Daedralords Contraptions

[daedra lord]

i decided to make a thread for all my contraptions instead of a different thread for each one.

my first contraption took me all day:

its an armored remote control car

i give credit to orb and whoever first made the turret design (whether it was tricky or QJet) for the turret, but i modified it to aim down too.

its so heavy though that any more weight and the wheels wouldnt be touching the ground






so, spwn some npcs, let the turret auto aim, when the light is red, shoot them dead with the mounted shotgun

[Shandolum]

I think it was Tricky that came up with that design of the turret. (3x"1x1 PHX plates")
Orb simply made Tricky's tutorials more understandible.
But it was Qjet that originally came up with the idea for the turret with his Hydrac.

Also, why not just download the weight stool and use it to modify the weight a little?

[quadrapod]

please learn to use the ex gate all the wires and gates make me cry blood

[daedra lord]

please learn to use the ex gate all the wires and gates make me cry blood[/b]

sorry

ill try and learn expression gates today, just they scare me (and probly for no reason.)

if were ever stupid enough to attempt to remake it (i had enough headaches the first time) that whole red mess of wires next to the speedometer could be reduced to about 2 or 3 gates.

[daedra lord]

learned expression gates

im working on making a new armored vehicle, tis time it will be manually aimed, but it will have a working engine. i the engine working kind of, i have to redo the expression gate for it so i can get the thrusters timed right. its not like the fourstroke engine posted previously. its based on a different engine that i saw in a wire monstertruck (uses hinges/ ballsockets to control back and forth movement instead of sliders.)

i will post pictures later.

its huge

[daedra lord]

got it to turn smoothly. instead of having the gyroscope on top of the axel and using yaw wich i found out after some testing is very glitchy if your axel isnt perfectly in line with everything, i put the gyroscope sticking out at the end of the axel and used rotation or whatever that first output value is.
heres the expression gate:

N@engine
I@Rotation On
O@Thrust1 Thrust2 Thrust3 Thrust4
Rotation**< 90 & On == 1 -> Thrust2 = 1;
If Rotation >= 90 -> Thrust2 = 0;
If Rotation >= 91 & Rotation & On == 1 <= 180 -> Thrust4 = 1;
If Rotation < 91 | Rotation > 180 -> Thrust4 = 0;
If Rotation >= 181 & Rotation <= 270 & On == 1 -> Thrust1 = 1;
If Rotation < 181 | Rotation > 270 -> Thrust1 = 0;
If Rotation >= 271 & On == 1 -> Thrust3 = 1;
If Rotation <271 -> Thrust3 = 0;

and screenshot:


like i said, its huge

EDIT: sorry, forgot the save

[Shandolum]

I don't get where everybody gets that If from, but it is nice that you have learned to use expressions.
Might I show you a simpler expression.

N@engine
I@Rotation On
O@Thrust1 Thrust2 Thrust3 Thrust4
Thrust1 = (Rotation>180 & Rotation<270 & On)
Thrust2 = (Rotation<90 & On)
Thrust3 = (Rotation>270 & On)
Thrust4 = (Rotation>90 & Rotation<180 & On)

Also I think it is great that you are using F12Bwth's Slapper Engine design.

[daedra lord]

I don't get where everybody gets that If from, but it is nice that you have learned to use expressions.
Might I show you a simpler expression.

N@engine
I@Rotation On
O@Thrust1 Thrust2 Thrust3 Thrust4
Thrust1 = (Rotation>180 & Rotation<270 & On)
Thrust2 = (Rotation<90 & On)
Thrust3 = (Rotation>270 & On)
Thrust4 = (Rotation>90 & Rotation<180 & On)

Also I think it is great that you are using F12Bwth's Slapper Engine design.[/b]

i wouldnt have thought f it if i didnt see the video. and i didnt wanna mess with sliders. if tryed using them a couple times with other stuff, and they always glitch up on me.

thanks for the tip with the syntax, its cool that you can do it like that with expression gates. can you do that in stuff like java or c++ too? that would be cool.

[daedra lord]

ok, when i saved it, it worked great, when i opened it, it went back to suckyville