@lordverminaard Sorry, I obviously did not read your post thoroughly. I apologize. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what would cause that. I would guess it's a rogue input, but it sounds like you've already ruled that out.
You can try temporarily moving your configuration files out of the way to force the game back to defaults. You need to be careful when doing this to work around Steam's cloud sync, but you can follow the instructions here under the "The game crashes when going into the designer or going into flight" section.
And @Alienbeef0421's plane, the Golden Moon, can complete the Oceanview course in a mind blowing 36 seconds. Unfortunately it did crash, so it's out of the tournament, but very impressive build.
Very interesting specimen. It's hard to explain what's going on here, but basically it's happening because we are bending the rules of physics a bit to make things more stable in SimplePlanes. It turns out that this design exploits that algorithm and causes the detacher at the top to have an extremely high inertia tensor and more or less turns it into a super powerful gyroscope.
It's hard to say what the issue is without being able to see your log files, which are much harder to access on iOS than any other device. I suspect a part in the airplane gets into a state where it can't properly save itself and then when you load the loading process fails and all parts after that are not loaded. Do you notice this happening after working with a specific kind of part? Fuselage parts, fuselage inlets, or fuselage nose cones would be my guess for a part that could become error prone. Let me know if you find any patterns.
I agree, they shouldn't be allowed anymore. It was fun but they won't be allowed in future glider tournaments. It will be a pain to moderate that though.
@Baldovino @AudioDud3 Wow, I did it again! Good thing I'm just a programmer and don't really need a strong attention to detail...... Thanks for letting me know, it's been fixed. ;)
Now that more people are aware of the bug, I'm actually really looking forward to seeing how people can use it to their advantage. I'm going to allow it for the next tournament and see how it goes.
@Baldovino I looked into it and I see the issue, they are just slightly different altitudes. I'm sure it does make a difference when you guys are competing at a level when such a small amount of time can win or lose, but unfortunately I cannot do anything about it for this tournament without risking different behavior in the tournament build.
@Cadin I'm not sure that you could change the base water, but maybe you could create a plane or cube that sits just above the water and has an ice texture and low friction physics material.
@EliteIndustries1 This is true, I was testing it out, but this build is worthy of many spotlights.
Trying to fix the spotlight bug that so many love to exploit.
@lordverminaard Sorry, I obviously did not read your post thoroughly. I apologize. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what would cause that. I would guess it's a rogue input, but it sounds like you've already ruled that out.
You can try temporarily moving your configuration files out of the way to force the game back to defaults. You need to be careful when doing this to work around Steam's cloud sync, but you can follow the instructions here under the "The game crashes when going into the designer or going into flight" section.
Try forcing SP to run in D3D9 and see if that helps. Instructions here.
What browser are you using? If you haven't tried, try using Google Chrome. Sorry about the bugs.
edit: sorry, I obviously didn't read your post thoroughly.
And @Alienbeef0421's plane, the Golden Moon, can complete the Oceanview course in a mind blowing 36 seconds. Unfortunately it did crash, so it's out of the tournament, but very impressive build.
Also, @Baldovino's flying saucer design is pretty amazing.
Very cool design!
You beat me in the tournament. Congrats ;)
It's already off to a great start with @Tully2001's Racing Potato design.
Try disabling music and video replay in the main menu. Also try restarting your device.
Ran a validation check just now and notified the violators. The only way your craft will fail validation is if you have weapons.
Very interesting specimen. It's hard to explain what's going on here, but basically it's happening because we are bending the rules of physics a bit to make things more stable in SimplePlanes. It turns out that this design exploits that algorithm and causes the detacher at the top to have an extremely high inertia tensor and more or less turns it into a super powerful gyroscope.
@OtterOfToast @Geekpride Wow, quite a lot of ASCII on this post. I think you two should block each other and move on.
@WalrusAircraft Thanks. It's been fixed.
@Awesomeplanes I feel it is probably unlikely to help, but I would be interested to know if it fixes the issue.
@WalrusAircraft sure, which airplane would you like to link it with?
It's hard to say what the issue is without being able to see your log files, which are much harder to access on iOS than any other device. I suspect a part in the airplane gets into a state where it can't properly save itself and then when you load the loading process fails and all parts after that are not loaded. Do you notice this happening after working with a specific kind of part? Fuselage parts, fuselage inlets, or fuselage nose cones would be my guess for a part that could become error prone. Let me know if you find any patterns.
Try restarting your device. Also try disabling music and Video Replay in the main menu settings.
I agree, they shouldn't be allowed anymore. It was fun but they won't be allowed in future glider tournaments. It will be a pain to moderate that though.
@Baldovino @AudioDud3 Wow, I did it again! Good thing I'm just a programmer and don't really need a strong attention to detail...... Thanks for letting me know, it's been fixed. ;)
@Baldovino I'm not going to disqualify anyone for using the shaking glitch (or, as I like to call it, the shaking feature).
Dat cockpit.
@Smasher Okay, I think I may have fixed the issue. Let me know if you are still seeing it.
Try logging out and logging back in again. Also what web browser are you using?
I just ran a validation check on this tournament. If you did not receive a notification then your design is good to go. No news is good news.
@AtomicFerret007 It has been a while, maybe we can do one of those next, so probably mid March.
@JovianPat Hard to say, you'd have to ask the MP mod guys.
@JovianPat No problem, I'm just glad you got it figured out and there's not an underlying bug!
This is very strange. After you disabled mods, did you quit and re-open SimplePlanes?
@JovianPat It explodes on mine as well. Does it explode on yours if you enter slow mo mode (key 'L') quickly when entering the level?
@carrot2110 thanks :)
Can you share the design unlisted so I can take a look at it.
Feel the vibrations!
Now that more people are aware of the bug, I'm actually really looking forward to seeing how people can use it to their advantage. I'm going to allow it for the next tournament and see how it goes.
Awesome work!
@SkullsAndCrossbones nope
@FearlessFabEngineering You can re-position, and rotate with XML modding (or using Fine Tuner), but you can't scale or anything else.
I just ran a validation check on this tournament. If you did not receive a notification then your design is good to go. No news is good news.
I just ran a validation check on this tournament. If you did not receive a notification then your design is good to go. No news is good news.
@Alienbeef0421 Thanks!
Okay, added a teaser tag for forum posts.
@Baldovino I looked into it and I see the issue, they are just slightly different altitudes. I'm sure it does make a difference when you guys are competing at a level when such a small amount of time can win or lose, but unfortunately I cannot do anything about it for this tournament without risking different behavior in the tournament build.
@EliteIndustries1 Good idea, I just added it.
@Cadin I'm not sure that you could change the base water, but maybe you could create a plane or cube that sits just above the water and has an ice texture and low friction physics material.
@Baldovino Fuel is removed
@Baldovino Interesting, I'll try and find time to look into that this week, but I'm not sure I will be able to do anything before the tournament.
@t8erh8er Sorry, but the tough news is that if your plane isn't under 3 minutes you won't stand a chance in the tournament.
@CaesiciusPlanes You are up for a feature. Let me know what plane you want me to feature.
@rubbishcraft We will try to avoid featuring a platinum more than once, but that's not to say we will never do it.