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Title: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 12, 2018, 08:00:51 AM

Welcome to my showcase. As you know, I'm still a newbie (I have just owned stock since 1 May and downloaded DSL and Ironforge this week, on Wednesday.) At this point, I have built few robots on all three versions together (not sure with stock and DSL, but still few, while one for Ironforge).

Anyway, back to my DSL showcase, this will show what I build on DSL. First up, a vertical spinner that I talked about yesterday on Discord, Vert Shredder. You can find pictures of it externally and internally on the attachments below. It is a heavyweight, with a Perm powering the vertical disc.

The second is a flipper named Flipper Time. It is another heavyweight, this time powered by a beta motor for it's flipper, and using flipping segments and a snow plow to form the flipper. It also has two wheel drive. You can also find the pictures of Flipper Time's external and internals below, on the attachments

That's what I can show for now. Any suggestions to improve both will be appreciated, and I'm aware of it's flaws, like the exposed motor of Vert Shredder, so please tell me how to fix that

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: moziet on May 12, 2018, 08:15:51 AM

Hey hey hey, welcome to the forums!

Vert has the potential to be a nice bot. I'd suggest giving it some wedgelets as chassis wedges are not great. Also, try replacing the drive for Slimbodies. You dont have to, but try shrinking the chassis. Ant Batteries aren't that great, so I'd suggest replacing those with the long black ones or the car battery. Also, you really need to protect the motor. That can easily get sniped by hammers. What's the armor on it?

As for Flipper Time, the only things I could really suggest is shrinking the chassis. Too much free space. You could also replace the flipper arm with regular flipper segments. But if you really want to use a snowplow, use one with more HP. Maybe even thicken the arm to make it look more realistic. Same question with Vert, what's the armor?

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 12, 2018, 08:17:47 AM

Quote from: moziet on May 12, 2018, 08:15:51 AM

Hey hey hey, welcome to the forums!

Vert has the potential to be a nice bot. I'd suggest giving it some wedgelets as chassis wedges are not great. Also, try replacing the drive for Slimbodies. You dont have to, but try shrinking the chassis. Ant Batteries aren't that great, so I'd suggest replacing those with the long black ones or the car battery. Also, you really need to protect the motor. That can easily get sniped by hammers. What's the armor on it?

As for Flipper Time, the only things I could really suggest is shrinking the chassis. Too much free space. You could also replace the flipper arm with regular flipper segments. But if you really want to use a snowplow, use one with more HP. Maybe even thicken the arm to make it look more realistic. Same question with Vert, what's the armor?

Not on laptop, so cannot fix now. But thanks, I will put that suggestions tomorrow on my robots. And I think the Armour of both robots are 3mm titanium

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on June 01, 2018, 09:28:38 PM

I'm back again. Now, I have a fix of Flipper Time. For Flipper Time, I rebuilt the chassis entirely, and replaced the flipping motor with a piston. I also used four wheel drive. It has a 3mm titanium armor

I also constructed a new robot, named Komodo. It is equipped with a jaw that can independently move of each other. The jaw itself is made of many 20 cm titanium extenders, and not seen in the picture because it's too large, the top jaw is equipped with two cutting teeth, while the lower jaw is equipped with four titanium wedge. It is armored in 3mm of titanium.

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Dreamcast on June 01, 2018, 09:32:30 PM

First one needs a color. Grey is not a color anymore.
Komodo looks ok, perhaps you can add a flamethrower and call it Komodo Drago?

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Badger on June 01, 2018, 09:34:30 PM

https://gametechmods.com/forums/site-news-and-feedback/how-to-use-insert-attachment/

Also, basically all your bots are block chassis with big thin extrusions made of extenders, which doesn't look very IRL or aesthetic. Look into making everything look like one solid unit instead of bits stuck onto the main chassis. I think that's your biggest weakness here. Like the front 'jaws' of komodo don't fit in with the chassis at all, they just awkwardly poke out of the front. Same goes for the wheelguards.

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Enigm@ on June 02, 2018, 12:44:31 AM

if you want your screenshots to not appear as thumbnails, use imgur or another image host and put he link in  for it to appear at its full size

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on June 15, 2018, 09:47:39 AM

So, I now have a bot finished for Middleweight Mixup, named Dis-continue (Note: I haven't finished all of those bots I showcased earlier for their fix, and the bots I'm making now, including Winged Pyramid for Orc's Wars Extreme and the fix to Breaking Hammers CV1 for Deathmatch). It is a modular middleweight, with the primary configuration being a disc, while the other is a bar
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And sorry for no external picture. But the wheels stick out of the chassis, and the Perm's chain and axle sticks out too.

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on June 16, 2018, 05:39:08 AM

Since no one replied and I still have finished, but unposted robot, I will post two of my competition entries. Also, just to note, Dis-continue is upgraded to have an angled disc/bar now, with the bar shortened so it won't clip with the self righting arm, as I discovered

So first, it is Ring of Destruction. Ever since I first submitted it to Destruction Evolution 2, I made two upgrades. In this current upgrade, Ring of Destruction has four NPC fasts, two on the bottom and two on the top. It also has a ring with two large and two small Typhoons. In addition, it has a modular configuraton, using a disc with shorter diameter and four large typhoons. Armor is 5mm titanium
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Next is Breaking Hammers CV1. It is a planned Deathmatch 2 entry, and it underwent a change from being a chassis on the top with a drive box at the bottom to what it is now, as seen on the pictures. It has two magmotor drives, as well as a custom tribar made of aluminium, with three 30kg's of hammer mounted on it. Armor is 5mm titanium
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Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Gulden on June 16, 2018, 06:52:44 AM

A note about ring spinners is people allow you to put the drive and batteries inside of the disc, so you can make ring of destruction much shorter.

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: pokebro14 on June 16, 2018, 06:55:05 AM

Yeah make that ring spinner shorter.

