Tune your Sprocket Tanks for MAX PERFORMANCE!
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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Today we will be going over how to configure your vehicles in Sprocket Tank Design to perform at their best! Here I demonstrate processes and tricks that allow you to set up your transmissions, suspensions, and engines to prevent issues such as poor acceleration, bad turning speed, and terrible climbing speeds.
Thanks to everyone who helped contribute to this video, including @Nirrti from the official Sprocket Discord and @retrospektro1d606 from the ICo community!
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I do wish we get more suspension types. Torsion bar and HVSS is fime, but we need horizontal leafsprings for authentic erlier designs, and christie, because it was insanely videspread. I can live without hydropneumatic weelhub suspension, as its a cold war invention, but it would be nice to have as the ultimate option with no downsides.
Leafsprings are supposed to be coming next.
I really want some vvss suspension.
Give me 3 wheel horstman suspension (valintine)
I would like to have the option to completely remove the suspension (for WWI tanks)
Yeah, Horstmann and Christie needs to be added.
Thank you for this, the mobility side of designing has always been the most confusing for me.
Your welcome, glad it helped!
Very interesting and informative. It should probably be noted that the diameter of your sprocket also seems to change the torque from the transmission. Big sprocket reduces torque and increases speed, where as a small sprocket will increase torque but reduce speed. This can make a pretty big impact on your gearing and engine.
Correct, that's why I made sure to specify doing these tunings last. Might have helped to better specify that info about the sprocket specifically in the video though.
I figured I would point it out. It was something I didn’t realize right away when I first started and as a result really struggled with getting low torque engines to work well.
is it not the opposite?
note i have just started the video.
@@confusionz1625 Sprocket diameter acts as a "final gear" but does the inverse of your transmission. Bigger sprocket gears generate less torque but spin the tracks at a faster speed.
In most non-replica builds, using a small sprocket wheel is ideal since that also means your transmission gears can weigh less.
BTW, track width (I mean width of the track, not width between two tracks) can reduce or increase rolling resistance. Generally the narrower tracks the less resistance, but higher ground peassure, so it can increase speed at hard surfaces.
I don't think Sprocket has all of those variables factored in yet, since it's pretty easy to notice that your speed isn't affected by the surface type. Currently, you can travel through Taiga's thick snow almost as easily as the sandbox's runway. That's why I didn't cover those factors in this video.
@@thewonderwaffleofficial Oh, I see now, thanks. I played really early version almost 2 years before and didn't played since. I thought maybe it's already in the game.
I haven't done any sprocketing in a while, so it's good to see this to make me pick it back up
Among other things, the brakes also affect the turning radius. This is especially noticeable on the clutch gearbox. If the brakes are too weak, the turning radius will be very large and its speed will be quite low, so you will most likely have to play with the brakes to make the turn better
I before this went and just made my tank have the gearing and ratio of the WWII King Tiger’s Transmission
this video is awesome, thank you! for me it was always confusing to tune my mobility config
Thank you for this tutorial,gonna get rid of all that trial and error i had to do prior!
Enjoy! Note that there’s even less trial and error now that the transmission calculator on sprockettools.github.io/ exists.
Very helpful video. Learned a lot. Thanks 😊
Thank you very much! I have no experience in the game, and this helped me to make good tanks (a hit though, i use some other tutorials)
Glad it helped!
@@thewonderwaffleofficial :D
Thanks for the tips! I’m not sure how, but I managed to design a (very basic)heavy-type tank where 2 of the others made it to support me on the front for No Mans Land. Not even sure what I did.
Glad that it helped!
Few months ago i made a 50 ton beast with over 200 mm armor that had speed forward/reverse ~60/40km/h and grat cannon
Edit1: I heavily modified the base Panther. Now it doesnt look even remotely like a panther
Edit2: Now i can make it even better
i made an all round 200mm (including the angled surfaces) and still weighed around 30t
(the hull is a bit bugged though no idea how that could've happen)
2:50
"It has trouble accelerating"
Teammate go brrrrr
AI does handle things a bit differently, unfortunately.
idk what you saying i win drag races with ai so it sounds like skill issue to be defeated by ai
This helped a lot thank you so much your getting a sub for this
Glad it helped, thanks for subscribing!
