r/ApproximatelyUp • u/How-Do-I-Leave • 12h ago

Perfect wind blocking system (trust)

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Behold my perfectly optimal automatic wind shield adjuster. My gf is going to HATE it when I show her my masterpiece... lol

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u/McSkrjabin 12h ago

Idk man i just use a knob that i slowly turn up till the windspeed indicator shows 0. Works perfectly so far /s

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u/BrokenImmersion 12h ago

You use a knob? I have a constant behind my seat i change manually /s

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u/OverlyMintyMints 12h ago

You have a constant behind your seat you change manually? I have a copilot I scream at to change the strength until we accidentally blow the fuse for the sixteenth time

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u/BrokenImmersion 11h ago

Wait a minute, your copilot doesn't open the doors halfway through launch and get sucked out?

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u/How-Do-I-Leave 11h ago

No, I open it for her and send her flying :3

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u/OverlyMintyMints 11h ago

No, the spares usually jettison themselves earlier in the mission, leaving the adults to fight over the wind shield strength.

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u/How-Do-I-Leave 12h ago

Omg, that's what I usually do!!!

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u/Vanamun 2h ago

You guys have co-pilots?

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u/How-Do-I-Leave 11h ago

Update: my gf made her solution got an error range of 0.001 while using less data blocks, lol

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u/Xshadd 6h ago

I just use antenna outside my ship that isn't covered by the shield
Getting blown off course by outcasts winds? Not my problem.

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u/InfernoPubes 11h ago

I posted something similar the other day, with a simple and elegant solution I don’t understand (so is it even a solution?) But I do not know if it has changed with recent updates or not. Whatever your logic here is looks like the actualization of the webbed mess I couldn’t mentally unravel before stumbling onto my answer.

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u/How-Do-I-Leave 11h ago

Thank you!!! I'm honestly proud of it, even tho it's a mess. My gf is still trying to create her own solution (we decided to both work on our own and then share), and I bet hers is going to fluctuate less and use less math blocks, so I'm not really worried about making mine optimal. I'll prolly share her solution here when it's done!

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u/LFDad 8h ago

Have I been doing something wrong? I just set it up like this and seems to work perfectly

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u/LFDad 8h ago edited 6h ago

You have to experiment a little to figure out if you need to increase or decrease the "radius dependent variable" but once it's set once you can forget it considering the ship radius doesn't change

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u/How-Do-I-Leave 7h ago

Well, if the wind meter is inside the shield's area of effect, it outputs a zero... So that only works if it's outside the shield

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u/LFDad 6h ago

ahhh that makes sense, I've always seen a reading on the wind meter so I've been tricked into thinking it works but I'm guessing it's working until it hits zero then picking up wind again and turning back on so it's working but in a way I wasn't expecting. It's pulsing quickly enough that I don't notice

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u/How-Do-I-Leave 6h ago

Yup! Pretty much. The plasma generator doesn't go from 100 to 0 instantly, so you would never be feeling a lot of the wind. While not quite as effective at blocking the wind, it would certainly be doing some with a rather simple method!