Auto Adjusting Artillery with Range Finding and Trajectory Physics! (Scrap Mechanic

Automatic Adjusting Artillery using distance and trajectory physics calculations! Today we are back in Scrap Mechanic with an awesome project which will use real life physics equations to calculate the proper angles for artillery based on the required range finding distance!
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[@stevepittman3770]

0:36 -- I'm excited about math.. surely I'm not the only one?

[@Chroma7777]

very simple math and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself

[@masterflamaster6377]

Mom: Stop playing this games! Next day: Mom: Wow, you got an A from the maths test! Me: Yeah, it was from the quadratic equations.

[@maxspinks2181]

Make a comeback to the piston engines

[@wrog7616]

1:35 "...So I'm gonna try not make this episode completely about math..." What!? But that's so FUN!

[@johnburnett1476]

That is en epic build, simple math executed well. When you mentioned not knowing the elevation of the target my imagination immediately jumped to making a sort of drone with a GPS and range finder all connected with the remote controllers. Almost like a global hawk. Flies at a specific altitude and range finds straight down for target elevation compared to the turret. I’m gonna go take all of my Saturday and build it...

[@ezrac704]

Every block in scrap mechanic is 6 inches tall. I was looking at standard i-beams and there is only one square one. It makes sense. I figured out the scrap mechanic character is 2.7 feet tall! Also spuds travel at mach 1.7 although i would love to see if i am actually correct.

[@ezrac704]

please report these findings! The i beam is W6x15

[@mrsutiandhisbudynotharrypo258]

Make one that will shoot players + if you can do moving targets

[@Ggb129]

My algebra teacher was right. There is something I can apply the quadratic equation to.

[@xephia4258]

Please do this for multiplayer Monday again!

[@berayenbrayen5789]

No

[@lyubomyrlohin6843]

Instead of making adjustments according to the height, you can calculate the height based on the rangefinder's aiming angle and its offset from the bearing that turns it.

[@TheCarDemotic]

Parabolas and math and stuff. What I learned earlier this month in school

[@zarnox3071]

Here's a test that might be interesting. If you make a U shape out of blocks, put bearings or pistons between them, with a set of blocks suspended in the middle, and weld it together, what happens it you weld it to the terrain, then delete the bottom part of the U shape, leaving two pillars attached to the terrain, but not each other. Would both ends stay attached to the terrain, while being linked by the bearings/pistons as well?

[@thereal_iCE]

What happened with the orbital cannon?

[@kANGaming]

My internet provider wasn't supporting streaming for some reason. Trying to get it fixed so I can stream again.

[@thereal_iCE]

@@kANGaming I see

[@ezrac704]

@@kANGaming o

[@erzbengelraziel5490]

You can change the start velocity by using more or less spudguns.

[@zarnox3071]

Use the modpack and pistons/bearings to make a representation of orbital mechanics (no, not dwarves, although you could put a seat on the end). Also, the smart engine can be wired up to pistons, and they can receive decimal inputs. Come to think of it, you could actually make a full on orrery (a mechanical model of the solar system) using the modpack, even including planet rotations.

[@wisnoskij]

Not sure if you have another video on this. But accounting for height differences should be very easy. Since you know the angle and the height of your aiming laser, you know what the range finder should be returning on a perfectly level plane, so you can calculate the relative height of whatever block you are aiming at and adjust your angle accordingly. At that point you no longer have to adjust the angle manually, and can just point and shoot as their as no guessing involved.

[@Andy47357]

you know you could find the rate that blocks fall in scrap mechanic, determine the velocity that the cannon launches at and use VCos(angle)=X and VSin(angle)=Z on the XZ plane unless you prefer roe, theta and Z to determine where you will hit while making a range finder to determine the distance objects are at and do this the old school real world methods to do real artillery shooting.

[@deaths_reaper]

You're just a pure genius with this stuff kAN.

[@michelangelangelo7091]

Holy Dutch, it looks amazing

[@CathodeRayKobold]

The measuring laser is the hypotenuse of a right triangle. You have its length and the angle of one of its vertices. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that enough to find your altitude?

[@amateurprogrammer25]

friendly reminder that the modpack laser blocks also work as distance sensors if you take a number logic output out of them!

[@patrickhector]

At this point it shouldn't be that difficult to take relative height into account, which would be handy for firing from/at the top of a mountain

[@Andy47357]

or just use kinematic equations for ballistics

[@lifethrownoutofthewindow]

you can use the speed gun from yesterday to check launch velocity

[@numero7mojeangering]

you could use atan2 and pythagore to calculate the angle and distance using coordonates

[@andrewsullivan2110]

Boom got em!

[@RS212]

Really cool!

[@redshifted8790]

Kan if you multiply the sin(a) (of a:=angle you are looking down) with the distance to the target you should get the height difference between you and the target. (Works only with the aming laser, not the mortar itself)

[@distraveler]

if you are able to check the GPS position of your target from the distance, then you can fly around in a plane, mark the target and send info to the mortar somewhere on the map

[@tannerquigley7540]

Add a system for the Pythagorean therom where it takes the angle and distance to get altitude for more accuracy.

