What is AI.Planet?

AI.Planet is a virtual world for artificial intelligence. The environment has water, land, suns, moons, and atmosphere. Plants, animals, fish, and insects can be added to create a dynamic ecosystem. Clouds, rain, wind, lightning, rivers, and icebergs naturally arise from the sun and other influences. You can explore your planet from outer space, by walking around, by tracking creatures, or by controlling a robot that interacts with objects.
Artificial Planet is an OpenSource project built with GLScene.

Features

Collision Response
Shadows
Beacons
Loads of Creatures
Loads of plants
Underwater
Flocking
Death
Terrain Collision
Tracking and Prediction
Grabbing
Object Oriented
Beach Balls :D
Communities
Learning
Mating
Earthquakes
Space
Thunder
Different enviroments
Natural Clouds
Day/Night cycle (depending on if you have a sun).

Whole list of features:
http://aiplanet.sourceforge.net/features.htm

My Opinion
I think it is a great game with plenty to do, but I can't see its full ability since my computer is shit and it lags :(.

Its like spore but without half of the cool stuff spore has like creature creation etc

Enough blabbering here is some pictures and downloads!!

Ants

Natural IceBerg

Meteor Shower

Detailed picture with iceburgs, evolving plants, fruit, clouds with rain
and some birds

Multicast Shadows

Fruit Foraging

A missile defense system gets a barrage of asteroids thrown at it
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/aiplanet/aiplanet-defense.avi
More screenshots go here:
http://aiplanet.sourceforge.net/screenshots10.html

Downloads
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=68377
CapsAdmin High resolution textures!
http://files.filefront.com//;6532118;;/


Websites
http://aiplanet.sourceforge.net/


Ai.planet's sequel
http://www.naiture.com/

The game ROCKS.

Edit:

For some reason the game crashes everytime i load or make a new planet.

Extremely buggy, but has alot of potential!

Those graphics are exellent!

I think I read somewhere on the site that their making a sequel

I found it!

"A sequel is in the works, one that is bolder and simpler. It promises to be a radical improvement on the first version, with the focus on the development of a special new artificial consciousness design. A new engine has been built for it. While AI.Planet has become popular for end users, it is quite a feat to maintain and change. Therefore the next evolution will be leaner and meaner, with some cool features you might not expect. Stay tuned! :)"

I've known about this for ages.

Yeah, well congrats!
Your the one who posted it in the tech demo thread, so then I downloaded it and played it and then made this thread.

D: Mine won't even start. I click on the shortcut, and it gives me that mean Windows Error of Death thing. Also, I have the system requirements...

It won't start. Whats going on here? Anyone have a fix? Please post it.

It's actually a virus, your computer has seven days to live, I hope your computer is not connected to the phone line to hear the bad news.

The graphics are... colourful

Not to mention the milk white icebergs

Cool, it doesn't work. And quit complaining about the graphics. It's a freeware game. Besides, I'm not sure you want to render an entire planet full of AI with extremely good graphics.

Yeah it won't open for me ether.

We do, but we don't realise how shitty our computers ACTUALLY are.

Ok I just right clicked and set it to windows 95 compatibility and it is working now.

Yep, thank you!

One of the fun things in that game is forcing a collision between two things orbiting the planet, causing a meteor shower and an aftermath of thunderstorms and rocks melting to become land.

How do you make to things orbiting the planet to collide?

Darn, still will not work.

This looks fun, but I too can't get it to work. :( How do I get it to work, boss?

This worked for me. At least it got to the "press any key" and then started the program, which caused my PC to go so slow that I had to resart it. But it worked.

I got it working, and I'm playing it. Runs nice and smooth (I downloaded the patch off of the website.)

Apparently my fish are so starved for food that they've adapted and have started fighting for the felled apples from the apple trees nearby the shore

I wish there were human beings in this.

this thing continue to crash too, and is there a way to enlarge the planet? I wish there was human life and see it evolve as well on there culture settings.

Edit:

This game is too buggy, I uninstall it till it improve, I also want to make my planet without crashes plus I wish there was some color changes as well and allow human beings and demons in too so we can have some fun with this.

Seeing as the guy who originally made it has left it to anyone who feels like messing with the source, I don't think it's going to be updated anytime soon.

It has yet to crash for me, and started up on my first try, I guess i'm lucky.
I released like, 50 crabs on my planet, they killed everything, trees, seeds, fruits, other animals.
Ducks, Foxes, and mice went extinct because of those bastards.

It was released in '03, you're gonna be waiting a LOOOOOOOONG time.

Any mods for this game?

