Lathrix, love all your videos, but as someone that has had trouble getting into FTD (bought and played after discovering your channel) these tutorials really helped me out! Thank you! PS: Might be asking for too much but, If you could do one for each type of vehicle and weapons, it would help me out a ton! Either way, love the content! Hope this message finds you well :)
Thank you very much for making these tutorials! I tried playing this game and figuring out how to make stuff and..... well..... you can guess what happened. I basically raged quit and never picked up the game again. I tried looking up tutorials, but all of them were out dated. Please keep making more FTD tutorials! :D P.S. Could you make a tutorial on how to make aircraft (other than thruster-craft)? As well as the rest of weapon types and how to do the rest of engine/propulsion types?
10 months later it still kinda helps, would love to see you redo this with the current ACB's and PID's as they did change a bit. anyways,thx again mate.
Lath, tutorial? Is the devil freezing his butt off right now? Good, that sucker deserves it! Sub tutorial against the clock, with options, common mistakes AND a look at your trouble shooting process? Stellar! Thank you! I’d love to see some weapon options for it and tutorials for them. Then maybe an airship, then recommended weapons for that. With some careful spawning you could set up some creations vs faction balanced(ish) skirmishes, as part of building the fleet? Thanks for the FtD stuff, it’s a time eater and when you’ve already spent so long in the game....this kind of stuff is really appreciated by those of us who want to build working designs without a spare day and the patience to sit and figure it out. 👍
I love your videos and have watched multiple ftd series and would love for you to do a full show ship build of a medium sized vessel that uses multiple weapons and take the time to explain all of the main steps because I’m sure there are more people that like me would love the extra help. Love what you’re doing man keep it up!!!
I agree with James. I do not know how to make anything in this game, so these tutorials really are helping and I would appreciate if he would make a plane or aircraft tutorial.
I got the game and started an adventure. (a few actually as I learned how things worked.) I built my typical efficient BOX build that I favor in resource limited games, double layered metal for high defense. I had figured out AI enough to run my weapons and PID enough to use hydrofoils to keep my ship from nosing up and flipping. But I didn't have much firepower. (two, Type A 3.7in simple weapons) So I added super cavitation base and an AP head with 2 HE and 4 gunpowder, AND put sonar on my roof. Then i removed my pump and put holes in the floor. Instant, slowly sinking, 'submarine'. I was shooting anything above me with AA guns while using meters of water as a shield. It was surprisingly effective and saved me from being overwhelmed a few times. I had used missiles/torps earlier but they would target the wrong thing often and cost too much to use with my resources so low. Later I found a green gate I wanted to go into but it was in the air. I put a row of balloon boxes down the full length each side and got to ~100 meters. another row got me ~200, another ~300, another and more and more... I stripped almost all of the second layer of armor to reduce weight and because I needed the funds to buy more balloons. I FINALLY reached the portal at ~600 METERS. BUUUT I was off target so I was in build mode flying into my ball of balloons trying to add jets (which I had no idea how to use) in an attempt to push my ship the half a ship length I needed to get into the portal. (0.1 speed is your friend) Managed to get inside and have been killing all the things. Added 2 more 3.7in and 4 of the double barrel casements for 8 guns total and havent found anything that was too much to deal with since. Though the 200k+ material tanker (armored brick with a small missile launcher on a turret) took a WHILE to erode a hole to the AI. There was a small laser plane with forward swept wings that bobbed up and down that took a while because it stayed at range and wobbled a lot. heading to a blue portal with nearly 300k extra materials - gonna see what I can build. Probably gonna add some missile/torp launchers. Still have no idea how to build a cram/APS/laser/fuel engine/steam engine/etc
If you're doing tutorials, I honestly think the one that most players still struggle with the most is advanced cannons - especially in how to get a sustained high fire rate. Hey, perhaps the next step is to give the submarine some supercavitation artillery, and even some torpedo defense cannons (the changes to HE and Flak radius vs missiles make anti-torpedo cannons viable again).
