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Maybe do a power coupling race? Give the players the same wheel mechanism you’ve made so that they have it available, but then everyone has to innovate their own builds to help win the race!
Copy the wheels, rotate 90 degrees, paste on the outside of the old wheels and make them a little bit oval then it should only be power couplings touching the ground.
17:54 Yeah I've noticed heli engines have a limited amount of torque so if you put even a moderate amount of mass on it it will slow them down no matter how fast you bump up the speed setting.
Other Ideas: - Power Truck Race (pulled by wagons with power couplers) - Power Car (a car just made out of entirely power couplers) - Power Plane (a plane just made out of entirely power couplers) - Power Coupler Art? - Power Fishing pole (suggested by kilbymorgan8626) - Power Lightsaber
He did suspension car in SM right? I totally wanna see power coupling car at different stiffness levels. I hope it drives like jelly car from that old ios game.
I just came up with a goofy multiplayer idea: The Angry Zeus Challenge. You and another player each build a small car with a limited top speed, and a large airship. The large airship drops power couplings onto the small car trying to destroy it (if they don't do damage attach a small explosive to them). The car that travels the furthest or lasts the longest wins.
in this implementation, the attachment point is uncushioned, which introduces bumpiness. What if you used 2 ovals in 90 degree offsets, the goal being that it's always the middle pc is what has contact, making it always cushioned
You could have flipped one of the inner pistons so that the base replaces the 3 way pipe piece. That would have allowed you to make a centerpoint to rotate without a large gap
No way! My creation made a thumbnail and even inspired another video! I don't think my life could be even more complete now! lol Btw, on my creation there's 3 power couplers per "wheels", the center one is at 0 stiffness and the other 2 are at 50% stiffness, this helps make them bend into the right shape more easily while retaining some stiffness on those that end up supporting the weight of the craft. Cheers! Keep up the good work!
Upgraded "wheel" idea. Make several curved and compressed sections of power couplings and offset them each by a certain amount of degrees to maintain contact with the ground without the attachment points getting hit
Know what I wanna see? Attach helicopter blades to power couplers... Do they still work? Is the lift force correctly generated at each blade, causing them to all bow upwards, or does the game simplify the physics and just generate the upward force at the center of rotation so they would sag down?
This was my first test. They do still work, but the couplings flex upward and with enough force the blades will touch/entangle. I'd love to see ScrapMan make it fully functional though.
I initially tried using one, then two side by side. The second didn't seem to add much rigidity even with both at max. Didn't try anything more than two, but the bulk that would be added by more would probably not be worth any potential effects. Honestly if you keep to lower speeds, like 1/3 trigger pull, it can be used decently but once you up the speed the instability takes hold.
@@-user_redacted- Did you try them stacked vertically instead of side by side? In that configuration, it would be trying to compress one and stretch the other. No idea if that would help much, or maybe it would just twist and buckle...
It actually worked fine for me at max rigidity. I managed to make a tiny flying vehicle that just consisted of two stacked helicopter blades spinning in opposite directions, a gyro for steering, and a thruster for directional movement. It was only like 6 units in diameter excluding the blades and yet flew better than anything I have ever made. When flying around too quickly, the blades did collide sometimes, but a second set of couplings completely fixed that. I don't know if it was the low weight that made the difference, or if mine does not move as fast. If it makes a difference, I believe that the power couplings on mine are two sections long in order to make sure they clear the outer shell that they clip through.
I had this idea recently, which I thought could turn out pretty cool. You could build some arresting wires, set them up on the aircraft carrier and try landing a plane with a hook into them
Nice! Here's an idea for a future project: Since they spaz out fairly easily, could you maybe use that to your advantage to create some kind of intended motion? (make them spaz in such a way that it results in a controllable vehicle???)
@scrapman perhaps try rolling the power couplers as a sphere rather then a circle. (like a barrel) would take more power couplers but would be simpler to maintain center
Thats an amazing idea! Im sure someone is gonna find a way to make it so the connectors dont stick out so they dont break but already a amazing start!!!