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: moziet on June 16, 2018, 08:21:31 AM

Quote from: pokebro14 on June 16, 2018, 06:55:05 AM

Yeah make that ring spinner shorter.

This. Bots like Girl Power and [REDACTED] took advantage of this and have a smaller chassis.

Breaking Hammers. Tribar. Hammers. Good boy..

But in all seriousness, I see you put a 6Mag into it! I'd say put replace the drive w/ NPC/NPC Fasts and put them on the corners.

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Naryar on June 27, 2018, 09:19:47 AM

alright. you did some improvement since the beginning. that's good.

The skins seem a bit boring to me. make them look better.

no idea about your extender work on discontinue. Is it just for aesthetics ?

Sadly, servo motors do not work for clamps. You'll have to do something with burst motors on Komodo. Also I suggest to use spike strips on it, not only to simulate teeth but also to make it do damage.

The latest iteration of Flipper Time... well, always show internals. Also flippermakers are actually terrible for flipper use, a flipper made of flippermakers is only as strong as it's weakest component (and they're not very tough) those are made to be extenders or for aesthetics. Also your bot is boxy and large (on a flipper, you want it to be wide for maximum stability but also low to the ground and angled so it deflects hits easier.) and you should at least angle your flipper front to not be hit by HS's and rammers and such that hard.

Breaking Hammers needs a longer extender on the top if you want it to mauler dance back on it's wheels better.

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on June 27, 2018, 09:36:53 AM

Quote from: Naryar on June 27, 2018, 09:19:47 AM

alright. you did some improvement since the beginning. that's good.

The skins seem a bit boring to me. make them look better.

no idea about your extender work on discontinue. Is it just for aesthetics ?

Sadly, servo motors do not work for clamps. You'll have to do something with burst motors on Komodo. Also I suggest to use spike strips on it, not only to simulate teeth but also to make it do damage.

The latest iteration of Flipper Time... well, always show internals. Also flippermakers are actually terrible for flipper use, a flipper made of flippermakers is only as strong as it's weakest component (and they're not very tough) those are made to be extenders or for aesthetics. Also your bot is boxy and large (on a flipper, you want it to be wide for maximum stability but also low to the ground and angled so it deflects hits easier.) and you should at least angle your flipper front to not be hit by HS's and rammers and such that hard.

Breaking Hammers needs a longer extender on the top if you want it to mauler dance back on it's wheels better.

So yo answer your questions, for Dis-continue, the extender works are for aesthetics. Originally, it's intended to be like Hypno-disc but I don't have the weight, as it's built for a DSL IRL MW tournament.

I will be honest here. I lost Vert Shredder, Flipper Time, and Komodo when I installed the DSL Reborn AI pack. However, to tell you, I tried rebuilding Komodo, with a bit less bland chassis shape, though I still use servos. I only realized that clamps use bursts once I watched the clamps on Orc's Wars

I haven't build a flipper or lifter yet since Flipper Time, and as I said earlier, lost flipper Time. Though I will take your advices for building future flippers. Also, for an information that people don't know about the bot, the first version was originally intended to be a hammer bot, but then the hammer got interrupted by a component placed in front of the Beta burst. I learned since that I shouldn't place a component on front, but it's too late.

Breaking Hammers is already entered to Deathmatch 2, which has already ended it's Signup. Though I will try to include your suggestion on the second version

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on June 28, 2018, 12:41:39 AM

I have created two new bots. The first is HexaVortex. It is a hexagonal shell spinner, equipped with three large typhoons and three large beaters. It has aluminium armor (forget what thickness though, maybe it's 3 or 5mm). Drive is two NPC fasts with rubber wheels. Weapon motor is 6 Mag. The extenders for the shell, meanwhile, is made of aluminium ones. It is also modular, with a second shell that mounts the weapon on the middle part of the panels instead of bottom. The weight of the bot is around 783
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The second robot is Terminating Cutter II. It is one of my first attempts at an extenderbot. The body is constructed out of titanium extenders, with the weapon support made of aluminium. Drive is two NPC fasts with N-12 wheels. The weapon motor is a Perm 132 EEEL. The bar, meanwhile, is constructed with a 50x100 middle section, two 50 to 37.5 sections, and large beaters.
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Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Olister92 on June 28, 2018, 06:30:00 AM

I love the frame on the HS, the only thing I could suggest is trying to make it shorter if possible

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Naryar on June 28, 2018, 10:00:04 AM

You can make this shell spinner a bit smaller and more compact. It has a bit of empty space. May want to use smaller wheels to do this.

Also for a hexagonal shell design like that, beaters set flat against the shell are pretty terrible. Mostly because when those teeth are gone, you'll be hitting your opponent with the edges of the hexagon, not the beaters.

If you want a hexagonal design like that I'd just place those teeth as close to the edges of the hexagon as possible. Because the corners are going to hit the opponents, not the middle of the hexagon's sides.

Finally, that REALLY doesn't have a lot of weapon weight, even for IRL.

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on July 06, 2018, 12:10:55 AM

So, for Orc's Wars Extreme, I made several bots for the weightclass war, as well as the New Blood event and Wildcard Warriors. However, I am going to post a bot for the MW event here. It is named Di-trouble and it is armed with two counter rotating vertical discs. The armor is 5mm alu. Drive motors are regular NPC's, while weapon motors are two flatmotors.

