Algodoo

Not bad.
Don't use laser as a spawner because sometimes lasers spawns more that one ball that makes engine very unstable.

Alright I'll try that sometime soon.

I know doing a horsepower test would be kind of pointless because this is just an experiment, but I did anyway. Coupled to s-noonan's torque machine, I got a max of 12.5 nm at 286 rpm. This engine has less than 0.5 horsepower...

But everyone has to start somewhere. My first (spawn, I used springs since the days of Phun) engine produced about the same power but was much uglier xD

I'll tweak it a bit and post it, if that's fine with you.

You can just make the balls not collide with eachother "heteroCollide := true"
Then multi spawning balls arent an issue.

Nah I dont think reposting it would be okay... I like trying to do the things my self as much as possible, thanks though!

actualy yea you can post it

Hey just wanted to ask you guys, how come it isn't better to run at a higher Hz? Doesn't that make it more stable? I mean, I rarely see any made on here that run above 200 Hz, but I amped mine up to 600 and my engine runs unbelievably smooth.

With 600 Hz my engine will rev up to 120 rad/s, but if I down it to 120 Hz like many people use then try again, I'm lucky to get 55 rad/s, and it's much less stable.

So someone please, explain this because it makes absolutely no sense to me

Because higher HZ means less playability on older computers, heck my computer barely runs 150Hz without lagging