The breve Simulation Environment Documentation
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The breve Simulation Environment Documentation

Table of Contents

Notes on this documentation

The Origin of breve
About This Documentation
Getting Help With breve
Thanks and Acknowledgments

2. Introduction to breve

What is breve?
Installing and Running the breve Application on Mac OS X
Installing and Running Command-Line breve on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows
Installing and Running breveIDE on Linux and Windows

3. What's New in Version 2.6

New Features in Version 2.6
Important Notes on Plugins in Version 2.6
Upgrading Simulations From Versions of breve Prior to 2.0

4. Writing Simulations in breve

Overview to breve's Simulation Structure: For All Frontend Languages
Writing breve Simulations With Python
Writing breve Simulations With "steve"
Bridging Code Between steve and Python

5. Basic Agent Behaviors

A Simple Mobile Agent
Changing the Appearance of Agents
Moving Agents Around the 3D World
Scheduling Events for a Specific Time

6. Graphics and Sound

Lighting
Shadows and Reflections
Loading Image Files
Displaying Objects as Bitmaps
Texturing Objects
Displaying Objects as "Lightmaps"
Using the "Image" Class
Custom Drawings with the "Drawing" Class
Playing Sound Effects
Sounds Included With breve

7. Interactions Between Agents

Interacting With the Controller Object
Triggering Events When Agents Collide
Finding Neighboring Objects
Finding the Closest Object
Triggering Events Using Notifications
Finding All Objects of a Given Type
Testing Whether an Object Responds to a Method Call
Testing the Type of an Object

8. Physical Simulation

When to Use Physical Simulation
Enabling Physical Simulation
Fast Physical Simulation
Writing Stable Physical Simulations
The Components of Physically Simulated Bodies
Dynamically Creating and Destroying Joints
Using Springs
Using Terrains With Physical Simulation

9. Graphical User Interface

The Simulation Menu and Contextual Menus
Responding to Keyboard Events
Displaying a Dialog Box
Loading ".nib" Files for Customized Interfaces

10. Saving Movies and Snapshots

Saving Movies
Saving Snapshots

11. Archiving, Dearchiving and Networking Objects and Simulations

Methods Called for Objects During Archiving and Dearchiving
Saving and Loading Individual Objects
Saving and Loading the Entire State of a Simulation

12. Networking

Starting a Network Server
Sending and Receiving breve Objects
Using a Web-interface to a breve Simulation

13. Plugins

The Plugin API: Writing Plugins
Building Plugins
Archiving Plugin Data With The data Type
Using Plugins in Simulations

14. The breve Source Code

The basic structure of the breve source code
Adding a frontend language to the breve engine: the breve object API
Embedding breve In Another Program

15. "Push": a Language for Evolutionary Computation Integrated With breve

A Brief Introduction to Push
Creating and Configuring Push Environments
Running and Evolving Push Programs
Genetic Programming With the PushGP Class
Interacting with the Simulated World Using Callback Instructions

17. The Built-In breve Class APIs

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