Building Mechanical Systems in the NEW Sandbox Game GearBlocks!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Hey everyone and welcome to Gearblocks! This is an amazing mechanical sandbox featuring all sorts of cool building systems and adjustable parts!
Snap parts together, resize them, change their materials, paint them, and link their behaviours together. Choose from over 200 parts, including functional mechanical elements such as motors, gears, pulleys, joints, springs, actuators, and much more. Turn, grab and shove your machines and watch the parts physically interact. Jump into the driver's seat and put your vehicles through their paces. Crash and smash your constructions to smithereens. Improve your building skills, or test out your creations, in the tutorial and challenge scenarios. Make rag-dolls from body parts and use them as your custom player character. Mod the game with Lua scripting to create your own custom tools, scenarios, challenges and mini-games. Share your creations with the community, try out what others have made, and maybe learn a new building trick or two along the way!
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What do you think of GearBlocks? Personally I think it is going to be an awesome sandbox to make some crazy mechanical setups for cars and planes alike.
I think that GearBlocks seems like a Sandbox with potential, it has alot of functional mechanical elements that even scrap mechanic doesn't have, this would extend the limts of the players creations and allow more complexity.
Ive been waiting for you to put this one up.
When I first tried it, I knew this would be for you.
Its really well done and has the gears and other build features that ScrapMachnic and TrailBlazers doesn't have.
Considering its just come out and the Developer is still working on it and listening to feedback, it has a lot of potential.
Thanks Kan
I have been looking for this for my ENTIRE Life. Thank you its time to go beastmode now.😊
I think this would 100% be a fun game to build demos and examples of mechanisms that otherwise would have to be built in cad or in real life. I could actually see some use cases for the educational industry too! You could have people learn so much about how mechanics of different mechanisms and how they interact with each other. I’m excited to see where people can take this.
Looks like a cool game, would be cool to try and build engines, suspension and just cool mechanisms
As an aspiring engineer myself, there's one thing that disappoints me in this game:
No cables.
I want to be able wrap a cable around a pully at the top to raise a platform and then uncoil the pully to lower the platform. Essentially a cable elevator. Yes it has pistons but the cool things about cables is they can BEND. Like, around corners. Which helps translate/redirect motion SOOO much easierly. Now granted in real life you dont necessarily want to do it this way because it's sacrificing alot of force but shush. Just give me cable coils that can wrap around pullies and hooks.
I waa thing of cable as eletrical wires im a goof
Yeah and cable/rope physics are a nightmare for that very reason
@@jessejarvis3646Nah, I don't blame you.
I try to refer to it as "loop-hook and coil".
O-[box]
The string goes through the hole "O" and allows the string to bend in any direction on all 3 axes. Where as a pully only allows it to bend straight. It's the difference between a hinge joint and a ball-joint in regards to cable pulling.
Think of it like a fishing pole. You know the thing you have to spin to real the fish in? You are reducing the length of the string. the string first goes up along the pole, then bends down at the top to go towards the water. I want that.
This would be useful for elevators, cranes, ect. I'm hoping it will be added in a future update.
@@benjaminfranklin329 keep in mind it doesn't have to actually be rope physics. Just like how the current pullies don't use rope physics. Just like how the Pistons don't use rope physics. From a programming standpoint, it can just be a ball joint piston that is controlled through a wiring connection to a pulley. The rope doesn't have to bend with physics, only it's endpoint connections do.
The way I see it, you use wiring to connect a pulley to a loop-hook. Now the end of the cable is tied onto that loop-hook. If you connect that loop hook to another loop-hook, the previous loop book is longer tied, but instead the cable is going through the loop and then ball-joint bends to the next loop-hook that you just connected. Then if that loop hook is the last in the chain, it ties itself on. All loop hooks are ball points where as pulleys would be hinged-like where it rotates on an axis.
The cables would just be solid tubes with end point connections. The length can grow or shrink (like a piston) if the starting point is a pulley. Like how a fishing pole reel works. Only the final segment would shrink.
I agree cables would be cool. The game is still under active development and the dev does take suggestions on discord.