I literally use to use bits and pieces of all of these systems on my subs and it works but it's super wonky :') Thank you for showing me how to complete my craft!!
Lath, I love that you made this tutorial, so very helpful and I have to concur with at least one other person in asking if you would consider doing them for all types of vehicles and weapons. I've had considerable trouble with From the Depths because although I've been playing it for several hundred hours, I've given up on it because none of my vehicles- despite looking good, being powerful weapons wise or being efficient can never be any mix of the three- None are ever campaign viable. The furthest I've gotten is destroying the Onyx throne and that was so barely that I had nothing left afterwards. Either way, Thank you! this tutorial will certainly help me a lot :)
How about branching this series off into a challenge building series? For example a video where you can only build using the Prefabs the game gives you like the Copperhead turret and the Bertha.
7:15 Roll thrusters/propellers can be all the way at the tail or the nose instead of on the center of mass... _as long as_ each of them is matched with another roll motor on the opposite side (at an _equal distance_ from the centerline) facing the opposite direction. For instance, a delta-wing aircraft could have four roll thrusters at the very rear tips of its wings, one facing up and one down on each side, as long as they are vertically aligned with each other -- the same distance left/right and forward/backward relative to each other. If the distances don't match you can end up rolling around a slightly different axis than straight forward/backward, or adding vertical thrust or pitch rotation forces, and generally becoming a bit wobbly. Battle damage is also a slightly greater concern than it is if the roll thrusters are near the center of mass, but for a lot of designs it wouldn't be a significant factor. Roll is typically the easiest axis for PID to control, and when you've taken enough damage that it loses roll stability you almost certainly have bigger problems than leaning a little to one side. ;)
I would really love a tutorial on airships, and more than that, although this one may have time issues, I would really like one on how you build helicopter hulls, as my attempts to do so haven't worked out that well. Latter would be really time intensive, but would be hugely helpful for understanding how you make such awesome aircraft and stuff! Awesome vid!
Thank you so much for the tutorial videos Lathland it is making the game way more fun! Could you please do a tutorial on detection systems. I understand the concept but there are so many different detection systems and it is hard finding places to put them where they are fully effective. Thank you again, continue the great work!
Thank you a lot! I actually really wanted to make subs in from the depths but since I am in the IB I don't really have the time to try to understand this game deeply so thanks a lot for this tutorial.
Hey Lathrix, I'd love to see you come back to FTD. A huge update just came out that updated and changed multiple things and i'd live to see you building again ;P
You are my absolute favorite variety content creator, and FTD is probably the most entertaining game to watch! Ide love to play it but i only really build crafts for tournaments not really campaign haha
Tournaments are really fun too. And you can take campaign as a tournament, since what you are basically doing is building to some restrictions. Which ones havbe you participated in, btw?
just some with my friends, but they have since stopped playing. So now i just push the limits of mechanics and try to make best tournament craft i can so when ever i find another one to join ill get to submit.
Well, can I point you to both the subreddit, FromTheDepths or te better option, the Tournaments tab on the official forums? www.fromthedepthsgame.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=117 People've been recording tournaments too.
Lathrix, I love your FtD content and you're far too modest about your building skills. That said, I'm a little torn on this one. Honestly, the stuff in here could apply to most vehicles, not just subs. I'm just disappointed you avoided from really explaining anything about PIDs. Five minutes for a few tips like the fact that setting integrative time to no limit is usually beneficial/simpler unless you're seeking a very specific effect and tweaking the gain to fix rocking issues and such would have gone a long way. Anyway, I'm mostly jealous of your ability to create cost-efficient vehicles that don't look like bricks or bland boats. If you make more tutorials, I'd really like a simple collection of tips that you picked up along the years that help you getting the desired results, save resources, be dodgy, be tanky, volume/cost/operating cost thresholds and so on.
