSurfingChallenge2K6 - Test your movement against HeadOnTargeting, LinearTargeting, and CircularTargeting.
  • CurveFlatteningChallenge2K6 - Try to avoid being hit by three excellent GuessFactor guns.
  • AntiPatternMatcherChallenge2K6 - Try to avoid being hit by a potent PatternMatching gun.
• WaveSurfingChallenge: Can you dodge *every* bullet these bots fire?
• PassiveKillChallenge:
• SampleBotChallenge/Movement?: 1 Movement, 11 SampleBots, 0% hit rate. Can it be done?

Other

• FuturePosition - a code snippet to work out where your movement system will take you.
• WallAvoidance
• MultiMode
• Saving
• Teleport