Algodoo

Awesome! I always wondered how to make it so the balls spawn behind something. Now I know!
I was initially going to make staggered timing, but I kinda lazed out

I think I now know how to do the bend thing
The value is in rad so the stagger isn't exact in this
I initialy tried just turning the braked hinges but it eventualy
went back to the original timing, the bend stops that
It will pull a 500nm brake @ 40 rads

Pretty cool! I need to start messing with bend, I have been working on moving textures and making objects grow and trying to apply expanding objects. I have a very limited grasp scripting.

LOL me too Bill
be sure to have both circles at 0 angle in the original build
BEFORE applying a bend target to have any hope of getting desired results
This scene is kinda screwed up but sorta works due to trial and error
Its hard to do much with an existing scene but you can view the angle of an existing circle in the script and go from there
I have confirmed that the bend target is in radians, 1 radian = 180/pi or
approximately 57.3 degrees, leave it to the scientific community to use units
nobody understands
Any way you can totally lockstep stretched hinges with bend which is cool because there is slip in braked hinges even with +inf strength which can mess up your carefully adjusted timing events
OK I'll shut up now but the discussions are my favorite part of Algodoo

No need to shut up. Discussions are my favorite part as well. it's what keeps me uploading scene to be honest. I love learning new things from reading comments. like bend for example. I had no idea about that until now.

by the way, random comment but you should fit the whole engine in the thumbnail image

ok fixed, good call
I just try and learn by looking at the script in other people's scenes, don't look at the "BEND" values in this they are totally messed up

Thanks for the info Gent!

двигатель тяжелый, да тут 16 поршней, но не на столько мощный и компактный как на моем GL500. я раньше тоже создавал движки где было много поршней, только не давно понял что от количества поршней больше масса а не мощность. а так интересно будет его куда ни будь вставить.