Update: i tried my half baked lazy metnod pathetic excuse of a quantum drive, by of course simply spinning the engine arround the craft. It works exeptionally well, giving me exeptional mobility on a suprisingly small and realitivly slow craft. (Almost 200mph exactly) while very unorthadox to fly, the potential is near limitless if you fully master the sacred tow matter arts of driving backwards. How do i put this... it doesnt fly like a plane, or a spaceship. It flies more like the turret you would mount on said plane or spaceship, if that makes sence. Though i will say, my last minute touch of adding a piston locking mechanism to hold the engine in place was a great addition, allowing it to function simular to a plane for greater controllability. Turns out, using even 2 blocks of leverage with your gyros instead of just using the gyros themselfs grants a much much higher menuverability.

I love how his channel name is literally just John😂😂

this is awsome,I must say. I thinked about player-tracking missiles an got some design. I'm not good with these so i'm giving it to you : after launch missile must rapidly accelerate(strongest jet engine for no DLC), then it starts spinning. Missile must have range detectors that activates gyros for turn. Range detectors can be placed on one or two axis : spin make flying up and right ussles, because spinning rocket will roll. (Bad at english I am)

If you want to make the nose of the f35 stubbier, put the spaceship cockpit a block back and put decal over part of the windshield. decals are magic maybe if you piston glitched the nose cone back 1 block then you might also be able to make that part stubbier as you had wanted. However, piston glitches and stuff like that almost always make things less stable so do it at your own risk.

This would be a really great way to fix the awkward movement of most First Person Shooter simulators

I viewed them as simply a form of propulsion and used gyros for pitch/roll/yaw. I used pistons to extend them away from my center of mass when needed. It controls like a normal plane but it can start and stop nearly instantly

I cal, them quantum engines personally, now that vectoring system, thats a drive. On that topic, i see it. Eing easier to simply rotate the entire engine itself, though it only works with smaller sizes. But thats all you really need, speed is optional when you can swap directions instantly

there is also a wierd thing with the quantum drive is that the farther away the quantum drives are from each other the stronger they are, also nice vid.

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I think Trailmakers just hates you building anything with the word "radar" in it

Would be interesting to actually get the see the drone more up close. Just found your channel and I like your stuff!

really cool video and concept. What you actually build is a "gyroscopic gunsight" instead of a radar. These where used in the late months of ww2 both by german and allied planes (k4 gyroscopic gunsight as example). This sights accaounjted for bullet velocity and drop, giving an estimated lead sighting point for the pilot, who just had to introduce wingspan and distance to target for the computer to calculate the lead

Thanks. This helps alot. The first two prototypes are relatively what i wanted to see👍

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jhon I also tried to make this. I took a rather different aproach so it would be interesting if we could team up?

Vary interesting concept. You have had a lot of short to medium range weapons but what about long range. But would it be possible to use translation by manually aiming 2 servos to a point (using a sight) and using that to not only aiming but to get distance. Can you use that to account for very long distance shots for far away targets? It would most lily be on the ground. Also do you think you would have more success with a bomb impact radar gunsight for a plain?

Make a Fire control system that accounts for lead and has automatic tracking for tank and it's whole turret Push a button to lock onto a target and the whole turret will rotate towards the point accounting for range, lead, and speed

Seeing as this video was sponsored by a comment, i will be seizing my opertunity to once again ask for a power coupling engine. Preferably, one usefull on plains. To save you a bit of a headache, the most i managed to acomplish rather consistantly reguardless of desighn, is a great rotational force. My mind instantly went to an axle of some sorts. howerver, i am very lazy.

can you show my how to build the stealth drive on the second iteration? i did make one before but its extremely unstable and inconsisten so would like some help. thanks

Can i please have the blueprints i just wanna see how it works and build my own

For your next project, could you do an advanced reticle system like in real fighter jets where it shows you with a moving reticle where your bullets will hit, ive been trying to do this for a while but im just unable and i think you might be able to because you have a lot of knowledge on the game.

I really like your videos and it would be cool to have a discord server. also it would be nice if you could record your audio with another microphone like a pair of earbuds or your phone

a lot of this logic seems fixable with like 5 less logic gates, to make the legs go more forwards than backwards u can just up the speed on the servo,up the angle and then turn the output on the backwards gate down, for the strafing its 4 logic gates, walking its 6 and arms should be 6, idk but the logic looks way over complicated. youre still really cool n ill follow cause ur mechs seem really cool

Yo does anyone know hoe to sort out stuff like that one console like have different blueprint folders

its really amazing just how a worse audio quality drops the amount of views by an order of magnitude.

