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What do you like doing most in RA2/RA3/robot combat games?

Building robots
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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #480 on: April 11, 2019, 05:56:34 PM »
Been messing around in RR2 trying to learn the ropes of the botlab and everything, and have been having some fun trying to recreate my RA2 bots.

I did Speed Demon, and a rudimentary version of Sabre first, and put them up against each other in an AI vs AI fight (pretty cool that the AI just automatically knew how to drive them with 0 messing around too )



Then this fight got me wondering if there was any way to make some kind of flipper with what's currently in the game (no pneumatics etc), so I got talking to Hoppin, and dabbling around with spin motors, and I managed to get something to work. It's super weak (kinda series 3 Firestorm levels of power) but it's enough to overturn other bots, and it should work for self righting too (though in this clip Earthquake sitting on top of me prevented that). It won't work with AI, but for player driven bots having a way to make even a super weak flipper is pretty neat I thought.



Dayum even on this Sabare seems to outwedge an opponent with ease. Speed Demon looks nice too.
My question is: Has he AId it to do the Bocuma spin?
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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #481 on: April 11, 2019, 06:37:37 PM »
Been messing around in RR2 trying to learn the ropes of the botlab and everything, and have been having some fun trying to recreate my RA2 bots.

I did Speed Demon, and a rudimentary version of Sabre first, and put them up against each other in an AI vs AI fight (pretty cool that the AI just automatically knew how to drive them with 0 messing around too )



Then this fight got me wondering if there was any way to make some kind of flipper with what's currently in the game (no pneumatics etc), so I got talking to Hoppin, and dabbling around with spin motors, and I managed to get something to work. It's super weak (kinda series 3 Firestorm levels of power) but it's enough to overturn other bots, and it should work for self righting too (though in this clip Earthquake sitting on top of me prevented that). It won't work with AI, but for player driven bots having a way to make even a super weak flipper is pretty neat I thought.



Cracking stuff my guy


Hiya, after playing for what had been a great night, I've got some feedback.

Is there a way to wire srimechs, this would be greatly appreciated haha! I've just been dragging around a floppy piece of metal for when I fight lmao, on top of this, the ability to choose our button inputs would be a great feature. A small ui tweak I'd recommend is moving the "eliminated" and "win" text to the top of the screen, it gets in the way of match and seeing the action.

I'd also suggest adding a way to rotate robots forward direction, unless this is already in, then how? :really_makes_you_think:.

An option to adjust the volume of the announcer guy, he's proper loud for my liking.

When zooming in to focus on building, it gets blurry

Been noticing some ai issues, general ai stopping, not srimeching, etc. Specifically for me; Earthquake, TR2, Ballerina & Manta.

Been really enjoying it as my recent posts tell, thanks guys

Lots of Love, Hoppin
« Last Edit: April 11, 2019, 07:11:36 PM by Hoppin »
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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #482 on: April 12, 2019, 10:49:10 AM »
Robo made a great breaktrough
tried few stuff
2 motor flipper is not bad ngl, more of a lifter but still

Tried adding counterweights to the rear, but no luck, flipper would not close.
Grabbers wont work, becasue the motor actually retracts for some reason
Also axes work...

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« Reply #483 on: April 12, 2019, 11:25:44 AM »
Oh yeah... Double post, but uhh...

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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #484 on: April 12, 2019, 01:25:01 PM »
Oh yeah... Double post, but uhh...


WELL DONE!!!!

So awesome!

I had no idea this was even a thing!

I take it that this is Parsec?  Is there something I can do to make it work better?

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« Reply #485 on: April 12, 2019, 01:49:38 PM »
Oh yeah... Double post, but uhh...


WELL DONE!!!!

So awesome!

I had no idea this was even a thing!

I take it that this is Parsec?  Is there something I can do to make it work better?

Yeah it is parsec. Generally, everything is fine, maybe add a timer?

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« Reply #486 on: April 12, 2019, 01:50:31 PM »
Oh yeah... Double post, but uhh...


WELL DONE!!!!

So awesome!

I had no idea this was even a thing!

I take it that this is Parsec?  Is there something I can do to make it work better?

Other than continuing development on the game, nothing much. A lot of the issues are either going to be ironed out, or on parsec ends

Possibly a match timer would be great to help keep track of stuff.
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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #487 on: April 12, 2019, 04:39:15 PM »
Well not even a full day and we got a new type of flipper:

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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #488 on: April 12, 2019, 04:44:05 PM »
Well not even a full day and we got a new type of flipper:


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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #489 on: April 12, 2019, 08:28:27 PM »
Well not even a full day and we got a new type of flipper:


Wowsers!  That is effective!  Nice work.

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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #490 on: April 13, 2019, 03:08:52 AM »
I've downloaded the alpha now and toyed around a little bit. Looks like good fun with quite some building options and freedom. First bot I made might be a bit too light or something? I dunno. Sometimes when just driving forward it decides to turn on its own.

I do wonder... Why when I choose to make a new bot was there some axe bot being spawned in the area, that could even be controlled there?
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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #491 on: April 13, 2019, 03:55:23 AM »
I've downloaded the alpha now and toyed around a little bit. Looks like good fun with quite some building options and freedom. First bot I made might be a bit too light or something? I dunno. Sometimes when just driving forward it decides to turn on its own.

