Author Topic: Jets' DSL showcase (Read 19056 times)

Tweedy · « **Reply #140 on:** January 10, 2014, 09:32:58 AM »

Get rid of the sheet on the bottom, it looks out of place and extremely flimsy. Otherwise it looks good.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #141 on:** January 10, 2014, 10:19:39 AM »

Looks pretty good, just get rid of the bottom sheet.

Jet-speed · « **Reply #142 on:** January 10, 2014, 11:37:05 AM »

Only reason it's there is so it maintains an ounce of effectiveness, not necessarily intended as part of the aesthetic. :P Just dabbling in RL-esque designs, works pretty well, just without the sheet I found it struggled to actually get under anything. I agree it looks out of place though, just makes it more fun to drive if it can actively get under and flip things.

Edit:
Tried remaking the bar spinner with a wider wheelbase/less dodgy extender work. Issue is that sorta leaves one uninspiring look to it.

Plastic 1.
It fares better than the other two, however generic it looks as a result. Weapon motor tends to enjoy being ripped off after a while, and with no weight to work with I can't really protect it unless I redesign the idea with the perm positioned more safely. The beater bars/teeth also don't usually last long. Idk.

MassimoV · « **Reply #143 on:** January 10, 2014, 04:56:23 PM »

Flipper before looks cool. Thw HS is a good idea but I feel like it's sort of underweaponed for a LW HS. Good to see you back however

Jet-speed · « **Reply #144 on:** January 11, 2014, 11:19:18 AM »

It is incredibly underweaponed, just kinda ran out of weight. Maybe if I drop the bar length down a notch, I might be able to stick some more weapons on it, will have to give it a go. Could probably drop the hypnos for ants and free up like 20kg, ground clearance permitting. In the meanwhile I was fiddling more with DSL3 and ended up with this:

Tite 1
It was going somewhere but I'm not sure what to do it with it next. Whilst it's pretty stable despite how it might look, if it gets under and attempts to throw something too heavy it just falls to the unsupported side, and I can't easily get support on it without breaking the realism rule (using another anchor stacked with an extender that'd cut right through the space of the blade). I know it's got way too much in the way of battery power, but there's only so small I can make the chassis and considering they fit I figured I may as well use battlepacks, I'm still oozing weight. I dunno, I'll have to rebuild it, any thoughts?

Jet-speed · « **Reply #145 on:** January 11, 2014, 05:10:12 PM »

Plastic 3.
Well I mean it's not particularly effective. xD

Disclaimer: Ants may or may not have been stacked in the making of this abomination.

MassimoV · « **Reply #146 on:** January 11, 2014, 05:42:49 PM »

Full body popup? Yeah not really the most effective bot type.

Kossokei · « **Reply #147 on:** January 11, 2014, 07:35:57 PM »

Ineffective, maybe

certainly cool and original, I don't think I've seen a full body popup before

of course... that gives me an idea

Domanating · « **Reply #148 on:** January 12, 2014, 05:38:05 AM »

Quote from: jet-speed on January 11, 2014, 11:19:18 AM

You're powering the weapons with a NPC. That's a drive motor. It wont be as effective.
You could switch to a TWM and you'll save some 10kgs for more weapons or for the additional support you need. The side panel has 3 attachments points, (in one side) so you could attach a 10deg angle on the bottom attachment point and then attach the skirt on it. If the the 2 skirts are misaligned, just adjust the left one accordingly.

Jet-speed · « **Reply #149 on:** January 12, 2014, 06:28:18 AM »

Yeah, I know it's a drive motor, just saw some people doing it and fancied trying something a little different. :P I'll probably change it though. I know it has 3 attachment points but as you said I couldn't get them to line up, so I kinda hit a block. Will have to rebuild it from the ground up.

Edit:

I think it's a little better, perm 80, plastic 3. Steel extenders seem overkill to me and I built the thing, but I'm struggling to see what I could get for the weight that'd be freed up by downgrading. There's bound to be something.

Jet-speed · « **Reply #150 on:** January 13, 2014, 06:53:44 AM »

More boredom induced attempted RL building. Generic bar spinner.

Fully invertible, plastic 1.
This whole plastic 1 to shave down weight thing is becoming commonplace for me now. Just a shame that after one hit the chassis gets wrecked by most things not called a flipper, but even then the fall does damage to it if it goes high enough anyway. xD
Dunno if it could be quite considered rl, I know the 'supports' don't actually touch the axle, I gave up after like an hour of trying to make them touch it, the DSL3 extenders are finnicky at the best of times. I just need to learn how to skin now. :c

Tweedy · « **Reply #151 on:** January 13, 2014, 10:27:45 AM »

Rotate the angled extenders on the ends 90 degrees so they look like they're supporting the axle, other than that it looks nice. Does need a skin though.

Jet-speed · « **Reply #152 on:** January 13, 2014, 12:11:41 PM »

Quote from: plazmic inferno on January 13, 2014, 10:27:45 AM

Rotate the angled extenders on the ends 90 degrees so they look like they're supporting the axle, other than that it looks nice. Does need a skin though.

Best I could get, removed and replaced the anchors countless times to try and get the extenders/angle pieces to look better, just settled on this in the end. On the subject of looking better, I know the whole practice and improve thing, but if somebody could donate some of their skinning prowess that'd be great kthx. :c

Jet-speed · « **Reply #153 on:** January 15, 2014, 06:31:31 PM »

Another generic 'rl' lightweight, having fun building them atm. Lightweights and to a lesser extent middleweights seem to be the only thing I can do, just need to practice HW's I guess. Conquest 2.

Plastic 3

I think my skinning skills are gradually improving. :')

MassimoV · « **Reply #154 on:** January 15, 2014, 06:45:43 PM »

That looks pretty sweet.

Jet-speed · « **Reply #155 on:** January 16, 2014, 09:01:17 PM »

More generic RL building. Bad splash and skin is pretty much just me practising using Gimp. :P

Have weight, must ants. Originally built it around hypno wheels till I realised that even regular npcs + hypnos made it so stupidly quick that it'd flip nigh instantly when trying to turn. It still does tip with the weapons spinning if I attempt to turn it more than 360 degrees in one fell swoop, otherwise it stays relatively balanced.

Edit: Lel, just noticed that one of the matilda teeth is just slightly off being rotated properly, oh well. Tiredness ftw.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #156 on:** January 16, 2014, 09:02:27 PM »

Looking fairly awesome, if a slight bit generic. Good bot.

MassimoV · « **Reply #157 on:** January 16, 2014, 09:08:55 PM »

Not bad. Skin looks good, but I personally would use some sort of tooth on the disc.

Jet-speed · « **Reply #158 on:** January 16, 2014, 09:19:15 PM »

Cheers. :P And yeah, just awkward coming up with original designs that can be considered 'rl'. Tried a middleweight nightmare-esque style but the drive motors were just sorta there on extenders, some things are just harder to pull off I suppose.

Could try teeth out, which of them are actually any good? I hear Matildas are alright, just never really use teeth. Only reason I tend to use beaters even on the rl designs is because I know they at least retain some form of effectiveness.

Jet-speed · « **Reply #159 on:** January 17, 2014, 10:06:27 AM »

Shamelessly inspired by Lemonism's 'Warm Embrace', a crappier, RL version of my earlier posted face spinner Post-mortem. Fatal Caress 2

DSL 2.1
Plastic 1
Regular NPC + Hypno drive, 5 ants.