That's how I do my RCS logic. This concept is widely applicable great vid. Also that gyro tip was awesome 👍

lower the strength of your hinges on those things. suspension without suspension if you know what i'm saying. i'm cooler than you. tell whoever is fucking vacuuming that you're recording and it is fucking with your noise suppression, the assholes. ARMOR YOUR HINGES FFS good video john from the hit book The Bible™ i couldn't find much to make fun of you for this time. 😭

i recently got into building mechs and this is really cool

oh btw it wold be cool to see a discord surver or something to be able to share stuff that uses a lot of logic or advanced mechanics in game

The way i increase survivability with logic systems is really quite simple, i du0licate it and just crosswire them with eachother. It deff8netly works better for smaller circits, however its proven to be effective with larger ones. You just need to be mindful of how much analog controol uou have and where, sometimes youll need to add extra components to course correct thr redundancy.

a tip I noticed for mechs that you probably go over in this vidio but i haven't watched it all the way is that I recommend making the servo's strength a lot lower like 20 or 40 or so to make it move organically like its actual walking instead of it vary robotically moving to the positions it also makes it so when your hit or flung it actually looks like your getting hit instead of just moving backward

Whenever John uploads, I always immediately switch whatever I was working on to what John is making.

btw the update will probably come out early september or very late august, they made a schedule for when they will release their leaks. the last video is august 16th so you have plenty of time.

Im looking at this and the old videos about the old computer, and its impressive, but I can't help but want to introduce you to the concept of an OR-loop: basically 2 OR gates feeding into each other create a storage cell for a number from -1 to 1, and you can add or subtract stuff from that number every tick by doing an input into both of the gates, and you can take that number and use it for stuff. I have been able to output those numbers onto a display, do addition, subtraction, multiplication(a bit scuffed but works), compare numbers, and even synchronise turrets with different horizontal traverse limits ("early turret control system" on the WS). I tried more stuff like an old fasioned rangefinder with 2 cameras, but my trigonometry knowledge is khmkhmNotGoodkhmkhm. love the "useless logic stuff" though🙃

There is a way to effectivelly stop crate launchers using Powercuplers. By creating a wall held up by powercuplers under tension you can sort of achive that magnet / suspension effect that acts like a giant net, almost flawlessly absorbing the kinetic energy of the crate. I want to clarify me myself havent tried it, but i have seen it work in action. Might be worth a try? (Sorry incase bad english)

when i read the title i was thinking more turret ring mechanisms and whatnot but this is also cool

You should try to do uncaged seaker next. And there is actually a solution to the distance problem, ive seen modded distance sensors with almost infinite activation distance

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So thats how stablizers work, I might need to play around with that. But what I do know I will be doing, adding a rotating sensor array to the front of a turret to create a sort of auto fire effect. Will it be helpful? Probably not on a piloted creation. But it would help to take some focus on the battle itself and trastfer it to positioning and or aiming

Can you show how to use angle or compass blocks instead of distance sensors

i love how you explain things

sorry for the lower quality and delays.

So, 3rd and final update (attest on this specific video) I've expiramented with some prototype ballistic armors, first I tried hoverpads, they proved capable of shooting any custom projectiles back at the sender, and reducing the knock back significantly. However, the total damaged received was pretty much identical. Slightly reduced yes. But not by enough. Then I tries ski's, thinking the projectile wouldn't get a good grip on them. Sme reults as the hovorpads, though they did take much less damage. without the whole return to sender thing of course. Way too complex anyways, do not recommend. Lastly I tried friction blocks, now the thing is they work, but your front armor is gonna be gone. Now this did prove effective at stopping one thing, scorn penatrators. Previously an unstoppable force that would rip through your creation without a damn, its now been reduced to something that will still tear through the first 7 layers of armor without a damn. Infinity down to 7 is Technically much better than before, and i did get it to stop 3 layers in serveral times. Howerver this was very inconsistajt and unlikley. Maybe 15% of the time. so it has a niche but don't count on it. Layering this armor did not change any results.

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I feel like you could use a magnet on the front so that once it gets within a certain range it's almost guaranteed to hit. You could probably also put dynamite on a magnet and launch it with a piston at -100 speed and basically have an over complicated version of the rocket launcher

my missile is better 🗿 i had to look at your full list of recent uploads because absolutely none of these were shown to me unfortunately. youtube being sus among us again.

i have no clue what this is but it looks cool

why the fuck am i getting recommended this 5 days later? i didn't even know you posted it until now. i cannot even bully you for it either cause it is a smart video 😭

Update on my findings, as you asked. Using repellant magnets aswell lead to a significant increase in durrability twards large projectiles, being able to take 2-5 2x2's, tested with a veriety of models, and these numbers still proved consistant. And 3 10x6, being a massive callibur. However, if your opponent is using some sort of shotgun, its heavily dependant on their ammunition. Results where mixed, but in general your cooked. The 3 most effective ones where "Hinge Shot" and "Power Shot", both of which ignoring the front armor plate entireley reguardless of distance up untill ineffectie range. And finnally, "Scorn Peniteator". Now, if they have scornes loaded up, your screwed. It simply goes through everything, and becuase of how odly accurate they are along with being decal blocks, (0 drag) they will rock your shit reguardless of range. And of course, look damn cool while doing it with those fire trails. TLDR i was able to strengthem them with oppsing mags, they helped to mitigate the impact greatly. Howerver, armor peircing is still armor peircing.

I made a folding armor design ...inspired by you. I use Xbox game pass, do you know of a way that I could share this kind of thing with you? I'd love your input.