Perpetual motion
Posted: March 25th, 2005, 0:51
Just thought I'd share a little gem with you all that I like to mess around with on gary's mod. This works with practically everything that can be raised more than 30 metres off the ground successfully. (The body of a strider, a giant metal horse etc) but for this instance, I used Dr. Breen!
Grab the RPG after suspending something mid-air and set it to Fast. Begin firing. There are two ways to achieve perpetual motion. The first is trying to corkscrew a number of shots (20+) around the target once or twice, before resting the crosshair somewhere in the middle. Anything from 1 to 10 of the rockets wil miss the target and turn around for another try, always missing the angle of re-entry by a few milimeters. Seeing as they constantly then try and re-assess their trajectory, you get them adjusting their corse by a centimetre of two every milisecond, causing them to fall into a never-ending spiral about the object. Lasts for hours!
The tecnique I used here, was to dange breen by the body, and aim at his wobbling arm. But only just. The crosshair laid neatly upon the very edge of his arm, I fired off about 50 missiles and waited for them to slowly loop back (having been fired through the tiny gap, and then targeted the arm from behind). With a few swift fliks of my mouse here and there, I was able to achieve three patterns.
A circle. (<a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... ">Here.</a>)
A sphere (<a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... ">Here.</a>)
And a cross (<a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... ">Here.</a>)
Amongst other shapes.
Can I see your attempts?
(PS. The cross was VERY impressive in motion. Both the horizontal and vertical axis were shifting from left to right, up and down in unison.)
Grab the RPG after suspending something mid-air and set it to Fast. Begin firing. There are two ways to achieve perpetual motion. The first is trying to corkscrew a number of shots (20+) around the target once or twice, before resting the crosshair somewhere in the middle. Anything from 1 to 10 of the rockets wil miss the target and turn around for another try, always missing the angle of re-entry by a few milimeters. Seeing as they constantly then try and re-assess their trajectory, you get them adjusting their corse by a centimetre of two every milisecond, causing them to fall into a never-ending spiral about the object. Lasts for hours!
The tecnique I used here, was to dange breen by the body, and aim at his wobbling arm. But only just. The crosshair laid neatly upon the very edge of his arm, I fired off about 50 missiles and waited for them to slowly loop back (having been fired through the tiny gap, and then targeted the arm from behind). With a few swift fliks of my mouse here and there, I was able to achieve three patterns.
A circle. (<a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... ">Here.</a>)
A sphere (<a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... ">Here.</a>)
And a cross (<a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/ ... ">Here.</a>)
Amongst other shapes.
Can I see your attempts?
(PS. The cross was VERY impressive in motion. Both the horizontal and vertical axis were shifting from left to right, up and down in unison.)
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