Author Topic: Clickbeetle's DSL bots (Read 92621 times)

MassimoV · « **Reply #300 on:** March 31, 2011, 10:41:22 PM »

Quote from: Naryar on March 28, 2011, 01:29:10 PM

The wedges look bad honestly.

How wedgy can a toilet get? Anyways great work Click.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #301 on:** April 04, 2011, 11:45:20 PM »

Yeah, so... I decided not to make a SHW Toilet of Doom for ORAD. I don't know why. For some reason I just felt like making this instead:

It's an idea I've had floating around in my head for a while and this tournament was a perfect opportunity. I mean just look at that picture of a real wheel bug. It's got a freaking SAW BLADE on its thorax. It's just begging to have a bot modeled after it, and who cares if the "saw blade" doesn't actually spin on the real bug. It looks like it should.

Now about the bot. Basic stats: It has 1mm Ti armor, a Perm 132 powering a disc with 16 light teeth, 3 PC625 batteries, two BSG's powering the beak and two BSG's for the wings, and 6 Magmotor drive.

Now as you can probably tell, this is first and foremost an artbot. Combat effectiveness took a backseat to making it look good, and I honestly expected it to be pretty near worthless in combat. However, it's much better than I expected. Still not really good, but it can actually beat a few SHW's in NAR AI, notably Blade Wave and Genius Loci. (I don't have a battleshot of Blade Wave because it crashed when I took off its pistons.

)

If it can get under the opponent, that disc does serious damage, and if it doesn't, then I expect there will be a lot of broken legs littering the arena. (Hey, it's an insect, what do you expect?) In either case it should make for entertaining battles.

J · « **Reply #302 on:** April 04, 2011, 11:53:11 PM »

That bug-bot looks badass.

...I take it that "toilet-bots" pretty much derived from grindors. Right?

Pwnator · « **Reply #303 on:** April 04, 2011, 11:56:08 PM »

brb changin ma boxerz

And I have no idea how it can get under an opponent. o_O

J · « **Reply #304 on:** April 04, 2011, 11:58:34 PM »

Quote from: Pwnator on April 04, 2011, 11:56:08 PM

And I have no idea how it can get under an opponent. o_O

It gets under them, like an antlion.

I know, I'm so funny.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #305 on:** April 05, 2011, 12:05:36 AM »

Quote from: Pwnator on April 04, 2011, 11:56:08 PM

And I have no idea how it can get under an opponent. o_O

The beak is so long and narrow that it can slip into tiny gaps and lift up the opponent. So it can get under stuff like Blade Wave with a gap in the wedge, but not something like Flesh Feast with a wedge covering the entire front.

Getting under HS and SnS is tricky; it pretty much relies on poking the beak under the shell and destabilizing it and then rushing under. It won't beat Genius Loci every time.

Edit: I put it on the bot exchange for yoda, and anyone else who wants to try it.

FOTEPX · « **Reply #306 on:** April 05, 2011, 02:15:22 AM »

Oh god.

That...

Is the most beautiful bot I've ever seen.

NFX · « **Reply #307 on:** April 05, 2011, 04:15:38 AM »

Wow. That looks absolutely stunning. Fantastic work, Click.

Jonzu95 · « **Reply #308 on:** April 05, 2011, 04:44:09 AM »

Funky design. Looks great! =D

Naryar · « **Reply #309 on:** April 05, 2011, 10:05:53 AM »

...Reduviidae ?

Cool and most certainly UNIQUE design, though I bet you can get more efficiency out of this.

I also have the feeling the femurs are a bit too short, and the wheels should be outside.

And I'm going to build an arthropod for ORAD, though it will not be the same class :P

Badnik96 · « **Reply #310 on:** April 05, 2011, 04:44:00 PM »

That looks awesome :D

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #311 on:** April 10, 2011, 12:15:38 AM »

Quote from: Naryar on April 05, 2011, 10:05:53 AM

...Reduviidae ?

Indeed. It's Arilus cristatus if you want to be specific.

Quote from: Naryar on April 05, 2011, 10:05:53 AM

Cool and most certainly UNIQUE design, though I bet you can get more efficiency out of this.

I also have the feeling the femurs are a bit too short, and the wheels should be outside.

More like the tibiae are too short, and the tarsi are nonexistent. The femur length is about right. I had to put the wheels on the inside because they didn't touch the ground otherwise.