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Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Olister92 on July 06, 2018, 06:20:03 AM

Looks neat and it's a pretty cool idea, I think the disc rotating downward is just gunna pull you on top of the other bots and get it's guts ripped but we shall see

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: superbot13 on July 06, 2018, 05:22:59 PM

I think the disks should spin the same way

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on July 08, 2018, 10:48:37 PM

So, I will post more of my OWO entries. While I haven't made a screenshot for my AW, BW, and LW yet to showcase, I have one for my New Blood entry, OverChopper. You may remember this as the bot I asked for help in AI'ing on Discord. Now, it has gone through some changes. The curent version has a shrinked chassis compared to the first version, four magmotors, four hypnos, a 6mag, and a bar made of one 50x200 part (I think), two 50x50 parts, and two large typhoons. Armor is 5mm steel. Also, this bot's upgrade is when I used BFE for the first time, to lower the height of the chassis slightly in order to expose the shaft of the 6mag, and raise the bar a bit, as the unlowered chassis caused the bar to intersect with the chassis

The weaknesses of the bot first, is that since the forks at the front, which is comprised of alu extenders and steel wedges, is attached directly to the multi anchor, it is not flush to the ground, and thus. it doesn't have average wedging capability, though it is still capable of wedging. Second, since the tip of the bar is made of 50x50 and large typhoons, it is fragile and tend to break away when damaged, as i tested on Eye Stabber
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Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Olister92 on July 09, 2018, 06:10:05 AM

You could probably make the whole thing more compact and you could definitely reduce the size of the forks, they look ridiculous IMO

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Hoppin on July 09, 2018, 06:21:35 AM

Quote from: Olister92 on July 09, 2018, 06:10:05 AM

You could probably make the whole thing more compact and you could definitely reduce the size of the forks, they look ridiculous IMO

I agree with Olister tbh, I'd move the front drive motors back and that font battery behind the weapon motor, similar to that one on the other side and then adding a front wedge instead of forks, or just adjusting the fork size to suit the bot more.

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: superbot13 on July 09, 2018, 01:51:03 PM

I think you should make the forks shorter

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on July 10, 2018, 12:28:40 AM

So, sorry for not posting my AW and BW. I plan to, but since their skins are still wrong, I decided to showcase Saw Transport instead. It is inspired by Ginsu and Saw Point, and it is recently constructed today, which took me almost three hours. It is because Saw Transport is an extenderbot made of armor panels, and extenders only as attachment point for the panels, as well as the weapon support. I have to keep BFE'ing parts, especially the armor panels, though I also BFE the weapon support, in order to make the bot look clean and seamless. Drive is four NPC fasts, with 66cm saws. Weapon is flatmotor with 100cm disc and two large typhoons. The bot itself is constructed entirely out of titanium, with the exception of the bottom plate and the extenders.
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Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Clickbeetle on July 10, 2018, 03:05:20 AM

For OverChopper, use a 40cm bar segment in the middle and put long segments on the ends, without Typhoon teeth.  It will be much sturdier.

With a fancier skin it will look pretty cool!

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on July 11, 2018, 05:55:06 AM

Made a DSL-S bot, which is rare for me. It's named Triangle of Doom 2 and made only for this month's challenge belt. It is a flail SnS, with three NPC fasts, three mini Vlad spikes on flails, and three static pointy tips. Armor is 3mm titanium (i think. Maybe it is 5mm, though I'm pretty sure it's 3mm)

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Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: [cringey name goes here] on July 11, 2018, 06:15:18 AM

Quote from: Billy5545 on July 11, 2018, 05:55:06 AM

Made a DSL-S bot, which is rare for me. It's named Triangle of Doom 2 and made only for this month's challenge belt. It is a flail SnS, with three NPC fasts, three mini Vlad spikes on flails, and three static pointy tips. Armor is 3mm titanium (i think. Maybe it is 5mm, though I'm pretty sure it's 3mm)

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Definately better than its predecessor. Speaking of which, I'm thinking of remaking Ground Zero.
But back to the bot, maybe add protection to the motors? IDK, i'm not the best source for advice.

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: FOTEPX on July 11, 2018, 07:35:39 AM

Quote from: [cringey name goes here] on July 11, 2018, 06:15:18 AM

But back to the bot, maybe add protection to the motors? IDK, i'm not the best source for advice.

The motors should be fine so long as the bot spins fast enough. I think the extender structure for the weapons/motors could be a lot better, though - here it looks too much like a waste of weight.

Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on July 12, 2018, 09:21:14 AM

Yet again, I haven't readied my AW and BW yet. However, I made a new HW for the Unique Weapon section of Weapon's War of OWO, named Fastdrill. It is a 6WD bot, with 4 NPC fasts and 2 slimbodies. The weapon is a drill made of titanium extenders and a 80cm heavy spike, powered by a flatmotor. The armor is 10mm titanium. However, the drill unfortunately touched the ground, and I'm unable to find a larger wheel that won't intersect with each other. Also, unable to fix the skin resolution too (I use GIMP by the way)
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Title: Re: Billy's DLS Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Olister92 on July 12, 2018, 09:47:52 AM

If you need larger wheels you could just ditch the slim bodies all together 4 NCP fasts is generally fast enough for a super quick HW. You might then have weigh for a more powerful weapon motor, like a 2TWMR (correct if that's less powerful that a slim body)

Overall I like the bot I think it's pretty cool man

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on August 22, 2018, 06:42:35 AM

Updated OverChopper, including it's bar spin direction. You can find most, if not all the infos on the splash
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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on September 02, 2018, 06:19:54 AM

 Made a new MW as my second entry for Middleweight Mixup 2, named Axe n' Kill
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For extra info, the wedge is all steel. And to disclose, I get my calculation for the IRL weight of the bot through Sagaris' calculation. I can disclose it later

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on September 03, 2018, 08:28:17 AM

So, I decided to clear up the confusion with how I get the IRL weight for my bots from the RA2 weight. I'm going to post three screenshots from my conversation with Sagaris in Discord to show you the secret.

