Dear tinyBuild Games ,
HI, IT'S ME, AUSTIN!
What's up?!
I'm just your friendly neighborhood housing inspector , who's here to check and make sure everything's up to code-
[SCREAMS]
Hello, neighbor
Okay, but seriously I did consider making a video on the probably out of this world building code violations this house would have but-
F-*Beep*
-that. Building codes in the United States tend to be different from County to
County and they're about half as complicated as a Game of Thrones theory subreddit post,
so no, I didn't do that this week.
But, this did get me thinking how the HELL does this house exist? I mean look at it. It's FREAKIN' ridiculous
There's like these hanging bits,
and what- what's this, an elevator?! And a windmill, and a whatisit a, ROLLERCOASTER?!
What, did Dr. SEUSS build this house?!
*Dramatic music*
But you know, architecture is funny, seemingly impossible things are done all the time.
You can't just tell by looking at something necessarily whether or not it's possible.
You HAVE to measure things! You HAVE to run your calculations!
Which is what I did. I spent the better part of a week
surveying and plotting out the floor plan of the first three floors of the neighbor's house to near perfection.
Every wall took several measurements, and then double checks on those measurements!
It was grueling, it was painful, and it was WORTH IT!
Until the mother-f*Beep*ers at Tinybuild released Alpha 4 and undid all my mother-f*Beep*ing work! GAH!
That's fine. Deeeeep breaths. [Inhales]
Thankfully most of the first three floors were unchanged. Horrifically, however,
they added, like, a billion more floors and weird sub
closets and just- GAH, but that's fine!
I spent an entire week of the next week
measuring that and I swear to God if you release alpha 5 undoing everything in the next several days
I will lose my
freaking mind! Besides being reasonably certain that the cold that I have right now is due to the late nights and stress involved with
undertaking this task, I got it done.
I have all ten floors of this monstrosity
plotted out with an accuracy with a pretty slim margin for error and that being said? TINYBUILD?
Hello Neighbor makes NO GODDAMN
SENSE
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Pixel measurements are the lifeblood of my show and Game Theory, and I'm going to give you a tip you can try out for yourself
at home if you want to mess around like we do. If you're gonna measure something, you're gonna need a ruler. The Creme
de La Creme of in-game rulers are of course the canon height of
characters. When a developer says this character is exactly a hundred and fifty five
centimeters tall, boy howdy you are in business! The next best thing you can hope for is some sort of universal standard
that's in game something that exists in our world that is always the same due to copyright or some other legal
regulations or
sometimes you're lucky and you find an actual ruler, although
I can't recall that ever actually happening in a game I needed it in. In any case
Hello Neighbor has none of that. No rulers, no canon heights and everything so freaking cartoonish in scale that you can't make any
presumptions about anything
Everything's weird, which makes measuring
impossible or
so you'd think. There's one thing, one tiiiny little thing, that once I discovered it, unlocked the potential for this
episode and made what I thought was impossible
possible. What was this tiny thing you might ask?
Simple.
Milk.
For indescribable reasons almost everything in Hello Neighbor is now in Russian
which, you know, makes finding building inspection codes even more onerous
BUT, before Alpha 4, things were in English, and while snooping around in my neighbor's house like a complete jackass with no sense of
propriety or respect of people's personal belongings, I found MILK in the FRIDGE and
right there, in plain old English, it says plain as day
Gallon of
Milk.
What? You don't seem as excited as I am? 'So what Austin? It's a gallon of milk, big frickin whoop'
Yeah, but guys, a gallon is a measurement of volume, which is how much space something takes up.
So like a ruler measures
distance in one direction right, it's a one-dimensional
measuring device. Volume, by contrast, takes measurements from three directions
so knowing that this is a gallon or point zero zero three eight cubic meters we can work our way backwards
to figure out the exact dimensions of this milk bottle which ultimately
will allow us to measure the entire world! I FRICKEN' LOVE MY JOB!!
Frustratingly this bottle has gone to hell, Jesus neighbor man
can you, like, not grip the center of the Carton like a complete ass?
he was probably drinking it right from the carton judging by how many the guy just leaves laying all over his house- USE A GLASS
YOU HEATHEN! Anyway, the bottle being squished complicates our math somewhat.
We gotta measure the dimensions of the carton to get the volume of its squished rectangle, then remove the volume of the
indentations- blah blah blah- which ultimately gives us a final height of 21 centimeters and a width of 14 centimeters.
Now I could have just used milk cartons to measure everything but positioning them correctly would have taken FOREVER.
