Author Topic: The DSL 2.2 preview and news thread (Read 290930 times)

System32 · « **Reply #140 on:** March 09, 2009, 04:03:04 PM »

I thought Info and atari were collaberators, like Insomniac games and Naughty dog.

Naryar · « **Reply #141 on:** March 09, 2009, 04:05:21 PM »

Atari bought Infogrames several years ago. Infogrames was a French videogame firm first.

philetbabe · « **Reply #142 on:** March 10, 2009, 09:37:13 AM »

Quote from: Naryar;30535

Atari bought Infogrames several years ago. Infogrames was a French videogame firm first.

very ingenuous, i contacted Infogram by mail to ask them to release the code source of RA2 ... no answer.

Madiaba · « **Reply #143 on:** March 10, 2009, 12:05:25 PM »

Les hommes français are cool. J'espère qu'ils réponse.

man manu · « **Reply #144 on:** March 10, 2009, 03:12:17 PM »

Quit your jibberjabber! Crazy fool!

System32 · « **Reply #145 on:** March 10, 2009, 03:52:51 PM »

The amount of times your avatar makes me cringe... *Uhh*

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #146 on:** March 22, 2009, 09:42:20 PM »

It's been a while... I've been pretty busy with BBEANS. But I haven't totally stopped working on DSL.

Here's the updated Hypno-Disc.

Most obvious, it's a HW now. And although you might not notice, I also entirely redid the chassis. The bottom part is the "real" chassis (with 5mm titanium armor), and only the top part with the spikes is a custom component. I wanted to re-use the shell from the old Hypno-Disc, but the sheer number of vertexes and the bad lighting on it made it easier just to make a new component.

It's also scaled more accurately, with a proportionately bigger disc, and it now has fenders over the rear wheels. The skin on the disc is also slightly improved, with a cleaner spiral design. A lot of little changes, but they add up to make this new version significantly better both at looks and fighting. Just check the battleshots if you doubt how much damage those 2 teeth can do.

Madiaba · « **Reply #147 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:22:00 PM »

Huh, too bad, CB, I didn't know you were working on that chassis, because I just spent 1-2 hours last month figuring out the location of each vertex of that chassis for one of the Housebots in a new arena.
But I like your chassis mods; especially like those 'fenders'. Good idea.

R0B0SH4RK · « **Reply #148 on:** March 23, 2009, 02:35:57 AM »

Very nice CB. Your work never fails to impress.

Somebody · « **Reply #149 on:** March 23, 2009, 05:53:42 AM »

Yay!!! Me favorite bot looks so good now!

MikeNCR · « **Reply #150 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:07:16 AM »

The new hypno looks great!

If you're planning on replicating Mr. SD or replacing Ruiner with Mr. SD, let me know. I've got all the detailed part drawings and can put them in any format Solidworks 2007 can save into if it will save you some time/trouble.

Naryar · « **Reply #151 on:** March 23, 2009, 12:00:35 PM »

5mm titanium = :D

By the way, how did you increased damage? Modded the Flatmotor for more power or increased the DP of the teeth?

Because 259 is really weak right now... as most of the other replicas.

RedSawn · « **Reply #152 on:** March 23, 2009, 01:49:40 PM »

Very cool. Hopefully you'd give it the added bonus of the bots having some sort of true-to-real scale. Razer dwarfs Sir Killalot and all.

Somebody · « **Reply #153 on:** March 23, 2009, 07:40:01 PM »

He is changing the sizes of the bots. Also, please just up the HP of most of the replicas, because I don't like it when I break one thing off, hit the bot once, and it is dead. I like slowly tearing off the outsides before trying to KO it.

JoeBlo · « **Reply #154 on:** March 24, 2009, 07:55:55 AM »

that hypno-disc looks awesome, I love your work click :-D

Siphai · « **Reply #155 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:58:32 PM »

So if you're moving robots to different weight classes, are there going to be brand new robots to fill in the replaced MW and LW ranks? (Ziggo, Hazard, T-Minus, etc.)

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #156 on:** March 27, 2009, 12:01:00 AM »

Quote from: Naryar;31655

5mm titanium = :D

By the way, how did you increased damage? Modded the Flatmotor for more power or increased the DP of the teeth?

Because 259 is really weak right now... as most of the other replicas.

None of the replicas I'm editing use those hidden motors like the flatmotor and stuff, or the dark cell batteries. They all use stock DSL parts wherever possible. Where it's not possible, I kill two birds with one stone by making some custom part of the replica a motor.

For example, Hypno-Disc has 4 Magmotor drive and 5 red battlepacks. The custom component on the top is actually also the weapon motor. It's exactly as powerful as a Tornado Mer Gearbox. That's where all the extra damage comes from because the teeth actually have the same DP.

In scaling up Hypno-Disc's size, I also had to scale up the teeth. But I didn't want to edit the existing Hypno tooth because a lot of existing bots use that and they might not work anymore if I changed it. So I made a new, 20-kg Hypno tooth and used that for the replica. As of now, I'm planning on having it be a new stock part, along with the larger Hypno disc and the larger Minion disc.

I know that 259 and many of the other replicas are weak, and that's why I'm changing them. Though I always thought 259 was one of the less weak ones.

Next up: El Diablo. There's a bot that could really be improved. It will also be a MW, so that should add some variety. After I'm done reclassing all the replicas there's going to be a lot of HW's. I blame Robot Wars, with its lack of LW and MW classes.

MikeNCR · « **Reply #157 on:** March 27, 2009, 01:40:31 PM »

If you need ideas, BuildersDB is a good resource.

MWs:
http://www.buildersdb.com/view_bots.asp?eventid=232&classid=6

LWs:
http://www.buildersdb.com/view_bots.asp?eventid=232&classid=5

Using some 30s as LWs would shore the numbers up well, too.

40757 · « **Reply #158 on:** March 28, 2009, 12:56:41 AM »

My favorite bot back in 2001 was Toro. Best bot ever. Are you planning on making a replica of it?

Somebody · « **Reply #159 on:** March 28, 2009, 07:15:43 AM »

Theres actually an OK replica of it in the AUBB pack.