[@xephia4258]

Ca you use logic gates and these math stuff in multiplayer Monday? Or are the math and logic stuff in the ban book ?

[@addaccount9246]

What?

[@kANGaming]

Ban list unfortunately

[@xephia4258]

@@kANGaming oh, unlucky, you're the best at this stuff

[@Andy47357]

it’s probably banned because kan is a mechanical engineer and is the only one who understands it fully

[@RobertsHandle]

Please make 2 versions of each video. one with the math, one without

[@Merculos]

Ok, this is epic.

[@ethanbrandt8617]

god damn it! I wanted to do this! I was going to use the exact same method as well, I spent a long time surfing the internet to learn how to get this stuff to work, UGH! I know that you're using the same equation I was going to use because you're listing off the same flaws that I came across, the altitude is a definite issue. To be honest I'm not mad at you I'm just annoyed that someone made it before I could. I can probably list the formula that you are using for this, it's probably Theta = 90 - 1/2 arcsin ( gd / v^2 ) Man I'm so annoyed that someone beat me to the chase.

[@slickrick8279]

With a round gravity source you could make sattelites.

[@user-pc5sc7zi9j]

I expected it to also set the azimuth angle based on the difference between it`s and the target's coordinates and hand the range to whatever you have here so you can place down a target with GPS and sender for it to auto-target. Edit: just watched the ending. sorry. I'm so tuned to see that.

[@svenbohu9636]

Could you calibrate it so you could launch your dorf sitting on a toilet seat?

[@Jan_372]

The german word dorf?

[@svenbohu9636]

@@Jan_372 Nah, just the colloquial Internet speak word "dorf", meaning "dwarf". Mostly used around the Dwarf Fortress community, but I've seen it pop up here and there around Scrap Mechanic, to describe the playable character, because they're rather short and stout (5 blocks high, 3 blocks wide).

[@zarnox3071]

Samaliel Lamander Ah, another who knows of the glorious stupid AI game.

[@svenbohu9636]

@@zarnox3071 Haha, yeah. I heard it had inspired Minecraft, that's why I looked into it. The AI is stupid, yes, but it's brilliantly stupid. I'm quite amused to see that a game that's still in pre-alpha has inspired so many other games, some with incredibly similar design (Gnomoria, Rimworld, to name a few).

[@zarnox3071]

Samaliel Lamander I once made a mod that added versions of Bronze Colossi for each metal (including Steel, Adamantine and Slade, as in, the stuff in HFS that has a density of 200,000 kg per cubic meter). The Adamantine one had to have the hands considered as absurdly sharp blades, as it isn't dense enough to be used blunt, but the Slade one? Well, I set one up against a team of about 40 Steel Colossi. The Slade one won, while only receiving a few _dents_ to the fingers. Those were the only parts that could even take any damage at all. It was basically one shotting the Steel Colossi. Fun times.

[@Leon-uk2mu]

Nice math i really like it

[@canadianbutt275]

Honestly. This channel is underrated

[@ARockyRock]

"Im not going to make this episode about math" *Makes next 5 minutes about math*

[@pardsayshi3581]

Knowing the distance and angle you could find the velocity, right

[@smedo6516]

Hey kAN, What is the value of gravity in these equations? Scrap Mechanic's gravity is disproportioned compared to the real world, so I was wondering what value you used.

[@CaptainGrief66]

It would be great if someone put all this stuff in the shape of an actual cannon, a WWI howitzer or something.

[@Jan_372]

kAN why do you always do this total overkill in Scrap Mechanic Physics XD

[@mr.byggeee2226]

Have you ever thought about making a "programmable robot arm"? In similar manner that would kind of know its position using some fancy trig functions for example. Havent seen any yet on youtube. I would be very interested to build one myself but my skills and time is lacking a bit too much at the moment

[@Kyo-bd4tw]

Another Kan vid! Yay!

[@herrkrabbe148]

the laser targeting shouldn't be too much of a problem if you have something to sense the degree of the laser, and convert that and the distance into the distance the mortar would need

[@csnider_1281]

You could make a drone with a laser that will hover over the GPS point

[@berpo5578]

very simple principal

[@beefybread5769]

@@shihaochey6704 maybe once you start getting used to math it becomes very simple. Its not being arrogant. You just need to learn it

[@jarosawgutowski108]

Please do multiplayer monday with viewers

[@justinmccasland3140]

wow only 690 likes for this awesome creation this takes time I love this

[@rapolass2585]

I wanted to do this too for a long time, but had no idea how to do it

[@DizzyRonson]

i did an adjustable targeting system using only 3 math blocks and a counter.. you just set a value depending on the weapon you use and it will adjust a laser automatically on the fly, wich is your aimpoint for that weapon at the range the laser is reading. accuracy is + or - some blocks in either direction depending a bit on the type of weapon used and range. would i call it perfect? no.. would i call it passable as a combat sight? yes..

