Author Topic: Somebody's Showcase (Read 51269 times)

ACAMS · « **Reply #20 on:** June 20, 2008, 11:36:07 PM »

Quote from: venko;9852

And one small advice from me too...
Use JPEG files for your bot pics, not a BMP.
THANKS... :biggrin:

I find myself having to agree with venko.......so you messsed up real bad!

Somebody · « **Reply #21 on:** June 21, 2008, 06:01:39 AM »

Sorry, I'm new here. Cooker and Trovaner helped me learn how to take screenshots in the game, and I'm lucky that these pics are even up here on the website. I'd rather focus more on building better bots with my time then trying to learn how to turn the filesinto JPEGs. What is the problem with BMP's anyways?

Somebody · « **Reply #22 on:** June 21, 2008, 06:21:39 AM »

Here is Nuke 2. I made the chassis a little wider so I could have more room for the wheels to be inside the bot for protection, and to have more room on the front for spikes. there are now 8 Iron Spikes, and 2 50cm Pole Spikes on 2 80cm air pistons (sorry Venko and ACAMS, but for now, I am sticking with BMPs)
Here is Nuke 2:

The insides of it:

Here is it beating up on EMERGENCY

And here it is with Atomic on left and Nuclear on the right:

I was controlling all three with different configurations on the keyboard, and I accidentally got Nuclear counted out.

Naryar · « **Reply #23 on:** June 21, 2008, 06:26:37 AM »

BMP files are way bigger than JPEG files, so they take more time to load and it is a little annoying for us. (And ImageShack takes more time to upload them too) So simply save them as JPEGs rather than BMPs and use JPEGs there.

Ah, by the way, if you want to put HP Zteks on this bot, you could use it also as a rammer (basically charging your opponent to make more damage). I would suggest, in that case, finding a way to protecting the sides (using plows or ramplates like in some of the bots there, you could look at Sage's HW VS in the Sage ad Inf's bot contest, or the MW VS in my showcase. It is very useful because if an opponent reach your side, you can't drive as easily AND worse, you risk losing a wheel)

EDIT: Hey, Nuke is pretty good! At least seriously better than the previous ones. I'll try to make that bot better myself, rather than giving you advices. It should be better.

Somebody · « **Reply #24 on:** June 21, 2008, 07:12:48 AM »

Nuke 2 is one of the fastest bots I have ever driven. The fastest was when i shoved 4 HP-Zteks in a MW. Nuke 2 works great as a rammer too.

Somebody · « **Reply #25 on:** June 21, 2008, 08:28:27 AM »

Here is a pic of that MW with the 4 HP Z-Teks, It is called Fallout. This bot was not a bot built to fight that much, just to see if a MW with 4 HP-Zteks was controllable. It is almost impossible to drive.

R0B0SH4RK · « **Reply #26 on:** June 21, 2008, 11:20:37 AM »

I would have liked to see you put nuke 2's setup in Nuclear's body. That would have saved you some more weight for more spikes and things. It's better though.

Somebody · « **Reply #27 on:** June 21, 2008, 01:30:29 PM »

Robosh4rk, I decided to try and put everything from the inside of Nuke 2, inside of nuclear. Nuke 2 is actually a little bit longer and wider than Nuclear, so everything fit besides the spikes on the front, because the front was only wide enough for six spikes, plus one, static, ramming spike. The snapshot of it is still of Nuclear, because I forgot to change it.
I named it Nuke 1.5:

Scrap Daddy · « **Reply #28 on:** June 21, 2008, 02:51:52 PM »

Attach the spikes using the side attachment of an extender instead of t connecters. Like this:

ACAMS · « **Reply #29 on:** June 21, 2008, 05:48:18 PM »

Quote from: Somebody;9934

I'd rather focus more on building better bots with my time then trying to learn how to turn the filesinto JPEGs. That is the problem with BMP's anyways?

BMP's are very large files and take a long time to load and use up too much space......no forum alows large BMP's and you need to start converting them or I will disable BMP's entirely.

ACAMS · « **Reply #30 on:** June 21, 2008, 07:08:13 PM »

Quote from: Somebody;9935

(sorry Venko and ACAMS, but for now, I am sticking with BMPs)

NO, You WILL start converting like everybody else or lose posting privileges.