I do wonder... Why when I choose to make a new bot was there some axe bot being spawned in the area, that could even be controlled there?
Yeah there is Royal Bobby (axebot)

Also turn on motor braking for drive, its a godsend

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« Reply #492 on: April 13, 2019, 08:07:33 AM »
I've downloaded the alpha now and toyed around a little bit. Looks like good fun with quite some building options and freedom. First bot I made might be a bit too light or something? I dunno. Sometimes when just driving forward it decides to turn on its own.

As far as the robot feeling too light, I’m planning to go back and look at physics again once everything is working in the botlab.  The goal is to be able to support all of the real-life weight classes, from antweight to super heavyweight.  It is going to take some serious tuning to get it right.

The single player game needs to feel like you are fighting in real-life tournaments: Bugglebots, Motorama, Sparkfun AVC, etc.  There is a lot of physics “feel” work that needs to be done over the summer to meet this goal.

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« Reply #493 on: April 13, 2019, 09:22:41 AM »
I've downloaded the alpha now and toyed around a little bit. Looks like good fun with quite some building options and freedom. First bot I made might be a bit too light or something? I dunno. Sometimes when just driving forward it decides to turn on its own.

I do wonder... Why when I choose to make a new bot was there some axe bot being spawned in the area, that could even be controlled there?
Yeah there is Royal Bobby (axebot)

Also turn on motor braking for drive, its a godsend

Also, what do you guys think of doing electronic stability control to help drive in a straight line for keyboard control?  It isn’t hard to implement, but is it too much?

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« Reply #494 on: April 13, 2019, 09:53:46 AM »
I've downloaded the alpha now and toyed around a little bit. Looks like good fun with quite some building options and freedom. First bot I made might be a bit too light or something? I dunno. Sometimes when just driving forward it decides to turn on its own.

I do wonder... Why when I choose to make a new bot was there some axe bot being spawned in the area, that could even be controlled there?
Yeah there is Royal Bobby (axebot)

Also turn on motor braking for drive, its a godsend

Also, what do you guys think of doing electronic stability control to help drive in a straight line for keyboard control?  It isn’t hard to implement, but is it too much?

We'd probably have to give that a test, it certainly sounds interesting. Personally I'm ok with driving as is atm, even without motor braking.
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« Reply #495 on: April 13, 2019, 10:06:04 AM »
I've downloaded the alpha now and toyed around a little bit. Looks like good fun with quite some building options and freedom. First bot I made might be a bit too light or something? I dunno. Sometimes when just driving forward it decides to turn on its own.

I do wonder... Why when I choose to make a new bot was there some axe bot being spawned in the area, that could even be controlled there?
Yeah there is Royal Bobby (axebot)

Also turn on motor braking for drive, its a godsend

Also, what do you guys think of doing electronic stability control to help drive in a straight line for keyboard control?  It isn’t hard to implement, but is it too much?

We'd probably have to give that a test, it certainly sounds interesting. Personally I'm ok with driving as is atm, even without motor braking.
I agree, playtesting will be the best option, although i am a bit sceptical

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« Reply #496 on: April 13, 2019, 11:08:33 AM »
I've downloaded the alpha now and toyed around a little bit. Looks like good fun with quite some building options and freedom. First bot I made might be a bit too light or something? I dunno. Sometimes when just driving forward it decides to turn on its own.

I do wonder... Why when I choose to make a new bot was there some axe bot being spawned in the area, that could even be controlled there?
Yeah there is Royal Bobby (axebot)

Also turn on motor braking for drive, its a godsend

Also, what do you guys think of doing electronic stability control to help drive in a straight line for keyboard control?  It isn’t hard to implement, but is it too much?

We'd probably have to give that a test, it certainly sounds interesting. Personally I'm ok with driving as is atm, even without motor braking.
I agree, playtesting will be the best option, although i am a bit sceptical

Sounds good.  I’ll hold off on it unless we need it.  Also, be sure to try game controllers if have them.

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« Reply #497 on: April 13, 2019, 01:58:19 PM »
Sounds good.  I’ll hold off on it unless we need it.  Also, be sure to try game controllers if have them.
Trued with a controller. Honestly not my style, but it will be useful for irl bot builders

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« Reply #498 on: April 13, 2019, 02:25:00 PM »
Is it just me, or does the settings menu not actually work? I tried turning down the graphics settings, to try and make the bot lab run faster than 5FPS, and it didn't do anything. I closed the game and re-opened and it was back to the default settings.

The bot lab looks great so far, don't get me wrong, I just wish I had a better computer than my sh**ty six-year-old laptop so I could use it without immense lag.
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« Reply #499 on: April 13, 2019, 02:54:20 PM »
I've downloaded the alpha now and toyed around a little bit. Looks like good fun with quite some building options and freedom. First bot I made might be a bit too light or something? I dunno. Sometimes when just driving forward it decides to turn on its own.

I do wonder... Why when I choose to make a new bot was there some axe bot being spawned in the area, that could even be controlled there?
Yeah there is Royal Bobby (axebot)

Also turn on motor braking for drive, its a godsend

Also, what do you guys think of doing electronic stability control to help drive in a straight line for keyboard control?  It isn’t hard to implement, but is it too much?

We'd probably have to give that a test, it certainly sounds interesting. Personally I'm ok with driving as is atm, even without motor braking.
I agree, playtesting will be the best option, although i am a bit sceptical

Sounds good.  I’ll hold off on it unless we need it.  Also, be sure to try game controllers if have them.

I have no idea what the braking does here to be honest.
As for controller, I could try getting my PS3 controller to work on PC.

Right now with the simple bit I made it's not just that it'll start to turn to a side when driving forward and backward, but sometimes it'll also start to just spin in place.
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