Next up: making a boat. I need to think about that one for a while though. Anything else you want to see me make?

Engineer 1: So we need to make a bridge over this gap. Any ideas? Engineer 2: Yeah so I was thinking we can use some hydraulic pistons to stretch some springs connected to some steel in a star shape pattern which will generate a lifting force for some reason lol so the cars can fly over. Engineer 1: wtf?

This is possibly my favorite polybridge video yet, I love watching the process of you turning something seemingly uncontrollable and bizarre into a relatively stable working mechanic

So here’s what I think is happening with the slow falling engine: (This is entirely speculation, idk how Polybridge calculates physics but I am a game dev so take this as you will) Collisions are extremely annoying to calculate accurately. Even the best physics engines will usually break when objects go so fast that they pass by each-other in a single frame and the collision doesn’t have time to happen. So to fix this, a lot of games (probably including Polybridge) have a maximum velocity for moving objects. The glitch engine created here just so happens to spin so fast that parts of it hit the velocity cap. When the engine falls, the downwards velocity from gravity can’t be properly applied to any parts of the engine that are already moving downwards, since it gets eaten by the velocity cap. This essentially means that gravity doesn’t exist for any parts of the engine which are moving downwards, lowering the overall effect of gravity on the engine. (The engine still falls slowly because any parts that aren’t moving downwards still get the proper downwards velocity.)

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's s... yeah its a plane, kinda

*bing bong* this is captain Captain speaking. Please fasten your seatbelts. our engines are rotating in the right direction so we are gonna take off now

Ha! I just beat poly bridge last week and I'm slowly working through the campaign of poly bridge 2. Meanwhile RC's over here making freaking gliders by exploiting gravity glitches. Amazing stuff as usual, Captain!

I love these gravity physics, they are great!

My favorite quote: any dope can make a bridge, only an engineer can make a bridge that barely stands Reid: you mean a plane? Me: No a bridge Reid: So, a plane.

Woody: "That wasn`t flying ! That was... falling with style"

Title: Making a plane in poly bridge Me: I'm sorry what?

I dont know if you as an engineer in real life would be incredible or horrifying. great video

stretching these strings this much just looks cursed

Now that's falling with style... Just need a catapult to launch it back in to the sky :P

12:30 RCE: Is that the sacred shape?!

And this game is about making bridges above river..... Bruh

Playing the game exactly how it was intended

There's a bug that works great for this. you basically have steel beams outwards forming a ring (with the outer nodes as close as possible to each other), and then you connect as many nodes as possible with road.

My guess as to why this happens (as a game dev and glitch hunter) is that the game is trying to rotate the inertia along with the craft (you can see how it jitters along with the rotation, despite being symmetrical), and a lazy solution was implemented, that just discards part of the inertia of the object when it's rotated, instead of actually calculating how it would affect the object (probably for performance reasons, or maybe just the sanity of the devs). Well anyways that's my hypothesis, might be wrong, but eh.

Man videos like this make me wish gravity was real

Imagine if you could abuse real life physics like this

You could completely overengineer the well poisoning level in besiege just because it caused problems for the one machine.

i have no interest in this game or in physics, yet somehow i am hooked on these videos. truly genius level stuff!

you could spin something backward that occasionally makes it hit off a road, flinging it in the air

At this point I am not surprised if someone made a calculator in polybrigde.

I'm at 1:20 and I already know this boy gonna be making diamond hydraulics today.

Your imagination is insaneee. You re crazyy man, love it

leave it to Reid to build a DRONE in a BRIDGE building game loved the vid

I can kinda make a working hydraulic bridge,meanwhile this guy...

I love watching this channel. Reid, you somehow always manage to cure my boredom. Great job on the drone!

I'm not 100% sure why the gravity doesn't work but I think it might have something to do with a combination of the speed limit getting implemented (if you are going 10000 speed directly up and gravity changes it to 9992 but the speed limit is 1000 it's not really going to change your speed) so you only really have the gravity of the center node pulling down on a ton of mass so it doesn't really move. There might also be something weird going on with super high restoring force from the springs just doing stuff with the how the order of physics is calculated, they might cancel out the gravity before the physics engine calculates the restoration force for the steel or something, I think it's more likely to be my first guess though.

