Upcoming Features! -- READ THIS BEFORE POSTING

[Ryan Clark]

Hi everyone! Please read this list of upcoming features before posting any new feature requests! This'll help save time and prevent repetition We do read EVERY reply to this thread, and will consider all suggestions!

Want to see what features we've recently added? Click here to see our development log.

Coming Soon
- Ability to drag objects around with the mouse, while simulating in Sandbox Mode - Done!
- A fix for the "replay sync" issues - Done!
- Slow motion or fast motion replay
- Search function for the "Load Robot" and "Load Replay" screens - Done!
- A much larger sandbox - Done!
- Make it so that sliding joints can be non-collidable - Done!
- Allow sliding joints to begin in "extended" position
- A "challenge editor" so that people can create their own challenge levels (including ability to alter gravity), with specific goals, and high score tables - Done!
- Ability to alter friction coefficients
- Ability to alter "restitution" (bounciness)
- Ability to specify a rotation angle precisely

A little bit later...
- Some way of measuring units
- A grid system, to allow you to create bots more precisely
- Ability to visualize the objects that are connected when a joint is selected
- Ability to pre-script a sequence of actions for your robot
- IncrediFights bot-battle tournaments (you each upload a pre-scripted bot, and we see who wins)
- Add "auto extend" or "auto retract" ability to sliding joints
- "Breakable" joints, with assigned key to "break" it
- Ability to pre-define a series of keypresses on a frame-by-frame basis
- "Triggers" -- touch something and a motor will activate
- A "Pre-built" menu, with good (made by us) stuff, like tanks, ragdolls, etc
- Cannons that auto-spawn bullets when a key is pressed - Done!
- Collision groups

On the horizon!
- Built-in chat on the IncrediBots website
- Gradient colouring of shapes
- Downloadable version of the game -- more powerful, can handle larger simulations
- "Upload to YouTube" capability
- Freehand shape drawing
- Water
- Ropes and elastics
- Soft body physics
- Multiplayer mode


And, of course, if you find any BUGS, we always want to know about them! So please reply to this thread with bugs, or NEW feature requests that are not listed above.

Thanks everyone!

[Machaira]

Am I missing something or is there no way to change the keys used to rotate a rotating joint?

edit: seems I can set them in the Challenges but not in the Dump Bot level.

[Ryan Clark]

I think that editing the keys is disabled, for that tutorial level. Will have to check on that, though.

[Machaira]

Hmm, loaded the Monkey Fail replay and got a "credit limit exceeded" message that wouldn't go away. Tried it again and it seemed to work. I'll try to recreate.

[Andy]

Oh neat, I just discovered the keybinding thing... that should make it a bit easier

Could I suggest that the "Cut" button be replaced by a "Duplicate" (copy+paste in one click) button. I've never seen a reason to do a cut (why not just drag the object?) but every time I've copied something I've wanted to paste it straight away.
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[Andy]

Beating the obstacle course for the win (there is a saved replay called "FTW", but it has the same bug as the other one).

When I finished the level, I saved the replay, then went to view it, from this view if I click on "Share", it says that I need to save it as a public replay first - it should link the previous save with that.
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[Ryan Clark]

Thanks for the reports, guys! We'll look into these.

Too bad your replays didn't work Andy... how did you trigger the drawbridge with that bot?

[Sirisian]

About the key binding thing. There needs to be a pop-up window or something where you can label what keys do. Like when a person makes a robot and adds keys w,a,s,d a box will pop up that allows them to label what the keys do for that robot. Then when another person loads that robot the key bindings will show up in a little box. Right now I found myself mashing the keyboard for a response.

[Andy]

[Sruixan]

One minor gripe that I do have is: can you make it so I can resize parts after placing them? Only after spending ages creating my machine, I find I've made a part too big and have to replace numerous joints after resizing it. And then I find I've still got the size wrong.

Also, is it possible to have a button which allows you to restart a simulation, rather than go back into tweaking mode and then back into the simulation? Only, most of the time the problem is not in the machine, but in the way my clumsy fingers handle it! :oops:

EDIT: Oh, and I've just come across another problem. I've made a robot and its successful attempt at finishing "Off-Road". I fancy sharing it, since it's beaten all the other scores (yay!), so I save both the robot and the replay and click on the "Comment on this Robot" button (whilst the forums say "Comment on this Replay", I presume it's the same thing, or am I missing something?). It connect to the forums and then says: "Error: a database error has occured". Any light to shed?

EDIT AGAIN!: Oh, if I view the replay of "Ryan Clark: 600", your score on "Off-Road", it links to your attempt at the long jump.

[Andy]

[Sruixan]

Now, I know that the challenge is called: "Off - Road", but that was ridiculous!

[Ryan Clark]

Thanks for the bug reports, feedback, and suggestions, guys! All good stuff; please keep it coming!

[Sirisian]

Could we possibly get the ability to have objects collide with themselves? Like the ability to assign collision groups. Right now when I try to build something complex it assumes that I don't want any of the objects to collide with one another.

Also the undo button doesn't undo color changes.

[Ryan Clark]