Instead I used the cartons to measure how large something much more manageable is
Cardboard boxes. Not only are these things freakin' everywhere in this game, they're much easier to line up with walls
I'll spare you the details of me measuring the house -it was a lot
Of long days and nights, full of headaches and double and triple-checking,
adjusting and pulling out my own hair. (yikes) 3D games, man, remind me to never do this again.
Anyway, after taking over 600 MEASUREMENTS! My God
I have it! Every square inch of this house is mapped, SON, and it's here where the real work begins
[DUN, DUN]
The math of architecture is complicated
but the concepts are simple. You have a foundation either on the ground or in the basement. You have exterior walls,
Interior walls, and a roof. Sometimes you even have more than one floor.
Exterior walls are what's called
load-bearing, meaning they support something
above them. This means that the roof and the floors above it -if it's multiple floors- are supported by the walls on the
outside of the house. Frequently weight from above is also carried by walls on the first floor.
Load-Bearing walls on the lower floors run
perpendicular to the floor joists, and if they're designed to help support the house
they're usually reinforced with extra wood. You can't go messing around with these walls
willy-nilly -they can be removed
but you usually have to compensate by supporting that weight somewhere else. In most houses
this is about as complicated as it gets, but in our neighbor's house and actually in many others in the world things are way more
complicated, I mean, look at these-what
f-f-floating things like floors are just straight up spilling out into the air like this, well, those aren't necessarily
as ludicrous as they may first appear. These are called
cantilevers, and they're actually pretty common in Modern construction, although
they're usually not this exaggerated. Cantilevers can be a cheap way to add more square footage or
d'uhhhh what do they call it in countries that use a measurement system that makes actual sense?
sqaure..meters? Anyway,
cantilevers can increase the livable (LIVABLE??!?!) space in a house that's cheaper than just building a larger house because you don't have to pour a larger
foundation- you can just straight up put concrete out of your budget since you don't need to build a foundation
that's underneath that floor. The physics of cantilevers is actually pretty fascinating.
It's basically the same thing as a normal lever, but instead of moving up and down,
cantilevers are free to flex and transfer their force back along the lever and into the fulcrum, in this case the point where the floor
meets the wall. In theory ,the only
limitations on how large a
Cantilevered floor is are the materials you use, how rigid they are, their shape. All of these things
dictate how far out they can extend. Some of the cantilevers on the second floor are a bit extreme for a modern home
but they're within the realm of
possibility. In spite of its absurdity, the first two floors of the neighbor's house get the official SCIENCE STAMP OF approval.
Now the next 8 floors things geeeeeetttttt questionable. (Ya think?).
Extreme cantilevers of tens of meters with, like what are these flimsy ass supports. Are you kidding me?
Buuutttttt... upon looking at the floor plan and the support structures more closely, I discovered that well, a
respectable engineer, and you know I'm talking like the Einstein of engineers could actually probably pull this off.
It's definitely breaking some regulations since both cantilevers are only supposed to extend out a few feet.
But, hell, someone who put a literal trolley in their house
probably doesn't give a crap what the housing inspectors think and if this is Russia, there's probably nobody who'd actually bother him at all
anyway. As long as the supporting materials are strong enough to support the weight
and there's enough counterweight on the opposite side, things should be good! The thing about Cantilevers
is that if you have ten pounds on one side, you need to have at least ten on the other to keep it rooted, usually
more and especially more, if the cantilever is
architectural.
That being said this frickin' house is huge like
seriously! All said and done, not counting the weirdo basement this thing is over
4,300 square meters or over
46,000 square feet. If it weren't for the unseemly construction tactics and the general lack of stability of the thing this thing
Solidly meets the requirements necessary to be considered a mansion. I mean this thing is over a third larger than Luigi's mansion
Damn! So well some of these lower floor cantilevers are a bit extreme and are propped up by seemingly the most
lazily installed beams ever it's conceivable that there's more than enough weight on the opposite side of these cantilevers to keep them upright, so
Surprisingly, I can't outright say the neighbor's house is definitely impossible
Improbable? sure. expensive? HELLL yes and apparently it's also a magnet for home intrusion enthusiasts
So I'm guessing that if it were put on the market it wouldn't sell for too much well
thats kind of a boring way to finish the video. It's kind of planning on- WAIT A MINUTE. WTF [#LetAustinCurse] -IS THAT THING
DUN duuhhhh
That is a giant tank of water
hahahahaha crap this changes everything
Why because water is frickin heavy on top of it
This is a tank in the middle of one of the more extreme and precariously balanced cantilevers on the fifth floor
ohh, gahhd measuring the tank while full this thing is filled with
56,000 gallons or
215 thousand liters of water weighing over
250 metric tons Aka A
Metric SH*T [#LetAustinCurse] ton! for American Plebeians like myself this is almost
500,000 pounds of water this may seem extreme
but honestly
it's not
people who are really really into exotic fish often have to be really careful about where they place their large fish tanks because
Again water is freakin heavy putting a fish tank in the wrong place in your house
Can cause your floors to permanently sag the weight that houses are rated to support is called its gravity load
That's the weight of the house and all its components.