Thank you for doing this tutorial. I have never been able to fully get into the PID system. I'm kinda sad you did not show off the hydrofoil system but i guess i will have to experiment with it.
i actually just started doing my first fairly serious submarine yesterday. i'd originally planned on making a melee ship that used a ball of spinning pikes held by a dock as a sort of morning star, but it turns out that docked vehicles interact with the rest of the game's physics really oddly (the rams did no damage, but it could flip ships of any size around... it was confusing) so started work on a sub instead. nearly no drag. props, dediblades and hydrofoils for depth, pitch and roll, for maximum redundancy, and dediblade assisted movement. i think i'm going overboard, but it seems appropriate given the game. just need to decide whether i want to go with the traditional torpedo/missile role, or get weird and mess around with supercavitation aps, magnetic mines or something even stranger. decisions, decisions. :)
and on reloading it, i realized that i may end up with enough space for ballast tanks to add a touch more unpowered depth, pitch and roll control... i hope this things proves to be as hard to sink (er... sinke more...) as i hope. there's so much stuff in here that i'm lifting from your letsplays and whatnot... FOR SCIENCE!
Ive never been great at from the depths. The most effective ship i ever build was basically a massive floating triple cram cannon with a load of shields. It busted most things through shear firepower but couldnt take a hit. Its only recently that ive started to get the hang of large ships that dont get destroyed when their health is still at 90%
I'm having trouble with my pith and roll propellers, i have everything the same as in the video but they just won't spin. Great job on the rest of the vid tho, Thanks man
Hey Lath, quick heads up. Next patch has an ACB rework. Stuff should still work but you'll get a lot more functionality out of the same system. Since you can do AND, OR and NOTs people are alreay starting to do calculators and CPUs
Lath, I was wondering if you upload your builds anywhere? I know you won’t do it on the workshop, but I know many would appreciate it a lot if you uploaded them on some other medium.
Lath, didnt you say you were going to do a tutorial series on different aspects. Subs are a good start. But I'd like to suggest: Fuel Engines Hovercraft/Airships AI controls (Having a ship keep itself pointing at the enemy, (I can NOT get this to work like EVER lol)
I actually like the hydrofoils, they work well for me but, I never bother to center my dediblades, I just make a super aggressive pitch with hydrofoils,
Please make more IN DEPTH "how to" videos for FROM THE DEPTHS. I want to learn this game but i cant get anything larger then 2 blocks to fly properly on AI
Fantastic tutorial, you def have a knack for it. Also stop being so hard on your speech, I dont even notice things until you point them out. You sound fine dude. Great video 7/5!
As someone who builds too many subs and I never use air pumps as the barely do anything significant, also I tend to use hidden hydrofoils for altitude.
I won't say anything new by dediblades and height above seabed ACBs resulting all terrain submarines, I think. Maybe a type of video where you just state your new ideas we could steal, erm learn. Maybe with a few examples.
I think the PID is a double edge sword, it stops your vehicle from bobbing up and down (For airships) but because your ship doesn't bob up and down its therefor easier to hit.. So I never use the PID system unless its absolutely necessary, lol
pokeface119 The AI doesn't know how to hit stuff under water regardless, so that's usually irrelevant, unless the thing uses supercav advanced cannons.
Showing the options helps us see what we have, but the biggest problem is how do we set them up, what kind of trial and error we have to go through and what is more important for doing what we want it to do.
Well, sitting in my school bus, seeing this, 1 thought came to mind *My God Lathland, it took you long enough* Your next video should be *"How to git gud at FTD"*
hello Lathrix, i wanted to ask you how would you ,by not using nor PID's and propeller nor spinblocked propmake a submarine be balanced ? Lot of person just suggered having a perfect CoM/... but it's really hard to do, can we use hydro foil to correct roll for exemple ?
I have a question. If I set APS ammo intakes from various sources.. Will it create an ammo belt including all those chosen ammo types? For example APBC,HESH,FRAG,AP...
Yup it will! :) may cause minor issues if they have different spreds though as the barrel will need a little time to reaim for those velocities between different shells.
When ever I attempt to use my sub, the pitch is so off the sub ends up upside down like a turtle on its back, been trying to fix it, yet to no avail. Any suggestions?
