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Tournament Archives / Revolution 3 - SBV

« on: August 19, 2018, 07:39:10 PM »

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Tournament Archives / Revolution 3 - Signups (Closed)

« on: July 03, 2018, 11:42:01 PM »

Building Rules:
-HW Stock 1.4
-No BFE/AAM/Hax Mode/etc.
-Ro7 break is allowed. All other uses of RA2CF are not
-Bots that have their drive designed to break off and SnS bots are banned. Multibots are also not allowed due to tournament seeding format.
-All robots must show controlled movement via at least two powered wheels
-AI parts/140cm extender/blue snapper/etc. are allowed
-Recolored components are allowed. If you use them, let me know which pack they're from. Do not recolor components yourself unless you've already made them available to the public.
-No cheatbot2
-After sending your robot to me, you may update it only once, and only before signups close.

Tournament Format:
-1v1 single elimination main bracket. Any bot that gets knocked out of the main bracket will still be able to compete in a losers round with the same format as Revolution 2, minus the lives system - it's just survive to the end (reminder on that system: two bots fight, the winner stays in to fight another bot, the winner of that stays in to fight another bot, etc until only one bot is left). The order the bots enter will be based on seeding. Here's a visual representation of the bracket:

-16 entries (1 bot per person)
-Virus Bomb is allowed two entries if he wishes (from winning Revolution 2)
-Arena will be a reskinned DSL Blade Arena with the arena hazard toned down.
-3 min time limit, Bo3 matches in main bracket except for the final, which will be a Bo5
-Seeding will be done by randomly splitting the robots into 4 different 4-way rumbles. Depending on how they do in those initial rumbles, they will be placed into another rumble to determine their rank. Here's another picture of text to explain:

-Havok restarts will only be done if the havok explosion is game-changing (as the host, I will determine what is considered game-changing). Any robot that causes a havok restart twice within the same round will lose their match / be eliminated / get last in their rumble, if the havoks happen during the seeding rounds.

Other:
-I can AI, but it is preferred that you do it yourself. That being said, no cheaty AIs. If I AI your bot, you may not complain unless I have made an obvious mistake.
-No meltybrain.py
-Signups will be for two weeks OR until 16 entries are filled.
-I may extend signup period by a week if needed, but do NOT count on this happening. If you are interested in this tournament, please enter as soon as you are able.
-I will be entering ONLY if all 16 spots are not filled by the end of two weeks, and I will compete with this:

- Please keep your robot names/skins family friendly. I have the right to reject any robot that doesn't.
-PRIZE: This will probably be my last tournament, so I want to make it count for whoever wins.
The prize for first place is a $20 Steam gift card code! 2nd place will get a $5 steam code.

I checked with geese on this a few months ago and he said this was fine, but if things have changed since then, let me know and I'll see if there's something else I can come up with for the prize.

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Tournament Archives / Revolution 2 - SBV

« on: October 03, 2017, 06:45:47 PM »

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Site News and Feedback / Bot Exchange Download Problems

« on: October 02, 2017, 04:07:54 PM »

For certain bots in the bot exchange, this happens when I try to download them:

(name censored because this is a tournament entry)
For some reason this only happens with certain robots; I think it might just be happening for robots that have been added after the bot exchange was updated. At first this was just happening with one of Pwn's bots but then it happened with a bot from Mr.AS as well. Anyone know what's going on here? Apparently others can download these bots just fine, but I'm having problems.

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Tournament Archives / [Stock MW] Revoultion 2 - Signups (Closed)

« on: September 11, 2017, 07:47:59 PM »

Building Rules:
-MW Stock 1.4
-No BFE/AAM/Hax Mode/etc.
-Ro7 break is allowed. All other uses of RA2CF are not
-Bots that have their drive designed to break off and SnS bots are banned.
-Multibots are now legal, and both parts must be eliminated for an opposing robot to win against them.
-All robots must show controlled movement via at least two powered wheels
-AI parts/140cm extender/blue snapper/etc. are allowed
-No cheatbot2
-After sending your robot to me, you may update it only once, and only before signups close.

Tournament Format:
-1v1, unlike previous tournament
-Unlimited entries (1 bot per person)
-Arena will be a reskinned BBEANS v2 arena with hazards on (same as last tournament)
-3 min time limit
-Before each match, robots will be seeded based on how well they do in a pre-match fight/challenge. This fight will cycle every round between the following:
-Destroying a SFTW-esque bot
-Taking on two lightweights
-Surviving against a heavyweight
-A sumo match on the clawtop arena (hazards on) against EMERGENCY
Here are the robots being used:

All of these kinds of matches will be in the combat arena with hazards off.
-After robots have been seeded, the ones with the lowest rankings will enter the arena first. As each robot is eliminated from a round, the robot with the next lowest seed will enter the battle.
-Each robot starts the tournament with 3 lives
-A robot can earn an extra life by taking out 5 other robots in a single round. Unlike the previous tournament, this can be by any legal means (KO, immobilization, OOTA, WBP, etc.)
-Havok restarts will only be done if the havok explosion is game-changing (as the host, I will determine what is considered game-changing). Any robot that causes a havok restart twice within the same round will lose a life and be out for that round.

