there actually is a way to create a "hydraulic" that retracts 100% If you make an isosceles triangle, where the base is 4/3 the length of the sides (aka like sides being 3 length wood and a 50% expanding hydraulic of length 4 on the base) after the hydraulic expands, the triangle will squish into a line If you mirror this into a diamond pattern, you'll get a 4-sided shape, where after the hydraulic expands, 2 of the points will overlap. if you stack this shape over and over you'll get a long rope that squishes down into nothing.
@@MattJDylan it's like /\ / \ / \ ------------ \ / \ / \ / Imagine the middle line being 4/3 size of the sides' size. When you expand that line by 50%, it'll be 6/3 of the size, meaning the whole thing will fold into a long line like that ╱╲ ╱ ╲ --------------------- ------------------------------- ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱
I kept facepalming and waiting for him to try some kind of scissor jack (which sounds like a similar concept to what you're describing) but sadly Matt was mainly a road engineer, not a mechanical engineer...
If you make the levels too weird and difficult, his expertise isn't relevant because you end up doing goofy things with cheese builds and game glitches in order to win.
It's ironic that Matt is the first one doing a sneaky hidden anchor up in the sky years ago when he made a map for someone else on the Build It Boyz episode
For me the counterweight solution you attempted was much more interesting than the extremely basic hydraulic elevator. I'm sad that you couldn't manage to make it work
I watched the episode with my beaver plushy and my level was included in the video 🤩 I am so excited that you chose the RCE Elevator level and that you found the nodes at the top of the level 😁
For that last one, I think you might have been able to do it with the cable chain if you had a joint at each junction, a joint at an anchor, and a joint on a hydraulic which kept extending, grabbing, pulling, letting go, with the anchor holding it steady whenever the hydraulic let it go.
I was thinking the same thing 😂 hes like doing everything possible to pull the car up and all his engineering degrees didnt tell him you can push something as well as pull 🤦♂️🤦♂️ what an architect move
An Engineer would understand geometry and how it can be used to make something contract to less than half their size, with the power of triangles (and rhombuses). Especially as it is really easy. If you have a rhombus, with all 4 sides 1 unit long, with a horizontal brace made of hydraulics, initially 1 u long which expands to 2 units, then the vertical distance goes from If you have a haudralic initially 1 u long, and have it expand to 2 units long; then the vertical height will start out as 1.7 (ish) units long, and shrink to 0.
On the last tower level I wonder if your original cable idea would have worked if you had used road and struts to round off the sharp corners that were giving you so much trouble? 🤔
I know you used the g-wagon song several times for the first bridge but with the second rainbow one I think it would have been cool. But these bridges are amazing.
Before seeing the anchors up in the sky I was thinking you should be able to 90% of the way wil the legendary hydraulic muscle and then mabye the other 10% with springs
I want to see you succeed the counterweight lift I think the major problem was the 90° bend on the sides of the cliff so maybe a curved bridge at the top supported by a few braces on the side would to the trick It should be build quite a bit higher than the flat spot as its only there to guide the tether If you make it move you might even be capable to park the car up there
15:50 you could just have made little bump with some pieces of wood and a road and then the yellow dots (I forgot their name) will not get stuck on the side
I feel like a lift configuration would also have been possible for the tower level with pushing hydraulics to make a tower, and ropes/pulling hydraulics to lift the car
The counter weight thing could work. You need to build supports that hang on the corner and get rotated around as the weight falls. Thing is you'll end up trebucheting the car lol
I think the solution might be not to pull down on the opposite end, but build the weight far out to the side and it already pulls while it drops without even touching the corner
Matt... Oh, Matthew. I got to be honest, my initials are infact "RCE" So... Playing Polly bridge does then going back and playing it after updates in 2014-2016.. I don't know man, it's awkward some days just chilling on Polly.
Matt you didn’t realize that you aren’t supposed to go over that wall in the first level. You’re supposed to use it to make a golden gate shaped bridge
for some reason this video made me think about an old trebuchet video and wondered... how many levels can you beat just using trebuchets (or catapults)?
Matt proving for a fact that he is not an architect as he forgot something as simple as the sky anchor. it's an architect staple so of course he wouldn't have known to check.
I never played this game so I have no idea if this would work: instead of pulling Matt and Paddy up the tower could you push them? there are anchor points on the ground
Matt- “Let’s go for something stylish”
Me- I knew it, he was an architect all along
I looked and was like "ARCHITECTURE HE'S AN ENGINEER"
Nah just a fan of Devil May Cry he needs to get that stylish rating up.
Architecture has no style.
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Everyday we stray further from the strongest shape...
Matt is the biggest source of ads for the game but also the biggest source of knobs😂 keep converting these architects in engineeres
In cost of him turning into an architects.
When your parents come in 18:40
Always wanted RCE's thoughts on Architectural Engineers
@@Epitecturein timberborners season 1 he says they are good enough to not be architects but still aren’t proper engineers
@@BeachBoy20 Thank god I'm just an Architect because I don't think I could deal with that ambiguity
there actually is a way to create a "hydraulic" that retracts 100%
If you make an isosceles triangle, where the base is 4/3 the length of the sides (aka like sides being 3 length wood and a 50% expanding hydraulic of length 4 on the base) after the hydraulic expands, the triangle will squish into a line
If you mirror this into a diamond pattern, you'll get a 4-sided shape, where after the hydraulic expands, 2 of the points will overlap. if you stack this shape over and over you'll get a long rope that squishes down into nothing.
