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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: yoda9726 on June 23, 2010, 10:35:00 AM

Title: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 23, 2010, 10:35:00 AM
So, this is the bot that I received, Ignore the text on the pic.
 
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/19616problems with doom.png)
 
and here's the bot the way he sees it on his end
 
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/75782doomprobs.png)
 
 
Any ideas what may be causing the mix up?
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: somestrangeguy on June 23, 2010, 10:54:03 AM
Possibly that you are in Nar AI and his is in normal DSL, but it still shouldnt cause that much of problems.... Infact it shouldnt cause any problems at all.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: JoeBlo on June 23, 2010, 11:02:27 AM
yeah should be any issues

is something wrong with the weight ?

I would compare both text files for the angle extenders and whyachi tribars in each game and check they are the same
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 23, 2010, 11:13:05 AM
I thought about the dsl to nar thing, but it does the exact same thing when i try it out in my Clean DSL folder as well
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: JoeBlo on June 23, 2010, 11:17:44 AM
have you modded any of the parts at all ?
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 23, 2010, 11:19:52 AM
Not in the folder i'm copying this into.  I have a completely separate installation for playing around with that stuff.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: JoeBlo on June 23, 2010, 11:21:15 AM
Not in the folder i'm copying this into.

what about the one it was built in ?

also did you try any BFE at all ?
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 23, 2010, 11:28:24 AM
I don't know if he's done any modding on his install or not.  And all my BFE playing takes place in my other install as well.  My first thought was that he had done some BFE to the bot, but he says he doesn't even know what that is. 
 
His other two bots were no problem, just this one is causing the problems.  May be a moot point, as he said he's gonna go ahead and send a different bot.  But it got me wondering.
 
Anyways, I need some sleep, so i'll do some more investigating later.  Thanks for your help
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: JoeBlo on June 23, 2010, 11:38:01 AM
just tell me for reference

What Game did the first screen shot come from ("Yours" or "PersonX") and was it being exported or imported to it?

What Game did the second screen shot come from ("Yours" or "PersonX") and was it being exported or imported to it?
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: freeziez on June 23, 2010, 11:51:35 AM
Actually, I am "Person X", and I found something different in the two pictures. In the top 2 pictures, the hammer farthest from the camera looks the same as the hammers in my picture, but the two closest hammers look different.

@JoeBlo- The top two are Yoda's, and the bottom one is mine.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: JoeBlo on June 23, 2010, 11:53:33 AM
and what game was it exported from the top or bottom ?
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: freeziez on June 23, 2010, 11:56:03 AM
?

(edit) Oh! The bottom.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: Madiaba on June 23, 2010, 12:54:15 PM
freeziez, could you upload and link the bot file (here or PM)?... so it can be
1. gone through,
2. tried in a different environs.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: freeziez on June 23, 2010, 02:09:15 PM
freeziez, could you upload and link the bot file (here or PM)?... so it can be
1. gone through,
2. tried in a different environs.


I already PM'd Madiaba the bot, but if anyone else wants to check it out, then it is attached below.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 24, 2010, 12:31:09 AM
Yeah, sorry wasn't as clear as i thought, i was on my 28th hour of being awake when i posted that.  Bottom pic was being exported from freezie and top pic is what i imported into my game. 
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: 090901 on June 24, 2010, 12:32:31 AM
Here is what I got.
13 kg for batts
4 kg for control board
40 kg for tri-bar
135 kg for weapons
34 kg for drive motors
18 kg for wheels
150 kg for weapon motor
8 kg for angle extenders
Which adds up to:
402 kg
The chassis weighs 30.4 with steel 1 amour
402
+30.4
--------
432.4
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: Naryar on June 24, 2010, 06:24:07 AM
In no way someone can pull off a Lock Nut ripoff with 135kg of hammers anyway.

And 09 you did it wrong on the angled extenders :P
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 24, 2010, 06:30:39 AM
What's really throwing me for a loop on it is the angling of the hammers.  in the original, they're all angled the same way, in the version i've got, one is still angled the original way, but the other two are turned in strange ways. 
 
