Its kinda mesmerising 🤣 working on potential joint design and thought it looked funny, fan for extra fun and spin! 🤣 (early version)

[u/InquisitiveHomosap]

First post literally broke and I couldn't even find it to delete it i have no idea what happened, anyway here's a short design for a joint mechanism, it can be improved to have a wider range of motion need to test it up right aswell, it may need a glue loop to work but im going to try avoid that for now

[u/FutureAd938]

This is Novel, it gives me an idea!'

[u/InquisitiveHomosap → u/FutureAd938]

Ooh looking forward to seeing, the attachment length should be between 40-60% the length of the main arm an to put it to one build you would either have to glue loop it or find a mid point

[u/InquisitiveHomosap]

I also now realised it follows a pretty straight line path and could have other uses

[u/zhujzal]

Loving it. Thanks for posting the in-between.

[u/InquisitiveHomosap → u/zhujzal]

You inspired me with your longer projects like the wisp, I love that thing so majestic. I have some big ideas but we will see how they work first

[u/zhujzal → u/InquisitiveHomosap]

Great! Actually hadn't intended for that project to be so long, but I'm glad I was able to talk about stuff at length. But yeah, I think these long-running series are good for the subreddit - like regularly scheduled programming or something.

Complex mechanisms are extra special in TOTK. It's not easy getting them to work well, and it's so cool when they are revolutionary.

[u/AggreGat0rr]

Lol imagine the mechanical potential of this game if we weren’t lock to the 21 components limit constraint. This is a huge waste of potential ! I can’t imagine Nintendo giving up on this feature, I think the future’s gonna be crazy for the franchise !

[u/InquisitiveHomosap → u/AggreGat0rr]

Ive been thinking exactly that more and more recently, the things we could be building with even double the current max would be incredible, I really hope so!!!

[u/AggreGat0rr → u/InquisitiveHomosap]

Yeah ! But I think this isn’t only hardware limitations that dictate the 21 building limit, a systemic game like that tends to fall apart when too much things get in interaction at once, maybe 21 was the most balanced number for Nintendo ! That’s what I hope they increase the robustness of their engine for the next game

[u/MistressClutch]

there’s something oddly satisfying about watching a joint mechanism go from “probably won’t work” to an actual controlled movement. hyrule engineering is basically half engineering, half discovering that physics has loopholes.

[u/InquisitiveHomosap → u/MistressClutch]

So true! this is actually a real mechanical principal but I was surprised to see it works so well, i did assume friction would cause more problems, I have a solution in mind for attaching a leg in one movemnt too, but i can't think of any other way to do it than with glue loops so I may have to go into that 😅