Other:
-I can AI, but it is preferred that you do it yourself. That being said, no cheaty AIs. If I AI your bot, you may not complain unless I have made an obvious mistake.
-No meltybrain.py
-I will be entering with this:

-Virus Bomb gets 2 entries if he wishes
-Winner will be allowed two entries in my next tournament, as well as a preview of my updated AI pack if they wish

No time left to enter.

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DSL TC Showcases / Lightning's DSL Bots

« on: December 09, 2016, 12:50:48 AM »

so dsl 2.2 is pretty cool

i'm probably going to reskin some of these, but idk what to have them look like. any ideas?

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Custom Components Showcase / Lightning's Retooled Bots

« on: September 10, 2016, 06:18:42 PM »

789.6, titanium 1. might enter it into the tournament, idk yet

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Tournament Archives / Revolution - SBV

« on: August 25, 2016, 03:07:33 AM »

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Tournament Archives / Revolution - Signups (Closed)

« on: July 31, 2016, 07:49:38 PM »

Building Rules:
-Lightweight Stock 1.4
-No BFE/AAM/Hax Mode/etc.
-Multibots, bots that have their drive designed to break off, and SnS bots are banned
-All robots must show controlled movement via at least two powered wheels
-AI parts/140cm extender/blue snapper/etc. are allowed
-After sending your robot to me, you may update it only once, and only before signups close.
Tournament Format:
-Unlimited entries (1 bot per person)
-Arena will be the BBEANS v2 arena with hazards on
-Before each match, robots will be seeded based on how well they do in a pre-match fight. This fight will cycle every round between destroying a SFTW-esque bot, taking on two beetleweights, and surviving against a heavyweight. Here are the robots being used:

All of these kinds of matches will be in the combat arena with hazards off.
-After robots have been seeded, the ones with the lowest rankings will enter the arena first. As each robot is eliminated from a round, the robot with the next lowest seed will enter the battle.
-Robots get 3 lives for the span of the tournament
-I probably didn't do a great job of explaining how rounds will work after robots are seeded, so here is an example round:

-A robot can earn an extra life by destroying (read: delivering the final hit to the chassis of) 3 other robots in a single round.
Other:
-I can AI, but it is preferred that you do it yourself. That being said, no cheaty AIs. If I AI your bot, you may not complain unless I have made an obvious mistake.
-I will be entering with this:

-Thrackerzod gets a reserved entry if he wishes
-Winner will be allowed two entries in my next tournament

Green - Received and AI'd
Blue - Received
Red - Problem

You have to enter.

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Modifications / Lightning AI v2.0

« on: March 22, 2016, 12:41:50 AM »

v2.0 IS HERE

Special thanks to Etalify for letting me use his music in this AI pack.
Download here.

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Tournament Archives / Ironbot Jr. - SBV

« on: November 18, 2015, 11:50:03 PM »

NOTE: In any case where there is an odd number of bots and percentages are even (such as round one), the robot with less remaining components will not compete.

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Tournament Archives / Ironbot Jr. - Signups (Closed)

« on: October 17, 2015, 08:28:11 PM »

Welcome to Ironbot Jr. - mostly same as the original Ironbot from four years ago, but now having lightweights with a division for Stock, DSL, and Ironforge (no bracket relation between the three) with some other minor rule changes. If you don't know, the goal of Ironbot was not necessarily to win matches, but to keep your bot as in-tact as possible, as once you lost a component (with a couple exceptions), it was gone for the rest of the tournament.

