Author Topic: New Garage Feature for DSL TC v.2.0 (Read 3536 times)

pilotpack · « **on:** April 20, 2006, 03:13:16 PM »

A new option for the garage or test area would be to have some stock bots to go up against when your building and testing your bot. You could go against 3 main type of bots to test yours:

Spinner
Rammer
Flipper
(maybe something that also hits from the top) idk

each type (ex. rammer) would have all three weight classes to choose from when you go to test your bot.

I thought it was a good idea but maybe it isnt or it has already been said or done. Just a thought! :D

deadkenndys1105 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 20, 2006, 04:58:04 PM »

I dont think that will work. There need to be something tho that can flip a bot over easy to test self righting.

mean2u · « **Reply #2 on:** April 20, 2006, 06:38:41 PM »

Erm, is it possible to have AI in a place that wasn't meant for it?

ACAMS · « **Reply #3 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:16:26 PM »

why would you want to...just go to exihibition after testing to test against other bots.

mean2u · « **Reply #4 on:** April 21, 2006, 03:29:06 PM »

Speaking of the Exibition, is there a way to fix it so if you went to do a match, then take a preview picture of a bot, it would still be gray and not black?

ACAMS · « **Reply #5 on:** April 23, 2006, 07:15:57 PM »

I wish...that really pissssses me off too!

Mr. Weedy · « **Reply #6 on:** April 24, 2006, 11:53:45 AM »

That concerns me too little because when the robot is on black background you can't see it so well.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #7 on:** April 28, 2006, 11:14:01 PM »

I sort of like that little glitch. Black backgrounds make your bot look so much more intimidating and mysterious in the preview picture. I wish I knew what caused the sky blue backgrounds though.

mean2u · « **Reply #8 on:** April 29, 2006, 09:21:53 AM »

On older computers, if you set your color settings to 32 bit and went to go take a picture of your bot, occasionally it would have the blue background. Personal experience.

goose · « **Reply #9 on:** April 29, 2006, 11:16:01 PM »

Thats where dummys tool comes in :)

Firebeetle · « **Reply #10 on:** May 12, 2006, 05:44:03 PM »

New discovery!
The color of the background is the color of the sky/black fog in the arena you last used.

Mr. Weedy · « **Reply #11 on:** May 13, 2006, 02:27:16 PM »

ZOMG!!! MAKE GRAY SKY FOR THE GARAGE SO THERE WILL BE GRAY BACKGROUND IN THE PICTURES TOO!!! ZOMG!!

Lol. :P

elshagan · « **Reply #12 on:** May 14, 2006, 09:04:51 AM »

i don't think the garage is counted as an arena

SpyGuy · « **Reply #13 on:** June 12, 2006, 02:51:16 AM »

If you take a preview picture of your robot, say in the botlab, then exit out and open up MS Paint, you can change the background color to any color you want. Just pick a color and use the "Color Fill" option (2nd button down on the right). The box is a solid black background, so it can easily be changed.

You can do the same thing for making preview pictures of any components that don't have pictures already, too. Take a picture, exit, go to MS Paint, and lighten up the background a little. Use the selector square to "mask off" the component preview, make a copy, and paste it to a new bmp. Save and rename the preview, put it in the correct component folder, then modify your .txt file to reflect the name of your new preview.

That's just how to do it in MSPaint, which I'm sure everyone has. I also use MGI PhotoSuite and Picture It 7.0 for graphic editing on occasion, too.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #14 on:** June 16, 2006, 01:20:36 PM »

They're talking about the preview picture the game uses for your bot, the one where you click the camera button. There is a way to make custom in-game previews, but you need Dummy's picture editor program and some kind of program that can save .tga's.

Also yes, loading the test garage doesn't affect the bg color. If it did, then it would always be black because the test garage has black sky.