You seems confident in it being a thing and this sound useful, so I'll leave a like even though I understood nothing of it lol
@@MattJDylan it's like
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Imagine the middle line being 4/3 size of the sides' size. When you expand that line by 50%, it'll be 6/3 of the size, meaning the whole thing will fold into a long line like that
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@@shiah Surely the amount of hydraulics this would require would make it collapse under its own weight.
@@michaellopate4969 no idea, probably, but I was just trying to explain what
@alexandratsankova5825 said in a bit more visual form
I kept facepalming and waiting for him to try some kind of scissor jack (which sounds like a similar concept to what you're describing) but sadly Matt was mainly a road engineer, not a mechanical engineer...
Matt: *has been a real civil engineer for over 10 years and has tons of experience
Also Matt: "Don't make the levels too difficult" 😅
If you make the levels too weird and difficult, his expertise isn't relevant because you end up doing goofy things with cheese builds and game glitches in order to win.
It's ironic that Matt is the first one doing a sneaky hidden anchor up in the sky years ago when he made a map for someone else on the Build It Boyz episode
Was literally just thinking the same thing. I believe it was the one with Reid Captain.
Also literally thought the same thing when I saw it hahaha (not sure why I never said anything) BUILD IIITTT BOOOYYYZZZZ
Bamboozled by your own bamboo, eh?
For me the counterweight solution you attempted was much more interesting than the extremely basic hydraulic elevator. I'm sad that you couldn't manage to make it work
Foundation in the middle would have reduce the angle and possibly allowed the cable solution to work.
I watched the episode with my beaver plushy and my level was included in the video 🤩 I am so excited that you chose the RCE Elevator level and that you found the nodes at the top of the level 😁
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Amazing!!!
Watching matt stress about hydraulics in any video is great
Surprised on that last level he didn't attempt an extreme spring cannon with the space beneath the G wagon.
2:47 real civil architect moment
mirrored matt cant scare you
mirrored matt: 0:43
For that last one, I think you might have been able to do it with the cable chain if you had a joint at each junction, a joint at an anchor, and a joint on a hydraulic which kept extending, grabbing, pulling, letting go, with the anchor holding it steady whenever the hydraulic let it go.
That's an option if there were a lot more hydraulic phases, but there was only one.
the first bridge of the first map was supposed to be a suspension bridge (maybe) (but pretty sure)
Yeah... he assumed he couldn't go between them. Pretty sure he could.
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@@TheSoviet0nion ???
Yeah it annoys me so much rewatching this just seeing him completely disregard the fact that there’s a tiny hitbox lol
Frustrating like watching a slasher movie where the kids are going alone into the woods or similar. I am screaming: "Telescopic hydraulic elevator!"
I was thinking the same thing 😂 hes like doing everything possible to pull the car up and all his engineering degrees didnt tell him you can push something as well as pull 🤦♂️🤦♂️ what an architect move
An Engineer would understand geometry and how it can be used to make something contract to less than half their size, with the power of triangles (and rhombuses).
Especially as it is really easy.
If you have a rhombus, with all 4 sides 1 unit long, with a horizontal brace made of hydraulics, initially 1 u long which expands to 2 units, then the vertical distance goes from
If you have a haudralic initially 1 u long, and have it expand to 2 units long; then the vertical height will start out as 1.7 (ish) units long, and shrink to 0.
“Insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results”
2:43 "Shove a load of road in along there" is such a wierd way to say Boosh. lol
I feel like now everyone knows his weakness and will be really sneaky with their custom boards now.😅
14:00 RCE discovered elastic deformation
I think he was just surprised that the game had those physics.
3:02 that shits expensive 3:05 JESUS
Im reporting u
3:39 you wanna know what else is massive? LOOOOOOWW TAAPPPERRRR FAAADDEE
2:41 BOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH
YOU’RE WELCOME
I saw the nodes at the start of him trying, I nearly lost it when he said he can't complete it.
damn the big arch bridge on the first challenge was quite a bilf
On the last tower level I wonder if your original cable idea would have worked if you had used road and struts to round off the sharp corners that were giving you so much trouble? 🤔
When your parents come in 18:40
He tried that, the cable passes through the road.
0:39 "I am getting old."
No, please. We're the same age!
The car can go thru the first foundation, didn't need to go up an over it
16:39 the hydraulic looks like his arm and the road looks like his head lol
I know you used the g-wagon song several times for the first bridge but with the second rainbow one I think it would have been cool. But these bridges are amazing.
Have you seen the game Engineer Millionaire?
I absolutely loved these levels. So unique!
10:20 Are you perhaps expected to use the anchor points as a dot-to-dot to spell something?