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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on September 12, 2018, 05:07:09 AM

Made another bot. This time, it's a fix to HexaVortex, and I can finally make it work

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My only gripe with that is the ground clearance, as I can't find a perfect combonation of wheels and casters while playing it safe, as in having the wheels really touch the ground and the casters not being raised up. Also the wrongly aligned skin too

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: SagarisRA2 on September 12, 2018, 08:19:50 AM

I should really use GTM more, the amount of things I have made since. But nice use of the calculations.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on September 23, 2018, 08:02:56 AM

Haven't made a new IRL bot yet, and while I want to show Stab Runner here now, I don't have the internal pic yet. So here is one DSL-S (I don't have the most recent internal pic of my challenge belt DSL-S LW too), Savage Discs

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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on October 14, 2018, 06:44:33 PM

I'm now going to showcase three DSL-IRL bots I made recently, which are Flipper Time, Fastdrill Gen II, and Darwinian Predator CW. Not ready to post few other IRL bots and DSL-S yet.

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/436303189348974594/500659577017073676/RA2_splash_4.png)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/436303189348974594/500667692601049099/RA2_splash_5.png)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/436303189348974594/500673528601903105/RA2_splash_6.png)

Extra notes: Flipper Time uses 40kg counterweight on both of it's panels, while Darwinian Predator uses 10kg counterweight on both panels, but for flipper version, it's 30kg on each panel. Also, the specifics on Fastdrill Gen II is a typo, as I forgot to change the name when reusing Flipper Time's splash

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: SagarisRA2 on October 16, 2018, 08:51:48 AM

The Predator bot is pretty legit

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on October 27, 2018, 04:42:57 PM

I'm inspired by Bildschirm to show my MM2 lineup here.
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New bots will come soon

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on October 29, 2018, 08:55:55 AM

Too lazy to make not simple, and descriptive BOTM style splashes now, so here's a bot dump of a new bot and unshowcased IRL and DSL-S stuffs. Starting from DSL-S

Duangle
It is a LW dual bar VS, with two TWM3R drives and two TWM3R weapon motors. Alu 5 and weight can be seen on BOTM splash. Btw, this was entered on last month's challenge belt.
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HoriVert
A weirdly and inefficiently designed VS plus HS for some reason. NPC Fasts and Ti5, with 397kg of weight I think. Two Perm 45's drive a Mech disc and a 50x100 bar (I think). Alu skirt. Entered to my challenge with Nightraven Shade.
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Antbar
Moving to IRL stuff, AW angled bar spinner. Pl3 and around 124kg in weight. Other infos in the internals. Entered to OWO, where it lost it's only battle.
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Flipping Beetle
BW for OWO, that managed to reach the finals. Alu3 and weights around 172kg. Flipping arm is all alu. Flipper motor is fast magsnapper. Also, low res and wrong aligned skin
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Seed Killer
My new bot. Extenderbot, with reskinned panels, all alu construct except top plate, which is poly, and front wedge, which is steel. Two NPC fasts and two TWM3, as well as geared beta and 50kg worth of counterweight. It's supposed to be themed on birds. Weight is 799.6kg
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Edit: Just realized that I forgot to showcase my IRL LW, Stab Runner

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on November 10, 2018, 08:17:09 AM

Still too lazy to do BOTM style splashes, but well, here are the new stuffs plus updates

First, Stab Runner, which I forgot to showcase.
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Don't know armor, but maybe it's Ti3 or Alu5 IIRC. And I think the wedge is titanium.

Next, update to Angry Bird: Seed Killer.
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It now has sturdier poly top plate and alu wedgelets, as well as the wheels being changed, among other minor changes

Update to OverChopper Gen II
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Basically, stripped the typhoons in favor of the wheelguard, which is a mix of alu and ti, as well as looking sturdier now. I also changed the wheels to smaller ones, though too lazy to BFE them inward. Also removed an ant batt

And finally, a new bot, and it will get long, so prepare yourself
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It's named Sweet Drum, a pun on Sweet Dream. It originated because I originally had an idea to make a Nightmare clone, but without a giant vertical disc. A drum soon came to mind, and then I thought of straightening the part holding the drive to make the bot invertible.

As for the build process, it's honestly real hectic. The bot simply doesn't come as I hope, especially with the wheels. The drum keeps AGOD'ing as well as being too low that it hits the ground, so I'm forced to use large wheels rather than smaller ones I'm hoping for. The other reason for larger wheels is also because the Perm sticking out from the bottom too caused the wheels to not touch the ground. That change in turn forced me to use typhoons just because of the range, though I still have to BFE them in, and god, it's pretty difficult. In the end, I gave up, making the typhoons messy. I also think the drive part is a bit too long

Anyway, for the bot itself, two Perm 132's for drum, and two decorative flatmotors. You read that right, decorative flatmotors. It serves no purpose, not even to scummily boost the drum, because it will be stupid, but only as some kind of a belt. I was inspired by Thyrus' drumbot, SCORN, for that, when he said for people to pretend the flats on it are belts. Pics for proof I didn't wire the flat
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Back to the bot again, Alu5 for armor, and two NPC Fasts. The extension, on the other hand, is made up of some alu panels and a lot of small alu extenders.

Edit: Just noticed an extender for SD pokes out. May try fixing it, because it seems to sometimes poke when I open the bot, and sometimes not. I don't even change the position of it

And here is my showcase for now

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Philippa on November 10, 2018, 08:24:43 AM

New Overchopper looks a bit nicer now that you've made things flow into each other better, compared to the "weapon on box" it was before.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on November 16, 2018, 04:31:01 PM

Posting more bots. No BOTM style splashes too as too lazy and haven't made one yet

First is HexaVortex Gen II. Changes made from old versipn include shortening the chassis with BFE, redesigning the shell to be shorter and used armor panels, added a new pole made of steel, and use a 6mag for weapon. It's also more stable. Alu5
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Next is Darwinian Predator HW. I used the extra weight from the CW version to strengthen armor, turning the bottom plate into all steel from the all alu of CW. I also made the top plate ti, and the front plate steel. In addition, I added a tail, few decorations, a new battery, and a new srimech powered by a extra short VDMA. Though it doesn't function as it's light and the game glitch when firing a srimech that goes too fast for some reason
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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Hoppin on November 16, 2018, 07:17:46 PM

Unit. Unut.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on December 05, 2018, 03:40:23 AM

Made a SHW named OverGasher. Initially made it for an ARC tourney. It is meant to be a part of the OverChopper line. Drive is four NPC fasts. The weapon motor is a Dual Perm. It is powered by four intercooled batts. Wedge is steel, except for edge part. Armor is Ti10. It's weight is 1200kg.

