This of course is great and i will of course buy them all, but one point is lacking. Have you forgotten the genious, precious work, the best game ever developed by humanity and the product of postmodern art - SimpleWheels? Will it be available for purchase?
@jamesPLANESii yes. At it took me A GODDAMN WEEK to understand that YOU CAN MODIFY FUSELAGE BLOCKS (at first i thought that these strange shapes in prebuilt planes are blocks you have to pay to unlock lol, mobile gaming f2p cancer ruined me)
Even if this VITAL mechanic is not even explained!
Won`t agree. Locking away some features may work, but SP is not Stormworks. It has less pieces, but SP is truly an example of "less is more". You may lock away mods but sp is a game where "advanced" has more to do with skills than tools".
So locking slightly more advanced features such as FineTuner, Connection editor and so may simplify the game, but it still is not that straightforward.
And there is the total problem of the game.
Simpleplanes has little tutorial. It does not even explain fuselage blocks. Simple stuff is explained but stuff like VTOL, rotators and advanced mechanisms leave unexplained. Simpleplanes gives too much stuff to guess and it can take time. I spent like two years to understand the core mechanics of the game and there is a ton of stuff i havent even tried or know.
Many players quit the game because there is too many features and they dont know how to use them and what for to use them. Here, locking away some parts may work, but the key is not only to lock some stuff out, but use it to explain the stiff left here without distraction.
We need complete and comprehensive interactive tutorials to explain using fuselage blocks, making landing gear, balancing the airplane, making detail, making cockpits and instruments etc... Also ingame stock FunkyTrees input tool. It is weird to have a feature availible only through save editing! Not all even know it is there!
And there is even little to none player-made tutorial. People take months to learn the game or even more if they are not a part of a community group on social media or do not appear on this site.
Though, the SP site makes this game so social and unique. Tearing other planes apart and learning from that is good. But it won`t replace a well-made guide. Nothing will.
SimplePlanes is not Stormworks, it has barely 70 part types, and you can make a pro grade plane using only 5: fuselage, any engine, rotator, wheel, wing (cus all wings are same part type except structural ofc). Not much to get lost in.
sry just a wall of thought and feelings.
We need tutorial.
@destroyerP Those challenges are really quite fun! I've held a no-fuselage challenge twice - and once i was really impressed by how one guy made a great Mustang out of wing panels! Unrotunately, i couldn't finish the second challenge due to the platform i was running it on was banned. Those challenges keep a touch of old S.P. - when you had to invent various creative and curious things to do what now can be achoieved with a couple of blocks. I sometimes regret that i didn't master the pre-1.5 SP, starting making cool designs only when fine tuner and scaling and all that high end stuff appeared...
@Omega6siege most recent update was at feb.23 adding a couple of new pieces. Im planning another update next week with a couple of structurals. Expect a tiny map in March, and dont forget to tag me if you encounter any issues!
@Kerbango yes. There is also a mobile version, but its too limited (i bought some packs to get started, otherwise you will be short on structural parts). Not enough freedom until you grind a decent collection of stuff or buy it. So i wouldnt reccomend to play it seriously (especially since its made by russian devs). Im making this mod to be able to build different creative vehicles, roleplaying, to create some parts|mechanics that arent in the original game... Also I always dreamt of making my game! Even if its just a massive mod. maybe will make a story mode like ex machina (the game crossout is based on, it`s a single player rpg and it was very fun for me)
True. All this feels like a wall that separates the players from the advanced stuff. I left because all advanced stuff is soo hard to learn and so user-unfriendly...
Why not just reuse Vizzy from SimpleRockets? It's programs are way easier to understand and modify. No brackets, just blocks, no typos and syntax errors. And it handles variables, loops etc...
Welp, maybe just switching to simplerockets is the way to go... But they don't have the fuselage slicing... Or do?
I don`t think Andrew 20 years ago would expect that he would create an advanced vehicle construction game only to find that the most advanced superweapon made in it would be a hovering tactic anime girl
@Treadmill103 thanks! The colour strokes were what the plane was made for! Actually, on my tablet it doesn't want to fly well, but i've tested it on my phone and it performed okay.
