I’ve been following the development of sp2 and I can say I’m overwhelmingly excited for this next step.
It’s bringing inspiration back onto my plate and I’m thinking of coming back on release. College classes have kept me busy (learning blueprint and machining).
Watching what’s been announced and showcased builds, I think we are going to see be much higher quality builds with a significantly reduced part count.
This makes me happy, especially since building cockpits into builds has been an exceedingly high part count endeavor. An endeavor so large I burnt out for a fairly long period of time.
I’m already thinking up techniques especially since I’ve seen things like overlaying images onto builds. If we gain the capability to import hand drawn textures onto airframes, this is gonna drop my part counts like a brick!
With word of vr in the future. I think you can see why the caps come off of my excitement.
…But on the topic of simple planes in vr, my apologies for being a nearly non existent curator for SPvr builds. Life has hit hard as my work load has gone up with real world projects. I just haven’t been able to just download and test builds like I used to. For that, I'm sorry.
But I have high hopes for the future of what this community has to offer and I really want to roll up my sleeves and get back to work as a builder.
Wishing you all well, poenix/phoenix
(I really should fix that name heheheh…)
@poenix All the more reason for an armoured skin!
@Graingy it can be a couple things. Sometimes props dig themselves into the large airframes
With the big CA.60 he flew. It had like nine wings. A flying wing got entrapped between two of them lol!
@poenix Hah. How do they get tangled?
@Graingy yeah, he definitely flys longer. Sometimes the smaller foam planes get entangled in big builds like that and end up big drag generators.
@poenix Crikey.
Well, that sounds like the winning play.
@Graingy Pretty much. Heck there’s a dude named Peter sripol that makes a crazy build every year and has a YouTube channel. He made a build that’s like thirty six feet long one year. Looked like a train in the sky lmao!
@poenix So there's nothing but your own funds stopping you from simply making something too large to be toppled?
@Graingy for Flite fest that all goes out the window lol.
@poenix Is there a weight limit to these? Size?
@Graingy not really. I could probably double up the foam to give the hot glue more surface to connect to the fuselage though.
@poenix Hm. Would wrapping it with something help? Or is that standard?
@Graingy more like it peels entire top end of the nose, Motor mount included, from the wing. Easy to fix cause of its square design though.
@poenix Hm. What comes loose?
Does the motor itself disconnect, or do the skewers themselves come out? Do they break out the sides?
@Graingy it’s skewered down to the airframe. Common for a foam board build. It’s strong enough for flying but struggles when. Taking a massive hit.
@poenix Hm, sounds troublesome. How is it anchored?
@Graingy I’d think so, maybe I might make some plastic or carbon fiber strengtheners next time I build this airframe. The big thing was major hits had a strong chance of kicking the motor right off the fuselage.
@poenix I see. So plastic would probably make a better strong surfacing. Though would it be as light for the same piercing resistance?
@Graingy you could probably locate the antennas on the outside of the airframe and tape em down. Well. If they aren’t the new spectrum ones. The newer AR620s don’t have an external antenna. On those, it’s small and hidden inside the plastic case of the receiver itself. Antennas have gotten allot smaller nowadays.
@Graingy I think you can do that but it gets expensive fast. Receivers tend to be the most expensive part on a build. The can transmit and receive through foam, plastics and wood real easily though so they end up very ideal materials.
@poenix I see. So could that bypass transmission issues from a metallic structure, or is there more to it?
@Graingy it’s just called that. It’s pretty much a second receiver wired into the main via a cable you can plug in.
hm
@poenix Is it literally a satellite receiver or is that just the name?
What I'm wondering is if you'd be able to bypass the skin blocking the signal by putting antennas in the transmitter's line of site from all directions.
@Graingy personally I like radiomaster stuff better. Spectrums a more common manufacturer and once you have a bunch of airplanes up in the air. Their signals start stepping on each other and planes stop receiving input and drop out of the sky.
@Graingy yeah, you can get what’s called satellite recivers depending on what receiver you’re using.
I think spektrum and radiomaster make a few.