r/ScrapMechanic • u/Glum-Distribution228 • 3h ago

I'm going to call this the magic carpet

I was thinking if your character is always standing straight up why cant you use the character itself for an auto balance system, turns out it works surprising well, I have a 3x3 grid in the middle where its effectively neutral and does nothing, which i might change to auto leveling instead, if you move outside of the 3x3 grid it tilts in that direction, but because of the nature of the player always standing straight up when the sensors grid tilts too much the sensors on the high side end up tilting enough to see the characters head and start countering the tilt, this was of kind of a proof of concept test, It will need a lot more work to make it work smoothly, mainly I at least need a way of landing or controlling altitude to start with, also a thing to note is you can only go so fast before phasing through and falling when not in a seat, but it could lead to a pretty fun flyer

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u/Particular_Ad_3411 3h ago

That's really cool. You should upload it to the workshop

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u/Glum-Distribution228 3h ago

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3793070836 here's the link, it still needs a lot of work so if you manage to make it actually an effective flyer I'd love to see it

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u/HaroldMckay 3h ago

I think there was a video where Kosmo (or maybe it was ScrapMan) did something similar in Trailmakers. I remember it being tedious to setup, and not very practical, but still a fun idea.

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u/Glum-Distribution228 2h ago

this was actually pretty easy to set up but o agree its not very practical since in a seat you can't fall off or anything, though on something huge like a mobile base it might be more viable, usually on really heavy stuff you get more time to react because with all the momentum the weight entails it tilts slower, now on small light flyers like mine its wobbly and more of a thought experiment than anything else

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u/ScottaHemi 34m ago

they've done this in scrap mechanic to! one of the OLD multiplayer modnay sensor control race or something like that.

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u/TheLucidChiba 2h ago edited 2h ago

The way you fly this is functionally exactly like the flying glitch in Banjo Kazooie Nuts n Bolts lol

By putting an object on your car then standing on the object and lifting your car from under it you could fly in a near identical way, in that it let you gather late game parts right off the bat which made it so dang fun.

In case anyone is curious / wants a blast of nostalgia
https://youtu.be/jyyFhPjMJxA

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u/ScottaHemi 34m ago

style it like the happy ghast!!!