Awesome! Congrats to WNP78!
Also you should pick more modders into the team because some of them are making god level mods that should be in the vanilla game
Dude at least give some credit in the description to Weaverfish because he made the original plane
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/5FE6P3/B-17-Fortress-w-Incendiary-Canister
Holy Morgan Freeman. This is awesome! All those new features. Gosh... aaaaand looks like I gotta remake the USS Beast again * sigh *, but hey it looks fantastic and has new features! Amazing job guys! 😀
@Jetliner101 The LVT-4 Water Buffalo was an amphibious tracked vehicle (LVT = Landing Vehicle Tracked) used mainly by the USMC (but the US Army used it too) during WWII. The LVT was able to carry troops, supllies and even smaller vehicle such as Jeeps. My build tries to represent the latter one. So yes, it a tank that swims and carries a Jeep which it can unload on land.
@JamesBleriot Yes, I hid seven types of viruses into this build, your device is full of malwares now.
Putting sarcasm away, what do you think can be the problem on my end? Or what do you think did I do wrong here? It's really funny that you blame me because your device is too weak to run this. Btw part count is not always a determining factor, size can be too. A 50 part build can crash a game too if it's big enough (I tried building a real size Statue of Liberty once and when I was at somewhere around 50 part, the game crashed cuz it was so big) so no, the problem is on your end, your device simply can't handle big stuff with many parts, that's it.
@ThePilotDude I fixed it now, the original sentence was supposed to be a small reference to the game 'Rising Storm 2: Vietnam' (which inspired me to make this) as in the game when a vietnamese soldier taunts he often shouts this.
@BrieCheese Did you use the cockpit from this post? If not, no problem, I'll just ask a moderator to make it a successor to this post. Also no need to tag me there, just drop a comment here when you are finished uploading and I'll check out your profile to find it
@BrieCheese It's bit complex Funky Tree system. It would be a bit long to explain it here
Do you have discord account perhaps? in the Port SP server I have a detailed guide to it. (invite link)
@FOXHOUND26 He had many good original creations (the Trueno an SunDale for example), the problem was really that he tried to steal and lie about his other creations, hopefully he'll act different this time, but we'll see
@FOXHOUND26 He stole from other people and lied about it (as well as about other things too). Btw, this build also uses a part that wasn't made by him, namely the MG-34 that WCAC conveniently forgot to credit again (it was made by LocalDealer). This is the thing that he did before, he stole parts (or in some cases entire vehicles) and didn't credit people, and when he was called out about it, he deleted comments to hide his theft. It became a big drama and WCAC was forced to leave but now he is back doing the exact same thing again
@Mousewithamachinegun122 Yup, a lot has happened since then, but I'm quite proud of my first year (as I am of most of the years of my SP work), I reached a lot of achievements
As far as I know there is no way. Best you can do is go through who upvoted your builds and check on their profiles one by one but ofc that's very tedious and time consuming
@Hoawdie Well, it's preferred to build the ship entirely by yourself, but you can use assets from others (with proper credit of course), although expect some score deduction for it (the more borrowed parts you use, the more points would be deducted from your final score)
@KSB24 Glad I could help with a big info then. That user has a history of using taken builds as challenge entries (or just uploading taken builds or parts without credit in general) so if you are planning another challenge in the future, I recommend checking entries extra carefully
Also if you got two other random pings, those were me too, I tried to tell you this info under his post but he deleted my comments both times and blocked me, showing that he is trying to hide the truth about the build's origins
I'd say my biggest recent disappointment was my Olympic and Titanic. They both got over 50 upvotes but for the amount of work I put into them, I expected at least about 80-ish upvotes, but unfortunately I screwed up by making them be too many parts so most players couldn't even try them out.
Hey there! your ships are awesome, really well made. I figured I'd let you know that there is a discord server dedicated to ship building in SP, where we share our building progress, help each other, have some events and so on. If you are interested, I'll leave an invite link here, I hope you dont mind: >>clicky<<
@PapaKernels Yea, device limitation is a pain (hence why I put the 2500 limit in the beginning, to give low-end users a chance)
Still, it's not a bad entry and you can be very proud of yourself for being able to do this much even with your device limitations.
Thanks for participating! o7
Upon first look the ship look marvellous! Smooth and clean design while perfectly representing the original ship. The first test run went well although I had to use faster time because the turrets are very very slow.
- Design/Accuracy (15/15):
To my knowledge, the build represents the original ship perfectly well, I didnt find any innacuracy.
- Details (12/15):
The ship is very nicely detailed although I feel like more could have been added such as railings, stairs etc. but things like the windows are nice additions.
- Features (15/20):
The ship has all of its weaponry being usable, all being auto-aimed and some nice rudder+custom prop based movement
- Build Quality (9/10):
The hull is just beautifully smooth and the gun aiming system is insanely sophisticated with each gun only being active if the selected target is within their firing arcs.
The build itself is super efficient, with fuselage slicing used all over the place to reduce parts and the builder also uses other parts very creatively, such as the wheels on the cranes. Label parts are also used a lot and the way the fuselage inlets are used on places like the funnels or searchlights is just ingenious.
- Performance (17/20):
The ship behaves excellently with the ocean mod, it sails smoothly even at some massive waves.
I'm personally not a fan of auto-aim only weapons but they are perfectly valid and get the job done. I feel like the main turrets are a tiny bit too slow, it's realisitc, but could be a bit faster to be more enjoyable. The aiming system itself works flawlessly however.
The use of custom propellers and actual rudder based steering is also great and works very nicely.
- Description and Information (14/15):
The description is awesome, with a great balance of text and screenshots and nice formatting. It includes a history section as well as the controls, and I really like the additional effort of building a whole new ship just for the screenshots.
