I did exactly what s_noonan did before I even read his comment. I have to agree it looks better like that and its less disorientating. It's still an amazing animation thoug. Nice job!
Thanks guys, but I will make it work, you'll see
I havnt optimized the thing at all basically. Just look at my rally car. it uses basically the same kind of engine with the same amount of cylinders and that thing is plenty strong.
Gent: I meant an engine that uses springs that change lenth/constant. or "variable spring engine" as I've heard them called. usually they just use a laser on the crank shaft.
The Linkage: I was actually going to do the fan belt thing
The problem is its hard for a mechanism like that to spin fast in algodoo without the arms flying everywhere. You can sort of correct that problem with stronger springs, but then you have to make the arms heavier so they dont clip through each other but that just decreases the RPM before it engages. There's just no way to make one of these work at high RPM in algodoo.
This is unfortunately very unstable and glitchy because you're way too far from the center of the map. That's why everything is shaking and shifting around.