Author Topic: Transparent chassis help (Read 2186 times)

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?

G.K. · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2011, 11:40:27 AM »

You can't.

Reier · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2011, 11:41:43 AM »

.exe won't allow it even with file editing.

Naryar · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2011, 01:46:11 PM »

The game engine won't allow it.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #4 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)

SteveM4 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 09, 2011, 02:25:26 PM »

Or do this:

freeziez · « **Reply #6 on:** February 09, 2011, 06:39:07 PM »

That is epic. :D

SteveM4 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 10, 2011, 01:50:49 AM »

Pint-job or the robot?

Madiaba · « **Reply #8 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.

Serge · « **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2011, 01:55:02 PM »

Madiaba, you're alive! <3

Trovaner · « **Reply #10 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.

Hard Bot · « **Reply #11 on:** February 10, 2011, 09:12:35 PM »

Actully,i'm talking about the chassis being transparent as lexan.

Trovaner · « **Reply #12 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.

SteveM4 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2011, 01:24:42 AM »

Like this?

Hard Bot · « **Reply #14 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:19:27 PM »

Sage · « **Reply #15 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:17:51 PM »

He did that with photoshop.

NFX · « **Reply #16 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.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #17 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

Hard Bot · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2011, 07:38:10 PM »

How do you clear-coat paint jobs?

SKBT · « **Reply #19 on:** February 28, 2011, 07:40:28 PM »

Not apply a texture and pretend you put a clear coat on. :P