Target Tracker 360 Radar
The 3rd (?- 4th) working radar in SimplePlanes! A simple, easy to use, low part count radar that will work well in aircraft with cockpits. Designed to be easily saved as a sub-assembly, and then put on the user's choice aircraft.
Demo Aircraft
Operation Notes
First and foremost, the paint scheme is rather important if you want the radar to glow. It requires 6 color slots, but really the first two are optional. They're just for the background and surrounding frame.
So the red, blue, green, and pink need to stay to retain night capabilities.
Secondly, when moving the assembly, hold it by the long fuselage on the bottom. It'd be bad if the radar gets messed up as it doesn't go back together easily.
This model is scaled appropriately to fit with 1:1 scale aircraft.
How It Works
The main radar system is composed of 2 pistons and 1 rotator. The first piston pushes the target marker out and into view when a target is selected. The second piston is for target distance. It extends or retracts depending on how far out the target it. The rotator (a little pain to get to work) pivots the distance piston around the center point based on the target angle and your heading.
The compass works as a compass, a fuselage block with the arrows and dots pivots around on a rotator to keep the arrow always facing north.
Specs
-Glow in the dark
-12.5-mile range
-145 pounds
-Built-in compass
Don't need credit if you use it, but maybe tag me I want to see what uses you all come up with. In the future, I may make a model that tells the elevation of the target and possibly speed, but for now, this is all the Funky Trees I can handle. Thanks for stopping by!
Specifications
Spotlights
- RussianAce 3.5 years ago
- MintLynx 3.5 years ago
- Typhoon03 3.5 years ago
- Noname918181818181818181 3.5 years ago
- Defalt1 3.5 years ago
General Characteristics
- Successors 1 airplane(s)
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 1.6ft (0.5m)
- Length 3.3ft (1.0m)
- Height 3.0ft (0.9m)
- Empty Weight 277lbs (125kg)
- Loaded Weight 277lbs (125kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading N/A
- Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
- Drag Points 389
Parts
- Number of Parts 25
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 128
And I’ve got no clue how to do that.
@MaverickHendricks That’s a good question. An expression that computes your angle compared the target aircraft angle would be needed, and then of course the display telling when to fire.
Anyone knows if it’s possible to adapt this radar to work like a TIE Fighter targeting computer ( this link gives a reference https://youtu.be/sXB7QZrhiTc ), my idea is to use it a sort of aiming mechanism (the dot who is the fighter moves following it and the crosshair has to be centered upon upon. I theorize it shouldn’t be different from FT used in auto turrets but I’m new into Funky and I have no idea
@Tiger131Planes Thanks!
NICE
@BagelPlane ok thx
@SMILEE Honestly I currently haven’t the slightest clue how to do something like that. I think Scharnhorst’s SPAGG (please forgive spelling) has something of the sorts for what your looking for.
I want to learn how to use these codes you used in the input, I saw that the radar shows the distance, I want to change it and make it show the angle, for example, when the enemy is behind me it will take the red dot to the tip of the radar showing that the enemy is after me, how i do that?
@BagelPlane thanks!
@DanP535 Go ahead!
Hey can i use this in my build? Il give credit
@BagelPlane ah nice thanks
@ZWLenning it’s used for the glowing parts. If it’s changed to shiny, I don’t know how it’ll affect the radar. Probably minor.
what is the pink used for? i need a shiny pink for something else - how would that affect the appearance
Ok so I don’t think I can have it work with my A10. I tried individually scaling the icons down but that didn’t work because they just started rotating out of the cockpit. Its whatever, it would have been kewl to have a radar system in the cockpit but whatever, no need to
Yea it is, thought it was broken but no its just a compass, the actual radar is the red dot, thanks @BagelPlane
Ok yea nevermind, I thought it was broken but its fine now, thanks!@BagelPlane
@SlavicRussian So its working?
@SlavicRussian Check part connections
Hey im modding a hawg and I want to add your radar, but, the radar is too big. I tried scaling it down but it lost orientation and pretty much stopped working, can you help me figure out how to fit it?
@BagelPlane Ok,
@stevemc01 you're able to get the code by using the overload editor. Just select the rotators or piston.
I was wondering if you could post the code for this radar, because it just seems so authentic that I may try making this as a square (for a 747 maybe).
thank you
Hey, man. It's very good for the F15. I think it's great in the cockpit. How did you like it?