GroMobile 1.3.0 Win32 - Kinetic Desktop Screenmate Game Free - XP Good>>>

BellicoseBloke

BellicoseBloke

Was installing Groboto 2.9.9 & forgot this was in there too... Pretty cool 3D desktop game in kinetic fashion... There are 4 games in it & all made from Groboto assets... Links are dead everywhere even softpedia don't have it saved internal but still on the wayback machine-

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030175849/http://www.braid.com/apps/GroMobile_Installer.exe

GroMobile has/had it's own site (dead there of course)-

http://www.groboto.com/GroMobile.html

Strange this & the Groboto v3 site still up but links all dead for like 12 years now...

GroMobile-

GroMobile.GIF



Groboto v2 is different from v3... 2 is about bot construction & animation whilst 3 is booleans on crack... Very sharp/clean... They say system requires are the same for v2 & v3 but they are not... V2 installs without extras but v3 wants NET 4.0... Well certainly not on my old machines maybe the Lenovo & the D820...

But for old machines v2 pretty cool... I rendered a bot animation... I resized several times this real small one under 1 MB so it'll mount on here-

BOT-TLEsmm.gif


That's 920 kb

Maybe this external will load in-

BOT-TLEsm.gif


This one's bigger maybe it'll load in-

BOT-TLE.gif


Some v2 scenes rendered out-

Apoco.jpg


Mordon.jpg


Chordu.jpg


Columna.jpg
 
Groboto v2 GUI-

GrobotoV2-GUI.jpg


Here's vid using v3 Groboto for a helmet... Very clean/sharp booleans looks like billion polygon zBrush hard surface modeling-

 
OK... Just drawing out a user bot in v2 Groboto this is what transpired... I guess in this case nothing else need be done however pretty heavy mesh I got 'out of memory' error... Well on this machine it's only 1.25 GB RAM...

But making an alphaed image is fine-

CrackBotGUI.jpg


Rendering out I thought light would be too bright but I see it becomes darker... Rendered out as TiFF with alpha then converted to PNG/GIF... In this way Groboto cool to make steampunk parts for 2D photoshop scene or livemotion animation...

CrackBot.gif
 
Got a Bot to export... Picked like a simple one & then barely drew it out in the viewport, then scaled down the resolution before export... Was STILL 125,000 faces I guess I shoulda scaled down even more... Tried import into Bryce4 but it screwed it up... So I tried Carrara5 which worked quite well...

FriggaBot1.jpg

FriggaBot2.jpg

FriggaBot3.jpg

FriggaBot4.jpg
 
Groboto 2.9.9 you say!?!? :oops:
What of GroBoto 3.3.0??

Methinks this prog was used in the Watchmen Movie. Look at Dr. Manhattan's Mars digs that he creates.
I got a feeling Hollywood bought these guys out with an NDA... :(
 
Yeah it's 2.9.9d which is the seldom seen update to 2.1.8.1... It is of course the last of v2 does not need NET 4 to install... Might need NET 2 as that is what is on this meager machine I'm using it in... I got 3.3.0 too but going to install it probably first on Dell D820 as I think that has already NET4 from Softimage 2013 & Mudbox 2013 (being both 2013 they allow stuff back-forth) having been installed... It has 4 GB RAM & much better video card... No way I'm installing NET4 on a meager XP machine, it's really setup for Mirai which runs great in it...

Groboto 2.9.9 runs slowly in this HP anyways I'm sure 3.3.0 would be a DOG!

v2 is about Bot modeling & animation whilst v3 is about booleans on crack...

I have that Watchmen movie I'll have to check it out... Thanks>>>

BTW... These genius guys did create an 'addition' to Modo which was like adding Groboto to it in many ways, it was called 'MeshFusion'...
 
Whelp, Whelp... OK Checked my Dell D820 & it had NET 3.5 so I figured might as well up it to 4.0... then Groboto 3.3.0 install fine... Seems to run fine plenty fluid enough with 4 GB RAM & nVidia GeForce Go 7400 512 MB RAM... Looks like v2 but with the primitives & boolean action...

Plenty to learn...

GROB1.jpg

GROB2.jpg

GROB3.jpg
 
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