You mentioning a fake engine gave me an idea for an update, people might hate it, and people might love it, they should add a separate helicopter motor that is reliant on engines, more engine, more fast, but keep the original helicopter motor how it is, because it would ruin loads of people's existing blueprints, idk if my other update ideas where seen but here's this one
I'm wondering if a motorcycle would work. The power coupling wheels seem to have a very low top speed, and motorcycles need a high speed to maintain their balance. Might be an idea worth playing with.
The only change I would have made would be to use power coupling as suspension. And maybe you could use power coupling to make an articulated bus or trailer hitch
You should make the wheels slightly oval with the middle of the power couple being the long diameter so they stick out further than the connector pieces, then double up the wheels so each wheel has 4 arches instead of 2 and they are offset by 90 degrees. The idea is to have the power couple "bubble" protect the connector pieces so that only power couple edges touch the ground. If you have a hard time picturing what I described, imagine a single wheel, duplicate it and rotate it 90 degrees in the direction of the rolling and overlay it onto itself
Ok no! We need a part 2. Make them intentionally more oval shaped. Double up each wheel like a dooly and turn the next set 90° so that the extra long oval shaps will cover up the connectors at the steering hinges. And why not keep going and make it 4 wide so it will actually look like a normal thickness lightning wheel. And maybe double stack the helicopter engine and rotating servoes for a little more speed. The main video idea could be to make your own suspension using power couplers but this could just add on to this vehicle.
You should do a 0 Power Core plane dogfight with a single Smart Cannon, it is possible with to fly with servos like you did used them for wheels in this video. I used helicopter blades for mine but I'd love to see what y'all could come up with and how the fights would go
Hey scrap, you could try putting 2 of these wheels next to each other and using them as a single wider wheel, so my thought process is that because your wheels are slight ovals, you can hopefully change the angle of one of the wheels, thus making 4 higher contact points on the ground and hopefully way less bounce with each wheel. Hope this helps if you try it :)
Double these up, rotated 90 degrees on the outer so that the hoop of the outer wheels covers the gap of the inner wheels. I suspect it might help deal with the breakage issue with the wheels.
1:23 - I imagine it just will, if you place 2 of them 90º (probably a little less) on them to each side and poof the contraption should contract by itself.
something i notice is that every now and then when trying to make something with a bunch of moving parts like hinges, gyros, etc, very close together, sometimes it builds the vehicle wrongly and causes a whole lot of glitches, then decides that the vehicle was always meant to be that way and will always glitch out with that blueprint having those parts together, forcing me to scrap the whole thing and start from scratch. seriously, once i put 4 gyro stabilizers in a 2x3x4 brick for a vehicle i was working on, normally this is fine, i use it for a lot of stuff, but then it decided that it would cause constant wobbling and shaking when turning it on, and i had to start over.
Improvement idea: Make each wheel a dually. Double up the wheels, putting the second layer at a 90 degree offset. It'll make them tougher and smoother.
I womder if you could make some weird kind of leaf spring suspension, say if you change the stiffness of the couplings on either side of a wheel. Thats an idea I would love to see scrapman make
try replacing the flat connectors with 2x1 block or wedge pieces and put a friction block on the end, it should provide better traction and might also increase durability of the wheel
6:51 - it's so funny because I'm looking at it as an ousider and it just looks kinda obvious... ya know, to flip those to the inside...there's even 2 free pipes in the middle... like... hahaha
Could add the power couplings to the rotor blades of a helicopter in different colors, have a neon strobe effect in the dark for a “night fight” as the only means of seeing each other.
