www.algodoo.com

in this contest, you must make an artillery unit.


requirements

-must auto-reload, with 5+ shots
-no thyme
-must be able to rotate the barrel


scoring

you will be scored depending on...


-power of the shot (measured in algodoo with the graph. it will be measured in joules)
-ability to hit the same spot more than once within a 1 meter radius
-speed of reload
-ability to move with good maneuverability



your artillery will be tested on a course for the maneuverability.

post the scene with the name 'artillery contest entry'

the contest ends January 6

good luck!

ps- ill PM you if you win the contest.

You should show the course so we know the scale.

ok, i need to upload it

i just uploaded it to the scenes. check it out there.

Put it in the first post.

Btw, make a box so we all know how big the artillery should be. We can't just guesstimate the size.

got it. im a noob, so thanks.


and how do you save the scene to these?

I am going to enter, but I am not done yet. Hopefully, I will be soon.
I will post my creation here as soon as I am done.

I think this is not such a bad contest. Not excellent, but somewhere in the middle.

If you are wondering how to implant a scene in a post, copy the scene tag on the left side of description page for the scene and paste it here. I will look something like this:

Code: Select all

[scene]47621[/scene]

Hope that helps.

Damn no thyme. :/ I could make a artillery turret that could hit an ant from a distance of 10km...

You rely on Thyme too much.

I rely on zero Thyme. Aside from the occasional onCollide e.other.collideSet = [some constant], I am completely Phundamentalist. I only tolerate collideSet because it is the only way to simulate something moving in the third dimension. In other words, I only use scripts to help simulate some spatial mechanism.

And I could also build something that could hit an ant ten kilometers off- assuming the ant wasn't in a hole. It would simply roll a really big circle down a really, really big ramp. But the default positions for the killer planes only give you two kilometers.
But that's not what I will be submitting. The only way to get a ball of such colossal size to fit within that box in the scene would be to hinge together a gazillion parts, which would lag horribly and be squishy. Besides, it would totally fail against the requirements.
But I won't even build that. My thing probably won't even shoot 100 meters, but it will fit in the box and get its power from springs, as opposed to gravity.

RicH wrote:You rely on Thyme too much.

I could do something similar without thyme but I could make a ballistic computer to calculate how to aim the artillery to hit a position.

Very interesting contest, I think I'll enter.

Rideg wrote:

RicH wrote:You rely on Thyme too much.

I could do something similar without thyme but I could make a ballistic computer to calculate how to aim the artillery to hit a position.

*ahem*



Sorry, you don't need Thyme for that.
(I just had to.)

But anyway,

here is my entry.
It's not great, but it works.

uh, not to burst your bubble or anything someone else, but your artillery flies backward and kills the plane. it also sort of gets messed up, i dont know what the problem is. pm me or post here again if you think its working fine. ill check it out again.

What version of Algodoo are you using? It works fine for me.

Also, await my artillery.

Lol you think I haven't seen conundrumer's scene? That's one of those you can't miss, plus, I never said it was impossible to do it without thyme I just said that I could do that.

i might have an older version. can you judge that scene then? use the graph for the total energy and accuracy. you know how to do the rest, i think. thanks.

Uh no. I would be bias. Just download the newest version.

got it. im downloading now.

Btw, shouldn't we have like, a target for the artillery. Just to get a visual of how powerful it is without the use of the graph?

hm scoring by joule is kind of lame
if i would make an exploding bullet than it wouldnt count
only the mass and speed of the bullet would count

hi richy ^^

Computing range mechanically does not need to be so complicated, here with air friction:

And btw if You want to judge power by kinetic energy, make some mass limit for cannon or for bullet.

ill still measure in joules, but i will make a target, rich

hope it's not too late.

I'm working on a huge Naval artillery. It's not going to e finished soon but I'm working hard on it.

Here's the energy of the projectile 3.8m from the barell: 53116297.562 Joules. A real projectile have around that times 14