Screw Drivers - 5 speed gear box build and demo

Screw Drivers - 5 speed gear box build and demo.
Screw Drivers out now on steam store.steampowered.com/app/12...
* I forgot the turbos
update. With top tier Electric and petrol engines it is considered to be 7 speed.

[@jaskrolor]

This was really cool! Found this while trying to see what a planet gear does, but as this video shows, it's just another gear shifter. I will definitely be trying this! You are very underrated. :)

[@GuardianOz]

The planetary gear can be a reducer or to increase rotation, In robotics they are used to reduce rotation speed. By using more revolutions on the drive (stepper) motor the resulting arm movement is more accurate and stronger at the same time in a very small space. They are also crazy strong as there are more gear teeth making contact at the same time. :) Look up ring gears for similar function. "Adam Savage Vault door" is an excellent video to watch.

[@wo0dy]

I have been waiting for you to drop something helpful! :D

[@calibadgerdude6082]

lol much cleaner than the one I built, but you’ve got more parts unlocked than I do. Definitely going to copy some of your solutions here, particularly the 2-1-1 gear set up. I was trying to figure out how to line things up for multiple speeds, and I was missing that. Basically ended up using 2 separate transmissions, one with a 2:2 and a 3:1 and the other on a separate shaft using 2:90° gear and 90°:2. (90° is basically a 1.5 gear) I’m not sure how the game chooses which gear set to access, I think it goes 1.5:2-2:2-2:1.5-3:1 meaning the gears aren’t actually sequential but flops back and forth between gear shifters. Weird setup, but it works. Getting near the same top speed you did but your acceleration is a lot better because you’re using better engines than I have access to currently.

[@annoyingbook2709]

I put a 6 speed transmission in the steam workshop. Check it out. It's named 6 Speed Transmission. I used planetary gears.

[@GuardianOz]

I am going to grab that. My turn to learn

[@annoyingbook2709]

@@GuardianOz you can flip around the planetary gears if the range is too high also.

[@jpsacks5298]

This is MUCH more compact than my design, I have direct drive from my engine going through a 6 speed and I don’t spin in first really but I did incorporate 4wd, the game tells me my top speed is over 600kph however my laptop isn’t powerful enough to run the game past 15-30fps so I haven’t gotten out of 3rd gear 😅

[@GuardianOz]

LOL. Update for above I forgot the Turbos and Capacitors. I also stage the engine with medium to small before the gearbox. It will drop marks in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. With a top speed of 240. You can win any race on that build.

[@V1c._.]

I like this game but I just hate how big the gears are, you can't make anything compact

[@GuardianOz]

Yeah. That big gear on its own is 5 units across. you need 7 wide to build around it.

[@V1c._.]

@@GuardianOz Which sucks when trying to make something look realistic or with good aero