So there's drones in poly bridge now

this is much closer to the Cyclocopter you built in trailmakers than a plane but, fair enough if you didn't know what a cyclocopter was back then

Your contraptions are so heckin cool

A man of quality

My guess as someone who's actually made games in the past as to how the slow falling glitch works is that the speed of an object is clamped to a certain velocity and that due to the rotation of the wheel the game has basicly run out of 'speed budget' for the object and simply cannot apply the remainder of the gravity to the object. Tl;DR object ran out of speed budget, can't apply full gravity.

any recommendations for games that you can make engines/mechanical things without the game breaking or with realistic physics?

Dude whattt i used to watch this guy a couple years ago. So glad to see you with your silver play button.

This guy is a bridge genius we might be seeing flying bridges soon in the future

This is awsome dudeeeee... You are amazing, congrats for the good video.

He's the god himself

Imagine sending this level to someone and challenging them to find a solution 😂😂

Reid Captain: Hey, I’ve heard of that one! Me: What do you mean? It’s brand new!

Thats some cool bridge

Reid is really out here just trying completely random things until one of them just works 😂

This is just incredible.

4:42 idk why, but it reamins me of something (erika starts playing louder and louder)

9:35 the family in that car is having a REALLY bad time rn.

"So, any ideas on the new bridge design?" "Just use a plane dude, jeez. Poor people theese days, with their land transportation."

Now I assembled a car in a game with a cockpit and put 2 cannons, but if you put 3 cannons, I wonder what will happen?

I just realised, he sounds EXACTLY like NileRed!

seems more like a helicopter than a plane but this is really cool!

This guy is too smart to be on youtube

7:16 This thing is in visible pain

How's the scrap mechanic computer going?

The most epic man in existance

Keep up the awesome content man!!!

This looks like some sort of engineering fever dream

The kraken drive of poly bridge

very creative.

theres a song that you play in the background of your videos a lot, and it sounds like a rhythm doctor song, is it from rhythm doctor, or is it some random royalty free song you found, or did you make it yourself, or what?

this is a certified bridge moment

"Reid slowly descends into chaos"

You should definitely have more subscribers!! :)

Seeing these things reach ridiculous speeds is strange in a game like this

Me: this is amazing(looks at subs). WHAT THE FU- Also never give up raid captain your an amazing KZfaqr

HOW DO YOU HAVE THIS IDEAIS?

Falling with style

3:13 lol ninja star

Finally, a vertical helicopter

Please make a submarine next time. :)

Now the captain is a captain lol 😂

Making a lifeform never seen elsewhere in the universe in PolyBridge

I think dry cactus should make another similar game that has wings

Nice :)

Hey Reid, is it possible to make do this without unbreakable?

Falling in style

Have each arm hit a lever that essentially forces a hammer upwards into a platform also attached to the engine causing the platform to pull the whole thing up

Technically that’s not flying, it’s falling with style

Why are you so smart?

id more call this a helicopter than a plane just based off the design and how it works

4:38 the shape of that is a little unfortunate lmao

Is like a weird parachute

Also this video has the same vibe of the dreamcar videos where as the name suggests.. a plane is made

I wasn't expecting to see the star of david

nice

video 7 of me asking reid captain to play fantastic contraption

Does anyone know why the slow falling glitch works? My best guess is the parts hit some sort of max speed in the game and so can't move downwards much. This can't explain moving forward though. Anyone have an answer?

12:06 well you succeeded in making COVID-19

100K subs!

I love building planes in poly bridge

4:37 Ja, hardcore germany symbol makes everything go gladly

"Just Falling, with style"

Use one of those engines and build a 6-1 gear box to drive a car

Seizure Airlines: The Boing Plane(?)

Why do i find this funny? XD

4:53 ahh my left hand 🙋‍♂

This guy's IQ has to be in the 120+ range.

3:51 i mean, isn't it just floating by normal gyroscopic force? like, sure, it might be a glitch, where the game "doesn't know where to put the center of mass", but i do genuinely think that it's just a mixture of the game's center of mass mechanics and spinning, where the glitchy origin of the spinning has nothing to do with it.

why this is not like 2 billion views WTF