stepCount

[jair-pereira]

@rithgroove

Q1. Could you explain how the simulator.stepCount works?
Q2. stepCount is not a method, what causes these differences in (1) and (2)?
Q3. What is happening at (3)?

I've encounter these situations.

1. This takes long to run, but the agents move

sim = Simulator.Simulator(args)
sim.stepCount = 3600*8
sim.step() 

2. Runs much faster but the agents seem not to move

sim = Simulator.Simulator(args)
sim.step() 

3. In the init of the Simulator:

self.stepCount = 3600*8
self.generateAgents(agentNum)
self.stepCount = 0

[rithgroove]

Step count is the current time in the simulation.

for example: 7200 -> means Day 0, Hour 2, Minutes 0, Second 0

1. the stepCount is the initial hour basically 8 Hours *3600 seconds so the simulation started at 8 AM (This line will be removed later on)

2. It's faster because few jobs starts at 00:00

3 Same as no 1. I think this one has already been removed.

[caranha]

Jair when asking about the code, would you also add a file name, and if possible even a line number, to the question? It makes it easier to check what you're talking about! Cheers,

[caranha]

Hmmm, if stepCount indicates the current time in the simulation, the name should probably a bit more intuitive. Or maybe there could be a time offset in the case we don't want to begin the simulation at midnight.