Jaydee99's custom component Showcase

[cephalopod]

Who cares if the chassis is big? It's an IRL bot.

[MassimoV]

Who cares if the chassis is big? It's an IRL bot.

Cause it's big clunky and stupid looking. It's like when you go to a theme park and the characters are walking around in those oversized costumes and they just look really awkward, yeah it's got a bit of that going on.

[cephalopod]

Well, I see what you mean there - it could still give the same look while being a little smaller, but people shouting about chassis size for the sake of chassis size rather than looks in a class about looks is silly in my opinion.

[TheUnknownRobotics]

Well, I see what you mean there - it could still give the same look while being a little smaller, but people shouting about chassis size for the sake of chassis size rather than looks in a class about looks is silly in my opinion.

Well, Naryar is.

[helloface]

Why is it so tall? Why is it so huge?
Build your chassis around your components and not the other way around. It will look a lot more slick and will be much more efficient.

[Jakewilliamson]

Im not gonna commet on all your bots jaydee, no matter how insanely messy the skins are, and such a huge chassis, shrink it!

[Mecha]

I not gonna commet on all your bots jaydee, no matter how insanely messy the skins are, and such a huge chassis, shrink it!

lol


But anyway, do the artifact things prevent bots from going up it?

[Jaydee99]

I not gonna commet on all your bots jaydee, no matter how insanely messy the skins are, and such a huge chassis, shrink it!

lol


But anyway, do the artifact things prevent bots from going up it?

They do!

Why is it so tall? Why is it so huge?
Build your chassis around your components and not the other way around. It will look a lot more slick and will be much more efficient.

It was a ripper tribute.

Who cares if the chassis is big? It's an IRL bot.

Thanks.

You should give making an HD skin a try. I make a lot of robots that look pretty mediocre until I give them a nice skin, and if you look at most of the good builders they do put time into their skins.
The flipper itself looks not too bad to me, although I would use a mini extender to put the police light on top of the robot, to keep the flipper looking cleaner, and add a piston underneath, as the other guys said. Also I don't know how you put the flipper together but it might be possible for you to get rid of the gaps between the plates with effe and bigger panels, again to make it look cleaner.
Overall, I'd say it does show improvement from your previous stuff.

I wasn't too bothered about the skin. Same with all my robots. Thanks anyway.
I understood the advice but I didn't know how to rid the gaps.

this probably won't blow you all away, but I think it's pretty good. And reminds me of Ripper.
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The chassis is to tall, batteries are a bit much, needs stronger drive (unless I'm mistaken) and the wheels... (are those ants?) What's the flipper motor?
I would also recommend (like Naster) to use a better skin. Also that weapon at the back wont do anything (not to mention it doesn't seem that cool imo)

Better then the rest, in my opinion.


(Edited huge to tall, since that's what I meant. Maybe the sides are a bit big, idk).

Ripper blah blah blah
Those are ants. Cassius skirt hinge.

Needs better drive

It's probably a H4X motor :P

Ah. At first glance I thought they were astros.

Would help If there was only one picture up close so I could see the components clearer. :P

I guess

The chassis is way too huge and you don't need that many cold fusion reactors, take them out and leave 1 then:

- Reskin it- the skin isn't too bad but could be better
- spend weight upgrading the weapon system/looks of it

and reshowcase it, I'm sure after that it'll be 10x better :)

And then, we can leave reccomendations on how to improve it further after that

I left one in!


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Ok, love this one:

[Philippa]

Literally what?

Also that font makes me want to burn things.

[helloface]

Why do we need inside shots on a non-competitive robot.
Why do we need eight shots of the robot.
Why are you using that font.
Why is the skin you used so retarded.
Why are you still not taking anyone's advice.

[Natster-104]

Please just listen to us, when you don't reply to advice it makes you look like an utter twit

[Mecha]

Why do we need inside shots on a non-competitive robot.
Why do we need eight shots of the robot.
Why are you using that font.
Why is the skin you used so retarded.
Why are you still not taking anyone's advice.

The skin doesn't even matter. Why are you putting it as the focal point of your complaint?

[090901]

I honestly think the robot is decent, obviously an improvement over 4 Real. What you need to add is some extenders under the flipper to look like a ram and bring the wheels in. You also don't need the air tanks as burst motors don't draw air.

Why do we need inside shots on a non-competitive robot.
Why do we need eight shots of the robot.
Why are you using that font.
Why is the skin you used so retarded.
Why are you still not taking anyone's advice.

Shut up, helloface.

[Badnik96]

It's not awful, at least. The flipper arm looks decent.

However, I think it'd look better with the wheels tucked inside the chassis.

