AlexGRFan97's ARC Replica Thread

[AlexGRFan97]

So, you may have known that a while back I began making ARC replicas? Well, here are the first four, one from each weightclass. I won't bother posting insides for now, as there's about a billion custom components inside every robot. I have got more made since I uploaded these images, but I'm keeping them inside my copy of DSL3 for now. Also, please note that only two of these robots' skins are finished. However, if anyone could give me clean versions of Revolver Ocelot's logo and Agressive Blood Cell's paintjob I would be happy.

LW: Agressive [sic] Blood Cell

Although it may not look like much, this little thwackbot belonging to Team Dia has claimed numerous competitions and has a long, storied career going back to 2006, at the beginning of ARC. Its last competition win was in 2010.

MW: Holy Kahuna

A highly destructive robot originally built by FoD, to replace the vertical spinner entitled Mech Kahuna. Its Surgeon General-esque invertable disc design allows it to tear into robots either way up. It had fairly limited success though, competing in many different fights and reaching a career high point in the 2011 Armageddon tournament, where it fought its way to the quarterfinals.

HW: Revolver Ocelot

A well known veteran named after one of the main characters in the Metal Gear Solid series of video games, Revolver Ocelot is armed with an undercutting spinning blade, designed to get underneath robots and hack away at their undersides. Among its many awards is the 2009 C&B Hypothesis competition, where it won 43-32.

SHW: TVW

A Slamjob/BioHazard crossover, made specifically for the superheavyweight division. Built by Meganew, its pneumatic powered spike can penetrate almost any armour and will give opponents a tough time with an all-steel chassis, combining 10mm Steel, Steel skirts and Steel extenders into one deadly package. Although it didn't win many fights, it gave multiple time champion and runner up Bad Ass Barnacle a run for its money at the beginning of 2011's Armageddon tournament with a 24-21 losing decision.

NOTES:

Yes, I know the Blood Cell's thwacking tail is a little on the short side and is the wrong colour, but I'll get round to doing it eventually.

I didn't notice Revolver Ocelot had a sloped rear end until I saw other images of it. Ah well, it's not a major problem.

[MassimoV]

Holy Kahuna looks good. But you should redo RO's skin.

[playzooki]

BRILLIANT!

Now do one of mine 

[Jonzu95]

I like the LW the most.

[playzooki]

I have a replica, but it needs some component skinning.

[AlexGRFan97]

Replica Batch #2 - Playzooki's entire LoRE 2013 team:
LW: Mr. Not Very Nice LW

The most diverse out of the 4 robots. Despite having Plastic 3 as an armour, it was over 270kg when I fitted everything necessary. This resulted in various weight saving measures being used, such as single row tyres and a 30kg hammer, squeezing it just under the weight limit with 244kg.

MW: Mr. Not Very Nice MW

The first of the 4 to use all necessary components. Weighs 389kg from Aluminium 5 armour but is the slowest of the lot.

HW: Mr. Not Very Nice HW

Despite using Steel 10 armour, this heavyweight only weighs 602kg. Uses a custom Slimbody to make it faster, although is slightly sluggish even with the upgrade.

SHW: Mr. Not Very Nice SHW

The hardest part of making this robot was getting it up to the superheavyweight class. Even using significantly heavier Slimbodies and increasing the amount of batteries only allowed for an 813kg total weight. Still though, 800.1 onwards counts as a superheavyweight, so I'm not complaining. This robot is also pretty fast and hard to flip, due to its weight, size and shape.

So far, this team have been the closest to vanilla DSL robots, with the LW and MW using no custom components whatsoever, and the HW/SHW only using improved drive motors. I've even tested them with default slimbodies, and they still moved albeit not very quickly. Should I release them in the DSL BotExchange?

[playzooki]

Those are  good but...

http://z10.invisionfree.com/Drowning_City_Forums/index.php?showtopic=2919
That was my original line up. Its now mr.nvn, Good for it, Mr Death and Murder & SLaughter.
I could give you a Mr death that needs component reskinning.

[AlexGRFan97]

Oops, I was using images in Massimo's ARC folder, which didn't contain the updated team. Ah well, I could have a look at your Mr. Death to see how the mechanics work, but chances are I might make my own version. I need a top or perspective view of Slaughter though. I don't know how wide I should make the chassis for it.

[playzooki]

Slaughter is like MR Death.

Mr Death is on the BotExchange

[AlexGRFan97]

Dangit!

I've almost made a perfect replica of Zach's Menace to Society, but annoyingly I can't find the texture that the rear armour plate uses. I've accidentally deleted the steel, steel90, ti and ti90 textures by process of elimination so I need backups of them. Here's what it looks like so far:

Also I desperately need a step-by-step image tutorial on how to make copies of components that have new textures, sort of like what Wham did with RRAI.

[Sylandro]

The REAR armor plate is Black, you dingus.

[Kossokei]

The REAR armor plate is Black, you dingus.

He couldn't find the texture that the plate in RA2 uses, 'you dingus'

[playzooki]

The REAR armor plate is Black, you dingus.

He couldn't find the texture that the plate in RA2 uses, 'you dingus'

Stop failing Sylandro. Let better builders/ modders give advice.

[Kossokei]

The REAR armor plate is Black, you dingus.

He couldn't find the texture that the plate in RA2 uses, 'you dingus'

Stop failing Sylandro. Let better builders/ modders give advice.

Lel. I'm no better builder, and I can't be donkey'd with reskinning components like this, but since you consider me as such, I might as well live up to it.

Jokes! The best I can give you, alex, is that's a generic steel texture. It's the same stuff used for the steel extenders in both 2.1 and 3, for the 2.1 skirt wedges, for the armor plates and the chassis armor texture. It won't be found under titanium.

edit: Furthermore, here you go. These should be the textures you need backups of. https://gametechmods.com/uploads/files/7928textures for Alex.zip

[AlexGRFan97]

Ok, so the good news is the armour panel is fixed. The bad news is everything that uses that texture (extenders, beater bars, M.O.E. blades etc.) have become black. What program can I use that edits .gmf files? ATM, I've got a couple of lightweights ready for showcasing (namely, S.W.A.T. 4 and Warshrike) but I'm waiting for Massimo to give me Cyclone Jr. so I can reskin it into Frequency.

[Badnik96]

You can use Notepad++ to reskin components without the use of a decompiler. Just make sure the bmp file you want to reskin it to has the same amount of characters as the one already there (for example titanium.bmp uses 12 characters, so your replacement file should be something like blackkkk.bmp or something else that has 12 characters)

[Trovaner]

You can use Notepad++ to reskin components without the use of a decompiler. Just make sure the bmp file you want to reskin it to has the same amount of characters as the one already there (for example titanium.bmp uses 12 characters, so your replacement file should be something like blackkkk.bmp or something else that has 12 characters)

Although you can do that, I would recommend using Serge's decompiler to make an ASCII version of the GMF, modify it, and recompile using Serge's compiler. It allows you to make good file names and it gets you closer to learning how to do more in the GMF. By comparison, doing it this way takes very little additional effort and it more beneficial in the long-term.

Regardless of how you do it, remember to make a backup first.