Seeing you play this game is so relaxing Scrap I'm a recent sub and I've been enjoying your videos and watching you play is making me think more of what I wanna do for my creations I recently got a computer you should make a video on building tips on how you end up building the builds you do and more of an insight on the thought process
You could use the power couplers also as "spokes" If you have them spool up a bit, make a slight spiral they will act like a air filled wheel and prove spring to the "tire" The tire for this that's a whole other thing
I have a theory but I have not been able to get it to work. If it does work though I think it would be cool if you and yuzei made a car and then attached a glider to the back of said car using the power couplings almost like a kite and then raced. If you want to make it really hard you could require the seat to be on the glider and do first person camera
Imagine how much more you could do if they added an option to have hinges that start at a 90 degree angle or pistons that start either extended or retracted based on what you need.
You could make a race where you can have flat tires, imagine hitting a rock and REALLY having a flat, if you stack them a little, you could have them have maybe more durability or something, that would be so cool
I would like to see if you did the same setup with a second set of wheels on the outside with a 90-degree offset to increase traction and stability. It seems you are losing speed when the vehicle bumps off the ground, which is why you are not seeing a speed increase between 7 and 10
hey mr scrap man, what if you doubled up the power coupler wheels so there are 2 for each wheel? you could have them rotated 90° from each other and that might keep the ends of the couplers from hitting the ground.
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That's how I wake up every morning swap the coffee for sum pop tarts tho
he reinvented the wheel
Although: Scrap could you stop posting videos of ideas i have b4 i extract them from my white matter? it matters thx :love: :Daddy Shark: 🧔🏻♂🦈
Maybe do a power coupling race? Give the players the same wheel mechanism you’ve made so that they have it available, but then everyone has to innovate their own builds to help win the race!
Or let em build their own power couple wheels
yes please
And then evolve it
@@Mrclip-br3vzconsidering it was an entire video making wheels
Yeahhhh no.
Copy the wheels, rotate 90 degrees, paste on the outside of the old wheels and make them a little bit oval then it should only be power couplings touching the ground.
their attachments also touch. Making it smooth is either impossible or needs multiple layers of power coupling (bent more than what would be round)
I think "perfectly round" wheels will not be possible
This would be better
17:54 Yeah I've noticed heli engines have a limited amount of torque so if you put even a moderate amount of mass on it it will slow them down no matter how fast you bump up the speed setting.
Other Ideas:
- Power Truck Race (pulled by wagons with power couplers)
- Power Car (a car just made out of entirely power couplers)
- Power Plane (a plane just made out of entirely power couplers)
- Power Coupler Art?
- Power Fishing pole (suggested by kilbymorgan8626)
- Power Lightsaber
The vehicles are possible, and art and the bridge but a bow or a crossbow are highly unstable after conclusive testing
When a power car is possible, an invisible car should be possible as well😂
Trebuchet
He did suspension car in SM right?
I totally wanna see power coupling car at different stiffness levels.
I hope it drives like jelly car from that old ios game.
I think he's already made a bridge and a ballista.
I just came up with a goofy multiplayer idea: The Angry Zeus Challenge. You and another player each build a small car with a limited top speed, and a large airship. The large airship drops power couplings onto the small car trying to destroy it (if they don't do damage attach a small explosive to them). The car that travels the furthest or lasts the longest wins.
Great idea!!!!
yes
in this implementation, the attachment point is uncushioned, which introduces bumpiness. What if you used 2 ovals in 90 degree offsets, the goal being that it's always the middle pc is what has contact, making it always cushioned
And then a cool feature you could add is basically a park mode where the wheels extend and become rectangles, you know so it won’t roll away😂
That’s hilarious, “Uh-oh something broke… all wheels appear to round. Keep going.” Such a true scientist 😂😂😂
You could have flipped one of the inner pistons so that the base replaces the 3 way pipe piece. That would have allowed you to make a centerpoint to rotate without a large gap
2:53 perfectly cut scream
No way! My creation made a thumbnail and even inspired another video! I don't think my life could be even more complete now! lol
Btw, on my creation there's 3 power couplers per "wheels", the center one is at 0 stiffness and the other 2 are at 50% stiffness, this helps make them bend into the right shape more easily while retaining some stiffness on those that end up supporting the weight of the craft.
Cheers! Keep up the good work!
