Shotening Chassis by BFE?

[HurricaneAndrew]

Another noobish question, but I never thought i would want to shorten a chassis any farther than in the game.
 
How do you do this? Step by step instructions would be great.

[JoeBlo]

BFE isnt a noobish question as its something people tend to keep quiet as it takes a lot of effort out of the game,

what your asking to do isnt one of those things (im talking about Stacking, impossible attaching, etc) but thats why more people dont know how to do it then people who do.

as for how to do it, I wouldn't know, BFE is one of the few things I dont know how to do, Naryar did help me flatten a chassis one time but I really dont know off hand how to do it

[HurricaneAndrew]

Well, as it turns out I didn't need to anyway. Thanks for the explanation though, JB.

[somestrangeguy]

It is possible to shorten the chassis or even make it bigger than the Max Sphere, but for the effects to become active you need to go to the bot blueprint screen.

I have forgottewn how the grid is setu, but I do know that the corner coordinates on the screen are:
0 0
0 1000
1000 1000
1000 0
This would be the chassis of a max grid sized bot. I just dont remember wich corner is wich, but I do belive that 0 0 is topleft and 1000 1000 is bottom right.
In order to know more better that wich ones you need to change is to place the nodes in a specific order so you can easily tell wich ones you need to change. First one is ofcourse on top and last is on bottom of the list.

[123savethewhales]

There is a tutorial on that in the tutorial area on gametechmod webpage.

The closest description I can give

Before you start, back up your bot file

1.  First, open the bot file with notepad++ (Unix Format).  This is important as some other text edit programs (like ultraedit or pspad) will mess up your bot file.

2.  Scroll down (or use the search function) to find "chassis"

3.  Now, about 12 or so lines down there's a number with a lot of decimal places (between .44 and 1.32), copy this number.  To make sure you got the right number, there's also another integer to it's right (don't copy this too by accident), and a "true or false" right below.

4a.  If it saids false right below this number, all you have to do is change the number describe above (this is the case if you use one of the auto create shape function).

4b.  If it saids true, it means you created the chassis using custom define point (which also mean that the game have to record your height separately), use the search function and find all the instance where this number shows up, and you will have to change all of them  **They should all be in one cluster anyway**, making it easy to find.

[somestrangeguy]

Hmmm.. I think I misundersood his question. I tough he asked: How to make the the chassis shorter? and not: How to make chassis lower?

[123savethewhales]

Maybe.  I just assumed when he said "shorter", he meant height (and not width and length).