So Lil' Violet joins the fleet!
I personally am a huge fan of such challenges. They bring up the most pure, elegant parts of this game; being, true to the name, Simple planes (despite some of them not actually being simple, but looking simple)
@JP11 This is a good example, but it still contains degen geometry. By removing the degenrate faces and wheels (they have more poly than the entire car!) i managed to convert it. The model contains small elements such as some parts on the bonnet, rear bumper, door handles, that are too small and will not reproduce okay but increase the part count. Simplify them and/or model in sp. Im afraid you will have to make the wheels in SP bc they have too many polygons. Anyway, good luck and im looking forward to this build!
Did you make the model yourself or its from a game?
This is great and all, but can you give us the SimpleWheels discount while you are still here?
+13THIS is the perfect illustration of the word "CURSED"
+12The Engine-Jet-3 aka BFE122 was probably a mistake/typo(?) (once i did a similar post and Andrew replied)
+10ive been teleporting it for three days
+10Once i built an upvote and now you built an anti upvote so i think once bois will just build the sp site and make it work with funky trees
+9lol i like how it is a perfect mix of serous and painstaikingly absurd crafts
+7its good to see my mod getting some use but i thought people will use it for something more interesting than just porting a model they found
+6FEATURED TO THIS GUY
+5that's why i stopped playing
+4This is some out of this world design
+4Air: check.
+4Bus: check.
Such air, very bus
This of course is great and i will of course buy them all, but one point is lacking. Have you forgotten the genious, precious work, the best game ever developed by humanity and the product of postmodern art - SimpleWheels? Will it be available for purchase?
+4@Fooddoesnttastegood Not perfect, but always groundbreaking and innovative. Jundroo does a great job)
+3@jamesPLANESii yes. At it took me A GODDAMN WEEK to understand that YOU CAN MODIFY FUSELAGE BLOCKS (at first i thought that these strange shapes in prebuilt planes are blocks you have to pay to unlock lol, mobile gaming f2p cancer ruined me)
+3Even if this VITAL mechanic is not even explained!
@Strucker lmao
We also need Simp Planes for the full collection
Btw the simpleplanes mug just reads "SIMP" from one point of view lol
+3Won`t agree. Locking away some features may work, but SP is not Stormworks. It has less pieces, but SP is truly an example of "less is more". You may lock away mods but sp is a game where "advanced" has more to do with skills than tools".
So locking slightly more advanced features such as FineTuner, Connection editor and so may simplify the game, but it still is not that straightforward.
And there is the total problem of the game.
Simpleplanes has little tutorial. It does not even explain fuselage blocks. Simple stuff is explained but stuff like VTOL, rotators and advanced mechanisms leave unexplained. Simpleplanes gives too much stuff to guess and it can take time. I spent like two years to understand the core mechanics of the game and there is a ton of stuff i haven
+3t even tried or know.t know how to use them and what for to use them. Here, locking away some parts may work, but the key is not only to lock some stuff out, but use it to explain the stiff left here without distraction.Many players quit the game because there is too many features and they don
We need complete and comprehensive interactive tutorials to explain using fuselage blocks, making landing gear, balancing the airplane, making detail, making cockpits and instruments etc... Also ingame stock FunkyTrees input tool. It is weird to have a feature availible only through save editing! Not all even know it is there!
And there is even little to none player-made tutorial. People take months to learn the game or even more if they are not a part of a community group on social media or do not appear on this site.
Though, the SP site makes this game so social and unique. Tearing other planes apart and learning from that is good. But it won`t replace a well-made guide. Nothing will.
SimplePlanes is not Stormworks, it has barely 70 part types, and you can make a pro grade plane using only 5: fuselage, any engine, rotator, wheel, wing (cus all wings are same part type except structural ofc). Not much to get lost in.
sry just a wall of thought and feelings.
We need tutorial.
if eve online had a gopnik nation
+3@destroyerP Those challenges are really quite fun! I've held a no-fuselage challenge twice - and once i was really impressed by how one guy made a great Mustang out of wing panels! Unrotunately, i couldn't finish the second challenge due to the platform i was running it on was banned. Those challenges keep a touch of old S.P. - when you had to invent various creative and curious things to do what now can be achoieved with a couple of blocks. I sometimes regret that i didn't master the pre-1.5 SP, starting making cool designs only when fine tuner and scaling and all that high end stuff appeared...