‘All you can expect from a sinking boat’ Basically that means it can sink and not move at all, erm Lathrix, that would mean it’s the worlds worst submarine!
Somehow I couldn't get my sub to respond to the heliblade spinners at all. As in, the spinners did their spinning as instructed but there was zero effect on my craft. Any thoughts on that?
How do you make it so stable with the default PID? i've made crafts wich are a third of the size with lightweight alloy and it always overshoots while saying "output overloaded" or something like that, the other day i literally spent 1 and a half hour fine tuning a PID on a spaceship and the best i got was a ship that wobbled from -5 to 5 pitch constantly
Light craft need less thrusters/propellers if you are going to use the default. Lower the top slider in the PID to reduce the % power of the thrusters if youI wish to keep the second amount of propulsion parts, hope that helps a little!
less power? so the "overload" is actually overshooting, right? thx Lathrix, i can't believe i didn't think of that, that explains how i've seen crafts so heavy stand in the air with less than the thursters i've put on mine
Dunno if it's still relevant, but missile radar buoys are the way. :D Make a small 2-3 block launcher with one ejector put nothing on it but the radar buoy and regulators. I usually combine this with an actual sonar, but the sonar is worthless for anything not in the water.
Lathrix, love all your videos, but as someone that has had trouble getting into FTD (bought and played after discovering your channel) these tutorials really helped me out! Thank you!
PS: Might be asking for too much but, If you could do one for each type of vehicle and weapons, it would help me out a ton! Either way, love the content! Hope this message finds you well :)
I would pay for that.
exactly the same story from me
Same here as well
Same for me. I could do with some pointers to help with the weapon systems in particular.
I personally have issues making small/cheap ships, EVERYThing turns into a Battle cruiser. so some small scaled designs would be awesome.
After 3 years he's still the same old UA-camr and I love it he just keeps being himself
can we get a updated tutorial on this? that would be so amazing, by far the best sub guide on youtube even 4 years later
Thank you very much for making these tutorials! I tried playing this game and figuring out how to make stuff and..... well..... you can guess what happened. I basically raged quit and never picked up the game again. I tried looking up tutorials, but all of them were out dated. Please keep making more FTD tutorials! :D
P.S. Could you make a tutorial on how to make aircraft (other than thruster-craft)? As well as the rest of weapon types and how to do the rest of engine/propulsion types?
i had several problems with making a sub and getting the ai to work correctly. so thank you for making pretty good tutorials. :)
10 months later it still kinda helps, would love to see you redo this with the current ACB's and PID's as they did change a bit. anyways,thx again mate.
Lath, tutorial? Is the devil freezing his butt off right now? Good, that sucker deserves it!
Sub tutorial against the clock, with options, common mistakes AND a look at your trouble shooting process? Stellar! Thank you!
I’d love to see some weapon options for it and tutorials for them. Then maybe an airship, then recommended weapons for that. With some careful spawning you could set up some creations vs faction balanced(ish) skirmishes, as part of building the fleet?
Thanks for the FtD stuff, it’s a time eater and when you’ve already spent so long in the game....this kind of stuff is really appreciated by those of us who want to build working designs without a spare day and the patience to sit and figure it out. 👍
I love your videos and have watched multiple ftd series and would love for you to do a full show ship build of a medium sized vessel that uses multiple weapons and take the time to explain all of the main steps because I’m sure there are more people that like me would love the extra help. Love what you’re doing man keep it up!!!
Like if he should do a plane tutorial
James not many people want a plane tutorial
He already did a plane tutorial
Blaze125 no that was a thrustercraft tutorial
I agree with James. I do not know how to make anything in this game, so these tutorials really are helping and I would appreciate if he would make a plane or aircraft tutorial.
Leon Trotsky so. it flies, in my mind that makes it a plane
I wondered for how long it would take for the next tutorial, glad its back
Could you do a turret advanced cannon(one that would be used on a turret) tutorial?
