Author Topic: Urjaks Old and Masterful Showcase (Read 130474 times)

Somebody · « **Reply #60 on:** October 04, 2008, 02:39:40 PM »

I don't think that you will do that bad in RAW.

Urjak · « **Reply #61 on:** October 04, 2008, 10:32:15 PM »

Hello, here is my newest bot, Purple Pest:

Purple Pest uses four Minion Blades as weapons, and four wheel drive Fast NPCs with Tazbot Wheels. He gets under other bots and then slowly (or sometimes quickly) grinds at their underside. The freely rotating wedge idea is amazing, big congrats to whoever devised it.

Any comments would be appreciated. :D

H@zm47 · « **Reply #62 on:** October 05, 2008, 04:45:50 AM »

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The freely rotating wedge idea is amazing, big congrats to whoever devised it.

The freely rotating wedge idea spawned from Mako I believe (that's where I got the idea for the wedges on my RAW entry) so all credit goes to Jules for the idea.

Are (some of) the drive motors under the robot? I may just be the angle the screenshot was taken but if so that hurts ground clearance and leaves your underside open to attacks from bots like WIIDE LOAD. Not a good idea. Other wise it's pretty good.

Somebody · « **Reply #63 on:** October 05, 2008, 07:33:19 AM »

I think it is just the pic. You should cut down on open space and maybe try some stronger blades, maybe Backlash Disks?

Naryar · « **Reply #64 on:** October 05, 2008, 08:05:27 AM »

Ah!Ah!

This is something like a 7-month bot. 3mm steel.

As you guys can see i was pretty new to DSL, and still managed to make a pretty nice LW wedge shaped sawbot, kinda BOT-204 in stock but better (it owned Razer every time and a good bunch of HW's), with a Minion disc too. I loved Minion discs back in teh day.

If I remember well, I had another version with less empty space...

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Urjak this bot is underpowered, and this ground clearance is horrible - see Mud Runner-. The wedges do look decent, but thery'll be better with less ground clearance.You should need 110kg of batts to keep that working at full power - three big black 30kg Odysseys and one small 20kg black batt.

But I still like the HW sawbot design.

Urjak · « **Reply #65 on:** October 05, 2008, 11:09:26 AM »

HORRRIBLE ground clearence?! Last I checked it may be a little high, but horrible? And no, there are no motors underneath the bot they are all in back. Oh, and I could not get backlash disks to fit, though they are probably better.

EDIT: I swapped the Taz wheels for Vlad wheels, now it has less ground clearence, but it still was not horrible.

Naryar · « **Reply #66 on:** October 05, 2008, 11:35:39 AM »

Good. Vlad wheels are grippiest, I think.

Oh, and "horrible ground clearance" may be a little exxagerated, but for a wedged bot...

...Wait, no, not horrible, but a little big. I didnt noticed the NPC's being vertical.

It must still have something like 3 times the ground clearance of Hazardous Contraption.

System32 · « **Reply #67 on:** October 05, 2008, 11:53:00 AM »

Naryar, watch it, and remember THIS quote: "We don't have to build the ultimate robot. We just go in to have fun."

Urjak · « **Reply #68 on:** October 05, 2008, 12:17:51 PM »

Quote from: Naryar;16404

Good. Vlad wheels are grippiest, I think.

Oh, and "horrible ground clearance" may be a little exxagerated, but for a wedged bot...

...Wait, no, not horrible, but a little big. I didnt noticed the NPC's being vertical.

It must still have something like 3 times the ground clearance of Hazardous Contraption.

Actually, it has close to zero ground clearence.

Naryar · « **Reply #69 on:** October 05, 2008, 12:27:54 PM »

Quote from: System32;16405

Naryar, watch it, and remember THIS quote: "We don't have to build the ultimate robot. We just go in to have fun."

O RLY?

Quote from: System32;15809

Note to self: Next Competition, Build somthing that is good...

(i watched it something like 4 months ago btw)
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Oh sorry Urjak, I thought it had big ground clearance...

Well yeah it's a very low ground clearance, but still two times HazCon's one.

The Techno Destructo wheels on vertical NPC's are VERY fast and have a great clearance, btw. I think even inferior than HazCon.

But 4WD normal NPC drive with Techno Destructo wheels is going to be really fast on a HW... see by yourself.

Urjak · « **Reply #70 on:** October 05, 2008, 12:32:18 PM »

Wow, HazCon has LOW gorund clearance!

Naryar · « **Reply #71 on:** October 05, 2008, 12:36:42 PM »

Stick a Hypno wheel on a horizontal (left or right) NPC and see by yourself.

System32 · « **Reply #72 on:** October 05, 2008, 01:34:34 PM »

Quote from: Naryar;16409

*Quote about building a better bot than FMLAM by me.*

(i watched it something like 4 months ago btw)

Look, All I'm saying is Let people find out flaws on thier own, and don't be to eager to post advice. Sure, We like the help, but after time people get annoyed. I pretty much figured out that my bot sucked when the splash came, and I've improved a lot.

After all, This place wouldn't be fun if all bots were the same Invinci-bots, now, wouldn't it.

Urjak · « **Reply #73 on:** October 05, 2008, 02:11:04 PM »

Personally, I enjoy Naryar advice, (partly because no one else gives me much advice).

Madiaba · « **Reply #74 on:** October 05, 2008, 06:20:05 PM »

Constructive comments are protocol and expected. And they should also be appreciated,... if you want to improve your bot for any reason.
But if one doesn't want commentary, then one can post that in the Thread's Title, or on a particular Post's Title or text.

kill343gs · « **Reply #75 on:** October 05, 2008, 06:46:26 PM »

The entire idea of a showcase back in the day for people like me was to get people's thoughts on how I could make my stuff better, and I know this is also true for many other people here. If we didn't want constructive criticism, why else would we post them? Certainly not to show I hope, because without such constructive criticism we would have nothing to show off in the first place. If you are sick of being told the same thing over and over again then maybe you should start listening to what people are saying.

System32 · « **Reply #76 on:** October 06, 2008, 10:12:27 AM »

Trust me, No matter what you do, People will find a problem with it.

Flying_Chao · « **Reply #77 on:** October 06, 2008, 04:16:15 PM »

Quote from: System32;16483

Trust me, No matter what you do, People will find a problem with it.

That is because perfection does not exist....

Naryar · « **Reply #78 on:** October 06, 2008, 04:22:40 PM »

Hopefully this isn't turning into a flame war.

System32 · « **Reply #79 on:** October 06, 2008, 04:28:24 PM »

it isn't.

I think I'll make a new thread for this...