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A rock crawler made to conquer the proving grounds, but built as simple as possible. Controlls: Pitch = forward and backwards, Yaw = steering, Break = break. ENJOY!
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 18.0ft (5.5m)
- Length 27.9ft (8.5m)
- Height 10.4ft (3.2m)
- Empty Weight 7,537lbs (3,418kg)
- Loaded Weight 7,803lbs (3,539kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading 439,839.3lbs/ft2 (2,147,483.6kg/m2)
- Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
- Drag Points 4723
Parts
- Number of Parts 60
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 462
Jesus, didn't expect so many comments, I really just made this to test this suspension out, my friend download one of my first vechicles and he hates how it flies apart, so I wanted to see if I could fix the main point of breakage, which I accomplished, but in the process of removing the unnecessary suspension pices that were on my old 8x8 what I noticed is that a lot more strain is put on the center link, and I understand it's nothing close to 4 link but it is much less laggy (for my friends device) and I seriously did not go for perfection. I talked with my friend and sent him this vechile to see what he thought about the suspension improvments, I just tried to improve on an old desgine. Also if you look at my rock Rey v3 it has an overly complex 4 link suspension on it, so if your coirious I'll Link it if you want but it's 11:20 on a school night so I need some sleep, I'm really thinking of building some crazy and hopefully roubust 4link suspension now though. Anyways night, and I'll see what I can think of.
@Maximum777 with 60 parts, you could do a lot better.
Now I feel stupid because you have already made 4 link suspension. I still suggest everything else though
Needs a lot more hinges and braces for it to work properly. Have a look here for an example of 4 link suspension which works very well for crawling. As for simple, low part count crawlers: I don't know if it's possible at 60 parts. I think your best bet would be to use smaller wheels (I know it sounds strange for a crawler), fatter fuselage, only two engines and independent suspension. You could remove around 10 parts just by making the main body single piece, making room for more complex independent suspension like this.
I don't want to sound patronizing because most of my attempts at rock crawlers were much worse than this and it took me about a year to get them working at all. I'm still far from the best at making them on simpleplanes. Keep at it!
PS. Try experimenting with maximum angular velocity XML attribute for wheels through Overload. It sets the maximum speed of a vehicle when wheels touch the ground (not exactly, so experiment). I don't know if you can get Overload for Android though
@Deadly8Nightshade, it's a crawler, built stupid simple, therefore you go over like 30 mph and it flies apart, never said it was specifically strong, just said that it's simple and there for it won't crash people's games like some of my vechicles do.
A crawler is supposed to be sturdy, this isn't.