Gray has posted the catapult (see above) at his site
www.bridgebuilder-game.com/Meanwhile I tried to fine-tune the trebuchet (which is the correct name for gravity-powered siege machines like this). The best performance measure is how far it hurls the projectile.
Since the horizontal trajectory of the thing is exactly along the grid, it is easy to find out. The one posted and to be seen above throws itīs payload for app. 184 HD grids, measured from the center of the counterweight.
Since the grid ends at 240 HD grids from the counterweight, I was fumbling with new levels where the trebuchet is buildt at the extreme left position. But I find it annoying to search for the catapult every time I enter the level, since the simulation seems to start always at the center, some 200 HD grids from the machine.
Anyway, my best trebuchet (a tuned version of the one above, more space for counter weight to travel downward, fine tuned release point, some tuning of the throwing arm) hurled the boxlet some 250 HD grids. So, thatīs my personal record for now. Anyone up to beat this?
Rule: even ground, measured from the vertical projection of the center of the counter weight to the impact point.
For more informations about real trebuchets chek out
www.ripcord.ws/ (I have nothing to do with that site, just find it amazing)
And a nother question: Is there any method to tell pontifex to start the simulation/edit view at the left side of the grid instead centered?
(Edited by mikaiser at 1:46 am on Dec. 19, 2001)
(Edited by mikaiser at 1:01 am on Dec. 20, 2001)
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