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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: Hard Bot on February 09, 2011, 11:38:39 AM

Title: Transparent chassis help
Post by: Hard Bot on February 09, 2011, 11:38:39 AM: I want to make a bot with a transparent chassis without bot file editing. What do I do?
Title: Re: Transparent chassis help
Post by: G.K. on February 09, 2011, 11:40:27 AM: You can't.
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Post by: Reier on February 09, 2011, 11:41:43 AM: .exe won't allow it even with file editing.
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Post by: Naryar on February 09, 2011, 01:46:11 PM: The game engine won't allow it.
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Post by: Badnik96 on February 09, 2011, 02:13:45 PM: use screenshots of the bot's inside as a skin to make it look transparent (like on Stratocaster)
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Post by: SteveM4 on February 09, 2011, 02:25:26 PM: Or do this:

(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/29315EG.png)
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Post by: freeziez on February 09, 2011, 06:39:07 PM: That is epic. :D
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Post by: SteveM4 on February 10, 2011, 01:50:49 AM: Pint-job or the robot?
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Post by: Madiaba on February 10, 2011, 09:06:39 AM: Without BFE:
Not searched for such in the exe, but maybe someone still into it could do exe Sergery on such,... and/or just get it to accept 'clear-coat paint jobs' (some Alpha channel format).

With BFE:
1. Lower the top of the chassis to just above the floor.
2. A totally inviso-chassis,
a. You can make the chassis invisible while components visible.
or
b. Trov and/or Sage (?) and I made completely invisible AI bots.
Title: Re: Transparent chassis help
Post by: Serge on February 10, 2011, 01:55:02 PM: Madiaba, you're alive! <3
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Post by: Trovaner on February 10, 2011, 02:07:52 PM: Three ways:
1. Edit the .bot file (which you already said you didin't want to do).
2. Skin the bot using screenshots of its insides.
3. Make a custom PY that uses plus.show(BotID,CompID,True/False) to make the chassis invisible.
Title: Re: Transparent chassis help
Post by: Hard Bot on February 10, 2011, 09:12:35 PM: Actully,i'm talking about the chassis being transparent as lexan.
Title: Re: Transparent chassis help
Post by: Trovaner on February 10, 2011, 09:25:42 PM: Quote from: Hard Bot on February 10, 2011, 09:12:35 PM
Actully,i'm talking about the chassis being transparent as lexan.
It doesn't change my response. For a realistic lexan look your going to need a combination of custom components (lexan) and one of the previously mentioned invisibility techniques.
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Post by: SteveM4 on February 11, 2011, 01:24:42 AM: Like this?

(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/90091screenshot_325.jpg)
Title: Re: Transparent chassis help
Post by: Hard Bot on February 12, 2011, 02:19:27 PM: Yes.
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Post by: Sage on February 12, 2011, 03:17:51 PM: He did that with photoshop.
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Post by: NFX on February 17, 2011, 03:37:09 PM: Transparent skins are impossible in the normal game. You'd have to screw around with the .exe file to get it to work, and so far nobody's managed it. I believe someone had a go a while back (venko, IIRC), but it didn't pan out.
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Post by: JoeBlo on February 17, 2011, 07:43:23 PM: I made a transparent chassis texture ages ago which the game loaded into the botlab but it crashed soon after applying :P
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Post by: Hard Bot on February 28, 2011, 07:38:10 PM: How do you clear-coat paint jobs?
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Post by: SKBT on February 28, 2011, 07:40:28 PM: Not apply a texture and pretend you put a clear coat on. :P