I got the game and started an adventure. (a few actually as I learned how things worked.) I built my typical efficient BOX build that I favor in resource limited games, double layered metal for high defense. I had figured out AI enough to run my weapons and PID enough to use hydrofoils to keep my ship from nosing up and flipping.
But I didn't have much firepower. (two, Type A 3.7in simple weapons) So I added super cavitation base and an AP head with 2 HE and 4 gunpowder, AND put sonar on my roof. Then i removed my pump and put holes in the floor.
Instant, slowly sinking, 'submarine'. I was shooting anything above me with AA guns while using meters of water as a shield. It was surprisingly effective and saved me from being overwhelmed a few times. I had used missiles/torps earlier but they would target the wrong thing often and cost too much to use with my resources so low.
Later I found a green gate I wanted to go into but it was in the air. I put a row of balloon boxes down the full length each side and got to ~100 meters. another row got me ~200, another ~300, another and more and more... I stripped almost all of the second layer of armor to reduce weight and because I needed the funds to buy more balloons. I FINALLY reached the portal at ~600 METERS.
BUUUT I was off target so I was in build mode flying into my ball of balloons trying to add jets (which I had no idea how to use) in an attempt to push my ship the half a ship length I needed to get into the portal. (0.1 speed is your friend) Managed to get inside and have been killing all the things.
Added 2 more 3.7in and 4 of the double barrel casements for 8 guns total and havent found anything that was too much to deal with since. Though the 200k+ material tanker (armored brick with a small missile launcher on a turret) took a WHILE to erode a hole to the AI. There was a small laser plane with forward swept wings that bobbed up and down that took a while because it stayed at range and wobbled a lot. heading to a blue portal with nearly 300k extra materials - gonna see what I can build. Probably gonna add some missile/torp launchers.
Still have no idea how to build a cram/APS/laser/fuel engine/steam engine/etc
If you're doing tutorials, I honestly think the one that most players still struggle with the most is advanced cannons - especially in how to get a sustained high fire rate. Hey, perhaps the next step is to give the submarine some supercavitation artillery, and even some torpedo defense cannons (the changes to HE and Flak radius vs missiles make anti-torpedo cannons viable again).
My best cannon is a gatling gun that shoots blanks xD
can you do an entire video on just the PIDs systems. I can use them for stabilizing boats just fine, but for everything else is a bit confusing
same my plane has a problem, it likes to be a stunt plane
I literally use to use bits and pieces of all of these systems on my subs and it works but it's super wonky :') Thank you for showing me how to complete my craft!!
Lath, I love that you made this tutorial, so very helpful and I have to concur with at least one other person in asking if you would consider doing them for all types of vehicles and weapons. I've had considerable trouble with From the Depths because although I've been playing it for several hundred hours, I've given up on it because none of my vehicles- despite looking good, being powerful weapons wise or being efficient can never be any mix of the three- None are ever campaign viable. The furthest I've gotten is destroying the Onyx throne and that was so barely that I had nothing left afterwards. Either way, Thank you! this tutorial will certainly help me a lot :)
How about branching this series off into a challenge building series? For example a video where you can only build using the Prefabs the game gives you like the Copperhead turret and the Bertha.
7:15 Roll thrusters/propellers can be all the way at the tail or the nose instead of on the center of mass... _as long as_ each of them is matched with another roll motor on the opposite side (at an _equal distance_ from the centerline) facing the opposite direction. For instance, a delta-wing aircraft could have four roll thrusters at the very rear tips of its wings, one facing up and one down on each side, as long as they are vertically aligned with each other -- the same distance left/right and forward/backward relative to each other. If the distances don't match you can end up rolling around a slightly different axis than straight forward/backward, or adding vertical thrust or pitch rotation forces, and generally becoming a bit wobbly. Battle damage is also a slightly greater concern than it is if the roll thrusters are near the center of mass, but for a lot of designs it wouldn't be a significant factor. Roll is typically the easiest axis for PID to control, and when you've taken enough damage that it loses roll stability you almost certainly have bigger problems than leaning a little to one side. ;)
My prayers, HAVE BEEN ANSWERED =D. Thank you so much Lath (or Lathrix or Lathland)!
