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Tournament Archives / Not Just Another DSL 2.2 IRL Tournament [Inactive]

« on: November 18, 2016, 09:55:59 PM »

cue "another DSL 2.2 IRL tournament? really?"

I apologize for all of the typos and general errors I made while making this. Note to self: don't write up tournaments while you're exhausted.

So I was thinking of how to make a truly interesting tournament the other day, because most tournaments these days tend to fall into flipper-dominated tournaments with a nice little side of Horizontal or Vertical Spinners. So I thought, hey, why not encourage creativity with a nice little DSL 2.2 IRL tournament because those haven't been saturated to all sh** yet. (In case you couldn't tell that's a wonderful little thing called sarcasm)

BUILDING RULES:

DSL 2.2 IRL with DSC's IRL Packs
Weight Limit: CruiserWeight (399 - 600kg)

The following types of bots are allowed:
Ring/Shell Spinners (that aren't built with standard DSL discs)
Anything that functions off of turrets
Unconventional Flippers (i/e no Apollo-style flippers)
SnS/ MeltyBrains
Multibots (That conform to the other rules)
Creative variations on conventional bots (i.e. some sort of odd variation on Tombstone would be allowed, but just straight up Tombstone wouldn't)
Lifters(Not flippers, proper lifters)
Swiss Army Bots (all of the weapons must apply to the other rules as well.)
Hybrids

CF can be used as much as you want, so long as it's still more or less IRL (i.e. no batteries within batteries)
(EDIT: after looking at 090901's new DSL showcase, nothing too ridiculous like sticking your robot controller on the top of your bot.)

All bots will be put through inspection to see if they qualify.

I can't AI that well, so I'd highly recommend you do your own AI for this, but if it's needed I can AI.

TOURNAMENT SYSTEM:

The Arena will be a modified DSL Tournament Arena, with custom textures, Hazards enabled

In the following order of amount of entries:

8 entries;

12 entries  -- 2 wildcards;

16 entries;
EDIT: After further inspection of the rules, I've realized that because this is my first tournament I'm not allowed more than 16 entries.

All fights are 1v1, Havok results in a rematch.;

Each person may submit up to 2 bots.

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//I apologize for formatting this like it's code, it's a habit

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Real Robotics Discussion / idk if there's a CAD request thread but I guess here's one.

« on: September 10, 2016, 01:18:28 AM »

So I recently bought a few motors off of banggood because they were on sale and I mean hell why not, I've been planning on making a robot for ages. The problem is, I'm using Inventor and I'm really struggling with finding some of the CADs for the offbrand things. Does anyone have any CADs for this:

http://www.banggood.com/4X-Racerstar-2205-BR2205-2300KV-2-4S-Brushless-Motor-2-CW-2-CCW-For-QAV250-ZMR250-260-Multirotor-p-1066837.html

or something similar?

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DSL TC Showcases / -iKa-'s mildly adequate DSL showcase

« on: August 12, 2016, 09:43:21 PM »

Seems like everyone does these so I thought I might as well hop on the bandwagon!

First up we have one of my first semi-serious bots, really just built for looks though. I present to you, Termite:

Termite is quite the beast, but only in looks. functionality wise it's abysmal. The one cool part of it is it's ability to literally just roll around instead of self-righting

Second we have a decent bot, this is going to lead to my obsession with lots and lots of burst motors. I present Nom Nom:

Nom Nom is a sort of weird grabber spike bot with quite the drive, honestly one of my most fun bots to drive.

Third is my first good spinner, Sweet Death:

Sweet Death is also the first bot that I skinned with a 2048x2048 skin, ended up being excessively high resolution, but enh. It's weapon system is pretty simple, and looks cool, pretty much what I like in a bot.

Next is a trash bot (hint: it's just a wedge). This is Wedge Meister:

This bot only functions on maps with pits, or maps where there are gratuitous amounts of hazards. The backlash wheels located inside the bot work quite well in terms of drive, don't know how many people do this but you can select the hollow part of the wheel and reverse place it, thus making it not stick out annoyingly. (not sure if this is possible without the Component Freedom mod (I only use it for unusual placement, never for actual cheating, i.e. batteries in batteries in batteries))

So, this bot idea came to me in the shower and I thought "Hey, this is a amazing idea!" and I made it. I present to you, Junkyard Monster:

Okay to be fair this is the second iteration of it (hence the V2), now with at least 100% less wasted space! Controlling this thing is rather easy, despite the unusual drive system.
One of the best parts of this bot in my opinion is the fact that it can scuttle over other bots and deal damage to it, I find it hilariously entertaining.
I'll post a video of this thing in action later on, it's quite entertaining.

I think this is the sixth bot. *checks* yep, it's the sixth bot. I think this robot is quite unique, Flip Meister:

Flip Meister is pretty cool, because if you can't tell, it's flipping system is different. That burst motor, instead of flipping up, pushes down, allowing the hull to flip the bot instead. It's a lot more torque-y then a normal flipper, and essentially this just ends up being an odd wedge. Still cool though.

This list is getting big, just like the size of my dick the next bot's weapon, Diskopalypse:

Diskopalypse is pretty good for it's class, I really had to struggle to get it to not go over the weight limit with it's massive 250cm disk. It has both large and medium beaters with the idea that if the large beaters get knocked off there's still the medium beaters. Note: does not work that way.

This bot is an exercise in uselessness, it started off okay and slowly devolved into an artbot. Smubble:

Smubble is a hammerbot using the geared Beta motor. It sucks, and looks cool. pretty much it.

*insert joke about dual spinners being bad here* Welcome to the spoiler, Counter Neverlution:

Counter Neverlution is surprisingly good. It does suffer the problem of when a single beater gets knocked off the bot starts to have a seizure, but that's mostly okay so long as a tooth on the other side also gets knocked off. The 6 magmotors really accelerate the weapon quickly though, I wonder if that's overkill.

Finally, my most competitive and kinda cool looking bot, Tydrus:

This bot has my most efficient use of space ever. The weapon on it uses the Pointy spikes, which do significantly more than any of the other spikes (the ones on the back are purely there for decoration). I tend to build for looks and this is no exception especially with the oddly shaped hull. It drives exceptionally, and the skirt just barely skims the ground, so it's able to plow every bot I've fought (including wedges) into the hazards. All in all a very fun bot to play around with.

Well that's it for now, Further developments may occur. Leave feedback please (take into account this is about two months worth of robots and only the highlights, a lot of my earlier designs have massive amounts of wasted space left there because looks are cool).

Here is the video of Junkyard Monster.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/fP1rZ-svvkA

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Modifications / Replacing models in DSL?

« on: July 27, 2016, 10:22:14 PM »

So I'm new here, and I've been playing DSL2.2 with the component freedom mod a fair bit, and a few things have been bothering me, and I was wondering if anyone could explain them.

• Is it possible to create higher detail models for all of the components? I'm sort of experienced in 3D modelling and would be interested in replacing a few things such as the 259 disc & several other weapons. (if this is actually possible I would gladly model literally everything, summer break has been quite boring so far :P)
• Is there a way to fix the wonkiness of motors with extenders attached to them with motors on them? I've been trying to create a design with a controllable tail but so far have faced many many problems with the tail doing 50 flips every time I try to activate it, even with servo motors. Similar problem with a different component for my Stinger Replica.

Any help would be highly appreciated!