Hydrofoil Skimmer Quick Guide - From the Depths

[@BorderWise12]

I forgot to stick this here: time stamps! 0:00​ - Ze Beginning 0:45​ - The Short Version 1:51​ - Hydrofoil Settings 2:51​ - Hydro-Skimmer Advantages 8:18​ - Hydro-Skimmer Disadvantages 14:09​ - Pod-mounted vs. Hull-Mounted Hydrofoils 18:20​ - Extra Control on Hydro-Skimmers 23:05​ - The Short Version, Once Again

[@grimloncz3853]

The last time I built with hydrofoils, I built a boat that sometimes likes to be a plane.

[@ProtoAzula]

I love that someone is still making tutorials on the game. I still remember when Custom Cannons were a thing. To say the least, those tutorials are heavily outdated

[@limeler7611]

I have almost 500 hours in ftd, I understand almost every systems in the game and hydrofoil always stumped me. I just never got them to work so thanks for the tutorial.

[@limeler7611]

A lot simpler than I thought

[@BorderWise12]

@@limeler7611 You're welcome! It's a lot simpler than I thought too. 😁

[@andrelanger8396]

14:38 Laughts in Airship

[@Galvin09670]

That's some nice mimic work on that Bazooka. Hydrofoil azipods sound like a good idea, one on the front, another on the back and you don't have to worry about turning thrusters. I now feel inspired to go build a hydrofoil "hover" tank...

[@YEAHKINDA]

A cursed inbetween of the azipod and hull mount is to make a stick underwater and shove all your hydrofoils along said stick. Mostly useful on catamaran/trimaran hulls where you can have multiple sticks. Lets you keep redundancy, lets you stay high above the water, and doesn't waste much materials on armoring them.

[@mightypancake2211]

Just looking at this to see how I am doing with my current Adventure craft, Since it is a massive pancake laser ship with the Hydrofoils to keep the ship up. A lot of them infact.

[@BorderWise12]

LH style, eh? Good stuff. 👍

[@mightypancake2211]

@@BorderWise12 I do have a version of it up on the workshop to look at. Pegasus VII, really I have it up at VIII version now, with a rework of the laser system Though like the most recent rainbow ship I am not sure it will be in the level your PC can have.

[@kallekortonen689]

What in the magic canoe is this. Finnaly the tutorial i was looking for

[@sampletext5959]

I can make a multi-role jet that's on-par with the Gannet, but I couldn't make a hydrofoil craft to save my life before this tutorial.

[@andrelanger8396]

Uh 3:00 He finally used the Rader thing he stole from the great filter

[@BorderWise12]

Yup! But not the first time: used it on an aircraft carrier. 😁

[@redeemerofthesun]

Oh hey, it's the radar dish from The Great Filter!

[@jesse826]

Nice, been waiting for one!

[@lkmdude8094]

On the surface hydrofoils are simple. In reality they either cause a craft to keep trying to drown itself or fly into the sun.

[@BorderWise12]

And that's why, as shown in the video, you don't rely ONLY on hydrofoils for control unless you don't mind your craft doing exactly those two things. 😁

[@Justfalor]

Are you alright old man? I have never seen a TLDR section on your videos before. And this is not 1h long... You're not being blackmailed or sick, are you?

[@BorderWise12]

Nah, thanks for asking. I was mostly just blown away by how straightforward hydro-skimmers are. I'm not used to overestimating the difficulty of things in FtD. XD

[@Attaxalotl]

*YEAAAAAAAH! Thank you!*

[@BorderWise12]

You're welcome! 😁

[@deezboyeed6764]

This gives me an idea for basically a10 but skimmer

[@bright_lego]

13:50 I guess I'll build my craft out of light blocks then

[@monsterkicker291]

Yay

[@CatNibbles]

Yo borderwise could you show how to use hydrofoil to make a submarine? Cause I can never get these to work well, they always dive really deep than jump into the sky over and over.

[@BorderWise12]

You read my mind! That's the tutorial I want to do next. :D

[@kimpatz2189]

Ditch the foils for air pump fraction control altitude PID setting the fake point to negative numbers using mean sea level. Or directly use propellers for altitude using PID that responds to propulsion vertical. This setup can be used for thrustercraft at any altitude.

[@CatNibbles]

@@BorderWise12 Thank god, I struggle so much but it's the way I want to do this sub I'm making the most.

[@aynonymos]

@@kimpatz2189 that's only effective in larger subs, smaller ones don't have room for the needed airgaps

[@weirdgaming4628]

Make hydroCaNukes

[@revenevan11]

I'm a dummy who likes to make things out of wood, too! 😅

[@uncleo01]

Did something happen to the discord? It just randomly disappeared for me and was wondering what happened.

[@BorderWise12]

It's gone. It was getting too time-consuming and stressful to moderate. Probably should've been louder about that on the other social media, sorry.

[@uncleo01]

@@BorderWise12 it's all good and that's understandable. Just was wondering because it was always fun looking through all the builds and ideas.

[@austinpeeck72]

Could you put the first and third vehicles on the steam work shop? I love them and have watched this video several times.

[@BorderWise12]

Ok! Here ya go: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2662563516

[@comradetonk8280]

BW put a bullet bill on a hydrofoil and that is amazing. *also f in the replies for the discord*

[@ttpechon2535]

Its ZE BEGINNING of the end

[@ttpechon2535]

Build a Pegasus Class

[@cppcompile]

dude I love ur videos but every single one of them is too long to watch. nobody wants to watch someone else playing ftd for hours pls edit it out make it like 10min long , straight up to the point no bs

[@BorderWise12]

Every time I try to make a shorter FtD video, people complain that I've missed things out. That's what the time stamps are for: skipping straight to the part you want to see. As for 'nobody watching them', the thousands of views say otherwise.

[@cppcompile]

@@BorderWise12 views can't tell if they sit and watch for a hour like they do in online zoom class or skipping like mad to actually see what the title says.and u get thousands of views since no one uploads interesting ftd vids these days like u do

[@danyael777]

It's the bs that we're here for dude ...

[@BorderWise12]

No, but KZbin analytics does. People watch for long enough, trust me. Believe it or not, I do try to keep things brief. But there is no conceivable way I could edit most FtD topics down to just 10 minutes and still pass on enough information to help people.