The RA2 League - 1 week left

[G.K.]

Definitely open to changing that too - logo designing just isn't my forte.

[Tibsy]

Definitely open to changing that too - logo designing just isn't my forte.

I'll get to work on one if you want?

[RedAce]

Definitely open to changing that too - logo designing just isn't my forte.

I can definitely try to make one, but if I am gonna make one, I'd like a check list of what you'd want on it.

Oh and I like Lemon's idea with the multiple home arenas. It would give this some flavor.

[Thrackerzod]

Too late, I already made the perfect logo:

[Tibsy]

Too late, I already made the perfect logo:

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[yugitom]

Oh and I like Lemon's idea with the multiple home arenas. It would give this some flavor.

Would this mean a different arena for each team or different skin of the current arena for each team? I'm assuming the latter, unless we get the pick of already made arenas. Nevertheless, I also like this idea.

[G.K.]

The home skin idea is really nice, and it's something I'd like to do. My major concern is that skins are not my strong point, and hence my questions.

1) How would the home skin idea differ between teams? Maybe the skin should have the bots on it? Or something else?

2) would people be prepared to help me with the skinning if it was anything more complex than that?

[090901]

I think the arena should be a bit bigger. (maybe 1.5x?)

[Thrackerzod]

Is arena skinning like robot skinning, or is there more to it?

[Lemonism]

The home skin idea is really nice, and it's something I'd like to do. My major concern is that skins are not my strong point, and hence my questions.

1) How would the home skin idea differ between teams? Maybe the skin should have the bots on it? Or something else?

2) would people be prepared to help me with the skinning if it was anything more complex than that?

I was thinking more along the lines of each team having a logo, like a football team's emblem, and having that as the center point of the arena, with the rest skinned based on the team's chosen colours.
Of course this means colours and logos would have to be organised by the teams that want to take part.
If we could provide a basic template skin people would probably be able to do their own home arena skin, or at least do their teams crest and specify their team colours if they can't do the whole arena themselves.
I might be able to help out doing some of them, but I don't know how busy I'll be in the coming weeks so I won't promise anything until I know how much free time I'm gonna have. I can certainly try and make a template skin though, if you'd be willing to send either the existing skin or the whole arena over.

Is arena skinning like robot skinning, or is there more to it?

Pretty sure it is, only difference being you don't do any of it in game, and there are separate files for hazards etc

[G.K.]

I think the arena should be a bit bigger. (maybe 1.5x?)

I agree, this was one of the 'minor changes' I was referring to earlier. At the moment I've been building the arena and testing it in a DSL game, my plan was to do a bunch of tests with the relevant stock bots once I'd finished the GMF and .py off, and see if any dimensions/positionings needed changing. All I need to do at this point is modify the camera angles and add collision lines.

I expect I'll end up having it somewhere between the current size and the Twiiisted Arena's size.

Is arena skinning like robot skinning, or is there more to it?

It can, such as in this case, literally be modifying one image, which was up until just now this. There are a couple more variables that you can play about with in the GMF but at the most basic level it's just image manipulation.

I was thinking more along the lines of each team having a logo, like a football team's emblem, and having that as the center point of the arena, with the rest skinned based on the team's chosen colours.
Of course this means colours and logos would have to be organised by the teams that want to take part.
If we could provide a basic template skin people would probably be able to do their own home arena skin, or at least do their teams crest and specify their team colours if they can't do the whole arena themselves.
I might be able to help out doing some of them, but I don't know how busy I'll be in the coming weeks so I won't promise anything until I know how much free time I'm gonna have. I can certainly try and make a template skin though, if you'd be willing to send either the existing skin or the whole arena over.

I'm hesitant to recolour the whole arena as I like the metal texture I've found, but the logo idea is very nice. I'd keep the tournament logo on the byebots' version of the arena, and that would be the version of the arena I'd subsequently release. At the same time though, a logo by itself isn't much of a difference. Logo and pictures of the bots maybe? And I guess I could play around with the hue/saturation slider on PDN.

Once I am sure of what size the arena's going to end up being I could send out a template, for sure.

[Thrackerzod]

I'd definitely be up for making a team logo.  And it'd be a lot better than the tournament logo I suggested.

[G.K.]

If the general consensus among the people who've entered is that they'd be happy to make or describe a logo, then I'm more than happy for this to go ahead.

[Lemonism]

You can recolour the arena and still keep the metal texture, using overlays and by changing the hue in paint.net

If I were doing it I think I'd have the team logo in the center, with the RA2 league logo placed like so:

(Font is wrong because, whilst the crest copied nicely, I was lazy with copying the text)
With blue and orange being replaced with metal textures coloured to work with the team's logo (say a logo is mainly red with a little green, have backdrop green with border red)

[G.K.]

No new entries, but I'm finally confirming my own. I haven't rebuilt Vertical Terrors, in the end, so my bots are Armoured Spaceship 1.3 and Vertical Terrors 2.

[Mecha]

I was gonna enter BlizZard but i didn't want to be a "cheaptard" and enter a 36HS so I'll keep looking for something else to enter.

[090901]

I was gonna enter BlizZard but i didn't want to be a "cheaptard" and enter a 36HS so I'll keep looking for something else to enter.

make a flipper duh

[Mecha]

I was gonna enter BlizZard but i didn't want to be a "cheaptard" and enter a 36HS so I'll keep looking for something else to enter.

make a flipper duh

eww flipper

[Silverfish]

are signups closed or full? if they're not, i'd like to enter(although i probably would get annihilated). if they aren't closed, one thing: excuse me for being a complete idiot, but how do i send in my bots? this is my first tournament and i don't know how.

[RedAce]

one thing: excuse me for being a complete idiot, but how do i send in my bots? this is my first tournament and i don't know how.

Here's a tutorial on how:
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=17179.0