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Stock Showcases / Jestahead's garage

« on: November 23, 2011, 09:16:10 AM »

Hey there. It's time to start my bot showcase. Since I've just starting playing again casually with RL friends, I'll be doing themed teams. Many of the designs I post will be suboptimal or just for lulz. However, feedback and build advice is always appreciated, especially if it results in an even more lulzy bot. Unfortunately after reading the GTM Constitution I had to censor this first bot, but here it is to get the ball rolling. This is @#$% 'Em Up from Team Ragequit.



This was an attempt to see how fast I could make a bot with stock components. It has 14 HP Z-Teks. I CBF'd calculating how much power output that would need so I AAM'd in 12 black batteries. This bot is unbelievably fast and powerful in a straight line, but has the cornering of a goldfish on dry land. Also, the motors are vulnerable to being broken off, even the ones behind the spikes. Sometimes this causes victory through havok explosions.

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Discussion / Enhanced precision in bot building

« on: November 23, 2011, 07:53:37 AM »

Completely ignorant of the feasibility of this idea, but it struck me that the mouse can be really imprecise when it comes to bot building. I'm using a Razer Deathadder 3500dpi mouse and I still have a lot of trouble when things are off by a pixel or two. Would it be possible to add functionality move things (components, sliders, chassis grid points, that kinda thing) one pixel at a time with the arrow keys instead of the mouse?

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General Support / Issues applying custom skins to robots

« on: November 22, 2011, 03:01:52 AM »

Hi. I'm running RA2 CD v1.3 with Starcore 3 installed and no other mods. My OS is Win7 32-bit. I just tried to skin my bot with this skin:


However, when applying the skin in-game, I get this:


A 256x256 px version of the same skin results in this:


What's going on? The skin was made in the GIMP and saved as a BMP. I've also tried opening it up in Paint and saving as a 24-bit BMP, it hasn't helped.

Cheers guys.