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Messages - Jack Daniels
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« on: October 10, 2009, 01:56:55 PM »
i know theres probably forums for this but how do i take pics of the robots that i have made in game Press F11 at any point during the game and the screenshot will go to your "screens" folder in the RA2 directory.
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« on: October 10, 2009, 10:48:43 AM »
Heh... Honestly, when you first displayed that bot I thought: "Hey cool" and I was going to leave a comment. But I had no idea what to say about it. It is unique for sure. I like the idea but, otherwise, I have no intelligent suggestions to improve it.
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« on: October 10, 2009, 10:45:51 AM »
Uhm... hate to break it to you... but I thought that the BOTM submissions were supposed to be secret. It keeps people from basing their judgement on anything other than your bot.
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« on: October 10, 2009, 10:41:17 AM »
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« on: October 10, 2009, 10:29:26 AM »
Well that is creative...
I can sense that ball being teh ghey though. I kinda agree on the ball. However, how does it react with impact on a bot? say you designed a bot like a generic wedge, would the ball simply roll over the bot and not push it around? or does the ball impact the bot and cause it to slide around the arena (possibly over the edge) ? If it can simply roll over a wedge, i think it might make bot designing a bit more creative in that respect if people are trying to fight the opponent and the ball. But cheap ball losses are gonna suck.
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« on: October 10, 2009, 10:24:57 AM »
Maybe somebody (even anybody) can make a cool background splash with robots and pictures of Robot Arena 1 and 2 and Robot Wars games...even Robot rage pictures in widescreen like 1440 X 900 and I will just link to this forum and use it for a link to robot combat games. Hey... maybe make it a contest kinda like BOTM or the Skinning contest? A bunch or us can create a splash based on your rules for how you want it to look and we can all vote. Or you can just pick the one you like or something. I dunno, people around this forum are really competitive so it might be a fun alternative to bot building.
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« on: October 10, 2009, 10:00:37 AM »
throw in a few terrible default AI like snowjob or ronin lol Haha! If the pits were activated... there would be a possibility for either of them to win. Wouldn't that be amusing?
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« on: October 09, 2009, 04:16:27 PM »
ahhh! most excellent! thank you.
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« on: October 08, 2009, 07:41:54 PM »
I think you have to download Mads smart zones for all of his teams (well a lot of them i had the same problem) Yeah, I think you are right. Where are Mad's smart zones now? I can't seem to find them in the downloads section of GTM.
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« on: October 08, 2009, 07:19:02 PM »
Team 84 Mad Creations Thrust 4 always crashes my game.
Is that a bot that uses Mad's zones? I will download and load Mad's zones when I get a moment, but I wanted to report it anyways in case it is a bug.
be well!
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« on: October 08, 2009, 05:30:35 PM »
Sometimes when I make a 6WD bot not all the wheels seem to want to touch the ground in harmony (I think because the snappers can be fickle like that for mounting) Anyhow, try turning off the two middle drive motors and see if the AI will drive straight like that. If it works, then well... uhhh... I don't know how to fix it without a serious rebuild. It's just a thought. Maybe put the middle drive motors on extenders and give it a wider stance? That might make all the wheels work better with the AI.
It looks great though! Very clean and efficient looking. I like it!
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« on: October 08, 2009, 03:02:04 PM »
I think out of respect to Sonny (the replica king) you should consider doing HW. He has been the most supportive of your tourney thus far. I am, honestly, not convinced that you have the skills to pull off a successful tournament, which is why I have not entered.
However, these experiences are how we learn. I hope you are learning a bit so you can be more focused and prepared when you possibly host a second event.
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« on: October 08, 2009, 02:43:41 PM »
Any chance we might have another skinning tourney? I missed the cut on the last one... but I hope we do more.
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« on: October 06, 2009, 06:24:15 PM »
Played my first match of Dodgeball yesterday evening.
We won 6-3
It was 4 athletic college kids vs a ragtag bunch of tatoo covered alcholics (us)
We had strength in numbers because 10 of us showed up on our team... against their 4. I am not sure if they had more teammates that just didn't bother to show up. (you can have a max of 6 people on the court per team)
My throwing arm needs some work... Most everything I threw soared 5 feet above them. Didn't get any good hits, but I can dodge pretty decent and collect balls for my teammates. All in all... it was a good workout.
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« on: October 05, 2009, 09:10:40 PM »
Does the three finger salute bring it up automatically in Vista like it does in XP?
salute = ctrl + alt + del
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« on: October 04, 2009, 09:25:41 PM »
Bad sci-fi movie that I totally love anyways is "Freejack"
Cheesy one-liners...
Somewhat predictable...
Lots of forced/horrible acting...
and best of all... Mick Jagger is in it!
Excellent popcorn flick in all its entertaining horribleness.
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« on: October 04, 2009, 09:14:43 PM »
y'know... with Joeblo's little army of boxes trick... you could have that thing surrounded by a legion of cheez-its.
Looks awesomely aweful. I can't wait to see it in action. So, it is a hammer/flipper? You got a spiffy AI line written for that?
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« on: October 04, 2009, 08:55:45 PM »
Hmmm... no weight?
Would it be possible to ditch the top row of axes and replace them (somehow) with vertical samurai swords? Kinda like Robo's R4 setup? That way bots are less likely to go up and over this design. It might keep them in front of the mass of pointy things.
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« on: October 04, 2009, 03:24:03 PM »
Well... for starters. Who is starting this company? And how will it operate in a "nonprofit" sense? Will bot parts only be sold at minimum markup just to keep the business going and not put any money into the pocket of the owner?
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« on: October 04, 2009, 02:05:45 PM »
Ahhhhh. Good to know. I will keep that in mind for the next revision of the bot. Thank you.
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