Here's a tutorial on how to make a hovercraft!!!

Okay, to make a hovercraft, you need to know about aerodynamics and air friction in Phun.

A simple way to put it, how stuff behaves when it's spinning really fast!! So, if you want to make a hovercraft, this is the tutorial for you!!! Be warned, as this may take you awhile.

And, just to give him credit, it was Paradigm29 who discovered hovercrafts in Phun.

Please read over the entire step before you do anything!! One wrong move might mess everything up!!

1. Make a rectangle. This'll be you're body of the hovercraft.

2. Make a circle about 1/4 of the rectangle. Make sure the center of the circle is lined up with the rectangle! Now visualize the rectangle cut into 10 segments. Place your circle about on number 7 of those segments.

3. Right-click your circle after it has been positioned and click "Add Center Hinge" inside the "Geometries....." menu.

4. Right-click the hinge and make a motor out of it. Make the motor strength '+inf' and the motor speed around '1250'.

5. Now make a small ball. clone it so there are about 60 of them, and place them about (on the screen, in reality) 7cm around the center circle.

6. This part is tedious. Now go to every single ball, (not including the center one) and connect the small balls to the big ball with a spring. Not 2 springs, 1 spring.

7. After you have made 60 or so springs, select the whole thing and go down to "Springs....." Change the spring's strength to '1.000', the spring's damping to '0.35' and the spring's target length to 1.75.

8. Now, select it all, and clone it by holding <<:::Ctrl-mousedrag:::>> The reason you Ctrl-mousedrag it is because it might adhere itself to the original, and then you'd have a mess. Drag it well away from the original.

9. Go to that center hinge you made in step 3. Go to the 'Hinges.....' menu and click 'Reversed'. This reverses the motor.

9.5. Now, save your progress. I made a whole step for it because it's that important!!

10. Now, you might want to change the original's colours to white and the copy's colours to black, to make it easier to see.

10.5. Highlight the copy and click 'Move to front' Nothing will seem to happen.

11. Now bring the clone across the screen to meet up with the original. The rectangles should overlap.

12. Delete the top, or black rectangle. Now the black circle should adhere itself to the original, or white rectangle.

13. Put a directional controller on the rectangle and there you go!!

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Oh no! 13 steps! That's unlucky!

If you are unsuccessful with this, please PM Physicsguy at the Phun Forums and I will answer soon.

--Physicsguy 22:51, 17 December 2008 (UTC)