I love this game! Been playing the demo version for almost 10 years now with limited parts. Did not have belts and pulleys, no cv or ball joints, no pistons, limited tires, no angled beams, like 2 motors, etc. Some of the creations people built with those limited parts were amazing! Now they are just gonna get better and better.
Dang ten years?
@@Mahaulin yeah, you can look up old videos of it.
@@metalman175wow, i guess this project has been going on for a while
@@Nafinafnaf yup, a lot of us have been waiting for the full release for quite some time now...
@@metalman175 hey man do you want a totally released and legal version for it? (2021 version)
Every time in the video when he says that the building is like the Robocraft building system he actually means it is like the RoboCo system.
Robocraft is a very rigid grid-based building and doesn't have hinges or bearings (at least the original Robocraft). RoboCo is exactly what he describes in the video.
This game seems awesome, and it feels a lot like lego-technic which is a very good thing.
Did I say robocraft? Whoops I 100% meant roboco you are right.
I was confused all the time, like what does he mean? Robocraft 2?
That makes much more sense, although I think RoboCo used it's system from GearBlock
You are not wrong about lego technic, I immediately knew it was inspired by LEGO technic, because the gear wheels had exactly same number of teeth and modul as LEGO technic gears, I even asked dev about it and he confirmed it
It was a LOT of years age tho
Thank you I was so confused. I played robocraft years ago and was like wow they must have really updated it
It's very painful to watch you being confused about the missing wheel, when it says in bright yellow at the info box to "Remember to collect the parts you unlocked earlier from those boxes, you can use them here!"...
I've been looking for a game like this for so long
I never quite liked scrap mechanic since I couldn't build too detailed creations without glitch welding so I hope this can have a good amount of mechanic and detail 😀
Probably wont be able to create overly detailed creations, but it’ll 100% mechanically be better
If only "Free build zone" tutorial had a distinctive yellow text says "Remember to collect the parts you unlocked earlier from those boxes, you can use them here!" it would be a whole lot easier to understand where are missing parts xD
I don't know man, I get the feeling people wouldn't read it anyway.
couldnt he have copy and pasted the wheel they had there?
I'm so glad you stumbled upon this game, I can reassure you that this is a gem for mechanical enthusiasts, for now there's only the electric engines and mandatory mechanical props but the dev is already working on more stuff like aerodynamics and combustion engines, just gotta be patient about it, can't wait for more content from you! ❤
Kan, this is a mechanical game. A true piston engine doesn't have "sensors" it uses a camshaft.
unless it's Koenigsegg Freevalve
It has timing for when to spark the fuel. This is usually a hall effect sensor and magnet... Or maybe mechanical break point thing....
That is a good point but it also uses fuel that expands the pistons. We need to be able to trigger the pistons somehow if they are electrically driven.
@@kANGaming What I meant is, if you want a "true piston engine" try using the crankshaft with pulleys to rotate the camshaft to trigger something that would move pistons. This also means the variable speed doesn't screw up the timing and lock the engine in one specific rpm range.
Finally you've got into this game! I'm excited to see what you'll build in the future. I already find this game realy fun so I'm sure you will, too.
Make a steam locomotive and surprize Hyce with it once it's built.
This game looks so good from the trailers
This game looks sick, I’ll be needing this one
this,
this is damn near everything i wanted
a game like scrap mechanic, physic based sandbox with a heavy emphasis on engineering mechanical contrivances
this is the first time ive heard of this game and i imediately went to find 20 bucks to get a steam card to buy this game.
The game looks pretty promising and being able to set up a variety of connections easily is going to help a lot. What I'm really curious about is first up how big a single connected contraption can get before you run into a performance impact, and secondly what kind of scenarios or modes we can expect from this game. For example when looking at Minecraft there's different things to farm, which gives players a reason to make all sorts of contraptions.
So looking forwards to more videos of this game!
By the end of the video I was thinking, train building game 😁
Next thing you know, kAN is making a steam piston drive with a valve gear and everything
Wait, isn't that first system wrong? The one on the gate. It's basically a worm drive which has the feature of being self locking, so the gate wouldn't close by itself or did I miss something?
