Agent

Agents are the backbone of StarLogo Nova. Agents are the objects commonly seen moving around SpaceLand. Different types of agents are refereed to as "breeds". A specific individual part part of breed is called an "instance".

Creation & Deletion

Agents are created using code blocks such as:

• create
• create [_] [▼](s) each do.

Agents can be deleting using blocks such as:

• delete
• delete everyone
• delete agent [_]

Code Execution

Agents execute code blocks under their specified tab in the workspace. The code written under the tab can be thought of a set of instructions each agent makes a copy of and follows individually.

Traits

All Agents have a set of traits. Traits are variables that are individual to each instance of an agent. Each time a agent is created, it also copies the default values for traits and stores it's own version of the variables.

Agents have the following built-in traits:

• id
  • a unique number given to each instance (cannot manually be set)
• breed
  • the type of agent
• x
• y
• z
• heading
• color
• shape
• size

Custom traits can be created for each breed. Custom traits can be used to track values per instance.