How to configure?

[Danacus]

I'm from /r/TheBlueCorner and I want to configure it to automatically place blue tiles in the blue corner. Is this possible right now? If yes, how?

[ahalekelly]

I'm also interested. Looks like it saves and loads a JSON queue of tiles in LocalStorage, but I can't figure out how to insert things into the queue.

[s5bug]

So after editing the userscript (full) like this:

        this.tiles = [[126, 748, 9], [126, 749, 9], [126, 750, 9], [126, 751, 9], [126, 752, 9], [127, 750, 9], [128, 748, 9], [128, 749, 9], [128, 750, 9], [128, 751, 9], [128, 752, 9], [130, 748, 9], [130, 749, 9], [130, 750, 9], [130, 751, 9], [130, 752, 9]];

It isn't able to place tiles anyway.

[grind086]

Hey, so I'm still working on this and it isn't really ready to go yet. It does work using either a function to generate tiles, or a list of tiles (a list for the full canvas would be ~30MB though). I left it running all night, and it was still placing this morning. I'll try and have a version that is at least easily configurable via the console out in a bit.

[grind086]

As a workaround, you can set up a script right now with the following:

// Generator function - note that it is stored via toString() and recovered using eval().
// It should return a function that returns tiles in the form [x, y, colorIndex]
function tileGenerator(pb){

    // Setup here

    return function() {
        return [x, y, colorIndex]
    }
}

var tiles = []; // This can be used to store any data in function mode, planning on revising
var mode = 1;   // PlaceBot.placeMode.FUNCTION

localStorage.setItem('placebot_tiles', {
    tiles: tiles,
    mode: mode,
    fn: tileGenerator.toString()
});

After setting the localStorage item just refresh the page, and the bot should start using the generator.

[grind086]

Here's the tileGenerator I used for testing overnight:

function pinkLine(pb) {
    var lastDraw;
    var lastTile = [456, 849, 4];

    return function() {
        if (pb.lastDrawTime !== lastDraw) {
            pb.lastDrawTime = lastDraw;
            lastTile = [456, 849, 4];
        } else {
            lastTile[1] = (lastTile[1] + 1) % 1000;
        }

        return lastTile;
    };
}

[grind086]

Okay you can now configure via the console (that was quicker than I expected).

// Default settings
placeBot.importBot({
    minTimer: 100,
    tiles: [],
    mode: PlaceBot.placeMode.ARRAY
    fn: 'TopDown'
});

//
// minTimer - Minimum time between draw attempts
//
// For array mode (mode = PlaceBot.placeMode.ARRAY)
// tiles - A list of tiles
// fn - The name of a built-in selector (see PlaceBot.selectors) or a function that
//    returns an index from the tiles array
//
// For function mode (mode = PlaceBot.placeMode.FUNCTION)
// tiles - Storage (planning on renaming/changing to an object)
// fn - A function that returns a function that returns tiles. If you want to save it
//    between page refreshes, then fn === eval(fn.toString()) must be true
//

[Danacus]

Thanks! I'll try it very soon.

[s5bug]

So how do we configure the tiles we want to place? Can you give a code example or make a function, like queueTile(x, y, color)? And what is color? Is it 0-15, 1-16, or black-white?

EDIT: How is the data stored? I might make a tool that parses an image and turns it into the data. And if someone overwrites the tiles that we place, does it go back with priority to the first in the list?

[ahalekelly]

I made a Python tool that parses RGBA PNG images and converts them into the tile array for my fork of this bot.

Edit: The images are 0-15, you can get the list from typing r.place.palette into the console on /r/place

[s5bug]

What colors though? Does it take closest RGB?

EDIT: Also, does your fork work atm?

[ahalekelly]

Yeah my fork is working, use the userscript file and change the first url to point to your tiles.

You need to make a transparent image for the whole canvas, and then match the exact colors used.