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

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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #1480 on: January 14, 2020, 12:31:58 PM »
Just a quick update from me on the first pass of the new Arena handling system.
The very basic framework for all the systems are in place now so soon enough you should
be seeing all new arenas using the new system!

As I said before I am expecting the first internal release to be ready for February and have
started on the documentation to help even Unity Novices get the most out of the tool, so
hopefully the first public release won't be too far away (no promises though).

Alongside all this I've updated the UI for the arena selection in order to add in the ability to
scroll through the list in preparation for the no doubt countless stages you guys will come up with!


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« Reply #1481 on: January 14, 2020, 01:17:54 PM »
Just a quick update from me on the first pass of the new Arena handling system.
The very basic framework for all the systems are in place now so soon enough you should
be seeing all new arenas using the new system!

As I said before I am expecting the first internal release to be ready for February and have
started on the documentation to help even Unity Novices get the most out of the tool, so
hopefully the first public release won't be too far away (no promises though).

Alongside all this I've updated the UI for the arena selection in order to add in the ability to
scroll through the list in preparation for the no doubt countless stages you guys will come up with!

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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #1482 on: January 14, 2020, 08:48:36 PM »
I can’t wait to see the level editor!  So cool!

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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #1483 on: January 15, 2020, 03:01:02 AM »
With Kupa's addition of the extended Arena Selector screen, there may be some new Arena's popping up soon....

Watch this space ;)
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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #1484 on: January 15, 2020, 06:28:27 AM »
Where can I download the arena builder and CMT?
EDIT: When are you going to fix telemetry?
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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #1485 on: January 15, 2020, 10:07:58 AM »
With Kupa's addition of the extended Arena Selector screen, there may be some new Arena's popping up soon....

Watch this space ;)
Trust me, you guys are in for a treat! As a little extra to this: Custom Arenas now support preview images so now they can stand out with even more customisation!

Where can I download the arena builder and CMT?
The CMT is going to be tackled after the ArenaModTool. Neither are available yet, but once the documentation is in a place where it is user friendly, and the framework for the AMT is done I think the plan is to create a GitHub project for it as that will allow for easy maintenance and updating as well as allowing you guys to potentially collaborate with the creation of new features and such.

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« Reply #1486 on: January 15, 2020, 02:30:43 PM »
Ok so we stumbled upon this. Something is wrong with collisions, also the fact that physics is unoptimised, casuing the whole match to run at low fps at 500tick (my cpu usage was at maybe 30%)

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« Reply #1487 on: January 15, 2020, 02:35:39 PM »
I've just done some testing with a crusher, and I can confirm that gearing anything down further than a total of about 100/1 results in the entire robot being incapable of rotating faster in battle (not in the test area) than the speed of the geared object itself.
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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #1488 on: January 15, 2020, 03:20:57 PM »
Just a quick update from me on the first pass of the new Arena handling system.
The very basic framework for all the systems are in place now so soon enough you should
be seeing all new arenas using the new system!

As I said before I am expecting the first internal release to be ready for February and have
started on the documentation to help even Unity Novices get the most out of the tool, so
hopefully the first public release won't be too far away (no promises though).

Alongside all this I've updated the UI for the arena selection in order to add in the ability to
scroll through the list in preparation for the no doubt countless stages you guys will come up with!

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« Reply #1489 on: January 15, 2020, 06:22:49 PM »
Ok so we stumbled upon this. Something is wrong with collisions, also the fact that physics is unoptimised, casuing the whole match to run at low fps at 500tick (my cpu usage was at maybe 30%)


Ah, yes. My overhead bar decided to fly around and destroy everything while we were fighting it. It looked like it stopped being able to collide but could still do damage.
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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #1490 on: January 16, 2020, 05:46:34 AM »
I've just done some testing with a crusher, and I can confirm that gearing anything down further than a total of about 100/1 results in the entire robot being incapable of rotating faster in battle (not in the test area) than the speed of the geared object itself.

Would you mind sending an .RR2Bot file, or is it possible to replicate this with Panic Attack?

Edit: Panic Attack is really difficult to edit because the robot is so dense.  Could you send an .RR2Bot file that shows the problem?

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« Reply #1491 on: January 16, 2020, 06:09:57 AM »
Ok so we stumbled upon this. Something is wrong with collisions, also the fact that physics is unoptimised, casuing the whole match to run at low fps at 500tick (my cpu usage was at maybe 30%)

I love it!  This is so great!

I'm probably suffering from "Developer Eyes Syndrome" and can't see everything that you guys see, but I see 2 things here that need fixing:

1. The spinners should have come to a stop.  Either or that or they should have broken off.  For whatever reason that didn't happen and the now-invisible blur cylinders were still spinning and working their magic.

2. The lag is due to the fact that there is a literal pile of colliders on top of each other, all interacting.  The only way to minimize this is to reduce the number of interacting colliders.

Have you guys found a reliable way to reproduce #1?  It looks like P2 and P3's spinners didn't come to a stop, even though they were out of the arena.  Is this correct?  Were the weapons still turned on for P2 and P3?

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Re: Robot Rumble 2.0 - Robot Combat Simulator - Under Development
« Reply #1492 on: January 16, 2020, 08:56:39 AM »
I've just done some testing with a crusher, and I can confirm that gearing anything down further than a total of about 100/1 results in the entire robot being incapable of rotating faster in battle (not in the test area) than the speed of the geared object itself.