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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on December 09, 2018, 05:46:32 AM

Posting more bots here. First is my new MW for HW PvP cluster, Blowtorch. It is flame themed. It has two NPC Fasts with two doubled Hypno wheels. In addition, it also has a steel wedge on the front with hinged titanium wedgelets. There are two flamethrowers. The bot's powered by two red batts and a large air tank. Ti5. Weight's around 397kg
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Second bot is a HW I have an idea of for several weeks, Dardanera. My idea is to basically make a spinner that is slow and large, but tough, powerful, and well armored. Weight is 793.7kg. The weapon is a drisc powered by two Perm 132 with four small typhoons. It has a steel wedge in the front. Drive is merely two TWM3R drives. It also features recolored teeth, drum, and hinged small wedge. It's powered by two longs. Also alu5 armor because weight and figuring out that the chassis may have the same, if not a bit more health than a low and compact Ti5 chassis. Name is randomly thought out. Only gripe is the weapon slot.
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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: KidDelta on December 09, 2018, 06:51:45 AM

Blowtorch has A LOT of space between the inner components and the wedge. Reduce the space, and also change the chassis shape so it is rectangular-ish. What I'm saying is, just Crash-and-Burn it.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on December 14, 2018, 08:29:27 AM

More bots. First is Ring of Destruction Gen II. This first DSL-IRL bot entered to a tourney by me is now upgraded to be more aesthetic and faster. The ring now consists of a solid 200cm disc, two large typhoons, and extenderwork around the teeth as bearings. As for the bot itself, it's powered by a long and intercooled batt. Four NPC Fasts. Alu3, and 794.8 in weight.
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Second is V1. A CW that was unfinished before I decided to finish it today for Pathfinder, it is a VS inspired by bits of Nazi war machine, hence the color and name. It featured two NPC Fasts and two Slimbodies. It is also powered by a long, intercooled, and ant batt. The extenderwork for support is all alu, while the wedge (including wedgelets, which are hinged) is steel. 594.8 in weight, and Ti3
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Finally, Angry Bird: Seed Killer Gen II. It is an upgrade to Seed Killer. I decided to make the shape not boxy and more closer to it's inspiration, beta and TerrorHurtz. Two intercooled for power. Two TWMR2 Drives for drive and geared beta for weapon. The weapon also uses 40kg of counterweight. The front and side are steel, the top is polycarbonate, and the bottom plate is titanium. The side panels are also reskinned. My only gripe is the messy angled side and top. 792.7 in weight
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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: WhatAmI on December 16, 2018, 07:37:02 AM

Ring of Destruction Gen II: Noice.
V1: I thought it was a Free Shipping ripoff, but then I saw the disc.
Angry Bird: Seed Killer Gen II: MAN, THAT IS  X T R A T H I C C AND SMEXY.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on December 21, 2018, 08:58:29 AM

Finally upgraded Darwinian Predator Gen II for NW2 and Alloftheman's tourney, which is on signup in Discord now. Less compact than first version and more fragile too, being all alu. The side is also extenderspammy. On the other hand, the bot retains the same drive power, but improved with hinged mouth wedge, plus better aesthetics and panel skin. The bit also have a flipper config, with 30kg of counterweight. All in all, satisfied of how the bot now looks tbh

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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: 8bean on December 21, 2018, 04:28:02 PM

Quote from: Billy5545 on December 21, 2018, 08:58:29 AM

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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on December 24, 2018, 08:02:43 AM

Made a new HW. This time it's an upgrade to my Orc's Wars Overclocked entry, Terminating Cutter II. It's called Terminating Cutter Gen III. It has a bar that is supposed to be reused from the second version, with the bar being same. All aluminium construct, because I think a lot of the weight went because of the bot's size, as well as using a lot of extenders for connection point. Tried to go for a unique chassis design though. Two NPC Fasts for drive, and a Perm 132 for weapon. Three ant batts. Two reskinned panels. It also has an alternate VS config. Weight is around 797 for the main config and 799.1 for the VS config.

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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Dreamcast on December 25, 2018, 08:48:48 PM

It's funky looking in a good way. I like the vert configuration the most.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Reier on December 26, 2018, 02:15:20 AM

you should come up with a setup that you can rotate mid-battle

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on January 12, 2019, 04:54:10 PM

Decided to showcase this bad gimmick bot, a cannonbot, because want to show all bots I ever made, rather than left them unshown in my game, and also because I won't have anything to showcase for the next few months due to RL stuff.
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It's made three months ago by the way. And no, as I said before, this will be a gimmick bot for fun, and not for competitive stuff anymore whatsoever.