-At the beginning of the tournament, all the bots are randomly paired off in 1 vs. 1 fights. In the following round, the winners and losers will be separated into two groups. All the bots in each group are randomly paired off and fight. This process repeats for all the following rounds. In this way, the same two bots will never fight two rounds in a row. If there are an odd number of bots in both groups, the bots remaining after pairing off will fight if they didn't already fight in the previous round. If they did fight in the previous round, the bots are randomized over again. If there are an odd number of bots total, the bot in the loser's group with the most damage gets a bye.
-Matches will last 30 seconds. Larrain has been kind enough to supply me with a .py for the arena that automatically ends matches after 30 seconds.
-Any components that break during a match are permanently lost for the rest of the tournament. All other damage not resulting in a break is reset between fights.
-Bots are eliminated when they are either KO'd, or are reduced to 1 or 0 wheels. It doesn't matter how many match wins or losses a bot gets as long as it isn't KO'd or de-wheeled. All bots get one spare control board, which allows them to be KO'd once without being eliminated. They also get a number of spare wheels equal to what they start with (I'm being a little more lenient than Click here because realisticly no one will enter a serious bot with more than two wheels into a lightweight tournament). Spare wheels are used immediately after any wheels are lost in a fight, and unpowered wheels on axle mounts do not count toward the number of spare wheels you get, but they can be moved in case the powered wheels break.
-If a wheel is attached to another external component (such as a drive motor or an extender), and that component breaks, a spare wheel will allow the replacement of any components that are necessary to re-attach the wheel. Any other components attached to the broken component not necessary for the attachment of the wheel are lost. For any bot that has more than 2wd, if it loses wheels such that the drive becomes asymmetrical and it can't drive straight, the wheels will be rearranged so that it can drive straight. For any bot with 4wd or higher, if there are an odd number of wheels remaining, one of them will be unpowered so that the bot can drive straight.
-If a bot has vertical spinning weapons and it loses some weapons, the remaining weapons will be arranged in order to keep the bot as balanced as possible.
-As soon as there are four or fewer bots remaining, they will engage in a final fight to the death. This will pit all remaining bots against each other in a rumble, with no time limit.

-Unlimited entries
-You are allowed to update any bot of yours ONCE and only once before signups close; afterwards, no robots may be changed.
-Signups will be open for one week only, however I may extend this time period if neccessary (I want at least eight robots per division).
-I can AI, but it is prefered that you do so. That being said, no cheaty AI.
-I will be entering all divisions. Here are my bots:

-Winners of each division will get an automatic spot into my next tournament and a copy of my AI pack if they want it
-Arena will be the Compressor Arena with new starting points and more damaging arena spikes

-Havok explosions are ignored unless a bot is stuck in the arena, thrown into a hazard, flipped to where it cannot get up, etc. such that it loses components that otherwise wouldn't be broken, in which case the match is restarted. There is no penalty for causing Havok explosions, with the exception being the fight to the death, in which a robot will be eliminated for causing a game-altering havok more than once (see conditions above for what "game-altering" is).

Sample video here:
You have to enter!

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General Support / Components on Snappers Glitching with Floor

« on: October 17, 2015, 06:06:24 PM »

I've been trying to edit the starting points of an arena and everything has mostly been going fine, but any components on snappers too close to the ground seem to glitch for some reason. Even weirder, this only happens in ports 1 and 4; 2 and 3 are perfectly fine.

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	*GMID_ATTACHMENTPT
	{
		*NODE_NAME	Startpoint 1
		*NODE_TM
		{
			*NODE_NAME	Startpoint 1
			*TM_ROW0 -1.000000	0.000000	0.000000
			*TM_ROW1 0.000000	1.000000	0.000000
			*TM_ROW2 -0.000000	0.000000	-1.000000
			*TM_ROW3 10.000000	0.300000	10.000000
		}
		USER DATA	type = startpoint
id = 1

	}
	*GMID_ATTACHMENTPT
	{
		*NODE_NAME	Startpoint 2
		*NODE_TM
		{
			*NODE_NAME	Startpoint 2
			*TM_ROW0 1.000000	0.000000	0.000000
			*TM_ROW1 0.000000	1.000000	0.000000
			*TM_ROW2 0.000000	0.000000	1.000000
			*TM_ROW3 -10.000000	0.300000	-10.000000
		}
		USER DATA	type = startpoint
id = 2

	}
	*GMID_ATTACHMENTPT
	{
		*NODE_NAME	Startpoint 3
		*NODE_TM
		{
			*NODE_NAME	Startpoint 3
			*TM_ROW0 1.000000	0.000000	0.000000
			*TM_ROW1 0.000000	1.000000	0.000000
			*TM_ROW2 0.000000	0.000000	1.000000
			*TM_ROW3 10.000000	0.300000	-10.000000
		}
		USER DATA	type = startpoint
id = 3

	}
	*GMID_ATTACHMENTPT
	{
		*NODE_NAME	Startpoint 4
		*NODE_TM
		{
			*NODE_NAME	Startpoint 4
			*TM_ROW0 -1.000000	0.000000	0.000000
			*TM_ROW1 0.000000	1.000000	0.000000
			*TM_ROW2 -0.000000	0.000000	-1.000000
			*TM_ROW3 -10.000000	0.300000	10.000000
		}
		USER DATA	type = startpoint
id = 4

Anyone know what's going on here?

