physics

Both of these tiny planes (attached) jitter visibly when rolling. Did the fidelity of the aeronautics physics simulation get turned down? As an optimisation? This part of the changes that may have brought the weird flying behaviours? [1 , 2]

When you remove an anchor to go from 2 to just one rotating anchor, that anchor is very prone to go utterly bananas if there's an extremal force acting on the tech. I've only tested this with that force being applied by suspended resource chunks pressing on the same tech when they'd like to be...

So these ideas came to me while trying to make a multitech that can be successfully snapshotted. I was trying to use explosive bolts and the various links but kept running into the same issue... All tech linkage parts cannot auto connect due to overlapping hitboxes. So I have come up with...

First of all: wut? This new GPU based physics, or optimisation, or whatever is pretty weird... Note that it's triggered by *any* overlay, not just the in-game ones. Shown: Steam and my keyboard's "Scroll Lock" notifier (key I use to start/stop recordings). I couldn't find any similar blocks...

I suppose this is a byproduct of wheel physics being what it is, but regardless: Driving around in a tech that has mobile SCU with any appreciable speed is pretty much guaranteed to give very frequent SCU reboots and also associated sound effects. The sound itself is okay when you only hear it...

As usual, the game is not taking it kindly to my large techs. In the video below is highlighted number one problem with still-new Titan and Monster truck wheels (only Titan is demonstrated, but Monsters do the same). Either the friction physics doesn't scale accordingly with the size of the...

So in previous major builds I've done, I always follow some simple core rules that are always priority first; 1) Maximize connection points for toughness: Creating a lot of Redundancies so when met with a high damage percentage (loss of body), the tech will still be able to perform and operate...

Is this deliberate, or at least noted? This has come in, presumably, with the switch to physics based rotating anchored techs. Unlike on fixed anchored bases, the resources will now collide with the tech and with each other (e.g. in stacked silos). This will affect mobile, multi-purpose, techs...

@zanzistar So this is still a thing... If your wondering what I mean it's the fact that a machine gun will consistently miss even a stationary target while you are moving. Oddly if you pay attention to the laser pointer you will notice that it and the direction of the machine gun are always...

This only appears to happen in R&D (existing and new games), not Creative or (old) Campaign. Just stroll over to a tree, or outcrop of luxite and then keep on strolling, right through...

Currently, if we talk about non-aerodynamic blocks and other things like projectiles, here is only one simple characteristic which force blocks or Techs to reduce their velocity. As I can see, that doesn't matter which are their masses, surface areas and moving directions. Also, I did not...

I believe, despite the cartoonish look of this game, it must have more realistic physics. I don't mean "as in life", for example, I think that heavy guns with 100m range are normal. Unfortunately, for me some characteristics looks a bit strange and almost random, the wheel maximum load is in...

Just interested about weight and speed relations, and started investigations from max wheel load. Made a simple ultra-light tech with only cab in the center and venture frames for wheel mounting(2,2 gob). Loaded it with batteries for rough estimation and with gobs(GSO one blocks) for accurate...

Hi Terratechers, inspired by @mikkii I played around with simple physics in the game to find out what the weight of several blocks might be. This is a simple construction to measure the weight of most of the blocks: BoreScaleV2 The scale works great, as long as some requirements are met: -...

Hi everyone! Today I find something unpleasing; If a vehicle have his wheels on any platform build of blocks, the vehicle can't move at all, so the possibility to build a parking or something this way is non-exixtent. So it would be great if an update could contain who can re-visit these...