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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: Elementos on July 06, 2014, 06:55:42 PM
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So I'm making a replica and the judge burst says how the Judge's botfile was edited to make its burst motor have an 180 degree arc. I wanna know how to do this as it will improve my bot a ton.
Anyone help?
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Go into the bot file and locate the line below the burst motor. The second number is the swing arc in radians, change that to extend the swing arc. 1.5708 is equal to 90 degrees. In my experience, you can go as high as +/- 2.9 without havok risks.
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Thanks for such a simple answer. :thumbup
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Now I know how. Yey!
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Wow this has helped me quite a bit, anyone know where I can find a DL for notepad++?
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Think there's a link on the downloads section of GTM.
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Wow this has helped me quite a bit, anyone know where I can find a DL for notepad++?
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.6.7.html (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.6.7.html)
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I tried this, but when I went into the botlab to see if it workec my game crashed. Help plz
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Did you edit it in notepad++ and keep everything else the same?
Changing the length of the number probably messed it up I think.
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I did it again, kept the number length the same, edited in notepad, still didn't work. Changed it from 2.26667 to 2.96667.
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So just regular Notepad, the one that came pre installed with windows? Tht could be your problem; it doesn't preserve line spacing and special characters. Get notepad++ and make that your default program for editing text and gmf files.
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Actually I looked and it's wordpad. When I tried to install notepad++ it kept coming up with 'error opening file' you could ignore it, but there were so many I figured it wouldn't work anyway and eventually clicked abort
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See theres your problem. It's gotta be in notepad++.
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Well, I've AI'd using wordpad, but OK...
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Py files and Bot files are completely different things. You can edit the bindings file in pretty much any word processor, bot files need notepad++ or they screw up.
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Wordpad is what is known as a word processor. Its good for formatting documents that look good for humans. What you see on screen does not necessarily reflect the contents of the file.
Notepad is a text editor. It doesn't allow for any text formatting but that is exactly what you need when programming because things like italics generally don't mean anything to a compiler or interpreter. When you open a file in a text editor, you are viewing exactly whats in the file.
Neither Notepad nor Wordpad support all of the characters found in a bot file so you'll need to find one that does since the bot file contains TGA data for the skin and preview image. Most of the people here use Notepad++ but there are plenty of other options if you can't get it to work.
That said, you shouldn't get any error if you install Notepad++ by downloading and extracting the ZIP instead of the executable.