Upgraded "wheel" idea. Make several curved and compressed sections of power couplings and offset them each by a certain amount of degrees to maintain contact with the ground without the attachment points getting hit
Only the attachment points have collision though.
Looked like the beams have collisions on those wheels
2:54 “ahh”
I wonder if there is a way to control the glitching of the power cufflinks and fly of use it as sort of an engine
Know what I wanna see? Attach helicopter blades to power couplers... Do they still work? Is the lift force correctly generated at each blade, causing them to all bow upwards, or does the game simplify the physics and just generate the upward force at the center of rotation so they would sag down?
This was my first test. They do still work, but the couplings flex upward and with enough force the blades will touch/entangle.
I'd love to see ScrapMan make it fully functional though.
@@-user_redacted- Interesting. Does doubling or tripling them up help, or is it diminishing returns?
I initially tried using one, then two side by side. The second didn't seem to add much rigidity even with both at max. Didn't try anything more than two, but the bulk that would be added by more would probably not be worth any potential effects.
Honestly if you keep to lower speeds, like 1/3 trigger pull, it can be used decently but once you up the speed the instability takes hold.
@@-user_redacted- Did you try them stacked vertically instead of side by side?
In that configuration, it would be trying to compress one and stretch the other. No idea if that would help much, or maybe it would just twist and buckle...
It actually worked fine for me at max rigidity. I managed to make a tiny flying vehicle that just consisted of two stacked helicopter blades spinning in opposite directions, a gyro for steering, and a thruster for directional movement. It was only like 6 units in diameter excluding the blades and yet flew better than anything I have ever made. When flying around too quickly, the blades did collide sometimes, but a second set of couplings completely fixed that. I don't know if it was the low weight that made the difference, or if mine does not move as fast. If it makes a difference, I believe that the power couplings on mine are two sections long in order to make sure they clear the outer shell that they clip through.
I had this idea recently, which I thought could turn out pretty cool. You could build some arresting wires, set them up on the aircraft carrier and try landing a plane with a hook into them
Ohhhhh, yes please!
@@suicidalbanananana that would be cool right?
Nice! Here's an idea for a future project: Since they spaz out fairly easily, could you maybe use that to your advantage to create some kind of intended motion? (make them spaz in such a way that it results in a controllable vehicle???)
What would look funny is if the power coupler's energy beam was invisible.
@scrapman perhaps try rolling the power couplers as a sphere rather then a circle. (like a barrel) would take more power couplers but would be simpler to maintain center
"why not try that"
Spaghetti Scrap man, this is how you get spaghetti
10:34 The Grinch face😂
I totally see it now lmao!
Wow yeah 😂
Since those power couplers bend even under the player, you could try to determine the weight of the player.
Interesting, but you can also build a scale easily.
Thats an amazing idea! Im sure someone is gonna find a way to make it so the connectors dont stick out so they dont break but already a amazing start!!!
The orange color on the power couplings makes me think of fire wheels on a Ghost Rider vehicle. :D
i recommend adding some kind of blocks on the pistons to make it have the hard points on the other 2 90° lines
So adding like + in the middle
maybe you should double them up with the other set rotated 45 degrees to give you more contact points.
Maybe you could make tank treads out of the power couplings? (You might have to go double wide or more but I think it could work)
Well... now you HAVE to have a race with other people using only power-coupling wheels :D
You mentioning a fake engine gave me an idea for an update, people might hate it, and people might love it, they should add a separate helicopter motor that is reliant on engines, more engine, more fast, but keep the original helicopter motor how it is, because it would ruin loads of people's existing blueprints, idk if my other update ideas where seen but here's this one
A battle or race with power coupler wheels sounds like a grand time!
Oh darn scrapman popped his tires!
I'm wondering if a motorcycle would work. The power coupling wheels seem to have a very low top speed, and motorcycles need a high speed to maintain their balance. Might be an idea worth playing with.
