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DSL 3? Maybe?
« on: August 24, 2017, 03:26:49 AM »
Recently, I've been getting into component-making using a combination of Rhino3D and a tool of apanx's that converts .obj files into .gmf files usable for RA2. Here's a few examples:

Remember that rake I posted in my custom showcase? I scaled it down so it wouldn't be obnoxious to work with, and gave it some new skins:

It now comes in Authentic Hypershock Greentm along with 3 other colors. Since it's just the head, you can slap this onto whatever length extender you want, or make a rake spinner like in the picture.

Another one I went ahead and made was something I feel a lot of people have been itching for, a truly one-tooth disc:

Using the power of mathematics (read: rhino's AreaCentroid command), I was able to place the attachment points in such a place where the disc was perfectly balanced. They're marked by the white rubber texture in the center of the disc.
Unlike the homebrew single-toothed discs that you see using a ballast on one end and a tooth on the other, this one won't wobble at all when spun. It's also a single component, so you can effectively use it just like the replica discs. :mrgreen:

And here's the latest component I made:

(ignore the weight in the picture, it's going to be 40kg when I'm finished with it's burst motor counterpart)
It's like the beta motor, except it doesn't take up half your chassis. I made it just small enough to fit within the lowest height you can have your chassis be without using BFE/OBJRA2, and also gave them side APs and the ability to attach outside the chassis for additional flexibility.
Since geared betas aren't exactly the best in 2.2, I buffed the mini motor to have about the same torque (as in acceleration, NOT max speed) as the 2.2 geared beta, and gave the larger version twice the torque as the miniature:


Being able to do this on the fly opens up the possibility of the next DSL version. Is this something you would like to see? Here are some various tidbits on what I plan to do, should I go ahead with this.

The only problem here is that I have no way of contacting Clickbeetle to see what he thinks of this. I still haven't gotten any sort of reply from a PM I sent him back in May 2016 as to whether or not I could use his thruster components in... Retooled, of all things. If I can't get a reply there, no way would I get one by sending him a message now. I also sent him an email a couple of days ago, to which I haven't gotten a reply from yet.
On the other hand, I've successfully contacted both Goose and Starcore (two of DSL's previous directors) about this. The latter simply stated that he "was not against it" and the former is trying to get a hold of Clickbeetle, but I'm not sure if Click's gone completely off the grid or what. We'll see what happens with him.
How you make Alarm Clock Pizza is:
Step 1: You buy an alarm clock from the store, and then you have to break it and put it in the sauce.
Step 2: Fold the sauce in 5 slices and put it in the dough.
Step 3: Paint the eggs with a pitcher of a clock showing what time you want to wake up and eat pizza for breakfast.
Step 4: Put the eggs in the dough.
Step 5: Make it flat into a round shape and draw the time you want on it.
Step 6: Put some old steel to prevent other peple from stealing it.
Step 7: Make it flat and cut into 60 slices 1 for each minute in 1 our.
Step 8: Put in the oven set the timer to 30048813.2884 seconds and put the temperature on 'Volcano' setting.
Step 9: If you think it is take to long, then get yor alarm clock and set it to now so that it will ring and you can take it out.
Step 10: Take it out uv the uvin wen it is redy and go to bed. In the morning eat pizza and also eat yor hands bi mistake.

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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2017, 04:04:33 AM »
They look amzing hope you get them released in anyway possible :)
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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2017, 04:13:16 AM »
Wow sounds exciting, I hope you can get Click back on the forum and you should get Darkrat back too
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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2017, 05:40:32 AM »
you should get Darkrat back too
no way in hell darkrat's coming back, he's been gone since 2011
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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2017, 05:49:52 AM »
Wow sounds exciting, I hope you can get Click back on the forum and you should get Darkrat back too
Lu-Tze too :>

Doing god's work AS, thanks for putting in the effort to keep RA2 fresh for us.
also lol at most toxic guy around calling others out on this sh**
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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2017, 06:48:02 AM »
Wow sounds exciting, I hope you can get Click back on the forum and you should get Darkrat back too
Lu-Tze too :>

Doing god's work AS, thanks for putting in the effort to keep RA2 fresh for us.
But Lu-tze's dead so Darkrat must be still okay
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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2017, 06:57:04 AM »
Wow sounds exciting, I hope you can get Click back on the forum and you should get Darkrat back too
Lu-Tze too :>

