Hello, I recently found robot virtual world and want to use it to test autonomous programs. How do I load a customized file into the "ring it up" virtual world? Any links to videos or advice would be great!

Thanks so much for your help!

All you should have to do is load the ROBOTC program as normal, then make sure the "Compiler Target" under the Robot menu is set to Virtual Worlds and that the "Select Virtual World to Use" option under the Menu menu is set to 'FTC Ring it UP!'.

From that point on, compiling and downloading the program will open up the Ring it Up! Virtual World instead of sending the code to the robot (until you change the compiler target again).

do the robots built in have some anti-encoder setup? When I run my program it doesn't pay attention to encoder counts.

I'm looking into this now, I believe it's a known issue with 3.5 but should be fixed soon. Let me double check to confirm this, though, and I'll get back to you with my results. Thank you for the heads up!

Ok, so I dug a little bit more into this and there is encoder support for the FTC Ring It Up! table on motors D and E (drive motors). There are no wrist/gripper encoders available at the time of this release.

The following code to move forward for 500 encoder counts will work because the encoders on motors D and E are active:




However, the code to rotate the wrist back and forth won't:


What will happen is the wrist 'encoder' (that doesn't exist in RVW, yet) returns a value of 0 no matter where the wrist is at. Since the while loop is looking for a greater than 250, and 0 will never be greater than 250, the wrist will rotate upwards until it physically hits a restraint. It's hard to see, but the program actually keeps running inside of the first 'while' loop because it's going to keep trying to hit the 250 encoder counts mark, which it never will.