So guys, this is my first scene here and it's a long time I'm working on it, so I hope you enjoy
But what are we talking about ? It is a simple car, with a very powerful motor
And how does it work ? Well it's pretty simple: 4 spheres are mounted up on a bigger one with hinges, and the bigger sphere is fixed to the car with another hinge; the 4 spheres are magnetic and they collide with B (anything in the scene except those spheres collides with B): when they try to reach the other spheres due to magnetism they can't due to the hinges that keeps them on their place, so we obtain a potential energy wich is transmitted to the bigger sphere (I'll call it heavy sphere by now, to simplify a little bit) who rotates at up to 1700 rads/s
The heavy sphere is close to the transmission sphere (they touch themselves) and gives to this one part of its kinetic power, the transmission sphere have a friction value who changes gear by gear, and trasmits its kinetic power to the front wheel; too bad it can't work in reality you know...we have 3 dimensions here and it's a lot different from a bidimensional world, especially when we're talking about magnetism
I also installed a Control Panel to drive simplier, it shows you:
1) The gear you're engaging
2) If magnetism is activated (green light) or not (red light)
3) If breaks are activated (green light) or not (red light)
4) If the emergency brake is working (green light) or not (red light)
5) A yellow signal, showing you that the fourth gear is engaged and that there will be vibrations if speed is too high
6) A red signal, wich is enlightened with a danger signal showing a "!" (without quotes), meaning that you have engaged fifth or sixth gear and that the vehicle will be very instable if you are going too fast.
And how do we drive it ? I'll explain it in a simple and short guide (yes, this monster requires a guide
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1) Engage Neuter pressing N
2) Deactivate breaks pressing Down
3) Now you have to start the motor, to do that press just for a second Right and then repress it keeping it going, when the rotation of the heavy sphere (= the motor) is nearly 160 rads/s press B and at the same time leave right: the attraction is now enabled and the motor should start going at up to 1700 rads/s !!!
NOTE: if you do this step wrong it can happen that the motor goes like to 500 or 1100 rad/s, if you want a 100% driving experience you have to stop it and restart it, so, go to step 5 and then to step 2.
4) You know the music, time to dance ! Disengage the Neuter and engage the first pressing 1 and the transmission sphere should start to rotate ! There are 6 gears, to engage another one you have to disengage the one you are using and engage the one you desire
5) To stop the motor you have to:
5.1) Engage neuter
5.2) Deactivate the magnetism pressing B
5.3) When the heavy ball's rotations is down to 100 rads/s then break motor pressing Down. NOTE: sometimes it happens that the motor keeps on rotating even if magnetism is disabled, if so engage neuter and press S: the emergency brake will stop the heavy ball, when its rotation goes down to 100 rads/s brake it pressing down and then press S to deactivate the emergency brake
So guys, comment and rate ! I'll create another scene where I'll put only the motor so that you can use it in your scenes (uploaded it, it is here: http://www.algodoo.com/algobox/details.php?id=43687), and I'll also make improved versions of the soundbraker
Oh, I forgot to say why I called it soundbraker....well, it can go over 600 m/s who corresponds to 1800 km/h wich are faster than the speed of sound !! At that speed the game becomes bugged and if you zoom in everything tremble and objects....well, they just move on their own, it's like that speed breakes the reality dimension and so objects moves because of this
By the way I think is a fact of computers, but if you have this problem and you go at high speeds, remember that the soundbraker could be unusable after it
And please, if you use something from this scene on one of yours, could you please give credits ? I worked a lot on it
I think this is just phuntastic so, have phun !!
Maximum speed: over 600 meters per second (it requires a bit of time and it's VERY unstable)
PS:I don't know if you noticed it but I'm not english, if you don't understand something just comment and I'll answer
