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oh wait this is a public post this time um...
Anyways!
The end-of-year holidays be upon us!
Maybe Christmas, maybe New Years (technically beginning of year, but whatever shut up), maybe that Jewish thing with the cool candle holder, or maybe something else I'm not worldly enough to know about!
So, to celebrate this joyous(?) occasion (and to distract myself from the loss of my ability to play SP in any meaningful capacity) I'll be holding this MAGNIFICENT challenge you see before you!
How does it work?
Well, uh...
Um...
Ooh! I know!
Your challenge is to construct a thing out of exclusively blocks, rotators, and the legally required cockpit!
"But Grain," you may be asking ("may" depending on whether or not you remember my name), "how are we to make a functioning plane without engines or wings?"
Well, the answer to that is simple:
You don't.
See, to keep this lighthearted and unique, you'll be making a toy model of whatever it is you choose to build. You may use blocks (hard or normal) and rotators (full size only) with a sum(Throttle) input, meaning the only motion it'll be capable of is a few parts slowly turning and that's all - think of it like a self-powered wind-up toy!
You may not use the Transform tool or part connections to achieve anything that cannot be done through basic placing, understood?
Now good luck and OOOH NO THEY'RE BACK THE GODS OF THE INNER REALMS THE SPACES THE VOIDS THE SPIRITS OF THE GLYPHS HIDDEN IN MY FLESH WHICCH I DO NOT HAVE OH THE SPACES THE SPACES THE RUNES THEY ARE FAR BEYOND WHAT I CAN FATHOM OOOOH SPARE ME I SHALL BRING YOUR FLFLESH FRESH AND UNTAINED BY FORMER RITUAL (ignoring the anguish ritual, no takebacks) AND YOU SHALL FEAST FOREVER! YOU SHALL TASTE THE BLOOD OF THE MAN-FOX OR MARK MY WORDS I SHALLL DIE TRYING OH LORDS OH LORDS OH LORDS OF THE RUNE! SPARE ME!
Specifications
Spotlights
- SimplyElegant 8 hours ago
General Characteristics
- Predecessor ToyBlockPlane
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 80.4ft (24.5m)
- Length 67.3ft (20.5m)
- Height 27.9ft (8.5m)
- Empty Weight 22,266lbs (10,099kg)
- Loaded Weight 22,266lbs (10,099kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading N/A
- Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
- Drag Points 36178
Parts
- Number of Parts 966
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 999
There's a forum too, if that's worth anything at all to someone already here.
I mean, it has bits of its own. But not crumbs! Those are here.
Bits there, crumbs here, and somewhere in between I seem to have dropped my common sense. I'm sure it'll turn up sometime.
To add, since I couldn't fit it in the original post (and it'd wreck my bit to add content after the fact):
You may paint however you wish, HOWEVER any Rotator blocks you may use MUST be single-colour only! They are functional, not decorative! You may not use them as textures!
Also, it should go without saying, but XML modding is not allowed beyond making rotators into spinning motors (which must be done with sum(Throttle) as the sole input). There's simply no need.
Edit: You may also use free-spinning rotators if you so wish.
Grading is basically the same as the last challenge:
As are rewards:
Yes, this is slated to end December 25. Get to it!
M i n c e r a f t
@NavalGunnery There's plenty of room in this thing for another body. Follow the rules, or you shall join the others.
@Graingy :3
@Graingy alright, I’ll keep that in mind if I do end up entering.
@NavalGunnery Not in the spirit of the challenge, as that involves other parts. I admire your creativity, but not allowed. I’m explicitly trying to keep this simple, with a very low barrier to entry.
@Boeing727200F Good lad. Don’t concern yourself with the details.
@TheLoadingGorilla It would be legal as long as the block scale is unmodified from default. That said, just to tell you in advance, not quite what I’m looking for. You can do it, sure, but it kinda lacks the “wow” factor this challenge is graded by. Consider doing your idea as voxel art instead of pixel.
(Also, it would not be 4059 parts.)
@Graingy could I make a piece of art like this? (Obviously I'd remove the fuselage part before submission.) I believe the blocks were rescaled, however, so they're much smaller than normal blocks, but I myself did not rescale them.
Eh.
"Make sure you bathe beforehand" ummmm ok?
if you insist ig.
@Graingy what?
um
what?
Hmm
Already thinking of a way to legally cheat the rules
@Boeing727200F Hey will you be free on the 25th? I may have sold your flesh to some Old Gods in exchange for my freedom and I need you to show up for the blood ritual on time. Can you do that for me? Make sure you bathe beforehand; I doubt the Old Gods would be particularly pleased with an offering that staggered in smelling like motor oil and dog shit waffle-stomped into railyard gravel.
Thanks a bunch.
Yes, the screenshot was taken in SP2. I don' have Reshade reinstalled since my last technical clusterfuck and may very well never install it again.
Shame there's no way (that I know of) to manually move the camera's centre in SP2, even paused.