Author Topic: How do you remember your bot designs (Read 2801 times)

Virus Bomb · « **Reply #20 on:** October 12, 2009, 06:53:42 PM »

Usually an Idea would randomly pop up, and I try to figure out how it would work. I then go and build the bot.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #21 on:** October 12, 2009, 07:12:15 PM »

if im on the computer I sometimes jump on RA2 make a huge chassis and throw my idea together really basic in about 5 mins then rebuild it proper, later when I have the time

Condor33 · « **Reply #22 on:** October 12, 2009, 07:36:07 PM »

Usually I don't really go idea farming unless there's a tourney or I have a great bot idea that just pops into my head, in which case I write down a short (one-two sentence) description and hope I get around to making it.

trumpetguy · « **Reply #23 on:** October 12, 2009, 08:19:49 PM »

I either gets a builder's block or not. Sometimes I get the general idea in school or I just go with a specific idea, sometimes I just roll a dice if I'm desperate for a bot.

Pwnator · « **Reply #24 on:** October 12, 2009, 11:35:25 PM »

More or less SSG's style. But I usually do the math first before to check its feasibility. XD

123savethewhales · « **Reply #25 on:** October 12, 2009, 11:55:55 PM »

Sometimes I have ideas I want to build, other times I scroll around at components for new ideas. On occasion I might do some sketches to see how it will function, but for the most part it's trial and error in the bot lab, and test runs. It's probably why my bot tend to evolve a lot.

Problems I tend to run into are usually those involving the physics engines, when I try to build with too much movable parts.

The only bot I really sat down and thought about how to build it in detail was warhead. Though a lot of stuff got changed around during the building process anyway.

Meganerdbomb · « **Reply #26 on:** October 12, 2009, 11:59:54 PM »

I usually just get a vague idea of what I want my bot to be like. Then i go to the bot lab and mess around with it until I'm satisfied with the result. The only bot I completely planned out beforehand was Trinity.

Doomkiller · « **Reply #27 on:** October 13, 2009, 01:37:04 AM »

Hmmmm, I just sit there thinking of a good bot. Sometimes, nothing comes to me, so I go play another game. Sometimes an idea pops up in my head while im playing another game. Sometimes it just pops in my head while im thinking to myself....

Then Trial and error, as I build the bot.

hypnodisc7 · « **Reply #28 on:** October 13, 2009, 06:40:33 PM »

I think of designs during the day all the time. I would then, as soon as I could, try to build them on RA2. They wouldn't always turn out quite right all the time though.

roboman2444 · « **Reply #29 on:** October 13, 2009, 06:41:34 PM »

i dont really have a good imagination so i dont do the extender setup and stuff until im actually in ra2.