In addition, just to add to the name, but the Black Flag name actually came from me remembering Assassin's Creeds IV: Black Flag when someone mentioned about pirates

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on January 18, 2019, 07:51:09 AM

Finally something better as I got a bit of time when doing it. The HW version of Darwinian Predator Gen II. No internal shot or good pic because no time for that. 799.1 for main clamp config and 791.1 for flipper. 20kg counterweight on clamp, and 40 on flipper. Parts are alu for front plate and side parts, as well as top plate and rear part of bottom plate. Steel for front part of bottom plate and head. Features a srimech powered by a very small VDMA.
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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: SagarisRA2 on January 18, 2019, 07:58:53 AM

What a unit

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Team Code Red Robotics on January 18, 2019, 08:09:43 AM

Quote from: Billy5545 on January 18, 2019, 07:51:09 AM

Finally something better as I got a bit of time when doing it. The HW version of Darwinian Predator Gen II. No internal shot or good pic because no time for that. 799.1 for main clamp config and 791.1 for flipper. 20kg counterweight on clamp, and 40 on flipper. Parts are alu for front plate and side parts, as well as top plate and rear part of bottom plate. Steel for front part of bottom plate and head. Features a srimech powered by a very small VDMA.
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The UNIT is back in town
The UNIT is back in town

The UNIT is back in town again!

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Sickle robotics on January 18, 2019, 11:51:02 AM

Quote from: Billy5545 on January 18, 2019, 07:51:09 AM

Finally something better as I got a bit of time when doing it. The HW version of Darwinian Predator Gen II. No internal shot or good pic because no time for that. 799.1 for main clamp config and 791.1 for flipper. 20kg counterweight on clamp, and 40 on flipper. Parts are alu for front plate and side parts, as well as top plate and rear part of bottom plate. Steel for front part of bottom plate and head. Features a srimech powered by a very small VDMA.
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absolute unit.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Wambo on January 19, 2019, 10:15:01 AM

Quote from: Billy5545 on January 18, 2019, 07:51:09 AM

Finally something better as I got a bit of time when doing it. The HW version of Darwinian Predator Gen II. No internal shot or good pic because no time for that. 799.1 for main clamp config and 791.1 for flipper. 20kg counterweight on clamp, and 40 on flipper. Parts are alu for front plate and side parts, as well as top plate and rear part of bottom plate. Steel for front part of bottom plate and head. Features a srimech powered by a very small VDMA.
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Awesome robot!  :mrgreen: I just noticed, that clamping blade has to fight Darwinian Predator in OW3. I think this will just depend on, who can get in underneath, but I'm sure it will be a good fight :popcorn

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on January 19, 2019, 05:03:08 PM

Quote from: Wambo on January 19, 2019, 10:15:01 AM

Quote from: Billy5545 on January 18, 2019, 07:51:09 AM

Finally something better as I got a bit of time when doing it. The HW version of Darwinian Predator Gen II. No internal shot or good pic because no time for that. 799.1 for main clamp config and 791.1 for flipper. 20kg counterweight on clamp, and 40 on flipper. Parts are alu for front plate and side parts, as well as top plate and rear part of bottom plate. Steel for front part of bottom plate and head. Features a srimech powered by a very small VDMA.
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Awesome robot!  :mrgreen: I just noticed, that clamping blade has to fight Darwinian Predator in OW3. I think this will just depend on, who can get in underneath, but I'm sure it will be a good fight :popcorn

Well, the first DP is bad tbh. Panels BFE'ed to extenders to give it cleaner look, but also a using the extenders to be vulnerable as they take damage the same time, smartzone far behind so the bot can't attack most of the time, and static wedge

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Naryar on January 19, 2019, 09:16:23 PM

can the tail flail around ? it would be nice if it could be used as a flail weapon

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on January 19, 2019, 09:35:19 PM

Quote from: Naryar on January 19, 2019, 09:16:23 PM

can the tail flail around ? it would be nice if it could be used as a flail weapon

I put the tail on axle. But unlike the first version's tail, I don't use a weapon component at all. The black bits are 45 degree angle extenders

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on April 25, 2019, 04:48:04 AM

Made an AW as a part of a LW cluster. It's named Antbar Gen II, and meant to be an upgrade to my Orc's Wars Overclocked entry, Antbar. The main change is swapping from an angled overhead bar to a vertical bar. The extender are all alu, drive are two astroflights, weapon motor is one flatmotor, and battery is one intercooled. Armor is Pl3, while the weight is 124.0kg

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/436303189348974594/570904243364560896/Antbar_Gen_II.png)

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on April 28, 2019, 08:36:09 AM

Made a new CW named Nature's Defender. OBJ chassis with Alu5 armor. Flipping arm is powered by two regular VDMA's and made of aluminium entirely. Drive is two TWM3R2 drives with Buster wheels. Three longs and two ants for power. Titanium front plate. 599.9 in weight. Only gripe is the chassis not being centered, but way forward, the front plate not fitting perfectly, and the bot being unable to self right due to the flipping arc from fake pistons

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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 03, 2019, 05:22:03 AM

Made two new bots. First, the other part of my LW cluster, as an AW called SawnDisc Gen II. It has a saw powered by a flatmotor, two copals, an intercooled batt, and alu3 armor. It also has two static aluminium wedgelets in the front, with a longer wedgelets and shorter wedgelets.
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Second, an upgrade to a CW called V1, named V2. It is a VS which has four smalls, and powered by a Perm 132. It has two ant bats and an intercooled. It also has two TW3R2 drives with treads, steel wedge and steel hinged wedgelets, alu5 armor, aluminium support, etc.
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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: KidDelta on May 03, 2019, 05:31:03 AM

V2 looks Awesome!

