raycast spring

[silver tulip]

something like how trackwork tank tracks or wheels work, but can be deployed with redstone or rotation like how weight ejector works. It could let your machine jump when deployed while you in land, or a soft landing when its already deployed

[lethal wyvern]

This one isn't a bad one

[silver tulip]

please coding gods hear my cries

[merry garnet]

i also suggested it but not as short as you did

gj

[silver tulip]

Maybe it could be configurable with the wrench

[merry garnet]

yes

[deep linden]

bro is onto something

[full sun]

Nah, just do the same thing as the mechanical piston and add more spring

[full sun]

ok but actually imagine a medieval looking rocket ship thing that lands on a bunch of these as landing gear

[shrewd flower]

u sure not steampunk

[silver tulip]

Well this isnt steampunk but still pretty cool and usefull considering minecraft doesnt need too much technological advance like irl, just spreeng

[shrewd flower]

ksure

[safe oriole]

why is it called raycast spring

[full sun]

Cause Trackwork wheels use raycasts for their suspension

[grim oracle]

This doesn't seem that hard tbh

But using actual physics spring would work better imo, since raycast is not reliable

[full sun]

Define actual physics spring

[spring obsidian]

Nah, overcomplicated design

This one is the best :D

It would be great if it was kind of like takeoff bearing (top and bottom end on which you can place blocks)

[grim oracle]

a real spring, like a real life one

[full sun]

do I just shove one inside my PC case?

[grim oracle]

[amber thicket]

I hear them tho I'm not a god

Ig this would fit well in starlance (the idea, not the texture)

Landing springs

[silver tulip]

I would ceatify it with a resourcepack anyways 😈

[amber thicket]

That's fine

[safe oriole]

i didnt even know that. i don’t think the name of a block should be based on how it’s coded

unless raycast is an actual term for suspension

[silver tulip]

I said raycast spring in reference on how it would work

[safe oriole]

that’s up to the devs though right

i think the devs know how a spring would be implemented

[silver tulip]

Like how distance sensors or tracks and wheels shoot a constant invisible ray to detect the ground

Dont know how could other constraints work better than this

[grim oracle]

hii @silver tulip can you send me the model and textures? i would like to use this for the mechanical spring block that i am working (cause i suck at modeling and texturing)

i just worked a bit on the spring coil and spring segment rendering stuff, and it now renders the hose pipe and head as the spring

[silver tulip]

[silver tulip]

Oh my zamnings

I will when im avaliable

[grim oracle]

though since the code is running every tick (dw it's client side) to find the distance between ships, it's a bit "jerky", not sure how to fix that rn

[silver tulip]

😭 🙏 thx so much this s revolutionary

[grim oracle]

tysm!

[silver tulip]

Is it compatible with beta cw right?

🤔

[grim oracle]

lol, would still have to rewrite stuff if i ever release it, cause it's on 1.18.2 and vs2 is dropping support for that version :(

[grim oracle]

not sure, the codebase is really old and outdated

wait cw beta is released? (that uses physx?)

[silver tulip]

I think yez

[grim oracle]

sheesh i'll check it out

[silver tulip]

Im trying the latest that fern posted

But im not sure

[grim oracle]

okie

[proud cairn]

you're probably using wrong ship transform

you need to use render transform

[grim oracle]

thinkies

how?

[proud cairn]

cast ship to client ship

and use it

[grim oracle]

h- wait

so is

wait wait let me open idea

holy shit

[grim oracle]

THANKS! <3

[silver tulip]

Zpreemg

[civic quest]

resuming: landing gear

[silver tulip]

I plan to use it for airship landing

[civic quest]

i may can use this for spaceships like on ksp

[grim oracle]

funni spring stuff

[amber thicket]

Those be constraints?

[grim oracle]

yessssss i love d6 joint

[amber thicket]

Physx?

[grim oracle]

yeah

[amber thicket]

Ah

Physx is pretty amazing

It's vehicle api especially lol

[grim oracle]

vehicle api hmmmmm

https://nvidia-omniverse.github.io/PhysX/physx/5.1.0/docs/Vehicles.html this is cool

[amber thicket]

Yeah

[silver tulip]

This is precious

[simple iris]

does it have java bindings tho?

like... through the vs api

[silver tulip]

🥹

[grim oracle]

the vehicles API? i don't think so

[simple iris]

awww 😔

vs addons prob can't use it then

[grim oracle]

it wouldn't be of much use anyways, because in VS we link ships with joints, but i don't think the vehicles API uses joints like that

idk, i don't even understand what I just said

[amber thicket]

Tomato and Endal seemed pretty interested in it

[full sun]

Ilovethis

[silver tulip]

Zpreemg

[junior hull]

what mod is this?

[merry garnet]

His own mod

He made it

[nimble swift]

Isnt something like this in supplementaries?