pic: Breakaway Field Mockup (now with a simulator!)

[1986titans]

The simulator has been updated!

New features:

Flappers (pinball style)
Unlimited time
New control scheme

[DiehardCybercard]

Blender? open source for the win!

[TimelessFate]

So much win and love for this. Great job!

[gblake]

Chris,

Thanks so much for the kind mention of 5th Gear in your simulator's documentation file!

Looks like we might have to light a fire under ourselves if we want to keep up with Team 1986

Are you able to export your field model as an FBX or Collada file?

Blake (one of the 5th Gear guys)

[lachoneus8]

Incredible!

Nicely done.

[JonellGregor]

Wow, that's awesome. Nice Job!

[MikeWherley]

Thanks for creating this, and doing it so quickly!

[Blackphantom91]

Good Job!

[Blackphantom91]

Great Job! Happy to be your teammate.

[playbass06]

Oh, I forgot to fully update the "Controls and Info" text document.

Shift controls the flippers.

And that was really the only thing I forgot!

EDIT: Okay, the file is now updated.
I could probably do another drive train (say, a mock omni drive or something), but I personally do not know Python, Blender's programming language. (yet...)
I may attempt to convert one of our robots to test such a system.

[Navid Shafa]

This is awesome, I just regret that it's blender, because I'd love to be able to interchange the robot with some of our 3D models from inventor

Has anyone been able to ELEVATE the car above the plane of the platform before the time runs out. If so, what was your method and did the bonus in points factor in?

[playbass06]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

This is awesome, I just regret that it's blender, because I'd love to be able to interchange the robot with some of our 3D models from inventor

Has anyone been able to ELEVATE the car above the plane of the platform before the time runs out. If so, what was your method and did the bonus in points factor in?

Well, I decided to test that with our robot's inventor file. But after importing it into Blender, it had a lot of duplicate vertices, which totaled to over 300,000 faces. In comparison, the current car model in there is 94 faces. It might be simpler to just remodel the robot in Blender for a game-ready model.

Also, I didn't implement the bonus, for the reasons that the game really never ends, and after several tries, I couldn't get the car up there anyway.

An update will probably come later, but now I'm adding a few more camera angles, an overhead one, and a sort-of third person view (an automatic effect achieved by the Camera Actuator).
For visual effects, I may add some super-cool OpenGL GLSL shaders, but I would like to know how many of you actually have a graphics card better than an nVidia GeForce 6x series before doing that... (any lower can't use GLSL)

EDIT: Yeah... it breaks kind of hard... I'll put that down a bit. I had changed it to better deal with the gravity (I had to set it at -19.62, twice Earth's gravity, for realism), but it dealt a little too well. The car's suspension is also doubled, but that worked out well, while the braking did not. I am unsure at this point of how to do a "zoom" camera effect... (but I have an idea now...)
I did put the invisible box around it, just to keep things from flying out (including you), but that may be removed with a penalty system - if a ball goes out, it's returned midfield, and a point is deducted. My dilemma is figuring out how to get the game engine to identify who hit it out. This isn't a problem with just one robot, but if there is more (hopefully there will be) that will become an issue.
I got a book on Python, so I might be able to start using that for more complex logic, like AI! But not really soon, I mean, there is a robot to build...
And to the person who wondered about acquiring the field, I do have the capability to export it in .3ds, .obj, .dae (Collada), and possibly .fbx (not sure on that).

[Rizner]

Originally Posted by playbass06

Also, I didn't implement the bonus, for the reasons that the game really never ends, and after several tries, I couldn't get the car up there anyway.

An update will probably come later, but now I'm adding a few more camera angles, an overhead one, and a sort-of third person view (an automatic effect achieved by the Camera Actuator).

I was able to get the car up there (before the bumpers were added), and also can you add camera angles from all 3 driver stations (at some point)?

And, great job with everything.

[EncodersRUS]

I was able after much trial to get the car to glitch up there, but then it started shaking around and mass confusion insued. Also, are the bumpers supposed to be able to glitch through the floor and walls?

[dtengineering]

I hope our robot gets air like that little car does! Wheee!

A great tool to get a sense for what it might be like on the field. If this is what you can come up with in a few days, I wonder what it might be like after a few weeks.

On-line network play? Model and upload your own custom robots? Sheesh... we'd hardly have to show up for the competition.

Jason