@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.
Really fun bomber. I tried this out in VR and my only feedback is the cockpit is a little too shallow which makes the seat very high. The seat of the chair is about even with my navel. Other than that I like it.
@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.
@CookieCrumz That is correct, we are switching to a monthly subscription model. Please read the FAQ for more information. Thanks for paying! I mean, playing!
Unfortunately, it is because the website has very limited support for automatically building links with non-English characters. Other players can get to your profile with a direct link like this. We could also change your username to a fully English username if you would prefer. If that's what you want, just tag me in a comment with the username that you want.
@Rsouissi @Kakhikotchauri1 @BlackhattAircraft @Gameboi14 We don't have any plans to bring the procedural landing gear to SP, but it will make it to SP2, when we get to that...
@jamesPLANESii I don't know what happened between you two, but at some point you have to let the past go and move on. I've seen several players act childish and then mature to become great members of the community.
I looked into it this morning, but I was not able to make any progress and I have to get back to SR2. If you find any more information, please update this post. I have added this to the bug list to investigate the next time we are actively working on SP.
@AWESOMENESS360 We're not sure yet. I've been so wrong in the past, I'm afraid to even venture a guess at this point, otherwise, I'll find myself back on camera eating more black licorice!
The drag attributes are for the Part tag in the XML. The dragScale let's you multiply the drag the part receives. You can set it to any non-negative number. 0 indicates no drag. 1 is normal drag, 1.5 is 50% more drag, etc.
The calculateDrag attribute can be set to false to exclude a part from the drag calculation altogether. This means that parts that are behind it will receive drag. This is less likely to be used. Typically you'll want to just set dragScale to 0.
The diffuseInertiaTensors attribute is for the Aircraft tag. We diffuse inertia tensors across the aircraft to improve stability/reduce wobbliness, but this can come at the cost of realism in some cases. The default settings is true.
This is an outstanding build! Would you consider adding VTOL and throttle controls in the cockpit for VR players? If you ever do, please tag me and I'd love to check it out in VR.
@rfostoria Totally understandable. Without VR it's very difficult to know how to size things correctly. I'm going through a few recent designs tonight and giving feedback as I try them in VR.
If you make a new model, you will need to make a new post, unfortunately.
@jamesPLANESii I would recommend the Oculus Quest 2. It's $299 and you can plug it into your computer with a USB-C cable and play VR games from your PC. It also supports Oculus Air Link so you can wirelessly stream games from your PC and of course it supports standalone Quest games when you don't have access to your PC. Another nice thing about it is that it uses inside-out tracking, so you don't need to plug in external sensors and place them around your room.
@UraniumOxide @Urya @Bishobe The update was submitted to Amazon on September 24th, but it is still in review. This is the longest we've ever seen an app take to pass Amazon's review. The current status says: "App Submission Under Review - The app submission is taking longer than expected to go live. Stay tuned for further updates."
@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
Thank 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.
+6Very cool build! I had never heard of this and I love learning about unusual aircraft from the community.
+6There's a bug in the current beta on Steam. We should have a fix out sometime today.
+6Really fun bomber. I tried this out in VR and my only feedback is the cockpit is a little too shallow which makes the seat very high. The seat of the chair is about even with my navel. Other than that I like it.
+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.
+6@AN2Felllla @Thecatbaron @Kangy Thank you for the clarification. That would be a tough part to implement.
+6@CookieCrumz That is correct, we are switching to a monthly subscription model. Please read the FAQ for more information. Thanks for paying! I mean, playing!
+6Unfortunately, it is because the website has very limited support for automatically building links with non-English characters. Other players can get to your profile with a direct link like this. We could also change your username to a fully English username if you would prefer. If that's what you want, just tag me in a comment with the username that you want.
+6@Rsouissi @Kakhikotchauri1 @BlackhattAircraft @Gameboi14 We don't have any plans to bring the procedural landing gear to SP, but it will make it to SP2, when we get to that...
+6@jamesPLANESii I don't know what happened between you two, but at some point you have to let the past go and move on. I've seen several players act childish and then mature to become great members of the community.
+6I looked into it this morning, but I was not able to make any progress and I have to get back to SR2. If you find any more information, please update this post. I have added this to the bug list to investigate the next time we are actively working on SP.
+6That’s really cool. Launching vengeance with science! I was able to fire it over Wright Isles from Yeager.
+6I can't promise it will get fixed in 1.8, but I will add it to the list.
+6@AWESOMENESS360 We're not sure yet. I've been so wrong in the past, I'm afraid to even venture a guess at this point, otherwise, I'll find myself back on camera eating more black licorice!
+6@WhiteRabbit lol, thanks! we'll get you that SR2 as soon as we can!
+6Must be a bug. Sorry about that. I'll fix it when I'm back in the office next week. In the meantime, just ask the OP to delete your comments :D
+6The drag attributes are for the
Parttag in the XML. ThedragScalelet's you multiply the drag the part receives. You can set it to any non-negative number.0indicates no drag.1is normal drag,1.5is 50% more drag, etc.The
calculateDragattribute can be set tofalseto exclude a part from the drag calculation altogether. This means that parts that are behind it will receive drag. This is less likely to be used. Typically you'll want to just setdragScaleto0.The
+6diffuseInertiaTensorsattribute is for theAircrafttag. We diffuse inertia tensors across the aircraft to improve stability/reduce wobbliness, but this can come at the cost of realism in some cases. The default settings istrue.@EternalDarkness :D
+6Nice work trolling the troll!
+6@Ashdenpaw1 I recently turned 43, so my main goal is getting to bed at a reasonable hour.
+5Very cool craft and I enjoyed checking out the cockpit in VR. The desk with the rolled up map was a nice touch!
+5This is fixed in 1.12.203 which will roll out today. Sorry for the delay.
+5Update v1.12.201 is now available on Steam, iOS, and Android. It fixes the weird rotation bug and Fine Tuner.
@Kangy @jamesPLANESii @BaconEggs @Ian_Yashima If you have the chance, can you verify the rotation bug is now fixed in your test case(s)? Thanks!
+5@Skyler101 no worries, I appreciate your understanding!
+5@Lostpurse I believe the formula would be 1 - (1 - 0.35) * (1 - 0.15) = 0.4475, but please do let me know if you see an error!
+5This is an outstanding build! Would you consider adding VTOL and throttle controls in the cockpit for VR players? If you ever do, please tag me and I'd love to check it out in VR.
+5Amazing build! Any possibility we could get a collective lever in the cockpit for VR players? I'd love for VR players to be able to experience this!
+5Looks good. Curated.
+5@rfostoria Totally understandable. Without VR it's very difficult to know how to size things correctly. I'm going through a few recent designs tonight and giving feedback as I try them in VR.
If you make a new model, you will need to make a new post, unfortunately.
+5Very cool, but the cockpit camera is too far back and too low in VR.
+5@jamesPLANESii I would recommend the Oculus Quest 2. It's $299 and you can plug it into your computer with a USB-C cable and play VR games from your PC. It also supports Oculus Air Link so you can wirelessly stream games from your PC and of course it supports standalone Quest games when you don't have access to your PC. Another nice thing about it is that it uses inside-out tracking, so you don't need to plug in external sensors and place them around your room.
+5@UraniumOxide @Urya @Bishobe The update was submitted to Amazon on September 24th, but it is still in review. This is the longest we've ever seen an app take to pass Amazon's review. The current status says: "App Submission Under Review - The app submission is taking longer than expected to go live. Stay tuned for further updates."
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