But, with a 1200 kg weight limit, sacrifices have to be made. I originally wanted to put spike strips on axles at the ends of the legs for tarsi, and the wings were made out of a bunch of aluminum and polycarbonate extenders fitted together (to make a more accurate shape and create the appearance of veins) but that was way too heavy.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #312 on:** August 20, 2011, 10:38:28 PM »

All right, who changed my showcase title?

Anyway, I've dabbled a bit in IRL building for Badnik's tournament.

Simple modification of one of my old bots originally intended for the Lucky 7 tournament, which never got off the ground. I was able to re-use the same AI as the old version; otherwise I probably wouldn't bother entering and focus on Ironbot AI instead.

IMO the bot looks much cooler like this. Few things are more menacing-looking than a 250 cm disc (yes, a solid 250 cm disc... this is probably the only MW to ever use one) with ripping teeth. Of course it loses some effectiveness, but the goal of this design is obviously to undercut the opponent and bypass their weapons, specifically on other HS.

The roll cage still works as well as ever, too. This bot is 100% unflippable.

Not expecting to win Blades of Fury but then again that's not the point of IRL building, now is it.

Edit: Oh and it has the same internal stuff as the original Undertaker. 1mm Ti, 4 ants, Astroflight drive.

Naryar · « **Reply #313 on:** August 20, 2011, 10:43:02 PM »

Eh... why are you using a disc when you have DSL bars, especially with only 2 weapons ?

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #314 on:** August 20, 2011, 10:44:48 PM »

It's extremely unstable with a DSL bar. Flips itself over before it can get to full speed even if nothing hits it. With a disc though, it's quite hard to destabilize.

SKBT · « **Reply #315 on:** August 20, 2011, 10:49:32 PM »

It looks like Scurrie and Surgical Strike had a baby.

Naryar · « **Reply #316 on:** August 20, 2011, 10:58:16 PM »

Quote from: Clickbeetle on August 20, 2011, 10:44:48 PM

It's extremely unstable with a DSL bar. Flips itself over before it can get to full speed even if nothing hits it. With a disc though, it's quite hard to destabilize.

Maybe then you should add something like a hex plate on the center AP of the bar...

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #317 on:** August 20, 2011, 11:04:52 PM »

Quote from: Naryar on August 20, 2011, 10:58:16 PM

Quote from: Clickbeetle on August 20, 2011, 10:44:48 PM
It's extremely unstable with a DSL bar. Flips itself over before it can get to full speed even if nothing hits it. With a disc though, it's quite hard to destabilize.

Maybe then you should add something like a hex plate on the center AP of the bar...

The axle of the E-tek sticks through the bottom of the disc and keeps the weapon off the ground so I don't need extra support.

But I did try putting various large objects in the middle to increase stability. Drums, small discs, extenders... nothing worked.

I think the 250cm disc makes it stable because it covers more surface area. So the bot might still get slightly unstable but the disc doesn't give it a chance to go highly unstable.

I could probably make it stable with a four-pronged blade or maybe even a tribar, but I don't have weight for that.

NFX · « **Reply #318 on:** August 21, 2011, 06:21:02 AM »

Awesomeness in a box. I really like that shape for some reason. Great to see you getting in on the IRL act. =D

freeziez · « **Reply #319 on:** August 21, 2011, 08:18:50 AM »

Quote from: Clickbeetle on August 20, 2011, 10:38:28 PM

All right, who changed my showcase title?

Anyway, I've dabbled a bit in IRL building for Badnik's tournament.

(Image removed from quote.)

Simple modification of one of my old bots originally intended for the Lucky 7 tournament, which never got off the ground. I was able to re-use the same AI as the old version; otherwise I probably wouldn't bother entering and focus on Ironbot AI instead.

IMO the bot looks much cooler like this. Few things are more menacing-looking than a 250 cm disc (yes, a solid 250 cm disc... this is probably the only MW to ever use one) with ripping teeth. Of course it loses some effectiveness, but the goal of this design is obviously to undercut the opponent and bypass their weapons, specifically on other HS.

The roll cage still works as well as ever, too. This bot is 100% unflippable.

Not expecting to win Blades of Fury but then again that's not the point of IRL building, now is it.

Edit: Oh and it has the same internal stuff as the original Undertaker. 1mm Ti, 4 ants, Astroflight drive.

Hey Click...

https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,8112.0.html