Robot Arena 2: Component Freedom (remove 7-component limit!)

[LiNcK]

Oh that's very interesting. I wonder what effect having multibots in "one bot" would have on AI-making, is it possible to make a selarate AI for each of the bots? IDK how AIing works but I would think that if the game sees them as 1 bot then that would cause issues.

On another note I'd like to suggest a feature if possible. I think it would be great if we could turn item-chassis collisions on so it isn't as annoying to place motors, batteries, etc. only to find out they're clipping through the chassis a tiny bit. It would be a big QoL improvement for us space-maniacs to be able to put something pixel-perfectly in a corner without having to worry about it sticking out on either end, making it unrealistic.

[Serge]

I remember click made a bot with multiple chassis before, and encountered a similar issue regarding drive. He had to use sawblade "wheels" instead of legit wheels. It was called ant army, should be on the exchange under stock MW.

Ah crap. Oh well, no breakthrough today! Still, I can at least start instrumenting component state in the game.

Btw, since you're dabbling in chassis hax, you think it would be as easy to remove the 16 chassis point limit as it would be the 7 part limit?

Sure, I'll try that.

When going to fight another robot does first chassis have collision or is it still collision-less?

I haven't checked. I suppose it collides the same way as the first. You can check with Click's robot, as AS mentioned it's using the same glitch.

What even is going on in the background of your desktop? You have a bunch of coding things/etc going on while RA2 is playing; I find it interesting.

That's not terribly interesting - when I start recording, I do it in a tag (== 'virtual desktop') where I have a terminal with ffmpeg open. Then I switch to a tag with RA2, which has a terminal window with RA2/Wine logs running by, and the game in the centre.

Oh that's very interesting. I wonder what effect having multibots in "one bot" would have on AI-making, is it possible to make a selarate AI for each of the bots? IDK how AIing works but I would think that if the game sees them as 1 bot then that would cause issues.

As far as I understand, only the newest chassis would be actionable on by the standard AI framework.

On another note I'd like to suggest a feature if possible. I think it would be great if we could turn item-chassis collisions on so it isn't as annoying to place motors, batteries, etc. only to find out they're clipping through the chassis a tiny bit. It would be a big QoL improvement for us space-maniacs to be able to put something pixel-perfectly in a corner without having to worry about it sticking out on either end, making it unrealistic.

That should be doable. I'll make a note of this.

[FOTEPX]

Could you disable the check that disallows robots to have heavier armour if the robot is over 800KG's? What with the support of SHW's and above on the components side, I think it should also be supported on the armour side.

[WeN]

Cool. Even can make this

[The Red Blur]

Cool. Even can make this
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Wait... Is that my profile pic in the background?

[WeN]

Cool. Even can make this
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Wait... Is that my profile pic in the background?

Yes, I don't know what to choose background next.

[Naryar]

...can you not spam threads ? you have posted your bots in your showcase already. no need to post a huge image there as well.

[Badger]

A keybind to toggle it on/off would be so useful, rather than having to restart the whole game every time.

[R01]

Late reply, but why does the patcher method only work on windows? Is it because a special DLL is required(wouldn't that be possible with wine on linux?) or other reasons?

[Serge]

Late reply, but why does the patcher method only work on windows? Is it because a special DLL is required(wouldn't that be possible with wine on linux?) or other reasons?

It loads a custom DLL into the RA2 process that then uses some VirtualAllocEx calls to enable hotpatching the main binary's code. Last time I checked Wine did not implement this function.

[Mr. AS]

Hi. Serge decided to go and disable the 16 point limit. He asked me to post it for him on the discord chat because he, in his own words, "really can't be assed."

Here is the updated code. It should work without crashing. To install, just copy & paste it over your existing code, it's enabled by default. Remember to ctrl+z if it does crash, however.

Please direct "thank you"s to Serge.

[R01]

Hi. Serge decided to go and disable the 16 point limit. He asked me to post it for him on the discord chat because he, in his own words, "really can't be assed."

Here is the updated code. It should work without crashing. To install, just copy & paste it over your existing code, it's enabled by default. Remember to ctrl+z if it does crash, however.

Please direct "thank you"s to Serge.

Sweet, best to post the code here as well in case the Pastebin one expires. Now if this was only released before this month's BOTM I could've made a even better bot.

[Meganerdbomb]

Why isn't this a sticky?

[090901]

Why isn't this a sticky?

This section is bloated with stickied topics already, I was working on a mod index so we could unsticky those things and have it be a lot cleaner but I haven't gotten around to finishing it and getting it to the quality I want with image and text descriptions of each thing.

[Badger]

Can we get this pinned

[kix]

Up

[doot]

Up

what did he mean by this

[Silverfish]

Up

what did he mean by this

He meant what badger said.

[Mr. AS]

We can remove these stickies. "hay guise I casually removed most of the problems that have be plaguing RA2 for upwards of a decade" seems way more important than a download for a deprecated beta or a thread that redirects to a nonexistant forum section IMO.

[kix]

Remove all but Serge's random modding utilities.. it is useful