I would really love a tutorial on airships, and more than that, although this one may have time issues, I would really like one on how you build helicopter hulls, as my attempts to do so haven't worked out that well. Latter would be really time intensive, but would be hugely helpful for understanding how you make such awesome aircraft and stuff!
Awesome vid!
Oh my god thank you! I have been asking for this forever.
Thank you so much for the tutorial videos Lathland it is making the game way more fun! Could you please do a tutorial on detection systems. I understand the concept but there are so many different detection systems and it is hard finding places to put them where they are fully effective. Thank you again, continue the great work!
Thank you a lot! I actually really wanted to make subs in from the depths but since I am in the IB I don't really have the time to try to understand this game deeply so thanks a lot for this tutorial.
Hey Lathrix, I'd love to see you come back to FTD. A huge update just came out that updated and changed multiple things and i'd live to see you building again ;P
You are my absolute favorite variety content creator, and FTD is probably the most entertaining game to watch! Ide love to play it but i only really build crafts for tournaments not really campaign haha
Tournaments are really fun too. And you can take campaign as a tournament, since what you are basically doing is building to some restrictions.
Which ones havbe you participated in, btw?
just some with my friends, but they have since stopped playing. So now i just push the limits of mechanics and try to make best tournament craft i can so when ever i find another one to join ill get to submit.
Well, can I point you to both the subreddit, FromTheDepths or te better option, the Tournaments tab on the official forums? www.fromthedepthsgame.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=117 People've been recording tournaments too.
You should definitely make a pid tutorial soon, I’ve heard so many great things about them but have no idea how they work
You helped me learn how to use PIDs!
A return to teaching how From the Depths works?
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Lathrix, I love your FtD content and you're far too modest about your building skills. That said, I'm a little torn on this one. Honestly, the stuff in here could apply to most vehicles, not just subs. I'm just disappointed you avoided from really explaining anything about PIDs. Five minutes for a few tips like the fact that setting integrative time to no limit is usually beneficial/simpler unless you're seeking a very specific effect and tweaking the gain to fix rocking issues and such would have gone a long way. Anyway, I'm mostly jealous of your ability to create cost-efficient vehicles that don't look like bricks or bland boats. If you make more tutorials, I'd really like a simple collection of tips that you picked up along the years that help you getting the desired results, save resources, be dodgy, be tanky, volume/cost/operating cost thresholds and so on.
Thank you for doing this tutorial. I have never been able to fully get into the PID system. I'm kinda sad you did not show off the hydrofoil system but i guess i will have to experiment with it.
A lathrixian tutorial about submarines? I know what I'm doing this week
i actually just started doing my first fairly serious submarine yesterday. i'd originally planned on making a melee ship that used a ball of spinning pikes held by a dock as a sort of morning star, but it turns out that docked vehicles interact with the rest of the game's physics really oddly (the rams did no damage, but it could flip ships of any size around... it was confusing) so started work on a sub instead.
nearly no drag. props, dediblades and hydrofoils for depth, pitch and roll, for maximum redundancy, and dediblade assisted movement. i think i'm going overboard, but it seems appropriate given the game. just need to decide whether i want to go with the traditional torpedo/missile role, or get weird and mess around with supercavitation aps, magnetic mines or something even stranger. decisions, decisions. :)
and on reloading it, i realized that i may end up with enough space for ballast tanks to add a touch more unpowered depth, pitch and roll control... i hope this things proves to be as hard to sink (er... sinke more...) as i hope. there's so much stuff in here that i'm lifting from your letsplays and whatnot... FOR SCIENCE!
Ive never been great at from the depths. The most effective ship i ever build was basically a massive floating triple cram cannon with a load of shields. It busted most things through shear firepower but couldnt take a hit. Its only recently that ive started to get the hang of large ships that dont get destroyed when their health is still at 90%
Funny to see this. Considering I made a tiny sub drone last night.
I'm having trouble with my pith and roll propellers, i have everything the same as in the video but they just won't spin.