The only change I would have made would be to use power coupling as suspension. And maybe you could use power coupling to make an articulated bus or trailer hitch
would be really cool to see you all go back a few years and redo some of the "cooler" challenges
You should make the wheels slightly oval with the middle of the power couple being the long diameter so they stick out further than the connector pieces, then double up the wheels so each wheel has 4 arches instead of 2 and they are offset by 90 degrees. The idea is to have the power couple "bubble" protect the connector pieces so that only power couple edges touch the ground.
If you have a hard time picturing what I described, imagine a single wheel, duplicate it and rotate it 90 degrees in the direction of the rolling and overlay it onto itself
Ok no! We need a part 2. Make them intentionally more oval shaped. Double up each wheel like a dooly and turn the next set 90° so that the extra long oval shaps will cover up the connectors at the steering hinges. And why not keep going and make it 4 wide so it will actually look like a normal thickness lightning wheel. And maybe double stack the helicopter engine and rotating servoes for a little more speed.
The main video idea could be to make your own suspension using power couplers but this could just add on to this vehicle.
You should do a 0 Power Core plane dogfight with a single Smart Cannon, it is possible with to fly with servos like you did used them for wheels in this video. I used helicopter blades for mine but I'd love to see what y'all could come up with and how the fights would go
i think they should make the stiffness able to get even lower, because with the current lowest stiffness it's still pretty stiff
Wheel spokes with power couplings would probably look cool.
Absolutely
You should try to make tank tracks with the power couplers
4:19 A double jumprope is Double Dutch? This was new to me! #SmarterEveryDay
Hey scrap, you could try putting 2 of these wheels next to each other and using them as a single wider wheel, so my thought process is that because your wheels are slight ovals, you can hopefully change the angle of one of the wheels, thus making 4 higher contact points on the ground and hopefully way less bounce with each wheel. Hope this helps if you try it :)
2:00 don’t stretch that much proceeds to make spaghetti
Double these up, rotated 90 degrees on the outer so that the hoop of the outer wheels covers the gap of the inner wheels. I suspect it might help deal with the breakage issue with the wheels.
Power caterpillar when??
18:11 Somehow Chariots of fire by Vangelis started playing in my head.
Try a tensegrity build!
1:23 - I imagine it just will, if you place 2 of them 90º (probably a little less) on them to each side and poof the contraption should contract by itself.
Power coupler gocart but the frame of the gocart is just power couplers lol
Really enjoyed watching you do this for some reason and extremely impressed. I mean I NEVER would have gotten that to work. NEVER
This looks like it would be cool to make a tron bike with that glowing wheel
something i notice is that every now and then when trying to make something with a bunch of moving parts like hinges, gyros, etc, very close together, sometimes it builds the vehicle wrongly and causes a whole lot of glitches, then decides that the vehicle was always meant to be that way and will always glitch out with that blueprint having those parts together, forcing me to scrap the whole thing and start from scratch. seriously, once i put 4 gyro stabilizers in a 2x3x4 brick for a vehicle i was working on, normally this is fine, i use it for a lot of stuff, but then it decided that it would cause constant wobbling and shaking when turning it on, and i had to start over.
Improvement idea:
Make each wheel a dually.
Double up the wheels, putting the second layer at a 90 degree offset.
It'll make them tougher and smoother.
I had the almost exact same idea :D
I womder if you could make some weird kind of leaf spring suspension, say if you change the stiffness of the couplings on either side of a wheel. Thats an idea I would love to see scrapman make
Suggestion: make a Power buster.
Let him have some fun, make him a jedi, ligtning god or just a guy doing rope jumps.
i think the helicopter engines become less in sync the more you drive so they break pretty quick because the wheels are still a little uncircleish
This would be a fun battle
definetly i want to see that scrapman
try replacing the flat connectors with 2x1 block or wedge pieces and put a friction block on the end, it should provide better traction and might also increase durability of the wheel
you should try to make a Tron bike with power couplers
15:38 I've been having that problem since like release of the airborne update I think, it's so annoying.
