Uncle Knuckles' Stock Showcase

[Uncle Knuckles]

Hmmm... that's really weird.  When I go to the upload an avatar button in the forum profile thing and select the the file, it says the file name with a .gif on the end.  Does the .gif have to be a square, or under a certain size limit?

[NFX]

What's the full name of the file? 'Cause I had a file named "example...lol", and it got saved as a .LOL file.

[Badnik96]

lawl.

[Somebody]

Wow 0_0 Nice bots! Welcome to Gametechmods by the way.

[Uncle Knuckles]

It's called LaserVisionShake.gif
I dunno if that affects anything.  Maybe I should try getting rid of the capital letters.

[NFX]

It's called LaserVisionShake.gif
I dunno if that affects anything.  Maybe I should try getting rid of the capital letters.

I don't think that's the problem, then. I know that you can save a .gif file as either grayscale or 16-bit, and you can save it as an animation, or you can save it as interlaced...
 
I think what you have to do, is Save As, call it whatever, then select Save as Animation, and on the next bit, make sure Loop forever is ticked, Interlaced is NOT ticked, and make the delay between frames around 100 milliseconds. My avatar uses 150 millisecond delays.
 
Whereabouts are you importing it from?

[Virus Bomb]

You rival VB for best 1st bots ever! Awesome!

I say he's got me beat

Really nice first bots.

[Trovaner]

Are you sure that it doesn't accidentally have 2 extensions for your avatar? Something like "LaserVisionShake.gif.jpeg" is a common mistake especially when people aren't aware that Microsoft hides known extensions (if this default setting is your problem, it would read "LaserVisionShake.gif" in windows explorer (unless you've changed this setting)).

Gingebot: Having the battery and motors like that reminds me of TyranT, the first version of my BBEANS 5 entry. I ended up changing this so that the bot could self-right and drive on its rear end. With your current setup, I would try fitting it between the inner motors. I think your battle axes would protect the partially bulging sides.

Megaultraawesomebot: Wedges only have 100HP so recommend switching to a weapon (all but razor tips have 1000HP). If you need more weight (for something like 12kg axe heads), change the chassis shape so that inner points aren't there. You have a 12 point chassis right now and I'm recommending to make it 10 points to save weight.

Popsicle: The razors don't look like they have much reach where their at now. If you moved the middle chassis point a little forward, the weapon DDTs could be moved forward and the back could be made flat (prevents getting stuck on rear end).

Almost: I don't have any comments ATM.

Lurker or not, your doing pretty good. The bots are well-built and your not terrible at splashes (at least you bothered to post the weight unlike some people).

[Somebody]

Better at splashes than me and I've been here 2 years XD

Problem is I never tried though

[Naryar]

It's good to see skilled newcomers.

And i like Popsicle, hooray for true popup hybrid

[Gazea2]

Great first bots. It's good to see skilled newcomers. :D

Keep it up and show us some great bots.

[Uncle Knuckles]

I've been working on this new bot here, but it didn't turn out as well as I had planned.  The wedges aren't nearly good enough because they only get under Neglected Waterbug about 4 out of 10 times.  And a popup without a good wedge might as well be SFTW.  The weapon setup and half the drive are attached to a Snapper 2 in between the batteries.



The idea was to make an overpowered popup that can dish out the 1 hit KOs.  In reality it likes to get 2 hit KOs, if it can get under the other bot.  And yeah, it drives straight (I was surprised).  The only thing I actually like about this bot is the way the ramplates are stacked in the front, cause it looks really cool.

It has:
3 Supervolts (1 on left, 2 on right to balance the weird drive setup)
9 Razor Tips (3 on each weapon DDT, I wanted more but the 7 part in a row limit killed that idea)

Oh yeah, thank you Trovaner for the tips,  I changed Megaultraawesomebot's wedge armor to maces, and I think I'm going to keep the other bots the same, but I'll keep those ideas in mind for future bots.

[G.K.]

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[Naryar]

3 DDTs for weapon ? Well it's uncommon to see 3 (WEAPON ONES, no need to post a Pysc popup to prove me wrong). Usually it's 1, 2 or 4 but 3...

It looks good anyway.

[NFX]

Have you attached the ramplates on to the wedge extender? 'Cause that's a bad idea, for some reason.

[Uncle Knuckles]

@NFX:
Nope, they're all attached to separate baseplate anchors.  I learned not to attach anything to the wedges when I made a Heavyweight popup with all the armor attached to the wedge extenders (it was actually a REALLY old version of Megaultraawesomebot).  It had trouble getting under some Middleweight bots.  I thought that adding more weight to the wedges would make them better, but we know this isn't true.  Does anyone have a genuine reason as to why this is?

[NFX]

Nope. I thought it would make it better, but it somehow doesn't. And how did you manage to stack the ramplates like you did? That's some good work there. =)

And I don't really go for overcomplicated snapper setups, mostly because I end up getting raped by the rule of 7. I don't think that the weapons have a particularly good reach like that either, maybe you should try attaching all the drive onto one snapper, and put the weapons DDTs on the baseplate, and tweak the chassis around that.

[Sage]

Pretty sweet. You stacked those ramplates in the front with baseplates? Nice job.

[J]

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The whole thing is off a Snapper II?
Wow, just wow.
Its also a VERY nice use of the space.

[Uncle Knuckles]

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The whole thing is off a Snapper II?
Wow, just wow.
Its also a VERY nice use of the space.

Not a Snapper II, it's a Snapper 2.  I don't believe in the AI components, mainly Snapper IIs.