Also don't get why it says middleweight when the weight is 432.4.  Should be a heavy.  and if i take one of the hammers off and reattach it, it changes to heavyweight...
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: Naryar on June 24, 2010, 06:33:34 AM
Did he edited the third line of the bot file ?
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 24, 2010, 06:35:14 AM
I asked him if he did any Bot file editing and he said he doesn't know how. 
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: Naryar on June 24, 2010, 06:39:51 AM
Well he should send another bot. The design's not legal as a MW in all cases.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 24, 2010, 06:42:27 AM
He's gonna.  I'm just wanting to know theories about causes so I can be more knowledgable about it in the future.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: Naryar on June 24, 2010, 06:50:03 AM
Is he on DSL 2.0 or an older version ?

Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: Madiaba on June 24, 2010, 06:55:46 AM
Yoda,
The bot file is compromised ....  I won't explain here what was done, but it was BFE-ed.
 


 
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 24, 2010, 07:00:54 AM
Yoda,
The bot file is compromised ....  I won't explain here what was done, but it was BFE-ed.



That's what i thought as well.  Wanted confirmation from someone who would be better at spotting it than I.  Thanks Madiaba.
 
freeziez, again, BFE not allowed in my tourney, states so in the rules. 
 
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: freeziez on June 24, 2010, 11:19:18 AM
Actually, I do not know how to BFE, but I think I know what's wrong. To make this bot, I used Lug Nut, took him apart (kinda), and rebuilt him. I think BFE had been used on Lock Nut BEFORE I edited him.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: Naryar on June 24, 2010, 12:58:24 PM
Lock Nut v2.3 is BFE'd because of the stupid 6-mag collision mesh, but the anglers are your addition so there is no reason BFE done months before should affect them.

Plus still that 432 kg middleweight... the only way it could happen other than BFE would be swapping to a RA2 version where some of the components used on the bot would be heavier. I'm not even sure about the last one.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: cephalopod on June 24, 2010, 01:01:33 PM
I had a weight problem with S.T.C's first entry in RIP1... could be a similar thing?
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 24, 2010, 01:04:36 PM
He's sent me a new bot now having the same weight issue.  This one weighs in at 638.8 and saying it's a middleweight.  I've sent him a list of all the components he's using on the bot and the weight they should be so he can double check it. 
 
Just for sake of Occam's Razor, here's the weights as they show on my game
 
Perm 132 S -- 90
cleprechaun blade  --35
taz wheels --19
titanium sheet --30
multi extender (extra small) --3
T connector --5
BSG  --25
PC545  --25
Control board --4
multi extender (small) --6
Baseplate anchor --4
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: freeziez on June 24, 2010, 02:41:14 PM
Alright, since I found out how to have multiple versions of Ra2 at once, I'll make the bot in my clean DSL version, and see if anything's different. If so, you can keep that bot. If not, then something's wrong with your game.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 24, 2010, 07:21:37 PM
Okay, I think we've figure out the problems with the weight.  His perm motor weighs in at 10 kg on his installation.  Is there somewhere a list of the components with their official weights so he can check against it to see what's right and what's wrong? 
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: The Ounce on June 24, 2010, 08:14:59 PM
It depends on which size Perm he's using.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 25, 2010, 12:21:09 AM
sorry, it was the perm 132 S. 
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: The Ounce on June 25, 2010, 12:28:07 AM
The small Perm 132 has always weighed 90 kgs for me.
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: JoeBlo on June 25, 2010, 12:43:30 AM
well you know the extract and play version in sages sig works 100% correctly
Title: Re: Strange problems with a tourney entry.
Post by: yoda9726 on June 25, 2010, 01:03:43 AM
 
The small Perm 132 has always weighed 90 kgs for me.

The same for me.
 
well you know the extract and play version in sages sig works 100% correctly

That's the one i'm using.  He has also now gotten a clean copy of dsl, so it should all be taken care of. 
 
Thanks for all your help guys.