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Pause: Toggle paused state of simulation

Enable Autosaves: Toggle for allowing periodic autosaves (happen every epoch).

Speed Control: Collection of controls for the render/speed of the program:

• Fast Mode: Disable all drawing. Huge speed improvement.

• Speed setting: Set a specific render/speed setting. This = infinity is basically Fast Mode.

World Options: Collection of controls for the world:

• Load World: Open a dialog window for loading a save by file name.

• Save World: Open a dialog window for saving the world, after giving a file name.

• New World: After confirming action, will generate a fresh new world as if app restarted.

• Disable Spawns: Close the world and prevent any new agents from spawning.

• Disable Land Spawns: Only prevent new agents from spawning on land.

• Moon Light: Allow agents to see other agents at night at reduced visibility.

• Mutation Events: Allow additional mutation events to possibly occur.

• Global Droughts: Allow global drought variable to be set and used each Epoch.

• Drought Mod: The current plant and fruit growth multiplier. Changes each Epoch.

Visuals: Collection of controls for visualization shown in the Main Display.

• Layer: Collection of options of the Cell Layer visualization. See Cell Layers for details. Note that in version 0.06 you can select multiple layers simultaneously.

• Agents: Collection of options of the Agents visualization.

  • off: Agent drawing disabled.

  • RGB: display the true RGB of agents as they appear to other agents.

  • Stomach: Red is carnivore, green is herbivore, yellow is frugivore (eats fruit).

  • Lungs: Blue is aquatic, teal is amphibious, green is terrestrial.

  • Health: Green is healthy, red is dead, injured or dying agents blink orange.

  • Rep Counter: Agents close to reproducing will flash on this visualization.

  • Metabolism: Orange is high (puts intake toward babies), green medium, purple is low.

  • Discomfort: temperature discomfort, blue is comfortable, orange is uncomfortable.

  • Volume: greyscale based on agent volume, waves of red is low-pitch, purple is high.

  • Species ID: pseudo-random color for each distinct species. Not perfectly reliable.

  • Crossable: based on the current selected agent, light blue are perfect matches, dark blue are close enough to reproduce with, and lavender are close relatives.

• Selected: Collection of options for the additional selected agent in-world display.

• Hide Dead: Hides dead agents if turned on (note: they are still simulated)

• Grid on: Toggle the cell grid that usually appears when zoomed in to be always visible.

Selection: Collection of controls for selection and following of agents. Please Note: these modes are not active while in Fast Mode (except Relative mode; see below):

• • off: deselect all agents

  • Manual: allows the user to select or de-select agents at will. Selecting agents manually automatically activates this mode

  • Oldest: selects the agent with the highest age counter.

  • Best Gen.: selects the agent with highest generation counter.

  • Best Herbivore, Best Carnivore, and Best Frugivore: selects the agent with generation >0 and with the best respective stomach type.

  • Healthiest: selects the agent with the highest health, with some grace period.

  • Most Energetic: selects the agent with the lowest exhaustion/highest energy.

  • Productive: selects the agent with the most children / age.

  • Aggressive: selects the agent who has the highest attack score (hits=0.25, kills=1).

  • Relative: This mode will, when the selected agent dies, select a new agent based of a set of criteria and prefering agents of the same age, same generation, same species, same stomach type, same temp preference, etc. Will revert to Manual if none found.

• Follow Selected: Toggle to follow agent with camera.

• Save Selected: Save the selected agent with a prompt for agent save name.

• Load Agent: Prompt for agent save name and then, if successful, allows placement of loaded agent. Press again to disable.

Play Music: if enabled (by default), plays music.

DEBUG: Start Debug mode, printing verbose Output.