Support beams are beams that only resist to forces in compression.
When used with a precompression argument, they will only start resisting forces when being compressed smaller than their precompressed lenght.
Support beams are mostly used as limiters, to prevent structures from reversing themselves or getting stuck where they shouldn’t.
Required arguments
See the beams page .
Optional arguments
number
type
1.0
default
When this bound is exceeded, the beam automatically breaks.
0.0 would mean the beam breaks if it expands at all. 0.5 would mean the beam breaks after expanding to 150% of its spawned length. 1.0 would mean the beam breaks after expanding to 200% of its spawned length.
Support beams also support the same optional arguments as standard beams .
Example
Set of support beams used as steering limiters.
//steering limit
{"beamPrecompression":1, "beamType":"|SUPPORT", "beamLongBound":2},
{"beamSpring":5001000,"beamDamp":250,"beamDeform":150000,"beamStrength":550000},
{"beamPrecompression":0.71},
["fh3r","fx1r"],
["fh3l","fx1l"],
{"beamPrecompression":0.71},
["fh5r","fx1r"],
["fh5l","fx1l"],
{"beamPrecompression":1.0},