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: 09090901 on May 03, 2019, 06:47:39 AM

bretty cool BOSSman

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: superbomb122 on May 03, 2019, 09:19:11 AM

V2 is badass my dude! Though the disc is a little weird right now. See if you can change it to a more solid looking weapon, like a drisc or something

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Hoppin on May 03, 2019, 09:28:14 AM

Quote from: superbomb122 on May 03, 2019, 09:19:11 AM

V2 is badass my dude! Though the disc is a little weird right now. See if you can change it to a more solid looking weapon, like a drisc or something

This, also shuffle the right tread forward

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 03, 2019, 09:59:04 AM

Quote from: superbomb122 on May 03, 2019, 09:19:11 AM

V2 is badass my dude! Though the disc is a little weird right now. See if you can change it to a more solid looking weapon, like a drisc or something

It's meant to be a disc where the typhoons are sandwiched between two discs for a disc, as inspired from TR. Though I suppose it's because of how the teeth are arranged

May try a drum between the discs with the drisc idea for it. Just hope that the typhoon won't look messy on it as i can't be bothered to BFE them down, or put them on the discs itself rather than on the drum or extender, after Sweet Drum and Dardanera respectively

Quote from: Hoppin on May 03, 2019, 09:28:14 AM

Quote from: superbomb122 on May 03, 2019, 09:19:11 AM

V2 is badass my dude! Though the disc is a little weird right now. See if you can change it to a more solid looking weapon, like a drisc or something

This, also shuffle the right tread forward

Tbh for that tread, didn't notice it was asymmetrical until Pwnator pointed it out. Will fix it

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Redalert on May 03, 2019, 10:07:15 AM

The LW looks great.
The Treaded VS has made Bots on treads cool again for me.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 03, 2019, 10:19:10 AM

Quote from: Redalert on May 03, 2019, 10:07:15 AM

The LW looks great.

Just to clarify, but it's actually an AW. It's paired with the green bar VS AW on this page above as a LW cluster

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Redalert on May 03, 2019, 10:20:14 AM

Quote from: Billy5545 on May 03, 2019, 10:19:10 AM

Quote from: Redalert on May 03, 2019, 10:07:15 AM

The LW looks great.

Just to clarify, but it's actually an AW. It's paired with the green bar VS AW on this page above as a LW cluster

Ah.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 03, 2019, 11:22:00 PM

Decided to do a bit of cleanup on V2, by adding a drum on the disc, as well as making the treads symmetrical. I also added a 12cm round extender on one side of the disc so it will be connected with the support. Have to reduce the side decoration on the tread and remove an ant batt though, so it only have one intercooled and one ant. It also now weighs 600.0kg

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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: 090901 on May 04, 2019, 12:45:39 AM

sick

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: GIRTHQUAKE on May 04, 2019, 02:23:58 AM

Quote from: Billy5545 on May 03, 2019, 11:22:00 PM

Decided to do a bit of cleanup on V2, by adding a drum on the disc, as well as making the treads symmetrical. I also added a 12cm round extender on one side of the disc so it will be connected with the support. Have to reduce the side decoration on the tread and remove an ant batt though, so it only have one intercooled and one ant. It also now weighs 600.0kg

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The weapon supports look so good, I'm jealous.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 08, 2019, 04:02:37 AM

Quote from: GIRTHQUAKE on May 04, 2019, 02:23:58 AM

Quote from: Billy5545 on May 03, 2019, 11:22:00 PM

Decided to do a bit of cleanup on V2, by adding a drum on the disc, as well as making the treads symmetrical. I also added a 12cm round extender on one side of the disc so it will be connected with the support. Have to reduce the side decoration on the tread and remove an ant batt though, so it only have one intercooled and one ant. It also now weighs 600.0kg

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The weapon supports look so good, I'm jealous.

Late answer, but tbh, it's not that hard. First off, about the envy part, honestly I'm not that good or creative at extenderwork unlike Neon or Superbomb, or even you, and envy their ability and creativity to make great extenderwork. I usually spend my weight on armor or other stuffs.

For how I made the support itself, I just used a 12cm extender on the main part of the motor, put a 10cm extender and two 10 degree extenders on opposite sides, and put two different extenders. I then put a 120cm extender on the disc axle. The rest is just smaller extenders and 45 or 40 degree angle extenders.

Anyway, moving on to showcasing bots, made three new bots first is Flipping Beetle Gen II, and upgrade to Flipping Beetle. It is now a Britflipper rear hinged, with alu3 IIRC, short VDMA, alu panel, two slim bodies, and two intercooleds. It's also 174.0kg. Not satisfied with it though tbh when comparing it to other Britflipper BW's.
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Next is my LW, OverCutter. I made it today, before even doing OverChopper Gen III, after trying to do Stab Runner Gen II, but losing it from the file being corrupted both times. The whole design is meant to be the new Gen III design. Anyway, it has Ti3 armor, flatmotor for the bar, which is 37.5 x 150 I think, aluminum extenderwork, titanium panels at the front, two astroflights, and a long and ant batts. The bar is also mounted 30 degrees. Weight is 247.0kg. It will also go on LDAI 3 if I can make all my bots for it
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Finally, my MW, Di-Trouble Gen II. Decided to update it up to my current building standard from when I first competed almost a year ago. It is now HUGE inspired. Alu5 armor IIRC, two TWM3R drives, two flat motors, eight medium beaters made using Pokebro's setup for four teeth in total, and a long and ant batts. The pushing arms are aluminium entirely. It also has two control boards to replicate the inspiration of separate control for each sides. Forgot the exact weight however.
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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Badger on May 08, 2019, 04:14:50 AM

Overcutter is pretty cool. Have you considered moving the drive motors up 1/2 ticks and/or using wide ant wheels in order to reduce the ground clearance?

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 08, 2019, 04:20:22 AM

Quote from: Badger on May 08, 2019, 04:14:50 AM

Overcutter is pretty cool. Have you considered moving the drive motors up 1/2 ticks and/or using wide ant wheels in order to reduce the ground clearance?

