It feels pretty good in VR, so I have gone ahead and curated for VR. The MFD does appear to not work correctly as it doesn't show that the aircraft has any weapons.
Some things that would be nice for future builds: Give your switches tooltips so the player knows what they do. More buttons for combat functions: cycle targeting mode, next weapon, next target.
I should probably add a tooltip for it. Here's how I described it in an earlier comment:
Performance cost is an attempt to measure the computational intensity of a craft in terms of straight blocks. For example, if a craft has a performance cost of 500, then you might expect it to affect framerate about the same as a craft that was made of 500 straight blocks. It's still very much just an estimate, but hopefully, it is a better estimate than part count.
Each part type has a constant performance cost associated with it. Some part types have an additional cost depending on their settings. For example, wings will have more performance cost if they are larger because that requires more sections of wing physics. Bladed engines have additional cost with each blade. Labels cost more if they use expressions.
I'm finding that anything under 2000 generally works well on the Quest 2 and anything over 3000 generally affects framerate on the Quest 2. PC is a different story since every device is a little different.
Do you mind if I use some of these images in promotional stuff, like blog posts, etc? I'll be sure to credit you if we do. Also, I'm assuming you are using Reshade, but anything else?
@Love0police You're taking an issue with small details. The important thing is that money is coming out of your bank account and into ours and at the end of the day, that's all that really matters.
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I'm really sorry about the late start today, everyone. I was out of town today celebrating Thanksgiving early with my family and the truth is that I completely forgot about the tournament. I had an email reminder set up in my calendar to remind me, but that doesn't help much when I don't check my email all day! Again, my apologies, and I'll try to do better in the future!
@EternalDarkness That's actually what we are planning for SimpleRockets 2, but unfortunately we designed things a bit differently on SimplePlanes.com and it would be harder to do so.
I'm sorry to hear about the crashes you're experiencing with the beta version. Could you please let me know when exactly the game crashes and what type of device you are using?
If you're concerned about preserving your aircraft designs, you can back them up by connecting your Android device to a PC. Once connected, navigate to the following directory:
Android/data/com.jundroo.SimplePlanes/files
From here, copy the AircraftDesigns and SubAssemblies folders to your PC to safely back them up.
You can opt out of the beta by reverting to the production version of the game through the Google Play Store. This action should not cause any data loss as long as you do not uninstall the game. However, please note that while it's uncommon, I cannot guarantee that all data will be preserved in every case.
@Ian_Yashima Sadly that is due to the Unity upgrade. We need to update our games periodically to maintain compatibility with the different app stores (iOS, Google Play, etc) or otherwise they will yank our games from their stores. Sometimes that requires us to update to a newer version of Unity and this always has the risk of breaking mods. Unfortunately that appears to be what has happened here with those mods in your screenshot. If the authors of those mods have the time and are able to rebuild it with the new mod tools using the same version of Unity we are using then the mods should work again. Sorry for the inconvenience.
This is a great build and it works well in VR. The only thing that is missing for a good VR experience is a slider/lever in the cockpit to increase engine throttle.
@marcox43 I plan to make a post about gauges next week. They won't support everything that you listed, but they can do a lot. Also, we plan to add a Label part so you can put custom text wherever.
Unfortunately, something is currently broken with the website and scores are not processing right now. I’ll fix it tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Unfortunately, I was not able to get the image picker working on older iOS devices or devices running < iOS version 13. If you can update to iOS version 13, then you should have access to the blueprints panel. Sorry for the inconvenience.
@DuckMint @Gestour That's a fair question. If we don't keep Unity up to date our apps start rotting. Platforms start to push new requirements on developers and if we aren't using the latest stuff we run the risk of being forced to update Unity at a non-ideal time. SimplePlanes is becoming increasingly difficult to update on iOS with 5.3.6. Early last year when the iPhone X came out I had to update SP to work with the rounded corners but Unity 5.3.6 didn't have support for that so I ended up spending 10x longer hacking together a solution just to get by. The beginning of an update cycle is the ideal time to upgrade Unity since we will have more time to react to potential issues. I am sorry for the inconvenience for mod developers, but it's the nature of software development. Hopefully, your mods will work fine with Unity 2018.3. What issues are you having with building for Android, @Gestour?