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Tournament Archives / Plan B - SBV

« on: September 06, 2015, 08:44:09 PM »

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Ironforge TC Showcases / Lightning's Ironforge Bots

« on: August 08, 2015, 12:03:22 AM »

since there is absolutely nothing being built in other versions of ra2 rn i thought i'd download ironforge to see how it is and i'm definitely not in kansas anymore toto

ti 3 and 2 ballasts

how do i forge

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General Support / Bot crashes game for tournament

« on: July 04, 2015, 02:59:34 PM »

G.K. sent me his bots for my tournament Plan B, but his stock bot crashes my game whenever I try to load it in the bot lab. At first I thought it was the smartzones, but then he sent me a version without smartzones and it still crashes, even when trying to load it into multiple different copies of stock 1.4. He says he's had it working on different computers, so does anyone know what the problem could be?
Here's the bot (no SZs): https://gametechmods.com/Robot_Exchange/HW/GK_Bot%20no%20sz.bot

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General Support / "Lightning needs arena help" thread

« on: October 12, 2013, 06:08:14 PM »

I've been trying to use this tutorial to mod the combat zone, but when I tried to edit the arena collision to make it bigger and have a shorter roof, nothing happened. Here's the GMF:

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				*MESH_VERTEX	0	-20	-2.264982	-18
				*MESH_VERTEX	1	20	-2.264982	-18
				*MESH_VERTEX	2	-20	-2.264982	22
				*MESH_VERTEX	3	20	-2.264982	22
				*MESH_VERTEX	4	-20	3	-18
				*MESH_VERTEX	5	20	3	-18
				*MESH_VERTEX	6	-20	3	22
				*MESH_VERTEX	7	20	3	22

Is this because I'm using notepad++ (vs Serge's compiler), or is there something else going on?

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Modifications / Strict Battlebots AI

« on: October 11, 2013, 11:49:16 PM »

Well, here it is. Nearly a year after I started this thing, it's finally done.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sao3AI77Ehs&feature=c4-overview&list=UUPU51ueRXxCjCNoBJWHw0ww
Download here: https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=167

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Tournament Archives / Plan B - Signups Closed

« on: September 23, 2013, 02:31:22 AM »

The point of this tournament is to get both heavily stock and heavily DSL builders to enter.

The idea is this: each competitor will build a stock and DSL bot. Whatever the weight of one robot is subtracted from 1200 is the maximum weight of the other (DSL-stock multibot under 1200 Kgs, DSL robot can be standard or IRL despite the fact that you're much better off going with standard). Once all competitors are entered, the stock bots will fight first. However, the stock fights will only be twenty-five seconds each. If there is no KO, the DSL bots will fight a standard, three minute match. If there is a KO in the stock class, the DSL bots will not fight. This allows you to really stratagize. Do you want to obliterate your opponent in the stock class so there's no chance for them in the DSL class? Do you want to hope that you survive the destruction in stock so you can get revenge in the DSL class? Do you want to make your robots evenly matched? It's entirely up to you.

Rules
-Stock/DSL SHW multibot (see above)
-Minimum weight for each bot is 175 Kgs
-Multibots (per division) are not allowed.
-25 second stock matches first, then three minute DSL matches if there is no KO in the stock portion of the match.
-Usual glitches are allowed in stock, but BFE, AAM, Hax Mode etc. are not allowed.
-I can AI, although it's preferred that you do it yourself (that being said, no cheaty AIs). If I AI your robot, you may not complain about any AI errors unless I have made an obvious mistake.
-Cheatbot2 and custom components are not allowed. In stock only, you may use the blue snapper and 140cm extenders.
-Robots without controlled movement are banned. Both your stock and DSL bots must have two powered wheels driving the robot fast enough that the robot could not be immobilized on its own.
-1v1 (person) single elimination.
-8 people can enter.
-Arena will be a the Compactor Arena for stock and the Electric Arena 2 for DSL (both with hazards off).
-Any game-altering havoks (I will judge what "game-altering" is) will be reset if they only happen once. Any robot causing this twice is automatically eliminated.
-Winner gets an automatic spot in my next tournament and top 2 will be the first to try my AI pack.
-G.K. gets a free spot if he wishes since he won my last tournament.
-I will not be entering.
-It is preferred you have some sort of (appropriate) theme and team name. You don't have to, but if you don't, I'll give you one.

SIGNUPS:
1. G.K.
2. RedAce
3. Thrackerzod
4. Sircreepalot2
5. 090901
6. Mechadino
7. Mr.AS
8. rnifnuf
(Blue=received, Green=Ready, Red=problem)

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Site News and Feedback / Can't delete self-started topics

« on: July 21, 2013, 09:03:14 PM »

I was trying to delete some of the old topics I made in the technical support board, but then this showed up.

Why is that? I mean I'm not entirely sure how anything I made would help anyone.

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