Don't think of it yet. Will try to BFE it up as you said that you mentioned it. Idk if I have the weight for wide ants though

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Badger on May 08, 2019, 04:25:32 AM

IIRC wide ants are .5kg lighter than large ants but don't quote me on that edit: nvm thought you were using large ants not smalls

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 09, 2019, 08:29:55 AM

Made another new bot, this time upgrading OverChopper Gen II into OverChopper Gen III. This time, it features a new, more unique chassis. It also have two NPC Fasts with small Colsons, a long and ant batts, 6mag for the weapon, all aluminium extenders and panels, and a bar mpunted at 22.5 degree angle with 50x150 DSL bar plus some aluminium extenders, two large typhoons, and two large beaters. The armor is also Alu5. Weight is 799.6

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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 09, 2019, 10:38:10 AM

Double post, but also upgraded my SHW, OverCleaver, into OverCleaver Gen II. It has 4 TWMR2 drives, two longs and maybe two ants IIRC, Ti5 armor, all aluminium extenderwork, and Dual Perm motor. The bar is also mpunted at 30 degrees and doubled, with two 50x150 bars, four large typhoons, and four large beaters. Weight is 1199.2

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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: moziet on May 24, 2019, 08:22:47 AM

holy sh** BILLY YOUVE IMPROVED SO MUCH
I LOVE THESE!!!

(no homo)

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 24, 2019, 10:09:00 AM

Decided to beef up Nature's Defender by making a HW version, for BSRaven's tourney. It weighs 797.0. It now has a whole steel plate rather than titanium, extra ant batts and intercooled batt, additions to flipping arm, hinged wedgelets, Ti5 armor, etc.

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So, the wedgelet is like that in the internal pic because of pause break. It's actually normal

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Olister92 on May 24, 2019, 10:14:42 AM

looks alright from what I can see, ant batts are pretty useless so you can always ditch a few of them to make other upgrades

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 24, 2019, 10:25:51 AM

Quote from: Olister92 on May 24, 2019, 10:14:42 AM

looks alright from what I can see, ant batts are pretty useless so you can always ditch a few of them to make other upgrades

Tbh, idk what to do, and I don't want to panel my chassis either. It's also meant to be beefed up from the CW version, so. Also, just want to say, but it has a piston too. Don't have pic of it though, but not sure if a piston that runs almost parallely with the the flipping arm, only slightly angled away from it, is legal or not. May make a diagram if I can

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on May 24, 2019, 10:16:03 PM

Made a HW version of V2. 795.2 in weight. Made the forks a bit longer, made the wedge longer, added wheelguard and extenderwork, replaced batt with one long and one ant, armor replaced with St5 IIRC, and added steel shark teeth to the disc

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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: GIRTHQUAKE on May 28, 2019, 11:17:00 PM

Quote from: Billy5545 on May 24, 2019, 10:16:03 PM

Made a HW version of V2. 795.2 in weight. Made the forks a bit longer, made the wedge longer, added wheelguard and extenderwork, replaced batt with one long and one ant, armor replaced with St5 IIRC, and added steel shark teeth to the disc

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This honestly to me is one of the most "This could be a real robot" robots I've seen here. Not throwing a bunch of colors at it really sells that look too.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on July 04, 2019, 07:11:27 AM

Using this showcase now. Sorry for the tourney being delayed because I spent time building and also have other stuffs IRL taking my time. Anyway, made Mecha Shapeshifter. It's an extenderbot designed to have every weapon type. However, I decided to make four first. They are axe, top front hinge flipper, flamer wedge, and VS. Splash pic:
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Base chassis: It has steel on the front, except for the eyes and angled plate, as well as steel on the side. It also has polycarbonate top, and aluminium bottom and back. As for the internals, it has aluminium extenders, two TWM3R2 drives, two Taz wheels (with Kix pack reskin), and two ant, two longs, and one intercooled batts. It also has the side panels reskinned
Axe: It uses a medium burst, with an extender cover behind as the burst sticks out from the top halfway. Forks and tail are aluminium, as is the axe arm. Uses a Gothic axe. 798.5 in weight.
Front hinge: It uses two short bursts, as well as 40x100 flipper panels. The front wedge, meanwhile, is made out of steel, and wedgelets are steel. It also has tails for some reason. 793.4 in weight
Flamer wedge: It uses two flamethrowers, powered by a single medium tank. The wedge and wedgelets are reused from the front hinge config. However, the config also has three cutting teeth for holding bots, as well as two 30 cm pole spikes. 747.0 in weight
VS: It uses two flatmotors to power the weapon, which has four small typhoons in total. It also has steel wedgelets with aluminium extenders. Support is also wholly aluminium. 783.1 in weight

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Badger on July 04, 2019, 08:22:31 AM

VS is kinda :puke:. Axe looks nice except the bottom of the axe shaft looks a bit empty, some more filling in around the motor would be nice IMO. I like the idea of the flamer, but you're 50kg underweight and 1 medium tank is nowhere near enough for 2 flamethrowers.

Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on July 04, 2019, 09:10:19 AM

Quote from: Badger on July 04, 2019, 08:22:31 AM

VS is kinda :puke:. Axe looks nice except the bottom of the axe shaft looks a bit empty, some more filling in around the motor would be nice IMO. I like the idea of the flamer, but you're 50kg underweight and 1 medium tank is nowhere near enough for 2 flamethrowers.

Oof at the VS statement. As for the axe, so you mean like motor cover or fake axle. Honestly, the weight is 798.5, and Idk if I want to compromise the tail. And the flamer is meant more as a pusher tbh, and the flame is secondary actually. And it's one tank because I don't have enough space and too lazy to BFE too for more tanks by moving positions for compact internal

Also, extra pics
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Title: Re: Billy's DSL Showcase Build and Try
Post by: Billy5545 on August 05, 2019, 03:49:23 AM

Made another new bot, called Eagle's Hawk. It's for OW4 and maybe MM3 too. 796.1 in weight. Steel5 armor. 2 NPC Fasts on the front and 2 Regular NPCs on the back. It also has two flatmotors, and four small typhoons. Two long and two ant batteries. OBJ chassis, which doesn't break the face limit. Wedgelets are steel for the extender, and ti and alu for the wedgelets itself. It won't do damage though of course for OW4, so it will just be durability against real weapon

Edit: Forgot the pic
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