+3Ahsoka from Clone Wars
+3После такиз построек начинаешь сомневаться что культ сасатт. По крайней мере у вас всегда ну очень интересная и нестандартная техника
+3nice, a plane that is a map
+2@Omega6siege most recent update was at feb.23 adding a couple of new pieces. Im planning another update next week with a couple of structurals. Expect a tiny map in March, and dont forget to tag me if you encounter any issues!
+2@Griffon1 suggestion accepted, will make! buys 2 packs for the hadron workpiece
In this case modelling this item will be easier than earning ingame)
+2@Kerbango yes. There is also a mobile version, but its too limited (i bought some packs to get started, otherwise you will be short on structural parts). Not enough freedom until you grind a decent collection of stuff or buy it. So i wouldnt reccomend to play it seriously (especially since it
+2s made by russian devs). Im making this mod to be able to build different creative vehicles, roleplaying, to create some parts|mechanics that arent in the original game... Also I always dreamt of making my game! Even if its just a massive mod. maybe will make a story mode like ex machina (the game crossout is based on, it`s a single player rpg and it was very fun for me)@alexJgameYTukraine000000 хз, трішки потім, зараз дороблю деякий базовий конструктив
+2@ThomasRoderick oh you upvoted my everything. Thanks!
+2@ThomasRoderick thanks ) idk maybe im back i just thought about this thing and like... MUST BUILD
+2florida man
+2True. All this feels like a wall that separates the players from the advanced stuff. I left because all advanced stuff is soo hard to learn and so user-unfriendly...
+2Why not just reuse Vizzy from SimpleRockets? It's programs are way easier to understand and modify. No brackets, just blocks, no typos and syntax errors. And it handles variables, loops etc...
Welp, maybe just switching to simplerockets is the way to go... But they don't have the fuselage slicing... Or do?
Cars flashbacks
+2THIS is simpleplanes 2
+2@sheepsblood sp2 exists
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it is called simplerockets 2
epicness is inmeasurable
+2I don`t think Andrew 20 years ago would expect that he would create an advanced vehicle construction game only to find that the most advanced superweapon made in it would be a hovering tactic anime girl
+2We need a thomas tag
+2@Sovietstrike333 thanxx!
+2that is what eating black licorice does to people! licorice sticks should be banned as deadline completence method!
+2The whale aircraft carrier is totally awesome.
+2Ur planechilling
+2Ethans truck: im gonna end this mans whole career
@Treadmill103 thanks! The only drawback is the weird shading - the reflections are very stretched. Hope it will do well in the tornament!
+2@Monsterhunter I
+2ll try once if ill get my SDK running/@Treadmill103 thanks! The colour strokes were what the plane was made for! Actually, on my tablet it doesn't want to fly well, but i've tested it on my phone and it performed okay.
+2So Lil' Violet joins the fleet!
@F104Deathtrap sweet beans rain expected
+2@BaconRoll you are welcome!
+2@Chancey21 rakes xd)
+2No modifier. Just grass made out of few polygons and then spreaded with a particle system.
@FastDan i still have his contacts.
+2I hope somewhere in heaven Lenin is watching at your ships and a tear of pride slowly drops from his eyes...
+2Noice. Maybe one of the best backgrounds
+2I personally am a huge fan of such challenges. They bring up the most pure, elegant parts of this game; being, true to the name, Simple planes (despite some of them not actually being simple, but looking simple)
+1@JP11 This is a good example, but it still contains degen geometry. By removing the degenrate faces and wheels (they have more poly than the entire car!) i managed to convert it. The model contains small elements such as some parts on the bonnet, rear bumper, door handles, that are too small and will not reproduce okay but increase the part count. Simplify them and/or model in sp. I
m afraid you will have to make the wheels in SP bc they have too many polygons. Anyway, good luck and im looking forward to this build!Did you make the model yourself or its from a game?
+1