The Bibites 0.6 Alpha 13: No more constants (Patreon)

Brain Changes

Added default activations to brain nodes, replacing the constant node

Added indicator for default activation

Added default activation mutations and adjusted respective probabilities

Added Integrator Activation Function (integrate input over time)

Added inhibitor Activation function (self-inhibits, and gradually returns to 0)

Brain Updater will take care of converting any old connections to default activation

Inhibitory Node is the only one being initialized with a non-zero base activation

Integrator node can't have default activation

Default activation on a differential node will produce a proportional spike on the first brain update

Default activation on an inhibitory node scales the self-inhibiting factor (lower default activation means a longer time to self-inhibe and return to 0, higher value means faster return to 0)

Improvements to hidden nodes placement in brain panels

Connections should now initially have a strength closer to zero (normal distribution with SD of 0.5) when first created.

Balanced default brain mutations probabilities

Other Changes

Updated some sprites

Changes to default Radioactivity settings

Disabled live birth

Fixes

Fixed bug that would display species distribution approximation even with old sims

Fixed mutation bug

Fixed some fixed sum settings not being loaded properly

Fixed bugs in rendering inputless outputs