I converted your other images so the pages and forum will load quicker.

BMP= 1,441,792 bytes
JPG= 80,297 bytes

Somebody · « **Reply #31 on:** June 23, 2008, 02:45:19 PM »

Okay ACAMS, I will try to convert my pics into JPEGS from now on.

Venko · « **Reply #32 on:** June 24, 2008, 02:58:59 AM »

"Try" ?..... WTF
Did you know that even miserable program like 'paint' can do it ?
Just copy your screenshot in paint and save it as JPG...
I cant think of more easy way to make a JPG...
And keep working and improving your bots as well ...
:biggrin:

Somebody · « **Reply #33 on:** June 29, 2008, 06:43:34 PM »

Ok, thanks for the tellin me how Venko

Somebody · « **Reply #34 on:** June 30, 2008, 11:10:27 AM »

Here is my relatively new bot, Bone Breaker. These pictures are .JPGs.

Good:Very hard to flip because of spinners, Powerful weapon, wheel guards, Spinners hit from all sides, Turns quickly because of wide wheelbase
Bad:Kind of Slow, Centrifugal Force turns bot at start of match, Hard to get wedge under other bots

Sage · « **Reply #35 on:** June 30, 2008, 11:27:33 AM »

wheelguards are useless.

R0B0SH4RK · « **Reply #36 on:** June 30, 2008, 12:31:29 PM »

If you want to get under bots easier, put a small wedge on a burst motor as your wedge.

Venko · « **Reply #37 on:** June 30, 2008, 01:39:33 PM »

1. THANKS for using jpg`s.
2. Dont worry in notime you will become good builder, here is THE place for this.
3. Guys dont give to hungry a fish, teach him to fishing. This mean instead of giving advices for this bot ( ohhh for this will be a tons of advices :D ) we must give you the tricks of building, so you to can build your bots by yourself not by helping from others...
4. Very carefully lurn and experiment with glitches from here :
http://beetlebros.gametechmods.com/ra2techs.htm
In this site you can also lurn some important statistics about all components...
5. Remember that there is no perfect robot design. And to build great bot you need more imagination then skills...

6. Put a wedge as R0B0SH4RK sayed, pur for example a ramplate for protection for wheels, you dont have a chance if you dont use glitches that are explained in the link i put in 4. , never use ballasts, allways fit the weight to maximum, dont leave the bot in 654,8, try to amke it cloase to 799,9, use more powerfull motors for drive, 2 redbirds are not enouth for HW bot, components are not balanced = some are just way better that others and we dont use them, lurn which one are better in the site i give you, watch more bots in others people here showcases to lurn more, allways use minimal chassis posible, dont just made huge chasis and put things in him, someone must explain to you the minimal hights of chasis for diferent components, i can continue like this to tommorow so i will stop to here...
But i must tell that you are going UP in building bro...

TorrFac · « **Reply #38 on:** June 30, 2008, 02:51:49 PM »

actually HW's can be made exactly weight to 800...

Naryar · « **Reply #39 on:** June 30, 2008, 03:08:07 PM »

Venko, it is "Give a man a fish, you'll feed him once. Learn a man to fish, you'll feed him for all this life". But I do love that expression.

You have some good points there.

-As Venko said, build to the maximum weight and don't use ballasts.

-Same, use a ramplate or a snowplow (but the snowplow will be trickier to position correctly without interfering with the bot's driving) rather than these wheel guards.

-Change the drive to HP Z-teks and put rubber wheels on. You'll have nearly no ground clearance, very good for the wedge. You'll have to make the frontal wedge steeper to put Z-Teks.

-Theorically, using some extender work, you could use dual razor tip/iron spike spinner head, using the side attachment points of two 20cm extenders with each head (that makes 6 20cm extenders, 3 razors and. There are some examples of this on the forum. This will add 99kg on your bot, if i counted well.

-You can reduce slightly the width of you bot, because your spinner Z-Teks could be closer to each other and same for the drive Z-teks .

-You could add some batts if you use 5 HP Zteks, its too much for a single black batt.

It will be tricky to add all this, but i still do think it can be done.