Author Topic: NFX.showcase/DSL (Read 225205 times)

NFX · « **Reply #220 on:** September 25, 2010, 07:09:36 AM »

UHW madness now. Screw Argonaut, if COTT gets off the ground, this is what I am entering.

Presenting RUNTIME ERROR.

4996.7 kg, Steel 10, 23 ants (I think), and 140 beater bars! Basically a UHW Vaild Query 2, which means it's also totally invertible. But my favourite feature of this robot is 16 WHEEL DRIVE. 16 NPC Left/Right Fast Motors and Techno Wheels for epic speed. Why? Because I could.

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #221 on:** September 25, 2010, 07:13:51 AM »

Pwnator · « **Reply #222 on:** September 25, 2010, 07:15:02 AM »

You could sacrifice some of your side weapons (and your skin) for top and bottom armor. I'd hate to see it lose to a gut-ripper in seconds.

Somebody · « **Reply #223 on:** September 25, 2010, 07:41:02 AM »

JoeBlo · « **Reply #224 on:** September 25, 2010, 07:44:32 AM »

Epic

my prediction is it will launch off a wedge robot and go through an arena wall at that speed :P

its not the most efficiently built robot but 16 WHEEL TECHNO DRIVE!!

Naryar · « **Reply #225 on:** September 25, 2010, 07:49:21 AM »

Very cool.

Is is really THAT fast ?

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #226 on:** September 25, 2010, 07:53:21 AM »

All that chassis and he used the small CB.

Pwnator · « **Reply #227 on:** September 25, 2010, 07:57:01 AM »

Quote from: Naryar on September 25, 2010, 07:49:21 AM

Very cool.

Is is really THAT fast ?

Speed won't be the issue here. Driving straight, however...

NFX · « **Reply #228 on:** September 25, 2010, 08:01:02 AM »

Driving straight is fine. And S_M......I know. I had no space left after the motors and the wheels and the batteries. I had to make it bigger than the grid just to get everything to fit.

But it's still fairly fast for a UHW. My comp is laggy as

when I run this, so it might not be entirely accurate.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #229 on:** September 25, 2010, 04:11:49 PM »

:D

Will either do tons of damage or get OOTA'ed in the first round. Considering Somebody's using the Blade Arena it could be either even vs. a wedge bot.

Jonzu95 · « **Reply #230 on:** September 25, 2010, 04:17:37 PM »

Holy...

NFX · « **Reply #231 on:** September 28, 2010, 12:51:22 PM »

o hai thar 123. =D

Kudos also goes to Sage and his videos.

Eclipse II

1190.3kg, Steel 5 (I think), 2 ants, large CB, NPC Fasts, Overkills. 32 flail Harpoons. Basically an experiment into axle loading that turned into a SHW Flail SnS. One disc on the bottom, one disc on the top. Has a tendency to "pop" its axles vertically for some reason, but it only happens when it ISN'T spinning. No idea why.

Somebody · « **Reply #232 on:** September 28, 2010, 04:34:27 PM »

Interesting axle placement. I like it.

NFX · « **Reply #233 on:** September 28, 2010, 04:46:09 PM »

Yeah, I put the axles there because they would point into the next axle if I used the connection point on the end of the beater. Really, the whole bot was just to see if I could get axle loading to work.

Naryar · « **Reply #234 on:** September 29, 2010, 01:04:38 AM »

Why are you not attaching the beaters straight ?

NFX · « **Reply #235 on:** September 29, 2010, 08:13:05 AM »

Another axle loading experiment bot, this time a curiously angled DVS that actually fares better in combat than I thought it would. Plastic 3, I'm fairly sure, NPC Fasts, and realistic. Everything except the drive is built from a halfsheet on the bottom. Completely took Mako apart, hammers and all, but lost a wheel doing so, so I couldn't KO it before the three minutes were up.

Pwnator · « **Reply #236 on:** September 29, 2010, 08:18:52 AM »

Downgrade to NPCs and upgrade your armor. A high-DP rammer can OHKO you in the first few seconds when the Perms aren't at full speed yet.

Naryar · « **Reply #237 on:** September 29, 2010, 08:57:36 AM »

Yeah, NPC fasts are too much for this design.

Maybe downgrade to 60kg's and get 5mm Titanium ?

NFX · « **Reply #238 on:** September 29, 2010, 09:00:07 AM »

Downgraded the drive, shortened the rear stabilizer, and upped the armour to 3mm Titanium. Now stands at 799.8kg.

NFX · « **Reply #239 on:** September 29, 2010, 07:38:02 PM »

Double Post.

Eternal Flame. 788.1kg, Plastic 1, NPC Fasts, 2 ants, 2 small air tanks. Axle loaded wheels.

For this bot, I started out trying to combine the Trinity Glitch with Joe's SnS Octane Glitch, but that didn't really work too well, so I replaced the Burst pistons with Servo Pistons, and the results were quite interesting.

This is Eternal Flame performing the Trinity Glitch, but it's not quite as simple as that. When the pistons and flamethrowers are extended/fired together, the bot stops spinning for some reason, and starts up again, but it spins faster and faster, much faster than it would normally, until we reach its this situation, with the pistons out of their rangle, axles popping out, spinning at mad speeds, flames covering the entire floor, everything. But it's not uncontrollable. You can end the spin simply by releasing the control, rather than waiting for one of your weapons to fly off into a wall. And then the bot slows down, the pistons and axles return to their places, and you can drive around the arena as if nothing had happened.