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« on: August 15, 2018, 05:18:36 PM »
nice
slightly concerning that my bot is allergic to turning but it's a HS so not a big deal. I thought I wired the LeftRight control to be the same as Forward at first lol
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« on: August 12, 2018, 10:40:47 PM »
My computer seems really adamant on not wanting me to run the exe, I'll have to figure out how to allow it.
Anyway, I wonder if there's any way to look into the bot file to automatically fill out fields like invertible, turn radius, the nose, the bot type, the weapons thing, and so on (with imperfect heuristics). Would be an interesting thing to try out making, I might try it myself.
Nose, yes (there's a line in the file that stores the nose you set in the botlab, so you can read from that). To "guess" the others based on the data in the .bot file would be much harder and more time consuming to implement than the rest of the program multiple times over, I would suspect. Maybe you could get away with plugging the component ID of every weapon component on the bot into the weapons tab, but it would be kinda bad and a nightmare to check To all the people that can't run it, the issue is probably that you don't have whatever necessary Microsoft redistributables required. If I'm right in that, apanx can point you to which one(s) you need to install
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« on: August 12, 2018, 04:53:02 PM »
I'm very surprised that one of the hammer spinners didn't win. I guess the concept is less powerful at CW, where you have less weight for the weapon motor and armour. I like the production value as a whole, though the 90 second will massively overstay its welcome if it's in every video.
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« on: August 11, 2018, 03:03:37 PM »
I think im going to have to give up on this.
I know its annoying that ive done this twice now but I dont think I should have done a tournament this large. Its been hard to manage and ive made alot of mistakes so I doubt I will go back to this.
If I ever do start another tournament I will probably do it on a smaller scale
If you want some hand. Drop me a dm
Its alright dude. I think just starting over is less complicated. Its just AI being weird and stuff. Again I might try again someday but it will be more planned out
PM me the bots you haven't AI'd and I'll AI them all for you. Dumping a tournament that already has entries is very poor form.
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« on: August 11, 2018, 02:10:43 PM »
That's your player teams file. It doesn't have any effect on the AI teams. The AI teams file is in Robot Arena 2/AI/teams.txt.
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« on: August 11, 2018, 02:02:09 PM »
AI teams can hold up to 6 bots, but by default they're only programmed to hold 3. There's nothing magic that you need to do to go from 3 to 6, the devs just decided to stop at 3 per team for some reason (assuming you're talking about the stock AI). If you want to know how to add bots to the AI teams, you should look up the tutorials section for tutorials about 'how to AI'. To be more specific, the line underlined below tells RA2 which bots to look for in a team folder. In the example below, it's telling ra2 to look for Bot0.bot through to Bot5.bot. In stock, the line would be 0 1 2 instead, telling ra2 to look for Bot0.bot to Bot2.bot, thus only having 3 bots in a team. 
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« on: August 11, 2018, 12:06:04 AM »
The downloads section is a good place to find stuff like this. Firebeetle's component pack is also worth trying.
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« on: August 10, 2018, 04:49:47 PM »
Note that battles will always be stretched if you're not using a 4:3 resolution.
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« on: August 06, 2018, 08:27:28 PM »
How much of the video you skip? Those fights got really old, really quickly.
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« on: August 06, 2018, 05:58:37 PM »
Use the pixel chassis in FOTEPX's DSL CE, along with ra2cf. Build your bot's drive, then weapon motors, then batteries, then build bodywork over that. This order of building is the easiest way to make decent extender it's
Also bottom panels are a complete waste of weight unless you're building a pure artbot. IRL bots are already weak as hell in combat, you need every kg you can get put into drive/weapon motors so your bot doesn't get slowly tapped apart over 3 excruciating minutes of nothing. Of course, if you're not going to enter your bot in tournaments or you want to build artbots this doesn't apply.
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« on: August 05, 2018, 01:04:34 PM »
That's possibly the most meta IRL axebot I've ever seen, typhoon teeth as the weaponry (somehow) and only a pair of TWMs for drive. Protip for your axebots, they would look a lot better if you BFE the burst arc to be 180 degrees so the shaft lays flat on top of the bot.
The highlight here for me is Shalako, a very neat little flipper. Bonus points for being a sub-LW that isn't a spinner of some kind. Again though, the drive seems worryingly weak for a flipper. I suppose there's not much you can do about that for a BW.
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« on: August 04, 2018, 02:05:32 PM »
the first parsec multiplayer tournament is gonna be singleplayer
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« on: August 04, 2018, 12:37:27 PM »
If you're uploading bot files, you should upload them to the bot exchange rather than posting the files straight to a showcase. Showcases are usually for images of the bots rather than the bot files themselves. You do you though.
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« on: August 04, 2018, 12:22:00 PM »
They're using a type of motion called Meltybrain, where you can use circular movements to move in a linear direction. As far as I know, there's no way to do this manually in RA2, you need to use an AI file like FBS.py. It has nothing to do with glitches or how a bot is made, it's all in the AI. As for how to make them, you just build a regular SnS (go look up some old DSL-S showcases or download storm shock if you don't know how to build one. To AI them, you just AI the drive like any other bot (Forward, LeftRight drive controls) and let the AI file work everything else out for you.
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« on: July 31, 2018, 06:22:44 AM »
> spend time on a skin
> don't spend 10 seconds BFEing a disc so you don't need a weird out of place perspex panel
Aside from that it's pretty interesting and cool for a ring spinner. Still a ring spinner though.
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« on: July 28, 2018, 10:12:24 AM »
Most original - Duckling Fury
Best Design - Lavastone
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« on: July 26, 2018, 01:23:44 AM »
lol at this point I'm not even mad anymore
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« on: July 18, 2018, 03:03:18 PM »
Should I enter it into a tournament?
Sure, nobody's stopping you. It's a good way to learn the weaknesses of your designs combat-wise As for the bot, I'm really not a fan of the open back at all, I think that needs to be covered up. And if you're making extenderbots, you should use the pixel chassis that comes with DSL 2.2 CE (or you can find it on the bot exchange). And the exposed front drive motors aren't really IRL I think. It's a cool gimmick for a bot, having it just be really long, but I feel like in this case it was a flaw of your building rather than something you set out to do. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but either way I don't think you really pulled it off with all the panel gaps and stuff. Oh, and CROP YOUR SCREENSHOTS
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« on: July 18, 2018, 02:50:15 PM »
Grand Final:
If the winner could PM me their meta/weightclass/arena choice for next month's belt, it would be greatly appreciated.
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« on: July 18, 2018, 12:08:35 PM »
Ah yes. Badger with the "as many weapons as I can get away with" plan. This is why I can't take IRL tournaments seriously.
Actually it was an aesthetic choice because 3 gothic axes arranged in that way kinda looks like a claw. But yeah, rag on the kinda unique bot instead of the 3 el generico bar spinners or the gutripper VSes for dragging the IRL scene down 
Not to blow my own trumpet but keep my vertical spinner out of it too. I designed it to look good first and fight good later. Don't go around pissing on other people's designs, have some respect.
I'm not sh**ting on anyone's designs, I'm saying that I don't think mine should be first in the firing line for others to sh** on.
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