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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: March 09, 2020, 02:59:46 PM »
I love this showcase, so much creativity: THIS IS WHAT WE NEED MORE OF FROM PEOPLE! More please! :mrgreen:

Thanks man, that's very kind of you!


Go small man

Loving these bots. I see you have embraced the obj life

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: March 09, 2020, 01:43:30 PM »
All in all though it's gorgeous. Not often these days that someone crops up with such a well defined and unique build style  :thumbup

I'm just glad to be free from the shackles of the in-game chassis creator! For example, I'm doing Scary Monsters right now (and I might even do an ant/middleweight version called Super Creeps) and I want to utilise an arrow shaped chassis. If I wanted to use the ingame engine I'd only be able to do a simple triangle - SketchUp allows me to have exactly what I want (as long as it's under 85/89 faces) and I'm that much better off for it.

All I'd be able to do with ingame -

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What I actually want (and have) -

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: March 09, 2020, 01:31:25 PM »

I'd maybe try going for a more powerful burst setup if you can find the weight and do it without compromising the visuals, though what you currently have may be adequate depending how heavy your flipper arm itself is.

As an aside I just noticed upon second look that you seem to have bolts on the flipper arm. If you were to enter a tournament (which I'd love to see) you may have to ditch those as they aren't a standard component in DSL.

Yeah, they're more done for visual looks than anything combat orientated. The previous version had axle extenders slightly clipping through the arm to look like screwheads.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: March 09, 2020, 01:21:56 PM »
Aqua Necklace is gorgeous. What burst does the flipper use?

It's just an upside-down Storm burst-piston. The first iteration of the design lacked the circled area and there was some exterior clipping with the mechanism and the chassis so I tweaked the design and gave it a little raise to cover it.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: March 09, 2020, 01:15:05 PM »
Aqua Necklace / Notorious B.I.G

Aqua Necklace is a simple wedge w/ a flipper on the front. The original cover lacked an aspect to make the chassis pop visually, so I added the two stripes running down the front. It's more of a lifter than a flipper, but it can do its job.

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As Notorious B.I.G is meant to be one of the most resilient, most violent and most uncontrollable Stands in all of JoJo, it only makes sense that such a Stand would be represented as one of the most violent, most resilient types of .bot - a spinner. The base layer of red mass is meant to be done in the style of pulsating flesh, like, well, the "skin" of Notorious B.I.G itself!

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: March 06, 2020, 03:58:52 PM »
C Moon is really nice, though it needs better weapon supports I feel, and the amount of typhoons on it will put it over the weapon limits for most tournaments these days. Visually though it's quality  :thumbup

The first iteration of the design didn't have the steadying prongs and it would constantly freak out every time it hit another .bot.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: March 06, 2020, 03:56:03 PM »
That Anubis looks much better imo

C-Moon and Killer Queen are also really neat

It looked better, but it wasn't fast enough to benefit from that design.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: March 06, 2020, 03:47:00 PM »
C Moon is really nice, though it needs better weapon supports I feel, and the amount of typhoons on it will put it over the weapon limits for most tournaments these days. Visually though it's quality  :thumbup

I did have stacked beaters on the drum but they didn't work as well as the typhoon teeth. They're not that nice but they're more effective.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: March 06, 2020, 03:44:50 PM »
the typhoons on the flail on the first one are  :puke:
the second one looks straight up anorexic
the rest are p good but idk what the extenders on the sides of the fourth one are for

Anubis was very similar to Tornado at one point but I changed the design. I'd also made a few of these images in the style of Stand Splashes but creating a unique one every time is quite stressful.

The bits on the side of D4C aren't extenders, they're large pink beaters to stop the .bot from going onto its side.
 
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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: March 06, 2020, 02:26:17 PM »
Yellow Temperence / Anubis / Little Feet / Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Doobie-Wah! and C-Moon

Yellow Temperence was a design that was supposed to be done as a .obj .bot but its design was an awkward one to properly skin. The tail's somewhat ineffectual and acts as more of a visual gag or something to differentiate it from other .bots.

