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The earliest version of the build goes Here.

Peppermint AI

The F-15 Eagle (Variant Unspecified) "Peppermint" is an F-15C retrofitted with the F-15E's more powerful engines, and its center of mass is moved backwards to become faster and more maneuverable. (I don't have a specific variant in mind when I made this, so here)

It was made as a testbed for various AI Funky Trees stuff to make the Dogfighting AI more formidable. While the AI modifications have made this AI harder to kill, it is still very primitive, and there are still some weaknesses that a human pilot could exploit and make it easy to kill again, like using the AI's terrible, TERRIBLE throttle control against itself to make it overshoot so the human pilot can go for the guns kill.
Nonetheless, it is an improvement.

Also, I experimented with text stuff and controller bases to make flying the plane look prettier. yay

Features (With some supplementary pictures):

Circle-to-Square Joystick Input - Converts your restricted circle input in mobile into full limit Roll and Pitch. Disables if actual Pitch and Roll input exceeds beyond the circle boundary, In other words, turns off if you use computer or keyboard for Pitch and Roll (by full actual Pitch and Roll input). (Cannot turn it back on. sorry)

Speed Lines - Aircraft text simulates speed lines to make you feel fast (and to get a sense of how fast it's really going). Rotation do get abit buggy at more significant AoA and AoS, so I'm hoping to fix it later. (read: in the far future lol)

Simple Wing Vapor - Shows up when you do High AoA stuff.

Double-Bullets-per-Frame Gun - Spawns 2 bullets in every frame instead of one. This helps compensate for the lack of frames per second Low Physics offers (50FPS) compared to the firerate of IRL guns (100BPS). No more lame firerate in Low Physics!

Gun Offset Crosshair Correction - Crosshair moves to compensate for gun offset. A very simple solution compared to IRL jets where the Flight Controller (I assume) does all the math to very VERY accurately offset the crosshair to EXACTLY be where the gun bullets will end up. (A very minor detail, but it makes shooting stuff up close less frustrating.)

Simple Shock Diamond Exhaust Plumes - "Simple" because it's not as complex as the one in Flyout the game, tho it still looks good. It makes the game VERY LAGGY tho which is why there's no "Mobile Friendly" tag, so remove if the lag is unbearable.

Pretty Flares - Pretty flares.

Features (AI STUFF):

Separate Missile Launching System -- Instead of the conventional launching via FireWeapons, the missile gets jettisoned and launched if it gets a lock instead. Enables fast firing mode at Disabled AI mode (Activate8 disabled) and also makes time intervals between launches longer. Tho the AI does have some problem with launching them if you damage the aircraft for a bit).

Forced Pitch Up when Deploying Countermeasures -- What it says, to lower chances of dying in BVR combat.

Do-Not-Touch-Water Challenge (AKA Anti-Crash Funky System) -- AI is forced to pitch up when it's about to crash into the water. Didn't code it to pitch up away from ground because AltitudeAgl is bugging out when you spawn the AI at far away distances like 15Km for some reason.

Variable Maneuvering Speed at Different Distances - Pretty simple. Makes the AI not unnecessarily lose speed at greater distances, and becomes more maneuverable when closer.

Creator Notes

This started from a very bad low part F-15 Replica, but as time went on, I keep adding features after features on this aircraft. This was supposed to be AI spawnable at first, but with LARGE amounts of Funky Trees and Variables this aircraft has, it becomes laggy to the point where it is no longer AI spawnable. Ever since then, the true performance cost is getting higher and higher, and the prospect of adding the [Mobile Friendly] is getting farther and farther away, until it ended up to this.

Huh, maybe the Simpleplanes AI spawning system ONLY wants dumb aircraft that crashes to the water too many times. Maybe?

Anyways, project's getting too dragged out at this point, so I'll post it now and move on.

One step towards understanding AI, One post about AI Aircraft, One funky tree code typed, One step closer to Competent AI. This craft is the first steps towards it.

Blueprint Used: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/64/bb/08/64bb087325ba5a2c96f678d1c0bb5a8c.png