[RedAce]

1. Why are the air tanks in there? You don't need them for this kind of bot, they're unnecessary and useless.
2. Is the skirt hinge a custom burst motor modified to be powerful? That's my only theory why that's there in the first place.
3. Please use extender work of some to make a fake piston making the flipper IRL since that is what you are going for.

You see the extenders that are on the flipper on the inside of the flipper? They look unnecessary, but they are the fake pistons I am talking about. They make it look like it's an actual pneumatic flipper.

4. Add some wheel hole on the side where the wheel pops out so it doesn't look unrealistic and awkward or hide them in the chassis.
5. You don't need to make any fancy splash unless your trying to show off something that looks like a BOTM Splash.

I hope this is helpful advice and I don't mean to offend you.

[Lemonism]

I wasn't too bothered about the skin. Same with all my robots.

And that there is my main problem with all of your robots. If you can't make the robot look nice using components effectively, then you can use the skin as something to fall back on. I bet if you had given this robot a nice skin it would have been much better received.
It's really not that hard to put a little effort into skinning a robot nicely.
The robot itself doesn't look that bad imo, although I really dislike the wheels sticking out of the chassis like that. Looks awkward.

[Jaydee99]

1. Why are the air tanks in there? You don't need them for this kind of bot, they're unnecessary and useless.
2. Is the skirt hinge a custom burst motor modified to be powerful? That's my only theory why that's there in the first place.
3. Please use extender work of some to make a fake piston making the flipper IRL since that is what you are going for.

You see the extenders that are on the flipper on the inside of the flipper? They look unnecessary, but they are the fake pistons I am talking about. They make it look like it's an actual pneumatic flipper.

4. Add some wheel hole on the side where the wheel pops out so it doesn't look unrealistic and awkward or hide them in the chassis.
5. You don't need to make any fancy splash unless your trying to show off something that looks like a BOTM Splash.

I hope this is helpful advice and I don't mean to offend you.

I'm never offended by advice. I know what you mean by fake piston's. I'll do the wheel hole thing as I couldn't find a drive motor smaller than that and they're the only wheels that don't give much ground clearance but let you drive.
Thanks for the fancy splash thing. I wasn't trying for one. It's a Cassius skirt hinge. If you've watched SR's let's build leveler 2, you'll know what I mean. I'll take the tanks out as you and others have said it's useless.

It's not awful, at least. The flipper arm looks decent.

However, I think it'd look better with the wheels tucked inside the chassis.

I've explained the wheel problem above but thanks anyway and thanks on the flipper arm.

I honestly think the robot is decent, obviously an improvement over 4 Real. What you need to add is some extenders under the flipper to look like a ram and bring the wheels in. You also don't need the air tanks as burst motors don't draw air.

Why do we need inside shots on a non-competitive robot.
Why do we need eight shots of the robot.
Why are you using that font.
Why is the skin you used so retarded.
Why are you still not taking anyone's advice.

Shut up, helloface.

Thanks for what you said on helloface. And I'll try doing what you and others have said.

Why do we need inside shots on a non-competitive robot.
Why do we need eight shots of the robot.
Why are you using that font.
Why is the skin you used so retarded.
Why are you still not taking anyone's advice.

The skin doesn't even matter. Why are you putting it as the focal point of your complaint?

Hahaha, you just owned him! Nice one

Please just listen to us, when you don't reply to advice it makes you look like an utter twit

Ok

Why do we need inside shots on a non-competitive robot.
Why do we need eight shots of the robot.
Why are you using that font.
Why is the skin you used so retarded.
Why are you still not taking anyone's advice.

WHAT?
I get that I don't need inside shots but complaining about font? Seriously??

[Lemonism]

He's probably complaining because it's not a very clear font to use, and a bit unnecessary. Irrelevant to the robot, but good general advice.

[Jaydee99]

I wasn't too bothered about the skin. Same with all my robots.

And that there is my main problem with all of your robots. If you can't make the robot look nice using components effectively, then you can use the skin as something to fall back on. I bet if you had given this robot a nice skin it would have been much better received.
It's really not that hard to put a little effort into skinning a robot nicely.
The robot itself doesn't look that bad imo, although I really dislike the wheels sticking out of the chassis like that. Looks awkward.

He's probably complaining because it's not a very clear font to use, and a bit unnecessary. Irrelevant to the robot, but good general advice.

I always try a good skin on my robots. I'm just not totally bothered about a robots skin.
Also, most of the fonts I useare irrelevant yo the bot
Also, what advice apart from 8 pics that I commented on is there?

[Natster-104]

I've got an idea. Look at any decent IRL builders (mainly MassimoV, Scrap daddy, Thyrus, and a few others) and try to clone it, then we can detect that when you build your bots, what you are most faulty at :)

And I'm sorry if what I said was harsh :)