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Anubis was initially completely different with a design reminiscent of Spectre or SLAM with an axe going over the head. I'm not especially happy with this one but I'm a bit dead creatively with designs at the moment so it's fine for now.

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Little Feet is an example of style working over substance - by the time I'd got everything sorted I realised that I'd used an inferior flipping mechanism. Instead of punting something through the air, the final result is more of an electric lifter.

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Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (D4C) is probably the single most destructive .bot I've ever made other than Neo-Chopper 2 and I'm 100% certain that I made it so by complete accident. It's probably not much for some people but I managed to pass 140,000 points of damage in a 4-way fight.

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Doobie-Wah! is more of a visual .bot than a .bot made for fighting. I quite like it but style has yet again won out over functionality.

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C-Moon was initially meant to be a flipper but I think this design is cooler.

 
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Original chassis for Yellow Temperence.

 
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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: February 24, 2020, 05:01:41 PM »
Some more JoJo related .bots? Don't mind if I do! (I think I enjoy making the skins more than the actual .bot interiors)

Cinderella / Doggy Style / Killer Queen / Tusk Act 1 & Vitamin C

Cinderella is a 4-wheeled .bot with an actuated axe weapon on the front. It's quite a maneuverable .bot and can self-right easily. It's not particularly withstanding when it comes to spinners, but it'll survive a few good hits. When I was designing the basic shape the original version didn't have a rear wedge, but when playtesting the design/setup the back wheels kept getting torn off. The back wedge might be a bit cumbersome but if it protects the wheels I think it's worth it.

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Doggy Style is a refitted Goldfinger from earlier in the thread. While the front section doesn't look especially fantastic, the fenders/prongs allow for protection against spinners and ramming weapons (for as long as they stay attached). While the main power for movement comes from the tracks, a set of normal wheels/motors have been put inside to allow for faster movement.

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Killer Queen was initially designed as an axebot similar to Vitamin C but I didn't like the way it looked. Its lifter arm isn't exactly superb but it certainly gets under other .bots easily enough and can just about self-right properly. The original idea for this chassis was for a .bot called "Cougar" but I didn't really like the design idea (hence the whiskers that I forgot to remove for Killer Queen)

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Tusk: Act 1 has a strange balancing trick for the blades, but I think that fits with the specifications of Tusk: Act 1 itself considering that it revolves around finger and toenails being fired like projectiles. When Tusk: Act 1 drives forward, it tends to spin in circles due to its weight distribution, but the weapon hits from all sides well enough, so I don't believe it to be a problem.

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Vitamin C is a bit bigger than I had initially thought it would be, but I like the style of axe that I've incorporated into the design.

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My next 5 should be Yellow Temperence, Anubis, Little Feet, D4C and Doobie-Wah (if anyone knows what they are - if not, don't worry lmao)

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: February 21, 2020, 08:30:10 AM »
Soft & Wet is a .bot with raised edges and is reminiscent in shape of Blacksmith from Battlebots. Armed with a fist for downward smacking (even though it'd be more fitting to have a shovel in place of the hand), this .bot is sure to plunder success from anything it encounters (unless it's a flipper, or a spinner, or a walker, or a fruit smuggler, or another robot)

 
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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: February 21, 2020, 08:11:38 AM »
Nessuno può sfuggire dal destino scelto. Rimane solo il risultato che voi sarete distrutti. L’eterna cima esiste solo per me. Puoi cantare canzoni di tristezza nel mondo senza tempo.

King Crimson is a .bot which... just works. Works off a 4-wheel drive and a flywheel undercutter disc with interchangable teeth (bludgeoners and cutters) with spikes to keep it on its wheels. I couldn't decide on a colour scheme so there's three of them I can switch between.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: February 20, 2020, 06:24:32 PM »
I really like how leapfrogger looks. I think it’d be kinda cool to have the top of it work as a rear-hinged flipper.

I think the interior spacing could allow such a thing if I was able to double-up with the front flipper, but weight might be an issue.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: February 19, 2020, 06:08:28 PM »
your bots look so wacky and different, also live and let die and varangian look dope

Aesthetics is as much as a key factor as accessibility, functionality, and practicality. A design can be efficient but boring to look at, and some designs can look flashy but not work properly at all - the balance between all four areas is very fine but as long as you can get 2/4 or 3/4 of the lot you're often fine.

