I’m about to start making my high stakes skills programs, and I was wondering whether I should use the competition template. I looked quickly at the game manual, but I culdn’t see anything.
Yes you can use the competition template. Just make sure your code goes into he autonomous callback not in main or anything else. When testing it won’t run unless you press the times start option. However when you run your skills, make sure you just start it normally.
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Yes, you should as competition templates allow the FC to communicate to the robot to stop or allow controller input.
Using the competition template is required, see rule <R27>. You put your skills auto in the same place you put 15 second autos
Are you sure this isn’t AI?
- Time Management: It helps you manage time for your skills run, which is important.
- Error Checks: The template can help catch errors that might happen during your run.
- Simplicity: It simplifies the programming and makes your code match the competition flow.
These three points are completely false. Templates don’t help manage time for you, nor do they check your code and cleanse your errors with a magic wand. And really, does it actually simplify coding? No.
This also suggests that VEX is limiting your code to some already established format, or that you need absolute specifics that cannot be coded yourself. False.
And yes, it is not required.
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Looks like the post got deleted, nvm.
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