6:51 - it's so funny because I'm looking at it as an ousider and it just looks kinda obvious... ya know, to flip those to the inside...there's even 2 free pipes in the middle... like... hahaha
The first thing I thought of after seeing the power coupling wheels work is if tank tracks are now possible in trailmakers
you could try to double or triple the power couplers to have a wider wheel, maybe it will make them more smooth and solid
Amazing wheels! What about an array of power couplers going straight out from a center point, maybe 10 or so to make a wheel with a bunch of whips?
9:22 that moment when wheel
This was honestly realy impressive.
Could add the power couplings to the rotor blades of a helicopter in different colors, have a neon strobe effect in the dark for a “night fight” as the only means of seeing each other.
Scrap man I have an idea for a dogfight it is a land dogfight with the power coupler wheels I hope u like the idea bye stay safe
Seeing you play this game is so relaxing Scrap I'm a recent sub and I've been enjoying your videos and watching you play is making me think more of what I wanna do for my creations I recently got a computer you should make a video on building tips on how you end up building the builds you do and more of an insight on the thought process
You could use the power couplers also as "spokes"
If you have them spool up a bit, make a slight spiral they will act like a air filled wheel and prove spring to the "tire"
The tire for this that's a whole other thing
Reinventing the wheel ✨ 4:19
You should do a monday multiplayer where you can onlu use power couplings to build your vehicles. Air, land and sea ofc.
Great idea. Try to use power couplers as centipede legs. 1 end attached to the vehicle the other on the ground. (Centipede car)
Scrapman doesn’t realize he just created airless wheels
Day 176 of asking ScrapMan to play crossout.
This was pretty sick scrapman.
19.30 when the loose end of the power coupler lifts the vehicle... hmmm. Maybe possible to build a walker with flailing power couplers for legs?
Day 106 of asking scrapman to test how fast emp is in trailmakers
Could you try and use sails and power couplers you could possibly make a air ballon in some kind ofway
People at 9:30 with the exact same reaction
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I could see a drone or helicopter fight where you use power coupler whips as weapons to try and mess with the others propelers
"round good" 15:48
Make a part two where you try to make a fastest power coupling car with thrusters
Plz do it
Oh, there's an idea for Multiplayer Mondays; maybe use these babies to try and make a Spaghetti Launcher. Could be potentially damaging (?)
I have a theory but I have not been able to get it to work. If it does work though I think it would be cool if you and yuzei made a car and then attached a glider to the back of said car using the power couplings almost like a kite and then raced. If you want to make it really hard you could require the seat to be on the glider and do first person camera
Imagine how much more you could do if they added an option to have hinges that start at a 90 degree angle or pistons that start either extended or retracted based on what you need.
You could make tank tracks with this. It would look realistic if it got shot out.
You could make a race where you can have flat tires, imagine hitting a rock and REALLY having a flat, if you stack them a little, you could have them have maybe more durability or something, that would be so cool
I would like to see if you did the same setup with a second set of wheels on the outside with a 90-degree offset to increase traction and stability. It seems you are losing speed when the vehicle bumps off the ground, which is why you are not seeing a speed increase between 7 and 10
Another solution to the problem (11:10 / 20:06), suspension so only the suspension moves in compensation
Make power coupling helicopter like have the blades need them or somthing else or do a full power coupling copter
Now you need to race these right? Maybe have this as a static addon component and the rest of the car players can design.
Could you build a wreckingball with this?
I love your videos man, keep up the good work
just 3 minutes in right now, and I can tell there's going to be power coupler based robots in near future.
we need a race with these wheels
On my phone how does this video open in background of youtube but i cannot do the same with another video😂😂
Should invent power coupling suspension
With the looks of them when in motion makes me think (if can put a trail behind) would look great built into a Tron Bike
hey mr scrap man, what if you doubled up the power coupler wheels so there are 2 for each wheel? you could have them rotated 90° from each other and that might keep the ends of the couplers from hitting the ground.