Great job on the rest of the vid tho, Thanks man
Hey Lath, quick heads up. Next patch has an ACB rework. Stuff should still work but you'll get a lot more functionality out of the same system. Since you can do AND, OR and NOTs people are alreay starting to do calculators and CPUs
AdNecrias sooo... They are making bigger and more complicated LUA boxes?
Not really. For the average dude it'simply logic blocks. Think redstone.
AdNecrias oh ok, I see
Lath, I was wondering if you upload your builds anywhere? I know you won’t do it on the workshop, but I know many would appreciate it a lot if you uploaded them on some other medium.
Lath, didnt you say you were going to do a tutorial series on different aspects.
Subs are a good start.
But I'd like to suggest:
Fuel Engines
Hovercraft/Airships
AI controls (Having a ship keep itself pointing at the enemy, (I can NOT get this to work like EVER lol)
thank u lath i found this vid very usefull cuz im starting to play this game
For a sec there, I though lathland was commenting on his own video.
Hey Lathrix I was wondering if you would start another Factorio gameplay? I really liked the one you did back then.
Can you do a Tutorial about making our vehicles hard to see/detect?
I actually like the hydrofoils, they work well for me but, I never bother to center my dediblades, I just make a super aggressive pitch with hydrofoils,
Please make more IN DEPTH "how to" videos for FROM THE DEPTHS. I want to learn this game but i cant get anything larger then 2 blocks to fly properly on AI
Animefreakah You just need a giant engine and a giant heliblade. Add some control blocks and you got an airship that can stay in the air
Correct me if I'm wrong, but at 20:30 I think you were supposed to make them Roll (LHS) instead of Thruster Reverse.
Yay 😁 a tutorial on subs
Fantastic tutorial, you def have a knack for it. Also stop being so hard on your speech, I dont even notice things until you point them out. You sound fine dude. Great video 7/5!
as far as i can remember you don't actually need a PID to control hydrofoils as they can be controlled directly with the control blocks.
As someone who builds too many subs and I never use air pumps as the barely do anything significant, also I tend to use hidden hydrofoils for altitude.
hidden spinblocks are probably the easiest way period.... they are also not vulnerable to damage as the hydrofoils are so goddamn fragile.
I won't say anything new by dediblades and height above seabed ACBs resulting all terrain submarines, I think.
Maybe a type of video where you just state your new ideas we could steal, erm learn. Maybe with a few examples.
thanks for this! brilliant
you should use instant spin and one control block instead of two, it is better in any way especially if you add some backup control blocks for it
Love you vids. More tutorial plis.
Ive been waiting for this!
I think the PID is a double edge sword, it stops your vehicle from bobbing up and down (For airships) but because your ship doesn't bob up and down its therefor easier to hit..
So I never use the PID system unless its absolutely necessary, lol
pokeface119 The AI doesn't know how to hit stuff under water regardless, so that's usually irrelevant, unless the thing uses supercav advanced cannons.
Best help!!! now i can finally rest in peace with a functional Sub in the Sea :3
Like if he should upload the stuff he makes to the workshop
This includes campaign
He said a while back that he won't becuase that would cause his designs to be put ahead of others due to them recognizing his name.
Yeah, and seeing other's creations is pretty important too, if he uploaded his then the workshop would get wrecked by lathrix's fleets xD
lath, you do know there is a control setting in the PID that allows it to control air pumps for alt
Showing the options helps us see what we have, but the biggest problem is how do we set them up, what kind of trial and error we have to go through and what is more important for doing what we want it to do.
The last Battlesub, Galactica.
skrv Nerrrrrd!
Lath...can you make a separate PID tutorial?
Finally!
Hey Lathrix, once the tiers in robocraft are added in, will you make videos about it again?
Please can you do more tutorials as I am bad at the game
way late, but watched this and learned about how to do the sub... then after had to bash a brick wall of pain to get it to work finally.