@Chancey21 Naming a company is really hard. When I knew I needed to start a company to keep making games, I had no idea what to name it. For some reason, my mind kept going back to a nickname my brother's friend would call me when I was younger: Jundrew. I changed it up to make it more visually balanced and that's what I went with. I had no idea I would ever bring other people on and the team would grow to this size, so now, unfortunately all my colleagues and I are stuck with the name!
@DerekSP It's good to get this honest feedback. Thanks for posting.
@SledDriver you've got some great ideas as usual. We don't plan to do a major overhaul on the SimplePlanes designer, but these are great ideas to take into consideration with SR2's designer.
@WNP78 Thanks for being so helpful in the community and for making tools that can help players work around some of our limitations. We're going to take another look at the inertia tensor problem with the next update. It was introduced back when SP was using Unity 4.x, so maybe Unity 5.x will alleviate the need for it. At the very least we will make it easy to disable at the aircraft level.
@JangoTheMango It's not a cash grab. We've spent almost two years now taking everything we've learned and built from SR1 and SP and putting them together into what will be our best game yet.
@Rakoval500k That's interesting. There's no built in mechanism to control the prop's angle when the engine is stopped, but I guess you could move the propeller a bit with Chad, just be extra careful.
Ouch, so sorry to hear that Graingy! Sadly there's nothing we can do to help. Hopefully you're able to recover them! Steam Cloud can really stab you in the back if you misclick in that dialog.
This is expected behavior because clearing your browser history also typically wipes your cookies, which is where your login session information is stored. If that's removed, the site thinks you are logging in from a new device, which triggers the 2FA prompt.
@GuyWhoBuildStuff @LowQualityRepublic We'll roll it out to silvers next week if things go well this week. @PlaneFlightX is exactly right. This is an easy to way to roll it out to a limited number of users at a time in a controlled way so we can keep an eye on it and make sure the new system is working as intended.
We believe we have identified the issue and we will be rolling an update out soon to Open Testing on Google Play. You can just wait until that's available and update to that and see if it fixes your issue.
@Kennneth SPVR should have the same modding support as SP on Steam, but no modding support on Oculus Quest. If we can't make modding support work for whatever reason, you could always just use the original SimplePlanes. When you buy SPVR on Steam it acts like a DLC and will unlock the VR mode in original SimplePlanes as well.
It feels pretty good in VR, so I have gone ahead and curated for VR. The MFD does appear to not work correctly as it doesn't show that the aircraft has any weapons.
Some things that would be nice for future builds: Give your switches tooltips so the player knows what they do. More buttons for combat functions: cycle targeting mode, next weapon, next target.
+8I should probably add a tooltip for it. Here's how I described it in an earlier comment:
Performance cost is an attempt to measure the computational intensity of a craft in terms of straight blocks. For example, if a craft has a performance cost of 500, then you might expect it to affect framerate about the same as a craft that was made of 500 straight blocks. It's still very much just an estimate, but hopefully, it is a better estimate than part count.
Each part type has a constant performance cost associated with it. Some part types have an additional cost depending on their settings. For example, wings will have more performance cost if they are larger because that requires more sections of wing physics. Bladed engines have additional cost with each blade. Labels cost more if they use expressions.
I'm finding that anything under 2000 generally works well on the Quest 2 and anything over 3000 generally affects framerate on the Quest 2. PC is a different story since every device is a little different.
+8Do you mind if I use some of these images in promotional stuff, like blog posts, etc? I'll be sure to credit you if we do. Also, I'm assuming you are using Reshade, but anything else?
