This is a challenge to make a bird. (A flying one) You can make it a conventional aircraft or an ornithopter or figure out other ways to make it fly. You can make it realistically detailed or comically out of proportion... all the details are up to you! (Except the bird part, thats kind of important)
Rules:
-Don’t steal somebody else’s design
-XML Modding is allowed, but no mods that won’t work on iOS
-Must be a successor to this plane
-It has to be a bird
-It has to fly in some way
-You can use subassemblies from other players if you give credit
Scoring:
10pts : Does it look like a bird
10pts : How well does it fly
10pts : Creativity/Uniqueness
10pts : Extra Features and general Fun-ness
Deadline: July 24 (may extend deadline if needed)
Happy bird building!
Specifications
Spotlights
- SemedianIndustries 2.8 years ago
- Kangy 2.8 years ago
- winterro 2.8 years ago
- BeastHunter 2.8 years ago
General Characteristics
- Successors 7 airplane(s) +472 bonus
- Created On iOS
- Wingspan 36.0ft (11.0m)
- Length 36.0ft (11.0m)
- Height 49.2ft (15.0m)
- Empty Weight 374lbs (170kg)
- Loaded Weight 374lbs (170kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading 439,839.3lbs/ft2 (2,147,483.6kg/m2)
- Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
- Drag Points 2043
Parts
- Number of Parts 12
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 18
Podium:
1st place @JuanShot2Go
-best functionality and fun to fly
2nd place @winterro
-very good all round and a better dog fighter than any bird I have seen in real life
3rd place @Wibbley
-very ominous looking raven. Has a very cool look overall.
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Congratulations to the winners
Thanks to everyone who upvoted and participated
All of the entries were fun to download and test and each had its own interesting features
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This was a very good turn out for my first attempt at making a challenge.
@Thunderhawk That makes sense. Give the less talented players a chance to shine. Otherwise they would never enter another challenge.
@BeastHunter I had to disqualify it for being too good
@Thunderhawk Why didn’t I win? I obviously had the best build.
Wow! Thanks! I am stoked. Considering all the amazing things that get created here it gave me a real thrill.
@Thunderhawk great challenge! i hope this wasnt the last one (my chalenges
suck)@JuanShot2Go I'm unable to score anything because I tried knocking over my monitor without realizing I am on mobile
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(I'll score it soon)
Wow you marked my first one within a few minutes of uploading. (The Wrong one), which I deleted. Sorry. could you possible repost my score? My only defense is insanity.
@Thunderhawk That's it. Thanks! So when judging my entry, please knock your monitor off the desk it seems to fix it. (Jokes). Actually Don't! it made me upload the wrong file. Now its the right one.
@JuanShot2Go if you knock the monitor down it might be harder to see it deviating in flight
Nearly......finished...Just (whack) getting the (whack) birdy to fly straight..(Whack). No, hitting the computer doesn't work.
@Thunderhawk it’s fine it would take too long
@asteroidbook345 how long do you think it would take? I could extend the deadline I guess
@Thunderhawk mine's complete
Except the deadline is tomorrow so I guess not lol
Time to make a replica of one of my budgies
I love flapping builds so I am very excited about seeing what people make for this this challenge. I'd like to build a new bird based around my cybird for this if I have the time, but I just wanted to share some funky trees code that some people may like to use. In my builds I use this one my hinges for up and down flapping motions that uses no fuel.
sin( smooth(Time,smooth(Throttle,1)) * 90)
More throttle = faster flapping
also you can change 90 up to about 300 for even faster flapping.
hope it helps.
@BluebonBane
@SemedianIndustries It has to look like a bird but you can build it however you want.
I might enter your challenge, but does it have to be a realistic replica of a bird or an Ornithopter my own way will suffice?
@SemedianIndustries thanks for the spotlight
@Thunderhawk Ok... Well I didn't build a bird.
@BeastHunter getting disqualified is essentially the same as building a bird
@Thunderhawk ok. I can't build a bird, but I can get disqualified.
@Thunderhawk ok I made some modifications and it is done