Well, sitting in my school bus, seeing this, 1 thought came to mind
*My God Lathland, it took you long enough*
Your next video should be *"How to git gud at FTD"*
lmao
Thanks for this, but can you maybe do a really quick Ai and detection system tutorial for confused buggers like me?
Xeridan just literally get one coincidence range finder a snooper and then place several gimbal trackers everywhere
any chance we ca get a updated version to use the newer PID's since the UI for them is very different now
Lath wanted to ask if you ever played "Space Pirates and Zombies 2" or if you maybe will play it as it could be your kind of game :D
Hey, I noticed u commented on a white box learning rocket video saying you got 30 seconds on a rocket. Can u plz share your information with me
hello Lathrix, i wanted to ask you how would you ,by not using nor PID's and propeller nor spinblocked propmake a submarine be balanced ? Lot of person just suggered having a perfect CoM/... but it's really hard to do, can we use hydro foil to correct roll for exemple ?
I have a question. If I set APS ammo intakes from various sources.. Will it create an ammo belt including all those chosen ammo types? For example APBC,HESH,FRAG,AP...
Yup it will! :) may cause minor issues if they have different spreds though as the barrel will need a little time to reaim for those velocities between different shells.
When ever I attempt to use my sub, the pitch is so off the sub ends up upside down like a turtle on its back, been trying to fix it, yet to no avail. Any suggestions?
‘All you can expect from a sinking boat’ Basically that means it can sink and not move at all, erm Lathrix, that would mean it’s the worlds worst submarine!
Somehow I couldn't get my sub to respond to the heliblade spinners at all. As in, the spinners did their spinning as instructed but there was zero effect on my craft. Any thoughts on that?
Robert Ponsteen that would mean your dediblades arent powerful enough to influence your sub
wish this was up 2 date
There were so much updates, so I will slowly ease back into this wonderful game.
Would you?
How do you make it so stable with the default PID? i've made crafts wich are a third of the size with lightweight alloy and it always overshoots while saying "output overloaded" or something like that, the other day i literally spent 1 and a half hour fine tuning a PID on a spaceship and the best i got was a ship that wobbled from -5 to 5 pitch constantly
Light craft need less thrusters/propellers if you are going to use the default. Lower the top slider in the PID to reduce the % power of the thrusters if youI wish to keep the second amount of propulsion parts, hope that helps a little!
less power? so the "overload" is actually overshooting, right?
thx Lathrix, i can't believe i didn't think of that, that explains how i've seen crafts so heavy stand in the air with less than the thursters i've put on mine
Could you pls go into detail for the pid?
Cool!
When I do this and I did everything you did the back go up higher then the front, plz help
Ya know this kinda looks like your trilobyte sub from forever ago. I still use a version of it. XD
can we get a detection system tutorial please? can't seem to get it right
Dunno if it's still relevant, but missile radar buoys are the way. :D Make a small 2-3 block launcher with one ejector put nothing on it but the radar buoy and regulators. I usually combine this with an actual sonar, but the sonar is worthless for anything not in the water.
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“Greetings sir and sirets”
***several tumblr accounts are typing***
The end is near
The beast has been unleashed
do a plane or airship one plz
done everything the same way it just wont work :( keeps rotating and floating
wow you use pid. i just took a basic shape, threw on some hydrofoils, add the controll blocks, and bam my game braking vehicle was finished
Wat are best wepons for subs?
Put this into your sieris building the fleet + this should use one railgun and MANY MANY TORPEDOES
this is already outdate please play from the depth again there was a hughe update if you didnt know
pls do plane tutorial
Lath... you set the left side roll to thruster reverse accidentally. xD
Well if you want a sinking boat just put a metal hill and a.I with no propellers at all and maybe a torpedo system.☺☺☺
ACBs are different now so this spin block thing doesn't work like that
How to air ship pls!!
Finally
Holy shit yes!
what tool is used?
Yay :D
the heliblade you almost forgot to remove gave me anxiety
Same I was like "OMGAWD REMOVE DAT PLZZZ MY BRAIN"
"we are rocking horribly" *Meanwhile my first submarine looks like it's drunk ;3;*