Doing god's work AS, thanks for putting in the effort to keep RA2 fresh for us.
But Lu-tze's dead so Darkrat must be still okay
wow rude
also lol at most toxic guy around calling others out on this sh**
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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2017, 07:16:39 AM »
Wow sounds exciting, I hope you can get Click back on the forum and you should get Darkrat back too
Lu-Tze too :>

Doing god's work AS, thanks for putting in the effort to keep RA2 fresh for us.
But Lu-tze's dead so Darkrat must be still okay
wow rude

Sorry Badger I won't be rude next time ok! :bigsmile:
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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2017, 07:31:15 AM »
So when DSL 4? 2025?

If clickbeetle don't come back, than what will happen in the future?

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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2017, 07:38:28 AM »
nice chomp replica   :thumbup

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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2017, 08:56:25 AM »
This is really exciting. The STD and the Mini beta look super cool and both sound like they'd be really useful. Great work AS. Excited to see how this pans out
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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2017, 09:22:27 AM »
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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2017, 09:23:12 AM »
That new miniature Beta motor will defiantly come in handy for future IRL building. But to the point, what else do you have planned for your new version of DSL? I'm aware that this is a bit of a stupid question, due to you still thinking of ideas or you may end up recycle some ideas from the DSL 3 beta like the SHW class etc. But this is just out of curiosity of what else you may have planned apart from what you listed?     

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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2017, 09:27:53 AM »
That new miniature Beta motor will defiantly come in handy for future IRL building. But to the point, what else do you have planned for your new version of DSL? I'm aware that this is a bit of a stupid question, due to you still thinking of ideas or you may end up recycle some ideas from the DSL 3 beta like the SHW class etc. But this is just out of curiosity of what else you may have planned apart from what you listed?     
That's for me to know and you to find out. ;)
How you make Alarm Clock Pizza is:
Step 1: You buy an alarm clock from the store, and then you have to break it and put it in the sauce.
Step 2: Fold the sauce in 5 slices and put it in the dough.
Step 3: Paint the eggs with a pitcher of a clock showing what time you want to wake up and eat pizza for breakfast.
Step 4: Put the eggs in the dough.
Step 5: Make it flat into a round shape and draw the time you want on it.
Step 6: Put some old steel to prevent other peple from stealing it.
Step 7: Make it flat and cut into 60 slices 1 for each minute in 1 our.
Step 8: Put in the oven set the timer to 30048813.2884 seconds and put the temperature on 'Volcano' setting.
Step 9: If you think it is take to long, then get yor alarm clock and set it to now so that it will ring and you can take it out.
Step 10: Take it out uv the uvin wen it is redy and go to bed. In the morning eat pizza and also eat yor hands bi mistake.

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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2017, 10:21:26 AM »
That new miniature Beta motor will defiantly come in handy for future IRL building. But to the point, what else do you have planned for your new version of DSL? I'm aware that this is a bit of a stupid question, due to you still thinking of ideas or you may end up recycle some ideas from the DSL 3 beta like the SHW class etc. But this is just out of curiosity of what else you may have planned apart from what you listed?     
That's for me to know and you to find out. ;)
Fair enough for me. Still, that's something to look forward to.

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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2017, 04:29:09 PM »
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if you want help i could probably tag along and make some new components/replicas

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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2017, 06:58:44 PM »
Bout the reps. Are they going to have custom components? (Example would be DTK and it would have 3ds max components)
If so. I could make some on sketchup, maybe make them with more parts to be attached, and anyone else could finish it off on 3ds max. (Recently been doing stuff with sketchup)

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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2017, 03:26:51 PM »
a custom component idea i'd like to suggest would be 20cm beaters so we can have make ****tons of custom bars without the absolute need to slap akwardly a typhoon teeth, wedgelet, or beater that doesn't fit seamlessly inside the bar itself on said spinner
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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #18 on: August 26, 2017, 08:30:52 AM »
I dont know if its possible but what about a chain servo?
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Re: DSL 3? Maybe?
« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2017, 10:24:07 PM »
I don't think that anybody that was involved in the original project would object to a third installment.


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