Bot Exchange

[Gazea2]

Everyone else has said this but I'll say it again. It looks great!

[G.K.]

Awesome.

[Clickbeetle]

No, it's completely new. Planned features:

• Users and Accounts
• Voting
• Automatic bot parsing (stock/dsl, weight, name, weightclass, etc...)
• View inside of bot (high quality raytraced render done serverside)
• 3d preview of bot (WebGL/O3D)
• and more...

Don't overexert yourself... I think the reason Goose never finished his new exchange was because he tried to make too many cool features.  If he set the bar just a bit lower I think it would be out by now.


That said, if you can pull off all that stuff it would be awesome.  Just don't make it so big it crumbles under its own weight (metaphorically speaking).


One question.  How on earth would you do a 3D preview?  The .gmf data isn't contained in the .bot file.  You would need a database of all the common .gmf files and skins used by bots and somehow load that in the preview window.  Which is just one step away from actually loading the bots in the game.


I can imagine problems loading previews of bots with burst motors too, since you would need to get the angle of the motor as well as its .gmf.

[Sparkey98]

This is how he'll do it:

He's Serge.


Actually he might be intergrading something that'll read the bot and display it as a solid 3D object, kinda like the SFTW weapon.

[Serge]

Don't overexert yourself... I think the reason Goose never finished his new exchange was because he tried to make too many cool features.  If he set the bar just a bit lower I think it would be out by now.

Most of the features up there are already done. Righ tnow I'm testing, enhancing, securing and making an UI for all of this.

That said, if you can pull off all that stuff it would be awesome.  Just don't make it so big it crumbles under its own weight (metaphorically speaking).

It surely won't literally. Using Pytohn+Django+Nginx+Memcached, it's rock solid and super fast

One question.  How on earth would you do a 3D preview?  The .gmf data isn't contained in the .bot file.  You would need a database of all the common .gmf files and skins used by bots and somehow load that in the preview window.  Which is just one step away from actually loading the bots in the game.

I have a database. Bots are being converted to a 3d file format readable by O3D (kinda like VRML in the DSL teaser days).

I can imagine problems loading previews of bots with burst motors too, since you would need to get the angle of the motor as well as its .gmf.

Yes, I just hit that bug today. I have a fix in the making.

[Scrap Daddy]

This all sounds great :D

[Sparkey98]

Don't overexert yourself... I think the reason Goose never finished his new exchange was because he tried to make too many cool features.  If he set the bar just a bit lower I think it would be out by now.

Most of the features up there are already done. Righ tnow I'm testing, enhancing, securing and making an UI for all of this.

That said, if you can pull off all that stuff it would be awesome.  Just don't make it so big it crumbles under its own weight (metaphorically speaking).

It surely won't literally. Using Pytohn+Django+Nginx+Memcached, it's rock solid and super fast

One question.  How on earth would you do a 3D preview?  The .gmf data isn't contained in the .bot file.  You would need a database of all the common .gmf files and skins used by bots and somehow load that in the preview window.  Which is just one step away from actually loading the bots in the game.

I have a database. Bots are being converted to a 3d file format readable by O3D (kinda like VRML in the DSL teaser days).

I can imagine problems loading previews of bots with burst motors too, since you would need to get the angle of the motor as well as its .gmf.

Yes, I just hit that bug today. I have a fix in the making.

so  Basically I was right?

This is how he'll do it:

He's Serge.


Actually he might be intergrading something that'll read the bot and display it as a solid 3D object, kinda like the SFTW weapon.

[Serge]

Yes. But you were as right as if you said "the robot exchange will work by displaying images to the user's screen".

[Somebody]

HE IS MAGIC I TELL YOU!!! Thats incredible Serge, great work.

[Sparkey98]

Yes. But you were as right as if you said "the robot exchange will work by displaying images to the user's screen".

I just simply geussed that you had something to read the robots coding and dsiplay it as a 3D model, no need to be Youknowhaty with me.

[Serge]

Yes. But you were as right as if you said "the robot exchange will work by displaying images to the user's screen".

I just simply geussed that you had something to read the robots coding and dsiplay it as a 3D model, no need to be Youknowhaty with me.

And what I'm trying to make you understand is that this is no guess, since it's the only way to do it, hence my analogy.

[Serge]

Here's the current frontend... I didn't have too much time to work today, so I'm a bit lagging behind my schedule.

[Urjak]

Serge........ you are awesome!

[Somebody]

Anna Blogowska.

whasat?

Looks great btw.

[Serge]

Anna Blogowska.

whasat?

Haha, that's a friend of mine. That'll teach me to close Pidgin the next time I make a screenshot.

[Somebody]

Is it also the possible reason of the "not much time to work"

Also, I just noticed JoeBlo's name in the bottom right corner :D

[Badnik96]

That is COOL.

[JoeBlo]

:O awesome stuff..  we might not even need showcases anymore :P

[G.K.]

That is outstanding. Great job.

[somestrangeguy]

Serge wins 10 internets for this :D