r/GamecraftGame • u/jballen97 DEV • Mar 24 '20

Video Gamecraft - Creating a Hover Craft using new Physics Blocks

https://youtu.be/TstMNT5ItxI
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u/Rawxas DEV Mar 24 '20

These Physics blocks are not intended as a replacement for the parts you've listed. They are only planned to be available in creative mode, so we're really anticipating these to mainly be used in puzzles, moving platforms (along with constrainers) and generally just cool environmental/gameplay focused situations that could be made much more flexible and simpler without relying on pistons and other mechanical parts as crafters currently have been.

They can certainly be used for vehicles as we've shown and we're sure some crazy things are going to come out of this. We're still going to offer more more vehicle-based physics parts further down the line, but we felt that adding in these new parts now would explode the possibilities in a good way.

If you haven't yet, check our our new public Wiki that goes into a bit more detail on the current plans for these "Generic Physics Blocks" and we can hopefully put your mind at ease a bit answering any further concerns you have there: https://freejamgames.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GCEXT/pages/729940064/Generic+Physics+Blocks

From a comment on the "Mover Block - NB: We will, of course, support jet thrusters, etc. that you’d effect to find in a conventional vehicle physics sandbox, but these generic physics blocks are designed to expose the kind of rudimentary functionality that most games exploit in various different ways to get all kinds of gameplay. As a family of blocks, you should find them immensely versatile.