+8@Love0police You're taking an issue with small details. The important thing is that money is coming out of your bank account and into ours and at the end of the day, that's all that really matters.
+8Here are the 25 top commenters of all time. These are the total number of comments, so they include removed comments and comments on removed and unlisted posts. Here are the mods sorted by number of comments. And lastly, here are the top commenters over the past year.
+8I'm really sorry about the late start today, everyone. I was out of town today celebrating Thanksgiving early with my family and the truth is that I completely forgot about the tournament. I had an email reminder set up in my calendar to remind me, but that doesn't help much when I don't check my email all day! Again, my apologies, and I'll try to do better in the future!
+8Thanks for letting me know. I fixed it so it should work now.
+8@Minecraftpoweer It took a lot of convincing, but they finally let me back in the system. Those fools!
+8Sorry about that. It's an annoying glitch that I believe only happens on the register/login pages.
+8@WeSeekANARCHY SP won't die! It's still a great game!
+8@Jetpackturtle Just going to leave this here.
+8@EternalDarkness That's actually what we are planning for SimpleRockets 2, but unfortunately we designed things a bit differently on SimplePlanes.com and it would be harder to do so.
+8It's like drifting, but it's in a jet
+7I'm sorry to hear about the crashes you're experiencing with the beta version. Could you please let me know when exactly the game crashes and what type of device you are using?
If you're concerned about preserving your aircraft designs, you can back them up by connecting your Android device to a PC. Once connected, navigate to the following directory:
Android/data/com.jundroo.SimplePlanes/files
From here, copy the AircraftDesigns and SubAssemblies folders to your PC to safely back them up.
You can opt out of the beta by reverting to the production version of the game through the Google Play Store. This action should not cause any data loss as long as you do not uninstall the game. However, please note that while it's uncommon, I cannot guarantee that all data will be preserved in every case.
+7@Ian_Yashima Sadly that is due to the Unity upgrade. We need to update our games periodically to maintain compatibility with the different app stores (iOS, Google Play, etc) or otherwise they will yank our games from their stores. Sometimes that requires us to update to a newer version of Unity and this always has the risk of breaking mods. Unfortunately that appears to be what has happened here with those mods in your screenshot. If the authors of those mods have the time and are able to rebuild it with the new mod tools using the same version of Unity we are using then the mods should work again. Sorry for the inconvenience.
+7@WinsWings The logo on the front page of this website, or the app icon shown on mobile phones, or both?
+7This is a great build and it works well in VR. The only thing that is missing for a good VR experience is a slider/lever in the cockpit to increase engine throttle.
+7Lol, wow you made short work of that! You are the first winner. I will give you the award tomorrow morning! Congrats!
+7Very cool build! I had never heard of this and I love learning about unusual aircraft from the community.
+7@marcox43 I plan to make a post about gauges next week. They won't support everything that you listed, but they can do a lot. Also, we plan to add a Label part so you can put custom text wherever.
+7@PlanariaLab good idea
+7It's like a reunion in here! Good to see you @BoxGlow!
+7Unfortunately, something is currently broken with the website and scores are not processing right now. I’ll fix it tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience.
+7Unfortunately, I was not able to get the image picker working on older iOS devices or devices running < iOS version 13. If you can update to iOS version 13, then you should have access to the blueprints panel. Sorry for the inconvenience.
+7Wow, that looks amazing!
+7@Squirrel Oh no, it's going to be tide pods all over again and they're going to trace it back to you!
+7@Weaverfish After this update, we are switching our focus back to SR2.
+7@WNP78 They will be available tomorrow.
