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Robot Arena => Modifications => Topic started by: Trovaner on February 18, 2013, 05:45:20 PM

Title: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Trovaner on February 18, 2013, 05:45:20 PM
I've had this sitting on my computer for quite some time so I figured that its time to release it. My initial plan was to add asteroids and other crazy hazards but I haven't worked on it in quite so time and nothing that I add stays in it. In fact, every time I tried adding something to this arena, it always evolved into something else (namely the ActionCam and Online Arena).

Big thanks to Jonzu95 for posting a schematic of the arena in the Arena Ideas thread (here (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,468.msg94922.html#msg94922)).

Here are some pretty pictures.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img96/9281/blackholeinnerperspecti.png)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img195/3965/blackholefireburning.png)

Features:

You can download this arena from here (https://gametechmods.com/uploads/files/BlackHole.rar).
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: MassimoV on February 18, 2013, 05:47:12 PM
Ohhh yeah! This is going to be amazing!
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Sylandro on February 18, 2013, 06:13:39 PM
Guess what, i think this is a winner for the Guardians In Exile Arena!
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Kossokei on February 18, 2013, 06:22:36 PM
Guess what, i think this is a winner for the Guardians In Exile Arena!
No.

You've already set an arena. You need to fix one thing in the rules before it goes into signups and then you accept entries and bots. Stop changing stuff.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Jamin on February 18, 2013, 06:25:19 PM
Guess what, i think this is a winner for the Guardians In Exile Arena!

Oh you mean the tournament that is never going to happen?
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Sylandro on February 18, 2013, 07:19:21 PM
Jamin, dont troll. I just know that you're gonna go all " Oh don't cry kiddo " on me.
Bring it.  :gunz:
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Jamin on February 18, 2013, 07:22:17 PM
Jamin, dont troll. I just know that you're gonna go all " Oh don't cry kiddo " on me.
Bring it.  :gunz:

No actually I wasn't planning on doing whatever the heck you are going on about at all.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Mr. AS on February 18, 2013, 07:23:03 PM
Bring it.  :gunz:
no, shut up. dont start a flame war in this thread sylandro and jamin.

the arena looks badass. those ramps arent very good for wedges/low mobility bots, wonder if thats a bad thing or a good thing...
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Sylandro on February 18, 2013, 07:31:57 PM
Mr. AS. Please skype my sister, her skype name is heathercarswell
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Jamin on February 18, 2013, 09:14:37 PM
Mr. AS. Please skype my sister, her skype name is heathercarswell

I can't believe you just gave us your last name.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Badnik96 on February 18, 2013, 09:32:45 PM
Looking awesome.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Jonzu95 on February 19, 2013, 12:57:50 AM
I've had this sitting on my computer for quite some time so I figured that its time to release it. My initial plan was to add asteroids and other crazy hazards but I haven't worked on it in quite so time and nothing that I add stays in it. In fact, every time I tried adding something to this arena, it always evolved into something else (namely the ActionCam and Online Arena).

Big thanks to Jonzu95 for posting a schematic of the arena in the Arena Ideas thread (here (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,468.msg94922.html#msg94922)).

Here are some pretty pictures.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img96/9281/blackholeinnerperspecti.png)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img195/3965/blackholefireburning.png)

Features:
  • There is an outer wall to this arena but if you go too fast up a ramp, you may end up flying out of the arena.
  • The AI is fully capable of navigating this arena and not following opponents into the pits.
  • The pits deliver damage as opposed to eliminating bots.

You can download this arena from here (https://gametechmods.com/uploads/files/BlackHole.rar).
Wow, You made it! The arena looks terrific. I can't wait to test it. :gawe:
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Kid_Krusher13 on February 19, 2013, 06:27:26 AM
Sadly, I can't use it since its .rar. Too bad, it looks nice.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Jonzu95 on February 19, 2013, 06:29:17 AM
Sadly, I can't use it since its .rar. Too bad, it looks nice.
download winrar = problem solved.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Kid_Krusher13 on February 19, 2013, 06:39:13 AM
Sadly, I can't use it since its .rar. Too bad, it looks nice.
download winrar = problem solved.
I can't download WinRAR
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Sylandro on February 19, 2013, 07:08:59 AM
Then download 7zip.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on February 19, 2013, 09:35:44 AM
So much stupidity ruining this thread...