Would you mind sending an .RR2Bot file, or is it possible to replicate this with Panic Attack?

Edit: Panic Attack is really difficult to edit because the robot is so dense.  Could you send an .RR2Bot file that shows the problem?

If your Mac is capable of reproducing the problem at all, then all you need to do is stack two gearboxes, set both to 10/0.1, and put a long steel block or something extending off the side of the axle.
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« Reply #1493 on: January 16, 2020, 09:28:42 AM »
Ok so we stumbled upon this. Something is wrong with collisions, also the fact that physics is unoptimised, casuing the whole match to run at low fps at 500tick (my cpu usage was at maybe 30%)

I love it!  This is so great!

I'm probably suffering from "Developer Eyes Syndrome" and can't see everything that you guys see, but I see 2 things here that need fixing:

1. The spinners should have come to a stop.  Either or that or they should have broken off.  For whatever reason that didn't happen and the now-invisible blur cylinders were still spinning and working their magic.

2. The lag is due to the fact that there is a literal pile of colliders on top of each other, all interacting.  The only way to minimize this is to reduce the number of interacting colliders.

Have you guys found a reliable way to reproduce #1?  It looks like P2 and P3's spinners didn't come to a stop, even though they were out of the arena.  Is this correct?  Were the weapons still turned on for P2 and P3?

I think I have found and fixed the "Pit Blender" problem.  It turns out that when a robot is disabled, it would lose player input and maintain the existing state of the control signals.  Super scary when this happens in a real-life competition -- you have to wait until the batteries die on the robot.

In any case, this will be fixed in the next release.

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« Reply #1494 on: January 16, 2020, 10:20:42 AM »
Ok so we stumbled upon this. Something is wrong with collisions, also the fact that physics is unoptimised, casuing the whole match to run at low fps at 500tick (my cpu usage was at maybe 30%)

I love it!  This is so great!

I'm probably suffering from "Developer Eyes Syndrome" and can't see everything that you guys see, but I see 2 things here that need fixing:

1. The spinners should have come to a stop.  Either or that or they should have broken off.  For whatever reason that didn't happen and the now-invisible blur cylinders were still spinning and working their magic.

2. The lag is due to the fact that there is a literal pile of colliders on top of each other, all interacting.  The only way to minimize this is to reduce the number of interacting colliders.

Have you guys found a reliable way to reproduce #1?  It looks like P2 and P3's spinners didn't come to a stop, even though they were out of the arena.  Is this correct?  Were the weapons still turned on for P2 and P3?

I think I have found and fixed the "Pit Blender" problem.  It turns out that when a robot is disabled, it would lose player input and maintain the existing state of the control signals.  Super scary when this happens in a real-life competition -- you have to wait until the batteries die on the robot.

In any case, this will be fixed in the next release.

The buggy spinners started midway through the fight, when nobody was even in the pit. I could still drive the robot fine. We got this to happen a second time, but nothing after that. We don’t have a consistent method of triggering the glitch. P2 was the main source of the problem. At some point the bar started teleporting off of the axle and was able to clip through the floor and other robots. The same thing happened to P1 later, but not quite to the same extent.
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« Reply #1495 on: January 16, 2020, 10:42:12 AM »

The buggy spinners started midway through the fight, when nobody was even in the pit. I could still drive the robot fine. We got this to happen a second time, but nothing after that. We don’t have a consistent method of triggering the glitch. P2 was the main source of the problem. At some point the bar started teleporting off of the axle and was able to clip through the floor and other robots. The same thing happened to P1 later, but not quite to the same extent.

Would you mind sending the .RR2Bot files for P2 and P3?  I want to see if there is something weird going on...

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« Reply #1496 on: January 16, 2020, 12:00:58 PM »

The buggy spinners started midway through the fight, when nobody was even in the pit. I could still drive the robot fine. We got this to happen a second time, but nothing after that. We don’t have a consistent method of triggering the glitch. P2 was the main source of the problem. At some point the bar started teleporting off of the axle and was able to clip through the floor and other robots. The same thing happened to P1 later, but not quite to the same extent.

Would you mind sending the .RR2Bot files for P2 and P3?  I want to see if there is something weird going on...

P2 and 1 as in player.

The actual bots were Infrared and Circumvolution.
I can send the latter,
 

And while I'm at it, here's the version of it where I was testing a crusher. You'll need to set a second one of the gearboxes to 10/0.1 to get the result where it barely steers in battle. Just like with Panic Attack, the issue doesn't effect it at all in the workshop test area.
 
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« Reply #1497 on: January 16, 2020, 12:46:21 PM »
Cyar,

Thank you!  I'll take a look today.

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« Reply #1498 on: January 16, 2020, 06:32:33 PM »

The buggy spinners started midway through the fight, when nobody was even in the pit. I could still drive the robot fine. We got this to happen a second time, but nothing after that. We don’t have a consistent method of triggering the glitch. P2 was the main source of the problem. At some point the bar started teleporting off of the axle and was able to clip through the floor and other robots. The same thing happened to P1 later, but not quite to the same extent.

Would you mind sending the .RR2Bot files for P2 and P3?  I want to see if there is something weird going on...

Here's the bot file for Infrared. I'm not sure what physics stats we were using though, as this was on Kix's computer.
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« Reply #1499 on: January 16, 2020, 09:38:32 PM »
Woah, this is awesome! Can't believe someone actually went ahead and made the whole thing.  Awesome stuff!
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