Maybe gearblocks doesn’t have friction between gears? A worm gear could theoretically be makeover with low friction
@@lukasheede2895 that is true.
It does work correctly. That specific gate has an issue where the gears slip if you open it too far.
So this game has everything. . . unless you want to make a crane. xD
Here's hoping for rope physics in a future update.
What this game needs is Logic controls: different sensors, signal delays, logic gates (AND/OR/NOT) maybe even numeric logic.
Unless of course someone could build a Babbage/Lovelace style steampunk mechanical computer!
Awesome looking Game, i hope they implement gas engines
GOT MAKE STREAM ENGINES or get Hyce on to make some valve gear types
i want that in VR that would be insane and sick
dude, imagine play that with a friend
Seems rather interesting, Like a more simplified and much easier Garrysmod without needing 20+ mods for building interesting contraptions and engines/ect.
You can rotate fast by hold left click to the object when freezed, then click Shift + W/A/S/D
This game seems like it could be really useful for prototyping...
Every time you said RoboCraft I think you meant RoboCo
That would make sense, I forgot RoboCo was a game. Every time he says RoboCraft I keep thinking what kind of special developer branch are you playing on?
You should play a game called stormworks.. very complicated building stuff there.. I think you'd enjoy it.
Something I didn't hear you mention is Garry's mod. With it's freezing mechanic, seems like a combination of Gmod and Scrap Mechanic.
What happened to the Plasma game? Anybody know? Is it bad? Too complex / complicated for streamers?
You definitely have to try to build a steam train
Play plenty more of this please 🙏
Extremely cool game!!
Robocraft was fully grid constrained, are you mixing it up with Main Assembly?
while looking at vehicle hold left shift + q then click on the bottom left button, it turns on all parts
I came across this while looking at scrap man’s channel
pulley's == timing belts ... cams.. timing.. brain explode.
The Builder tool makes me think of VR and I think this game would be absolutely amazing in VR!!!
First🎉🎉
I'm most interested in performance. I'm WAY too ADHD to actually build something in such a game, but i bet there will be a ton of awesome creations, especially if you look into the "simpler" games, and what people build in these, oh man!
i love mechanical things and this is literally the exact game I've wanted but it was never made and now its a thing and I'm so exited to try it
You said bad thing to the Mr.Gear. I am sad now 😥
Hey kan don't know if ull read this but i was wondering if on this game could u possibly try and make a battle bot or 2 then battle them?
I feel like this game is like the game version of fusion 360
I was searching for something like this for a long time
now THIS is a mechanical sandbox game
This is absolutely awsome!! The more complex build system definitely slows down the process significantly, but surely makes more elaborate builds possible. I can't wait to see more elf this game!
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derby again? Battlebus pt 2?
Now try to do all these training things in scrap mechanic :DDDDDDDD
This is so cool. I started out in college for mechanical engineering. But screw calculus.
I love mechanisms though. And still love engineering stuff. (I don’t need a degree to tell me what I can and can’t make)😂
I didn't know you were an rc drift homie. I have a Yokomo DP Outclip Kamakazi conversion,
A YD-2S with the Rhino racing DDSS system.
And a MST RMX that's being converted to a Beastmode MAKO with full Acuvance and everything.
Let me know when they simulate a metal shop with a functional lathe to make arbitrary parts with 😂
You can actually make one of those, it's just that it will require highly detailed metal parts to be shaped since the game has a "by part" destruction simulation 😅
I see a lot of "joint as built" we call those into Fusion360. I happened to say that Fusion360 was a user experience very close to some sandbox games, that's why I finally love CADs.
Now I'm seeing this and feeling not as impressed as I should, even tho is seriously cool take more video pls! :D
If the dev happens to come here and sees this: KEEP DOIN YO THANG! LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY! YOU GOT A GOOD GAME HERE!