Which is called the dead load added together with things like furniture
People pets and all sorts of other crap which can change at any moment these things are called the live load now as we mentioned
Earlier these cantilevers while a bit absurd are kinda legit in theory, but this this changes everything
Cantilievers this long aren't meant to support this much weight
Especially in a normal house! Just to confirm this, I ran some numbers.
the floors of hello neighbor are really
Really thin but I gave them a generous five
Centimeters of thickness to work with measuring the amount of Newton's acting on this cantilever by adding up the floors above
Using an average of 200 pounds per square foot
We can get a clearer picture of where these loads are landed.
And, somewhere around the middle of the tank the combined weight of the floors above is way more than the
Yield strength of steel beams a meter wide
Even have you had an entirely steel floor this thing would probably snap and if it didn't snap it had been like a freaking
Paperclip in fact carbon nanotubes have the strongest rigidity known to man and even they couldn't support this cantilever
Period It's just too unstable
But let's say that somehow the neighbor discovered some sort of Ultra Rigid Material like my d------
Hello, neighborino! Anyway, Let's say just for fun
This could be supported without breaking remember earlier when I said that for every pound on a cantilever there has to be at least
One pound if not more on the other side to bounce it out and keep it from falling apart well taking all
These floors and this gigantic freaking tank of water combined. We have a total weight of over
635 thousand kilograms to balance out for context this is like three blue whales precariously
Balanced on a piece of wood, but there's plenty of floors on the other side right yeah, kinda
all of them added together though,
Only amounts to 478 thousand kilograms crap oh wait
What about that Windmill nope?
NOPE!
No good! turns out that even freakin
Giant wind Turbines only weigh about 148 thousand kilograms which still puts us underweight
And this thing is way smaller than those it's like
One-tenth the size putting us at almost
[150] thousand kilograms short you know that means even if we were to get lucky and managed to find a material
Rigid enough to support this thing instead of it staying upright and is likely pull the entire upper half of the neighbor's house up like
A hammer pulling a nail this house should be flipping over thankfully that wouldn't actually happen
What would actually happen is the supports would give out sending thousands of gallons of water! ,
Crashing to the ground, where it would create a massive crater shatter the tank and flood all the basements of the nearby homes!
FUN! and even, EVEN, if all of these things would be possible to build under normal circumstances
There's no way this structure would be able to fight the one type of load we haven't talked about yet, Wind load.
Given a rough total height of 40 meters
Ignoring this giant windmill even during a calm day this thing is going to be
Experiencing pretty strong winds due to what's called the wind gradient,
Which is science speak for as you go higher wind get faster, which will be putting a constant and varying
Horizontal Force on the House
Which is so wide it would act like a giant sail on a boat
Threatening to rip the top off! just during a normal day
We're talking winds of over 30 miles per hour at that height and during a thunderstorm
[we're] looking at 80 mile-Per-hour wind
There's no way these flimsy supports won't snap like goddamn toothpicks and send several hundred metric tons of house
blowing down the neighborhood all of this could have been avoided just by putting the tank on the
Interior of the house these weights, well pretty intense, are way easier to support when we're talking
Regular old gravity loads you can just keep slapping wooden beams in walls, or if you're feeling frisky
Actually build them out with brick in any case
I'm sorry to say a tiny build but this house is absolutely freaking ridiculous. I still love you though! [SCREAMS]
Sincerely,
Austin
Hey there, everyone. Thank you for watching my video on hello neighbor
I am hot top on soo much coffee right now because I have a really terrible cold because my
Germ incubator in the shape of a cute fat baby got me sick, gave me their sickness
I'm so sick right! Now if you want to know more about my process building this house
I'm actually going to be sharing the floor plan of
PSD, and
Images on my Twitter account today, so follow me on @arhourigan if you want the floor plan for yourself
it's pretty awesome, and it probably didn't get showcased enough in this video for as much time as it took me
So I want other people to appreciate it be sure to subscribe to the game theorist channel if you haven't yet
Why haven't you do it now, son?
Anyway, I'm going to go. thank you FB your questions about other games in the comments
And I'm gonna go take way too much tequil WAOOOOOOOOH!!!
credit to me being a bored person who decided that ppl should have entertaining credits but then got bored toward the end lol