3:58 BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH
Before seeing the anchors up in the sky I was thinking you should be able to 90% of the way wil the legendary hydraulic muscle and then mabye the other 10% with springs
I want to see you succeed the counterweight lift
I think the major problem was the 90° bend on the sides of the cliff so maybe a curved bridge at the top supported by a few braces on the side would to the trick
It should be build quite a bit higher than the flat spot as its only there to guide the tether
If you make it move you might even be capable to park the car up there
I love how he was surprised by cables stretching
Umm, Matt.. I think the very first bridge should have been a cable stay or suspension bridge. That foundation didn't block your way I'm pretty sure.
my idea for the springs was just to make really powerful spring cannon that would launch it
We need another version of the final map with rounded edges and the flag on the middle!
Let's see if RCE's solution would work for that!
Nooo Matt!! You were supposed to build your name to complete the dirtbike map!!
I like Poly Bridge because Matt plays it
I think the chain/ counterweight idea could've worked. You just needed to round off the corners at the top with some steel truss.
15:50 you could just have made little bump with some pieces of wood and a road and then the yellow dots (I forgot their name) will not get stuck on the side
the yellow things are nodes
I feel like a lift configuration would also have been possible for the tower level with pushing hydraulics to make a tower, and ropes/pulling hydraulics to lift the car
10:26 I think there was a checkpoint that you missed based on the text at the top of the screen although I am not sure as I have never played the game
The counter weight thing could work. You need to build supports that hang on the corner and get rotated around as the weight falls. Thing is you'll end up trebucheting the car lol
An Engineer not understanding that pushing is far easier than pulling.
The Matt and paddy car is hilarious
The Elevator level was quite cool :D prooved you are not elevator engineer
You could have used hydraulic muscles to lift the G-Wagon without using the top nodes. It would most likely be cheaper.
0:00 is it only me or there is a flower like the one of Poly Bridge 2 in the bottom right?
10:16 I think the node if connected create an "RCE"
My favourite when you made a practical bilf, that was a great one
18:20 literally could have just made the hydraulics double the height of that flag
"Is it meant to look like a knob, I'm seeing a knob" 😆
I think the solution might be not to pull down on the opposite end, but build the weight far out to the side and it already pulls while it drops without even touching the corner
You should have used a spring cannon on the elevator level
Should have been a paddy wagon not a g wagon
Pretty sure my neighbors heard me screaming SPRING CANNON!!!!!! at the screen during the last one.
11:00 DO A FLIPPIN ELEVATOR
the cable style you did.. i would make an arch on top of the big pillar, so the cable can slide nicely... please try it.
14:16 then make them rounder! you have tools!
Matt, a real civil engineer: "I didn't know cables stretch!"
1:15, lmao you could have built a straight bridge and rope from above
14:20 I thought you were going to replace your segmented cable with hydraulics all the way round.
Duck are experts at engineering.
Matt... Oh, Matthew. I got to be honest, my initials are infact "RCE" So... Playing Polly bridge does then going back and playing it after updates in 2014-2016.. I don't know man, it's awkward some days just chilling on Polly.
Me and my friend (davidH) managed to get wr on level 9 in the first world for least money spent so thats pretty epic. Anyways as always epic content.
Brilliant video!
Day 23 of asking Matt to make a cool game on scratch 3
Matt you didn’t realize that you aren’t supposed to go over that wall in the first level. You’re supposed to use it to make a golden gate shaped bridge
On the last level, you can adjust the hydraulics with the arrow like you can with the springs so therefore it is possible
for some reason this video made me think about an old trebuchet video and wondered... how many levels can you beat just using trebuchets (or catapults)?
Matt proving for a fact that he is not an architect as he forgot something as simple as the sky anchor. it's an architect staple so of course he wouldn't have known to check.
You should look up a game called "The Enjenir" for when it releases. I think you're gonna love it
Anyone else love watching these videos but still have never played any of the poly bridge games lol
Scissor Hydraulics are a good solution to get around 90% retraction/extension
nice
Hello rce
I don't know if anyone has seen thus but there is a flower in the bottom right of the screen and love your videos rce keep it up
I never played this game so I have no idea if this would work: instead of pulling Matt and Paddy up the tower could you push them? there are anchor points on the ground
God I love this channel
Matt, there´s a new upcoming physics based game called "The Enjenir", it looks really promising and you gotta try it!!!
First thing i thought about when seeing tower level was scissor lift concept
And so it begins... We have troll levels in Polybridge now.
Oo couldn't je just gone straight at the very first one? Oo
Bro really went over on first bridge
Hi
We're Matt/Patt. Welcome to Bridge Theory
cool video
I love your dog. Pls make a video so i can see him pld
16:30 This is not how bridges were supposed to work...
2:49 so you mean Architecture?
If the concept of _'Overthinking'_ manifested a physical avatar...
I'm glad you missed the sky anchors because that stuff trying to pull the cable was priceless.
God matt abd paddy are watching theyr little mates falling into water
Paddy G waggin’ in the G-Wagon
Amazing levels!
Tyler needs to do level 1 in half budget 😈😈
after doing it right now, i can confidently say you can watch a RCE video while listening to g-wagon
"More stylish"... sounds like something an Architect would say.