I wish if this game would be sick ultimate sandbox for everyone who is at least somehow interested in making cool stuff. For an example this game could have simpified mode for beginners. It would be really cool if game allowed you to export actually builing into 3d model, like .stl file format for 3d printing. That would be cool to just test things or for those ones who not well familiar with 3d model making.
You should try mechanica, not as advanced as gearblocks but still contain lots of mechanical things to build. Its a game in roblox though. Also you might already forget about techblox, that very early version of robocraft 2 concept.
"retrun to centre wheel" in cars is achieved by "caster"
have fun :)
Now build us a steam locomotive ))
Come to the math side we have π
i'm quite aware that not every building game needs a "survival" mode but... i can't help but think that this could be a WAY better scrap mechanic game...
I'm gonna check this game out, looks amazing! How is it only $15? I spend more than that at mcdonalds for a couple soggy burgers
Oh I am so getting this. The limitations of scrap mechanic and other sandboxes this just blows out of the water. Is it on steam ??
I was like "Damn this guy knows *a lot* about gear types for a youtuber, then you mentioned the Mech. Engineering degree and it made sense.
Going for mine in the fall :)
Awesome vid awesome game. You where talking about the rack and pinion gears wondering if there was a center function. You probably know this but in a car you center the steering on the wheels with the toe/camber whatevs. As I said you probably know but if not this might be interesting for u
Oh my if only I didn't put so many hours into trailmakers. This game looks sick👍
god dangit, another game I HAVE to buy because it just seems so awesome UGGHHH
interesting
how do make like a turret from tank?
In the next episode:
What's up guys, My name is kan and we are back today with a game called Solidworks
i already see it coming. People are gonna build fully functional gunys in the game xD
I recomended this game some years ago 😂 ... first thing i build was an awd rock crawler with basic suspension and driven by a front rear and middle differential from a single motor that stuff is so fun to build and tweak
Would be nice if he sometimes put images of things he's referring because as someone who has no knowledge of such things and just enjoy watching xD
am i first?
oh first view
Maybe best not to strobe lights
0-6-0 with fully functional Walshearts Valve gear when? ;)
just so you know: in one of the sheds is a crashtest dummy's leg on a plate (i think its from the dummy who is missing a leg)
Kan if hyce doesn't know about this, introduce him to this to see if he can build a fully working train
I probably would like this game if I was smart enough for it
If this gets added to xbox im gonna make a dodge charger or something gotta make a whole car
Invite all the scrap-mechanic crew and build a trophy truck suspension
would definitely love to see more of this
This game looks great. Plz more of this. Also thx for bringing it up. It was under my Radar.
You mentioned robocraft several Times. I'd like to see you play robocraft 2 and hear what you think about it.
0:48, how is this possible with worm gears. engeneers are questioning life. anyone else noticed?
lmaooo, all the parts from the puzzles is the parts for the go kart 😂
pitty its sigleplayer wolud be cool to play with friends like robot wars and races derbys all the memes
High-end RC don't have a reverse!!!
having a reverse would add weight or you would need to cut power to have an equal-weight ESC Vs forward only ESC. this is one of the reasons why in RC racing they run forward-only ESC (more power to weight)... also the rule is forward-only in racing (they don't want you to reverse into traffic).
High-end drift RC still has a reverse. I don't have RC race cars, only crawlers and 1/10 drifters :P
Cant wait ror peapole to build realistic engines mechanical Cars an all sorts of other crazy things
Return to center I think will happen by itself in a car once you're moving
It's Garry's Mod but everything we actually wanted
Return to center can be done via servo motor. I prefer normal steering as it allows for auto countersteer.
Reminds me of Plasma minus the pseudo-code nightmares lol.
this looks sick, now, let's start building!
As a person studying mechanics (currently motorsports) I can’t wait to build some cars with all the different suspension types on this game
Aaah a game for tinkering with mechanisms, that's awesome. Closest I feel like we could get so far was with RoboCo but this seems way more practical.
5:06 as far as I know most automotive transmissions don't use bevels, most now are helical spur gears and I've also seen a split haringbone. Helical gears are quieter but they do make thrust loads.
Dude you have gold, it's probably heavier than steel