Live and Let Die now lives a happier life as Jadehammer.

 
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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: February 19, 2020, 06:54:52 AM »
Long time, no update, huh? Let's go for five in one.

Golden Child / Leapfrogger / Ravenous Rat / Sarcophage & Son of Leviathan

When I was thinking of the chassis design for Golden Child, I had initially designed it to incorporate tank tracks. Due to tracks being really temperamental in RA2, I decided for 4 interior small wheels. The interlocked lifting forks on the front are enough to allow a full self-righting motion, but would have benefitted from another angled wedge to give it a bit more lift.

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Leapfrogger is an example of when tank tracks aren't a complete nuisance in the design process. This .bot initially used a 4-wheel drive setup but I personally think it looks much better with tank tracks! The flipper fits snugly into a makeshift mouth, which is accentuated by the fake eyes on the sides of the tracks. This .bot is supposed to have a pair of buglike antenna at the front, but I forgot to include them before screenshotting.

 
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Ravenous Rat is an amalgam of two previous .bots of mine (Ravenous and Retro Rat) which have come together to make something altogether less stylized and interesting. The paint application at the front was done in order to give it that retro robot style from the early 2000's. It can self-right with the hammer, but it's a bit weak and is very susceptible to spinners.

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Sarcophage is to Gravedigger what Gravedigger was to Cassius; a bit of a shameless rip-off. You can only make X amount of chassis designs, huh? There's not much to say about Sarcophage other than it's a front-hinge flipper with a little shovel on the back-end to sort of lift the enemy off the ground a bit.

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Son of Leviathan was a .bot that I thought six times I'd added to the showcase but hadn't. This is quite an old .bot and as a result doesn't look very neat. I quite like it, though. I tend to use it as a testing guinea pig for testing out new .bot files to see if they can easily flip/smash/rip apart other .bots. The idea was at first a dinosaur head with teeth, but the interior lifting mechanism didn't really allow for teeth.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: January 03, 2020, 05:33:51 AM »
Dang, very low profile

Varangian is the only one that isn't very low. For height comparison, here is an image of SLAM / Armadillon up against BioHazard

 
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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Danangoo's DSL Showcase
« on: January 02, 2020, 07:57:35 PM »
Three more lads for the pile - two newcomers, and one returning .bot with a brand new make-over!

Varangian / Armadillon / SLAM

Varangian's initial design was going to be just a mix of the sky blue/bright red extender colours, but after experimenting with covering textures I decided to stick with the lamellar texture, which gives off the impression that the shell is coated in scales (in the same way that Armadillon does). The initial design for the eyes was meant to make the .bot look angry, but I quite like the "Seriously? That's what I'm fighting?" vibes they currently give off. Its flipper allows for complete a complete offensive/defensive combination with ease. It's also quite fast, and works well as a battering ram. It's not visible from the image posted, but there is a spike at the rear. Both Varangian and SLAM are tracked robots.

Armadillon seems a bit too small, but I'm happy with its design. Its flipper allows for a great deal of reliability when it comes to self-righting.

SLAM is a complete overhaul from the original SLAM .bots. Due to the design of the previous iterations, a single hit would cause them to fly across the complete arena at considerable speed; now it only flies quarter way/halfway across the arena. If that's not progress, I don't know what is!

 
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DSL TC Showcases / Re: MyLifeIsIn8Bit - Showcase
« on: January 01, 2020, 06:01:28 PM »
All of them look great, especially Boombox and The Grey Prince! Great work!

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: RedAce's DSL Showcase
« on: December 30, 2019, 09:00:53 PM »
It's more of a fun joke bot as the free hinges don't do a lot as they flex out quite a bit, so I don't have a clue what to AI it to work effectively with that in mind.  Ah well, I wasn't expecting a highly effective bot with this anyway.

It's a bonus if the bot looks great AND works really well! Sometimes an eye-grabbing aesthetic is the most important aspect. Who'd want to see something that's incredibly controlled if it looks like a dog turd?

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