Woah, I tried downloading this game like a year ago but it wouldn't run, let me try this again :P

Hehe, I made a bunch of Trex' and some turtles, and the turtles ate them. o.o

Yay, it works, now to make an army of ants to do my bidding

Hahaha. I think Earth doesn't like me.


[spoiler]OH NOEZ! LIGHTNING AND ASTEROIDS!! [/spoiler]

Wow this game is so unbelievably realistic. Like, that Dolphin just flew into the air and ate the hawk.

Poor you, My planet went extinct due to crabs!

Agh.. I downloaded the game and it won't run.

Edit:

Alright, downloaded the patch, now it works. :)

It's cool, but I'm still exploring what I can do. Once I get over that it'll probably be boring. Not much goes on. I think I'll zap the place with lightning. :D

Wow, this is fun. I just made armies of ants and they slowly devoured a tiger bit by bit


Then one turtle choked on an orange seed

Well, I made a star, then threw it around.
It then orbited the planet in what seemed like a broken figure 8, at times it would get incredibly close to the planet.

I did it again with the moon and the sun, They both do it now. What the hell.

woah this game looks awesome

OH SHI-

T-Rexes have killed all of my planet's land animals :(

Those bastards better get ready for ants

Well, this game sucks... I hate it cause of the multi classes and can't even make my world via new world cause it crash and crash and crash... no wonder they stop making this, it's a crashing planet.

Did you right click on shortcut, go to properties, go to compatability and set it to Windows 95? That should work.

Edit:

Also, how do I get shadows to work?

It won't let me raise any land... (I've clicked Terrain, then Raise Land, and click on the big blue sphere at the start...?

Actually you select the terrain you want (dirt, grass, etc) and THEN click on the planet

Why do the graphics suck?

Ah. It had to be in Play mode. Still confusing as hell, can't figure out how to delete sun or anything. and the Planet is surrounded by blue that Is like a fog. I can't get anything sunny like in the pics in the first post...

I... Need... Spore...NOW.

Why must you tempt me with Spore-like games??

This looks awesome.

my turtles eat everything even lions :(

Not me.

Aww what the hell. Just had it going good when it closed.

Another worthy moment! My ducks were harvesting fish, and tossing them in a pile. Then, it crashes.

To prevent lag.
Holy crap, I just got bot number 666!

Turtle : Hey, that TRex looks interesting.


That made me

As is my custom, I edit nearly every model I can get my grubby hands on. I decided I'd have a go at the orange trees. Once the oranges fell from palms, now they fall from..



My usual thing is importing shit, which I would do if I could create my own npcs/other shits for this. For now, editing suits me fine. I was going to do the apple tree first, but it's mysteries are not yet open to me...

:w-hat: model should I edit next?



EDIT
Each ant, overall has

4508 polies
and he made everything else such low poly :o

This looks great. Downloading.

I've redone the clouds, for lack of better things to do. I'm gonna remodel the defense system later.

OBSERVE the diaperclouds





also, here's a picture of a hawk carrying a bird that's carrying an ant


edit, webhost is being a shit sorry

You can save and load planets, anyone care to upload their planets n' shit?

I tried looking for the download to the source code, can't find it :(
If anyone has it, could they please upload it?

Let's rotate around my planet, *CRASH* Ok then let's try putting a duck down *CRASH*. I crash randomly. ALOT anyway to fix this?

I hardly crash, I just get a terrible frame rate, like 4.0 fps or something, but that is because I have a shit graphics card.

I can't see any textures or models...

Any ideas? :(

Doesn't run for me.

Make sure you download the patch.

I did, still no luck :(.

Downloading now, looks fun.

I think the output window on the right is telling you the problem.

How do you make your view forward when your are walking on your planet? I am always looking down...

Try using the "eyes" camera, just a thought.

It worked, Thanks :D But where do I extract the patch?

To the directory where you installed ai.planet, it just replaces the .exe

To your desktop, and Run it me thinks.

Either way

Telltolin, can you please remodel the bunny?

I was going to, but sadly it uses a shared model. If I edited the rabbit, it'd change the grazer, mouse and the tiger also (i think, considering that those models are identacle except for color, but i know there is no specific "rabbit" model)

If this game relies on the GPU then I should have some uber results.

I wish we could get some coders, to clean and add to the code.

Awesome find.

looks, FUCKING,EPIC!

Important!
Don't use the patch, then will you be able to see the models, textures, etc and play the game properly

The patch works fine. If you extract it to the ai.planet directory and you don't just run the patch ai.planet exe standalone it should work fine.

Thank you! Finally this game won't crash on me!