Author Topic: Some of my bots- All stock components. (Read 5420 times)

ianh05 · « **Reply #20 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:28:53 AM »

Quote from: moonbear;35679

Naryar, that is my 1st popup, my newest/ 3rd one is edited into my 1st post at the begining of this thread. For some reason I thought that was a good idea.. Wrong. I'll post more pics for this far back in the thread later I suppose.

you reply to your own showcase when you make a new robot, have a look at other showcases.

Somebody · « **Reply #21 on:** April 28, 2009, 06:03:03 AM »

The one in the first post looks very good. Your getting better. Can you post some battleshots.

moonbear · « **Reply #22 on:** April 28, 2009, 03:19:43 PM »

How do I take battleshots? For the sake of simplicity, here are 2 pics of my bot from the start of this thread.
From the outside.

And the guts.

This is my 3rd popup. 4 razors per arm. 4 hpztek drive. 4 DDTs. 3 black batts. burst mounted small wedges. DSA. Highest hit I've got so far (it was on a stock AI) was 3500. Don't know if thats good or not. 6 pixles tall. 799.3 kg. Thank God for axle loading.

Reier · « **Reply #23 on:** April 28, 2009, 03:21:32 PM »

Press F11.

R1885 · « **Reply #24 on:** April 28, 2009, 03:21:41 PM »

Hope one of those blacks is stacked.
You also have your wedges on the bad way to BTW.

ianh05 · « **Reply #25 on:** April 28, 2009, 03:25:47 PM »

as i said before, you can make a smaller splash pic instead of posting more then one large pic. make a new bmp then go cut and paste parts from the screenshots of the robot.

Sage · « **Reply #26 on:** April 28, 2009, 03:25:55 PM »

YAY. it looks good. Those green snapper wedges are eating up a ton of weight (6 pixels high when it could be 5, huge empty space)

ALSO- put the snappers upside down so the axle is near the ground. This will give you more extender weight and make your wedges a bit better IMO.

moonbear · « **Reply #27 on:** April 28, 2009, 04:22:45 PM »

Ok, will do, and yes, one of the batts is stacked inside another.

moonbear · « **Reply #28 on:** April 28, 2009, 06:27:48 PM »

Oh yea. Well I'm about to start remaking Serious cat. But I have a question. If I delete one of my front ram plates, and its baseplate anchor, and layed my snappers down so I could decrease chassis height, and lose 4 kg in extender weight.............. I could have enough weight for a 4th black battery. So tell me... Is losing one of my front ram plates worth a 4th black battery? Or should i keep it as 2 ramplates and 3 black batts?

Scrap Daddy · « **Reply #29 on:** April 28, 2009, 08:01:20 PM »

That's a really fine bot for somebody that hasn't been around that long. BTW, I would keep the ramplates and go with 3 blacks.

moonbear · « **Reply #30 on:** April 28, 2009, 10:12:04 PM »

Quote from: Sage;35729

YAY. it looks good. Those green snapper wedges are eating up a ton of weight (6 pixels high when it could be 5, huge empty space)

ALSO- put the snappers upside down so the axle is near the ground. This will give you more extender weight and make your wedges a bit better IMO.

I thought for a snapper to fit without lying on its side the chassis had to be 6 pixles tall... And I turned them upside down. Youre right, much better wedges now. Thanks.

Sage · « **Reply #31 on:** April 28, 2009, 10:16:41 PM »

Quote from: moonbear;35801

I thought for a snapper to fit without lying on its side the chassis had to be 6 pixles tall... And I turned them upside down. Youre right, much better wedges now. Thanks.

like, if you didnt have them, then the chassis would only have to be 5 pixels high. look how i put them on in some of my bots.

moonbear · « **Reply #32 on:** April 29, 2009, 04:07:55 AM »

Well, building a juggler happened to be next on my list of high ADC bots. I'm too tired to make a splash now, so deal, haha. I must say, I'm very happy with the way this one came out, with the exception of one minor detail... See if you can tell what that detail is in the pic hah.

From the outside.

Here are the guts.

And here are the guts with the disks removed for a better view.

Name is Fiddle. 4 hp zteks for drive, axle loaded to get them super close together. 2 black batts stacked together. 2 burst loaded hp zteks mounted directly on the burst motor, no extender needed, thanks to Tankcat for walking me through how to do that glitch. DSA armor, 8 razor tips per disk, total weight of 736........ And yes. Thats right. I forgot to leave room for a baseplate anchor to mount a snowplow on, for the top of my bot... Still works great though mind you, just have to work a bit harder to keep under them. (I even had enough weight for it...) Very tight chassis, took me quite a few trys to get it just right. What do you guys think?

Somebody · « **Reply #33 on:** April 29, 2009, 07:36:01 AM »

I think that if you moved the control board out into one of the stick out parts (just move the wedge out of the way), you will have space for a baseplate anchor to add a plow.

Naryar · « **Reply #34 on:** April 29, 2009, 08:30:25 AM »

Nice.

You could also get DDTs for making the first ever decent self rightable juggler i've seen...

Urjak · « **Reply #35 on:** April 29, 2009, 09:21:26 AM »

I don't know much about Stock Jugglers, but do gaps between the wedge and ram plate have much of an effect?

moonbear · « **Reply #36 on:** April 29, 2009, 01:22:53 PM »

Quote from: Urjak;35848

I don't know much about Stock Jugglers, but do gaps between the wedge and ram plate have much of an effect?

I made sure the ramplates wouldnt get in the way, as you can see.

RedSawn · « **Reply #37 on:** April 29, 2009, 01:48:38 PM »

Was you around all of these years or something? It's amazing you're building at this level if you only started playing last month.

moonbear · « **Reply #38 on:** April 29, 2009, 02:03:49 PM »

I got this game about 2 years ago, had no idea what to do, used Walrus with steel armor to fight stock AI, never played online... and forgot about the game for like a year and 11 monthes till about a month 1/2 ago. So yeah, I've been really trying for a month or so now. Beetlebros site REALLLLYYYY helped me get going. I gotta keep going till I get that wiki page for some reason haha.

System32 · « **Reply #39 on:** April 29, 2009, 02:55:46 PM »

Compete in some tournaments?