Evolution - Learning Creatures

September 19, 2022

- Added wings and a flying task - Define a fitness penalty if certain joints touch the ground - Assign IDs to muscles that should expand and contract at the same time - Exiting a simulation will now load its creature design into the editor - Bug fixes - Stability improvements

September 3, 2020

- Fixed creatures with more than 100% fitness to still be properly sorted.

April 1, 2020

Fixed a bug that could cause some not-yet-fully-placed muscles and bones to get stuck and stay on the screen in the creature editor when touches got cancelled.

October 22, 2019

- Fixed a bug that caused neural network settings changes to not be applied immediately

October 4, 2019

3.0.1: Bugfixes Evolution 3.0 is here and it comes with many new features. Here are some of them: - Import and export save files (so you can share them with your friends) - Distance markers - New and improved editor UI - New save file selection UI - Search save files - Rename save files - Undo & Redo - Selection tool - Move bones and multiple joints at once - Pinch to zoom - Customize muscle strength - Customize bone and joint weights - Multiple selection algorithms - Multiple recombination algorithms - Multiple mutation algorithms - Improved physics simulation performance - Improved visual simulation clarity - Option to hide muscles completely - Zoom during the simulation - Change the population size during the simulation - Rendering the neural network visualization is now about 200x faster - Smaller save files - New Help UI with improved performance Fixes - Added iPhone X/XS support - Fixed memory leaks - Improved deterministic playback - The simulation is now more stable so there should be fewer glitches

September 19, 2019

Evolution 3.0 is here and it comes with many new features. Here are some of them: - Import and export save files (so you can share them with your friends) - Distance markers - New and improved editor UI - New save file selection UI - Search save files - Rename save files - Undo & Redo - Selection tool - Move bones and multiple joints at once - Pinch to zoom - Customize muscle strength - Customize bone and joint weights - Multiple selection algorithms - Multiple recombination algorithms - Multiple mutation algorithms - Improved physics simulation performance - Improved visual simulation clarity - Option to hide muscles completely - Zoom during the simulation - Change the population size during the simulation - Rendering the neural network visualization is now about 200x faster - Smaller save files - New Help UI with improved performance Fixes - Added iPhone X/XS support - Fixed memory leaks - Improved deterministic playback - The simulation is now more stable so there should be fewer glitches

May 30, 2018

Fixed a bug that caused the autosaver to accidentally delete old save files instead of just overwriting the current autosave.

April 28, 2018

- Help section translation in Russian, Portuguese and German - Visualization of muscle contraction / expansion - Important fixes and other improvements

November 14, 2017

- new default creature "ROO" - the screen will not go to sleep during the simulation any more - minor fixes

August 31, 2017

New Features: - You can now move joints after you’ve placed them - There’s also an optional grid to help you with placing the joints - Customizable Neural Network size - Delete saved creatures and simulations - Option to watch the creatures one at a time while they simulate - Option to simulate a generation in multiple batches - Adjustable advanced simulation settings - You’ll get to see more stats about the best creatures In addition to these new features I’ve also fixed a bunch of major and minor bugs. v1.1.3 Update: Minor additions and fixes: - You can now move the camera around in the creature building scene by using two fingers. - Added an autosave option that saves the simulation at every generation that's a multiple of 10 (so 10, 20, 30...) - The population size, time per generation and the chosen task is now saved in between simulations