Little advice for the more precise upshift and gear tuning: Use the torque curve (press v) to determine when your transmission shifts. You won't want to lose too much torque at max rpm, so the transmission must shift when the torque starts to decrease. Also, absolute max rpm is only useful at the top gear; Thus, it is not important for the gears.
Absolute max affects where you can place the upshift RPM limit at, since the game won’t allow you to set the upshift slider above the max RPM slider. As a result it does matter where you place it.
Thanks finally i understod how this thing works left a like
Im not too experienced, but in ww1 vehicles and large interwar vehicles id recommend having your first gear revving as high as possible without it red lining. If it constantly red lines it makes a very bumpy ride and the thank falls down all the hills. The only good thing about it is that you can turn decently well on low torque because the tank is jumping around. I prefer having a higher torque and using the more advanced transmission though lol.
Unfortunately this dooms your max speed to be under 3 mph. But it moves.
Nowadays I host sprockettools.github.io/TopGearCalculator.html which makes a good portion of this tutorial outdated.
1:58 good tank bro
Lol, that's the built-in JU-76 Salamander tank.
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I subscribe this is good advice, however, slightly disturbed by slow tackling all though this is important so that I understand and take in the advice.
Thanks for subscribing! Indeed, it is beneficial for both the viewers and the channel if I take more time to explain everything.
Bro, i was so annoyed i could not make fast tanks whatever i tried, and found out it is the upshift bug at max rpm, i have to try this when I get home.
Yeah, it's an unusual bug.
I've tried to set the gear ratio manually, but the adjusting bar is too rough, making it allmost impossible to smaller than 0.20 adjustment. So now I set the first gear and let Sprocket set the rest. I usually want 1.00:1 at the 6:th gear with a pretty strong engine, wich I get with about 6.00:1 at the first gear.
You can just click on the numbers and type in a new one.
@@thewonderwaffleofficial No, I can't. When I try, Sprocket reset all gears value to 30.00.
This is probably an issue with either using commas or periods for the decimal separator. You may need to switch which one you’re typing in.
@@thewonderwaffleofficial ...or maybe is the reason that I've changed my key settings and gave return another function. Howerver, it works to write all values of a gun, but not gear ratio or sprocket diameter...
I once made a snowmobile and it went up to 175 km/h
Definitely safe to use
@@thewonderwaffleofficial i crashed into the invisible wall at the end of the world lol
Also the engine is always having a seizure when you brake and then accelerate, before it stopped. it will go over 200 km/h
(Really fun to play with. Especially with ramps)
Is it weird that I want the opposite, I cant get my heavy tanks to accelerate slowly, but have a max speed of like 30kph
If you want slow acceleration, use a bigger gap between your gears and decrease the downshift RPM
i made a 90 ton tank travel up to 50 kmph is that good?
Yes, that's pretty good given the weight.
@@thewonderwaffleofficial the engine smh took only like 30 or 45% of the whole tanks weight
Gonna try this on my 29 ton ww1 tank with 4 guns to see if it can even move through no tanks land
Edit: it goes 5 miles a hour and way better turning then it was
It will totally be fine…
Germany in the early stages of WW2:
I don't get it. Why if engine displacement less than 0,5 litres then hp will decrease while rpm is increase? It is srange. In real life we have motorcycles and other light stuff with high rpm and small displacement.
Might just be the game's formula, which will hopefully be updated in the future. The game is still very early access, and Hamish has stated he doesn't know alot about engines.
@@thewonderwaffleofficial Yes, engines are hard to understand. So many things. For example, all those carburetors and injectors also can affect power, but who know how it to implement.
I made my tank go 300 by accident once😭
Not helpful when you dont even explain what to do when your tank doesnt turn and doesnt go fast
Bruh he explained it during the gearing stage when he was talking about neutral turning