Looks awesome, Trov. Glad to see that the pits do more than simply eliminate a robot. Is there a possibility of a pitted robot getting out before it is completely destroyed, or does the robot just die a slow, painful death?
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Trovaner on February 19, 2013, 10:03:28 AM
Depending on a number of factors, a bot can get thrown out of the pits. I cranked up the elasticity of the pit floors and added an upward force that is suppose to launch bots whenever it delivers damage but you still get bots that fail to get thrown above the pits' edges. Some bots, however, get thrown almost as high as the skybox.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Jonzu95 on February 28, 2013, 03:09:12 PM
After testing the Black Hole Arena, the pits were a bit confusing for me... When I pushed opponent there, it just bounced few times and did not any damage to the bot. This wasn't purpose of the arena originally. =/


But the good thing is that the arena is in perfect shape, and I was thinking to give a shot for reskinning it.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Trovaner on February 28, 2013, 04:32:37 PM
It should be delivering damage. It just doesn't amount to much.

Go ahead and try reskinning it. I'm using the same texture for two major sections so you would need to modify the GMF if you wanted it to be different.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Jonzu95 on February 28, 2013, 04:39:12 PM
It should be delivering damage. It just doesn't amount to much.

Go ahead and try reskinning it. I'm using the same texture for two major sections so you would need to modify the GMF if you wanted it to be different.
The original plan was that when the bot drops down in the pit, then the bot would be eliminated. But I think it doesn't work like that in RA2... =/

I still want the pits do more damage though
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: ianh05 on February 28, 2013, 05:03:25 PM
Just play around with the values in the .py file I think you just need to change the bot-1 value to say bot-5 or something.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Trovaner on February 28, 2013, 07:15:15 PM
To deliver more damage, replace the following four lines:
Code: [Select]
plus.damage(bot-1, 0, 15, (15,3.8,15))
plus.damage(bot-1, 0, 15, (-15,3.8,15))
plus.damage(bot-1, 0, 15, (15,3.8,-15))
plus.damage(bot-1, 0, 15, (-15,0,-15))
to something like:
Code: [Select]
plus.damage(bot-1, 0, 60, (15,3.8,15))
plus.damage(bot-1, 0, 60, (-15,3.8,15))
plus.damage(bot-1, 0, 60, (15,3.8,-15))
plus.damage(bot-1, 0, 60, (-15,0,-15))

If you want to eliminate bots, replace the four lines with:
Code: [Select]
plus.eliminatePlayer(bot-1)
plus.eliminatePlayer(bot-1)
plus.eliminatePlayer(bot-1)
plus.eliminatePlayer(bot-1)
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: ianh05 on February 28, 2013, 08:22:38 PM
so close... knew it was that line lol.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Jonzu95 on March 01, 2013, 05:27:55 AM
One more thing. How I remove the bouncing?
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Trovaner on March 01, 2013, 12:56:35 PM
Half of it is done by the GMF object that I put at the bottom of the pit and the other half is done by the four force commands. You would have to turn down the elasticity to remove the first one. To turn off the latter, add a "#" before or delete each line starting with plus.force.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Badger on March 01, 2013, 01:07:22 PM
Sadly, I can't use it since its .rar. Too bad, it looks nice.
download winrar = problem solved.
I can't download WinRAR
Please tell me that you're joking.


Also, very nice arena. Good to see that someone is still modding this game.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Jonzu95 on March 01, 2013, 03:30:29 PM
Trov, can you do the .py modification? I'm too scared if I mess up something.
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: 090901 on March 01, 2013, 04:11:10 PM
Trov, can you do the .py modification? I'm too scared if I mess up something.
Done:


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13002164/BlackHole.py (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13002164/BlackHole.py)

Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: Jonzu95 on March 02, 2013, 04:44:46 PM
Trov, can you do the .py modification? I'm too scared if I mess up something.
Done:


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13002164/BlackHole.py (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13002164/BlackHole.py)


They still do bounce...  :ermm:
Title: Re: Black Hole Space Station
Post by: 090901 on March 02, 2013, 05:45:56 PM
Trov, can you do the .py modification? I'm too scared if I mess up something.
Done:


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13002164/BlackHole.py (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13002164/BlackHole.py)


They still do bounce...  :ermm:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13002164/BlackHole.gmf (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13002164/BlackHole.gmf)


Replace original .gmf in BlackHole folder with this.