behold the first working physical gear system in SL!

I cheated a bit, but it's synched up just the same

It's over in NorthWest tan, by my mansion... can't miss 'em

LF

Ah glad to see you got it working.

Good job LF, looks great.

LF, you're amazing!!!!

The first? I have a pic of a rather complex and impressive gearing system that was in the old clock tower in Slate, right by the train engine. Its gone now, but it was rather amazing. I think I took that pic back in July, I would be happy to show you sometime in world. There is currently a display of gears and cogs in Northern Chartreuse that is has been around awhile, pretty sure its still there in some form.

Loki I would like to see those if you could send em to me or something

Maybe LF has the first huge gear system? Lol.

That was Lordflys clock tower (except the clockhands, which were, uh, mine). They weren't physical though, all fake :)

Still, I've seen plenty of physical gears that were working more or less well in the old Olive sandbox.

That sounds very cool LF =D

I can't log in now, but I'll definitely check out the gears when
I get home =D

I dont get it I guess. Whats the difference in physical gears and the ones at the slate clock that rotated and appeared to performing a function? Gears of any sort that appear to be performing a function seem really cool to me, keep up the good work.

I stood right next to Gwydeon Nomad when he and another player (Baba Yamamoto, I think) fashioned a giant, physical gear system complete with pistons, in Sage last summer. I wish I had a picture, but I don't think I do...

Aww quit raining on Lordfly's parade. Good job LF

I think the difference between fake and physical is that with physical, only one gear needs to have a rotation script - the rest just get pushed by the first, and don't need any script at all.

If they both accomplish the same effect, isn't the non-physical method better, as it takes less toll than physical objects?

Loki that was a long long time ago, I would love that pic too. Memories... ahhhh precious :


Cat Cotton

Thank you for sticking up for me Beryl but this might be a little different, mine was a ... I think its called a crank shaft.

I didn't have one gear pushing another powered by some I just had the one gear driving a piston powerd by rezing spheres, could have but didn't. Ah well...

Regardless its fun to do and I hope LF's is still up so I can see how he's managing his.

( BTW can I have the title for first physics -only- catapult? )

> I dont get it I guess. Whats the difference in physical gears and the ones at the slate clock that rotated and appeared to performing a function? Gears of any sort that appear to be performing a function seem really cool to me, keep up the good work.

It's like the difference between a van Gogh and a reproduction.

Azelda

(P.S. I cant logon - patch and all that - which explains the plethora of Azelda posts today. I should go and do something useful instead really)

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The clock tower in Slate was also mine, but the gears were non-physical. While it looked right for about 2 minutes, eventually the gears would de-synch and then mesh through each other. Usually not noticeable, but to me it was a pain in the butt

With the physical gears, each gear kinda pushes against the other, keeping them synched up.

So there

LF

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Ahh, I remember you building those in the Sandbox. Didn't Xero help you a bit with the script, too?

Sorry to bust guys... but um... we had this in the early days of Darkwood, it was a lumber mill.

Woot Darkwood! I remember that mill it was awesome! So sorry I forgot the day that Tcoz took me there until just now. That was a most excellent adventure into that which is Darkwood

Kudos!

Cat Cotton

Any pictures of the Darkwood one? Or if its still around a location?