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Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools
(08-19-2016, 08:15 AM)Noah Buttes Wrote: Idea: what if I made it so that the sprite for a cyborg part varied depending upon its max health?

That way, you could get the reinforcement aesthetic effects without any actual reinforcement.

TL;DR: maybe, but I'm not sure it makes sense.

I think this depends on what sort of scale you have for this.

Let's say I make my cyborg parts out of paper as the external material (please let this be a thing) - clearly this should look flimsy. On the other end of the scale, we have some painstakingly-made alloy that resembles some hybrid of adamantium/unobtanium. One of the main points of using alloys is to change a material's properties without (significantly) increasing its mass, so visibly this super-alloy shouldn't look too different from standard steel... unless you want it to.

Let's take weird alloys out of the equation for a bit (I'm not sure they'd even work for reinforcing?):

As an example: titanium is denser than steel, but you can get away with using less of it than steel while actually being stronger (for a vague definition of "stronger", don't you get all technical on me). To that end, you could have a standard (as per current reinforcing methods) arm of steel actually about as durable as a light arm of titanium. Alternatively, you could reinforce the heck out of the titanium one then you've got something that weighs an absolute tonne but is far more durable than a comparably reinforced steel one.
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Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by Sundance - 06-05-2016, 12:53 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 06-05-2016, 01:27 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by Dabir - 06-05-2016, 01:36 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 06-07-2016, 09:25 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 06-07-2016, 10:41 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 06-07-2016, 11:33 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 06-07-2016, 07:28 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 06-07-2016, 07:24 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 06-08-2016, 06:01 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by Erik - 06-09-2016, 05:10 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by Roomba - 06-09-2016, 05:36 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 06-09-2016, 02:14 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 06-10-2016, 08:38 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 06-11-2016, 11:48 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 06-20-2016, 06:26 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 06-20-2016, 11:01 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by Roomba - 06-21-2016, 01:00 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by Roomba - 06-21-2016, 06:08 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 06-21-2016, 10:14 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by Grek - 06-21-2016, 12:01 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 06-22-2016, 07:45 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 07-01-2016, 12:58 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 07-03-2016, 05:29 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 07-03-2016, 04:27 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 07-06-2016, 02:57 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 07-16-2016, 01:13 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 07-16-2016, 01:14 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 07-16-2016, 02:16 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by Erik - 07-17-2016, 01:16 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 07-18-2016, 03:18 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 07-19-2016, 12:36 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 07-19-2016, 02:00 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 07-20-2016, 02:15 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 07-27-2016, 06:15 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 07-31-2016, 07:24 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 08-09-2016, 02:22 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 08-09-2016, 05:36 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 08-09-2016, 05:20 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 08-11-2016, 12:46 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 08-16-2016, 10:41 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by Mordent - 08-19-2016, 08:31 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 08-29-2016, 08:49 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 08-29-2016, 08:52 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 09-06-2016, 02:49 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 09-14-2016, 05:55 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 09-14-2016, 11:28 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 09-15-2016, 09:40 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 09-18-2016, 07:37 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 09-23-2016, 09:20 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 09-24-2016, 06:28 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 09-24-2016, 06:47 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 10-04-2016, 03:18 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 10-07-2016, 03:43 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 10-13-2016, 11:21 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 11-02-2016, 01:07 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 01-02-2017, 10:33 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 01-03-2017, 12:27 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 01-24-2017, 08:29 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by BBEG - 01-29-2017, 03:32 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 02-05-2017, 10:30 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by Roomba - 02-07-2017, 01:40 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by ZeWaka - 02-25-2017, 12:27 AM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by misto - 05-16-2017, 11:11 PM
RE: Rebalance Robotic Modules + tools - by Erik - 07-28-2017, 04:27 AM

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