New Robot Wars Arena (In Progress!)

[Badnik96]

Glad you came back, it's just been awesome stuff after awesome stuff. Keep it up!!

[Kid_Krusher13]

This is looking amazing,after its complete and you move into all the little details,I wonder if you could find a way to get the "3..2..1 ACTIVATE!" at the beginning at the "CEASE!" at the end of the fights.

[ianh05]

This is looking amazing,after its complete and you move into all the little details,I wonder if you could find a way to get the "3..2..1 ACTIVATE!" at the beginning at the "CEASE!" at the end of the fights.

That's pretty easy...if you have a voice to record or some kind of voice sample which can read text.

[Resetti's Replicas]

The "cease" is easy enough, just replace the announcer's three match end sound files.  But the problem with the "321" activate is that the starting countdown is a single beep repeated 3 times, in other words, you'd need to do some exe editing to make it happen, which none of us can.

[WhamettNuht]

^^ Exactly! While the 321 activate can't really be done, other announcements could be. However unless someone can get into the files for the game and find JP's commentary audio files, I dont think they'll be that good of a quality. A couple of things that could be done though to make up for it is hopefully to of course add the pit siren, but then a couple of years ago, Mad gave a code for playing music while in the arena, mix that code with the battle music from Robot Wars, and voila! A tiny bit more realistic :P

[RedSawn]

It may be possible to have the countdown. Think of the Octagon arena, with the pit sliders. I believe they open up sooner in the fight if you watch the intro, which means the script they use is timed from when the arena is loaded and not the time left in the fight . Assuming you don't make an intro, with a bit of trial and error maybe you could maybe have a sound file play as the countdown begins. It won't get rid of the beeps, but you could replace them with silent wav files.

(This is all theoretical as I haven't tested the Octagon arena for this, atleast not in 5/6/7 years)

[Jonzu95]

*Joygasm*

Ohgod... Now I feel to have urge to revive RW9, and put it on DSL.

I need to host CA3 first though.

[Merrick]

 


Might have to make use of this.

[WhamettNuht]

Well either way - I'm gonna need all the help I can get :') *hinty hint to those who would like this to be finished quicker lol*

[Merrick]

If I had any skill whatsoever in editing anything, I'd be happy to help.

Sadly, I have very few uses. 

[RedSawn]

Well either way - I'm gonna need all the help I can get :') *hinty hint to those who would like this to be finished quicker lol*

Do you have a checklist?

[Tweedy]

I'd be happy to help with anything you need, mainly skinning because I don't know how to do collision meshes or GMF's but I'd be willing to learn.

[WhamettNuht]

Well I guess the main things I will need help with are:


- Converting to GMF (Some things about it are easy, whilst others are hard!)
- Getting some form of commentary
- Some help with aspects of the .py file (Like hinges, fire, ect.)


Another thing I'd really love to do, but would definitely need help with, is make a version of this arena in the Pinball setup as the test arena! However while I could probably easily mesh everything like the barrels, ramp, ect., to make them moveable and not static is something I dont think I could do either.... :')

[Jonzu95]

Another thing I'd really love to do, but would definitely need help with, is make a version of this arena in the Pinball setup as the test arena! However while I could probably easily mesh everything like the barrels, ramp, ect., to make them moveable and not static is something I dont think I could do either.... :')

Best. Idea. Ever.

[GoldenFox93]

Hey guys :)


Well, i've decided to make a start on a new Robot Wars arena :P (I've managed to 90% perfect the ase to gmf convert method, so I thought i'd give this a try! :3)


Here is the new mesh at the moment,


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So, as you can see, so far most of the textures are sorted out, main floor is done, pit and floor flipper done, and the new tire :P


The skins are from the RW:ED game arena (I found the thread :P)


The 2 Dantomkia's are also my reference bots :P (They are roughly the same size as an ordinary DSL heavy)


Once the arena mesh is finished, then i'll give a try at turning it into a full arena :P (Which is kinda why I started this thread... incase I run into any difficulty xD)


If anyone wants to try having a go at converting it then feel free to ask for the mesh! I feel more confident at meshing and skinning than all that techinical .py and gmf stuff haha :')


Anyway, opinions and feedback? :)


-Wham

Fantastic! I love the look of it so far, especially the Pit and the Flipper. My only concerns are that it's a little bit small, and that the arena wall grinders are missing- but for very early on into the project, that's marvellous.   

[Badnik96]

GF, if you look at a later post you'll see he added the angle grinders XD

[GoldenFox93]

GF, if you look at a later post you'll see he added the angle grinders XD

Crap, sorry about that.  XD
 
 
But yes, it's all looking very, very good so far- especially with the addition of the back wall. It could definitely be a little bigger though, that's my only concern.

[WhamettNuht]

Well all it would take is one click of the scale button and I can enlarge it if needs be :P (or shrink it for the Ants )

[GoldenFox93]

Well all it would take is one click of the scale button and I can enlarge it if needs be :P (or shrink it for the Ants )

Ah, that's alright then- it just needs to be fairly bigger, so that it's about the same size of the real one in terms of scale. Once that's sorted out though, it'll be more or less perfect so far.   

[Natef]

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