[@FRENZIEDALCHEMIST]

MM YES BOOOYAH

[@j_k2127]

make it a two person thing, first guy will check the distance and the other one will fire it. then you slap it on some tanks and boom multiplayer monday episode.

[@__mk_km__]

13:37 *S P R E J E E D*

[@TheSkyGamez]

i am pretty sure that the power in the spudgun.lua file is in newtons

[@vanos3378]

Idea for multiplayer monday: Piston-engine Dragrace

[@msorin74]

Workshop link pls and a guide on how to show how to get that ingame arty compuer to work Edit: found it. I just need a guide on how to set it up on a diffrent arty platform

[@jollyjoogie2494]

I love ur videos

[@thatmcgamer3106]

Make something like battleship(not the board game with like B4, but actual battling ships) with these.

[@powderedwater4742]

the one person that disliked this is part of the manual mortar gang

[@gameoa1163]

Good thing there is no air resistance in scrap mechanic XD

[@cheesiestmaster879]

Make a GPS guided artillery with a wireless targeting beacon

[@rawhidelamp]

Triple A targeting systems

[@predur4136]

Magnifico

[@parkergrodi3845]

plz make another radar artillery but whith explosives

[@rimmertf]

cool

[@daanm3869]

how about just building a big, but block efficient heli carrier, and with turrets on top

[@wilhelmweissnegger1640]

could you use that calculations in combination with gps when building the orbital cannon?

[@galacticgod6482]

Project diffuse 4:35

[@welltypedwitch]

Hey that's really awesome! I made something similar with SpudGuns a few weeks ago. Durf featured it on one of his viewer creation streams.

[@osoba1648]

put it on that delivery hover thing

[@OkkaOk]

Couldn't you measure the weight with x-o meter and adjust your artillery with that value?

[@antongreven]

What values did you use? (The velocity factor)

[@0hate9]

I wonder if you could practice making this enough that you can make it in 15 minutes...

[@xephia4258]

How does painting buttons work? How does it increase faster...!!!

[@PrimedPixelMusic]

The modpack reads the button's paint, and if it's red, it increases by 10, if it's unpainted, it increases by 1

[@xephia4258]

@@PrimedPixelMusic thnx

[@quinten157]

12:28

[@tobschgi]

I calculated that my Cannon fires with a bullet velocity of 800 Blocks/s What is the next step? How do i have to input this in the quadratic equation? I really wanna implement maths in my build and a mortar this accruate would be just awesome!!!

[@numero7mojeangering]

can you store every targets and shoot them automaticaly?

[@louis.bodota]

Can you please make a video kinda like: "Momentum Transfer master tutorial"

[@michaelwebb7071]

Make a Karl Gerat German artillery tank using this

[@FoilHatGuy]

What about auto-aiming to player imitators?

[@anonymusdennis]

Build it with an magazine

[@akashbali24]

Would you consider a 3d printer build?

[@extremegaming962]

my head hurts

[@benwilliams8350]

Make a chronograph in scrap mechanic!

[@rhysho7358]

ax^2+ bx + c = y

[@famousrick84]

why didn't you just leave the laser sight on then you wouldn't need to get back in the seat

[@andrzejmazurkiewcz6991]

Can you make mini drone to aim a mortar thats bechind hill? Chronograph you can make using two detectors and time between passing it.

[@Lucas-dy4or]

I’ve learnt quadratic equations and I’m not even 1 quater through year 9 yet lol

[@Sammy-ws9re]

y'all both need to learn English. Lol

[@doggo00]

@@Sammy-ws9re you both *

[@Lucas-dy4or]

@@shihaochey6704 I didnt mean i learnt it because he said it once, i said it because in school ive already learnt it

[@lurts9820]

kAN... you are crazy

[@dumbpanda2464]

Is it possible to build a 3D printer?

[@KittyKite]

yeah... kinda... for now... maybe in the future

[@KittyKite]

but its possible

[@mogj2911]

you can do it with spudguns i think scrapman made a video about it

[@KittyKite]

Mog J yeah and someone reworked it into 3d

[@btngana2077]

Try to make slap bracelet from the 90s in scrap mechnaic

[@addaccount9246]

5:13 is pretty weird....... also for some reason it looks lewd

[@cyber_archangel573]

WHY U USE QUADRATIC EQ!!!? The Maximum range equation is so much faster!! #APphysicsNerd

[@spoon-lk5pn]

Hi kan

[@datuscorbin7296]

can you do a artillery gun with a clip (same like the hover tank) with a scan lock on feature. like if distance and range scanner holds the same number for 0.5 tic fire round..0_0 srry not a logic person

[@sontaya7772]

Hi

[@old_pork]

first Edit: Who's here before the dislikes???

[@judymottl5384]

U win

[@old_pork]

@@judymottl5384 hahaha it doesn't matter just sayin

[@questwalkerko]

NOPE

[@judymottl5384]

@@old_pork u won to

[@Lucas-dy4or]

Me

[@Jan_372]

Make a Panzerhaubitze 2000