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« on: November 19, 2016, 11:14:29 AM »
Okay, so after editing it a bit to make everything a bit clearer, does it actually seem interesting to anyone?
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« 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. SUBMISSIONS: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. //I apologize for formatting this like it's code, it's a habit
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« on: October 31, 2016, 05:57:20 PM »
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More Supports. Not sure if enough XD
You do know that adding more supports doesn't make it more realistic right?
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« on: October 30, 2016, 03:46:26 PM »
OH sh**!!!!!!!
why is all the song's audio from the left? EDIT: and then from the right???? What?
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« on: October 26, 2016, 10:35:22 PM »
The red one looks really nice
Well I've now made an even nicer red one, presenting, Cruisin for a Bruisin. (Cruiserweight)   Plastic 1, 4 TWMR Drives, 3 Battery Packs
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« on: October 23, 2016, 08:21:51 PM »
Bear in mind, because of the size, there're currently between 9 and 11 per group.
I apologize
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« on: October 20, 2016, 06:28:42 PM »
Green Pea kind of reminds me of a praying mantis.
Also colored DSL discs when :V
IRL Pack 3
And colored Beaterbars and wedges? Maybe some better wedges? or would that make it invalid for tournaments
IRL Pack 3 :V The wedgelets were supposed to be in the 2nd pack, but the combination of renaming and staring at thousands of files, and the pack being big enough as it was made me postpone them, along with another thing nobody has mentioned yet.
hmmm Are you talking about that idea that you were asking about a while ago? That being E-teks (and other motors) with Driverchains?
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« on: October 17, 2016, 05:57:13 PM »
Green Pea kind of reminds me of a praying mantis.
Also colored DSL discs when :V
IRL Pack 3
And colored Beaterbars and wedges? Maybe some better wedges? or would that make it invalid for tournaments
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« on: October 15, 2016, 12:36:53 PM »
gabriel interactive is probably the most gabriel interactive gabriel interactive in the existence of gabriel interactive and I can't believe gabriel interactive is gabriel interactive I find it quite gabriel interactive that gabriel is interactive.
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« on: October 13, 2016, 05:23:43 PM »
Personally, yes I would like it to be legal as it would make it more prominently known, but I think it's a little late to be adding an entire new pack that adds a new set of Aluminium armour after 99% of the entries have already been received.
Don't worry I'm submitting two of my RGB series ;P
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« on: October 13, 2016, 09:14:02 AM »
Finally an update! I've got plenty of bots to show but I wanted to get this set out there, I present the RGB Series of IRL bots!  Armour for all is Plastic 1 because weight constraints. Red Adder:   First of the series, didn't even know I was gonna do a series with this one, this is the fifth iteration, with (I think) zero clipping issues! Weapon is two 50x50 bars Green Enigma:   Second of the series, actually the one that was built last, uses a geared beta motor to do decent damage, only bot in the series to use separate tones of colours. Blue Rebel:   Third and last of the series, probably one of the most compact bots I've made, little feet in the front are to prevent the disk from hitting the ground constantly.
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« on: August 25, 2016, 11:43:43 PM »
if this update adds something like cheese motors im sorry but i will be laughing my ass off 
well they have cookie and cardboard wheels, why not have a cookie motor and a cardboard battery?
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« on: August 22, 2016, 11:09:08 PM »
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Take into account that J-whateverhisnameis said they're working on an update still. Doubt it'll be any good but enh, it's worth a shot right?
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« on: August 20, 2016, 01:41:37 PM »
IIRC the guys behind the Robot Wars modpack got shaders and anti-aliasing to work with RA2. I don't entirely remember the extent of that and how they did it, but it's possible at the very least.
Yeah, but there's anti-aliasing and anisotropy. Anti-aliasing smooths out edges of models, anisotropic filtering smooths out rendering of textures so you don't get jagged lines on textures. They're pretty much the same thing but for different elements of graphics. That said, even just anti-aliasing would be quite nice, but the MSAA I've tried out doesn't work that well (at least the one from SweetFX, it doesn't seem to do much to it).
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« on: August 19, 2016, 07:58:41 PM »
It's the skins that need the update more than the models in my opinion.
So after a bit of work, I made this:  Not Jaw-droppingly good, but I can comfortably say it's a start. EDIT: After further inspection I've realized that something of this size doesn't really have much of a point in getting re-textured. It doesn't seem to do all that much because of the lack of Anisotropic Filtering in RA2. I'm gonna make another progress report after a slightly bigger modification.
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« on: August 15, 2016, 04:30:15 PM »
So this happened...  The actual shell isn't damaged whatsoever, it just kinda fell off.
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« 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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« on: August 12, 2016, 03:14:35 PM »
If it uses DX it should be compatible with SweetFX right?
So I tried out SweetFX, doesn't really do what I wanted, I mean, it works, but I was more looking for a way to generally improve reflections, shadows, etc. EDIT: so I made a model of sorts, not actually part of DSL originally but would this be too detailed?  (exclude the tiles on the ground obviously) All of the cylinders have 36 faces if that matters.
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« on: August 11, 2016, 09:31:20 PM »
iKa - what is you typical workflow / software stack (a.k.a. can you do/learn Blender)?
errr I mean my typical workflow is cinema 4d, but that can export almost any filetype, and if there are any problems I can always just export to STL and convert it from there.
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