+7@DuckMint @Gestour That's a fair question. If we don't keep Unity up to date our apps start rotting. Platforms start to push new requirements on developers and if we aren't using the latest stuff we run the risk of being forced to update Unity at a non-ideal time. SimplePlanes is becoming increasingly difficult to update on iOS with 5.3.6. Early last year when the iPhone X came out I had to update SP to work with the rounded corners but Unity 5.3.6 didn't have support for that so I ended up spending 10x longer hacking together a solution just to get by. The beginning of an update cycle is the ideal time to upgrade Unity since we will have more time to react to potential issues. I am sorry for the inconvenience for mod developers, but it's the nature of software development. Hopefully, your mods will work fine with Unity 2018.3. What issues are you having with building for Android, @Gestour?
+7@Chancey21 Naming a company is really hard. When I knew I needed to start a company to keep making games, I had no idea what to name it. For some reason, my mind kept going back to a nickname my brother's friend would call me when I was younger: Jundrew. I changed it up to make it more visually balanced and that's what I went with. I had no idea I would ever bring other people on and the team would grow to this size, so now, unfortunately all my colleagues and I are stuck with the name!
+7@jamesPLANESii Thanks =|
+7Happy birthday!
+7@DerekSP It's good to get this honest feedback. Thanks for posting.
@SledDriver you've got some great ideas as usual. We don't plan to do a major overhaul on the SimplePlanes designer, but these are great ideas to take into consideration with SR2's designer.
@WNP78 Thanks for being so helpful in the community and for making tools that can help players work around some of our limitations. We're going to take another look at the inertia tensor problem with the next update. It was introduced back when SP was using Unity 4.x, so maybe Unity 5.x will alleviate the need for it. At the very least we will make it easy to disable at the aircraft level.
@JangoTheMango It's not a cash grab. We've spent almost two years now taking everything we've learned and built from SR1 and SP and putting them together into what will be our best game yet.
+7Okay, everything should be back to normal now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
+7@EarthwormJim
Computer
CPU: Core i7-6700K @ 4GHz
RAM: 32GB
Video Card: GTX 1080
Game Settings
Resolution: 1280x720
+7Quality Preset: High
Music: Disabled
Random Crashing of Player Airplanes: Enabled
@Rakoval500k That's interesting. There's no built in mechanism to control the prop's angle when the engine is stopped, but I guess you could move the propeller a bit with Chad, just be extra careful.
+6Ouch, so sorry to hear that Graingy! Sadly there's nothing we can do to help. Hopefully you're able to recover them! Steam Cloud can really stab you in the back if you misclick in that dialog.
+6Works great in SP2! My son blew my arms off in those first two screenshots, but then we all joined forces to attack Vetusta.
+6Whoa, amazing! It even has water physics! I was able to confirm that it works in SP2 as well. Very impressive, @IzzyIA!
+6SP2 photo shoot
+6@RizalAdiel sorry, I know mobile players are not happy about 2026, but we're working as fast as we can.
+6This is expected behavior because clearing your browser history also typically wipes your cookies, which is where your login session information is stored. If that's removed, the site thinks you are logging in from a new device, which triggers the 2FA prompt.
+6@GuyWhoBuildStuff @LowQualityRepublic We'll roll it out to silvers next week if things go well this week. @PlaneFlightX is exactly right. This is an easy to way to roll it out to a limited number of users at a time in a controlled way so we can keep an eye on it and make sure the new system is working as intended.
+6We believe we have identified the issue and we will be rolling an update out soon to Open Testing on Google Play. You can just wait until that's available and update to that and see if it fixes your issue.
+6Thank you for the warm welcome, @Typhoon03. We are excited to get started!
+6Thanks for the bug report. This should be fixed in the next update.
+6Please contact us at games@jundroo.com and we will do what we can to help.
+6There's a bug in the current beta on Steam. We should have a fix out sometime today.
+6Looks good. Curated.
+6@Kennneth SPVR should have the same modding support as SP on Steam, but no modding support on Oculus Quest. If we can't make modding support work for whatever reason, you could always just use the original SimplePlanes. When you buy SPVR on Steam it acts like a DLC and will unlock the VR mode in original SimplePlanes as well.
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