Frequently Asked Questions

Simulation Mechanics

What is an Evolutionary Algorithm?

What is a Neural Network?

What does "fitness" mean?

How do the muscles work?

Why can muscles in Evolution both expand and contract?

How does the Neural Network control the muscles?

What does the mutation rate do?

What does the "Simulate in Batches" option do?

What does the "Keep best Creatures" option do?

Why don't the creatures evolve their body shapes as well?

General

Is this project Open Source?

How can I see the best creature stats?

Does Evolution run on Linux?

What are the System Requirements to run Evolution?

Can I change the task during the simulation but keep the current learning progress?

Can I change the simulation time per generation after I start the simulation?

Does the camera always show the best creature of the current generation?

How should I interpret the units of the different creature stats?

Will there be creature skins in the future?

Will you add translations for more languages?

I made an awesome creature. Do you want to see it?

Is it possible to create custom levels?

Issues

I updated Evolution and my old simulations behave differently

Evolution crashed

I get an “Out of Memory" exception inside of the browser. What do I do?

My creatures aren’t learning anything

Why can’t I set the population size to 1?

There is no help page?!

Why is the simulation so laggy?

I connected two unconnected bones with a muscle and got 100% fitness. Do I win?

Why don’t you just limit the length of the muscles in order to prevent this glitch?

Why does the fitness drop between generations sometimes?

The “Best Creature” is not being selected correctly (It just sits there and doesn’t move)

Even the default creatures don’t work

Evolution doesn’t download properly