Additional Points (-0, +3):
+3 for the effort of building a König class from scratch just to show it next to Bayern on the screenshots
The ship appears very nice and captures the essence of the original vessel very well. The first test run was mostly pleasant with the exception of not being able to bring the ship to a halt.
- Design/Accuracy (15/15):
The build to my knowledge accurately represent Fusō in her later years. Most of the details appear to be in order, even her insanely complicated pagoda mast, kudos for making that.
- Details (12/15):
The ship features some very nice detail work with railings, extensive rigging, a lot of deck equipment, even the rails around the catapuls and a sort of railing around the top of the funnel and so on, all very well made.
The detail that some of the rooms on the mast are hollow and have see through windows is also very nice, the only thing that would have made them even better if they weren't empty, but they are still quite nice.
One thing I noticed right away is the lack of anchors, which I feel like a ship with this level of detail should have included.
- Features (12/20):
The builds allows the use of every type of weaponry onboard including the main and secondary guns, and the AA weaponry, the latter being auto-aimed.
The main and secondary cannons have an interesting system (borrowed from another builder) in place where the ship enters a port or starboard firing mode, in which the main guns are synced up with either side's secondaries. This system worked very well for me and I rather enjoyed it as it gave a sort of realism to it (given that dreadnoughts usually engaged with broadsides)
- Build Quality (7/10):
The build makes great use of the fuselages slicing althoug I noticed a missed opportunity with the rigging, but other details like the beams of the elevated platforms around the funnels, the hollow rooms and the railings are well made with it.
The build uses vanilla propellers to save on parts but they dont work too well (in fact, the innermost two doesnt work at all) and they are not too aesthetically pleasing either.
- Performance (10/20):
The ship performs quite well with the ocean mod, and the use of actual propellers and rudder based steering is a nice feature, too bad the former has a little mistake in the form of the two inner propellers not working. The lack of reverse or even just stopping the ship is a bit disappointing though.
The ship is slightly faster than the real one but the difference is not too large so it's acceptable
The way the main and secondary weapons are solved is quite unusual but works very well and is very easy to use.
- Description and Information (11/15):
The description very fair, not too long, not too short, has a balanced mix of text and images, good formatting, nothing special but gets the job done. I gave it one additional point because I felt it has an almost perfect balance of text, length and images.
The ship's upper hull and superstructure appears to be squashed at first, definitely not as tall as it should be. The non-smooth lower hull is also not so pleasing to look at but the many deck details, windows and other things somewhat compensate.
- Design/Accuracy (9/15):
The ship's superstructure appear to be much shorter than it should be, especially the funnels. Another inaccuracy worth mentioning is the inside of the secondary barrels is for aome reason painted in purple.
Other than these, the rest of the detail work seem to match the real ship.
- Details (10/15):
The ship has a nice array of details from deck equipment, to vents, rigging and even some nice swinging hooks on the cranes.
The searchlights having actual glass on them was a nice touch as well. The flag is also nice too, it could have been even better if it was waving.
The bridge being hollow was also nice addition even if it's completely empty, maybe some windows could have made it even better.
- Features (12/20):
The ship features usable main and secondary guns, and even hull mounted torpedo tubes which is great additional feature.
The main and secondary cannons have an interesting system in place where the ship enters a port or starboard firing mode, in which the main guns are synced up with either side's secondaries. This system worked very well for me and I rather enjoyed it as it gave a sort of realism to it (given that dreadnoughts usually engaged with broadsides)
The ship uses vanilla propellers to move and the builder was even able to make them okay looking for a ship propeller which is a great feat (but also nice of the builder to include additional jet engines in case the vanilla propellers fail in the ocean mod). Not being able to reverse however is a bit disappointing
The ship also uses a gyro for steering which also somehwat takes away from the immersion.
The many cameras placed around the ship are also great too although I noticed the one labeled "Bridge" probably didn't have its offset zeroes, so it's actually above the bridge.
- Build Quality (4/10):
The build is rather wasteful with parts, for example, the vent in front of the no.4 turret could have had both sides made with one set of parts, halving the amount of parts needed for that detail.
One thing that also really stood out to me was the lack of smoothing on the vertical parts of the hull, a rather unpleasant thing. What's even more strange is the builder buing inconsistent with this, because the lifeboats for example are all smoothed.
I can't decide if the insides of the secondary barrels being purple was left like that by accident or if it was done on purpose
- Performance (10/20):
The ship performs well with the oean mod (larger waves cause the vanilla props to stop but that's why the backup jet engines are added. They do work well in normal conditions though), has rather okay steering and even seems to match the maximum speed of the original.
The weapons were also quite easy and fun to use.
- Description and Information (10/15):
The description was quite okay, with a history section (split in two halves), some technival data and specifications and some cool screenshots with great formatting.
Additional Points (-0, +2):
+2 for using vanilla props and still making them look like normal ship propellers
Bocsi a pingekért, csupán arra lennék kíváncsi, hogy mekkora érdeklődés lenne egy esetleges magyar-only discord szerverre? :)
Ha a többségeteket érdekli akkor szívesen összedobok egyet. Nem lennénk túl sokán bár a jövőben még csatlakozhatnak (kirakatnám a hivatalos szerver listára) és lenne egy kis magyar SP közösségünk
@PapaKernels I'd say try Vincent or BaconAircraft, I tried them last time and one of them helped (not sure which one of them as they didn't reply just silently set the successor)
@PapaKernels Can you please ask a mod to set it as a successor (it was one of the challenge requirements). It looks great btw, Im looking forward to test it! :D
Awesome! Congrats to WNP78!
+2Also you should pick more modders into the team because some of them are making god level mods that should be in the vanilla game
Dude at least give some credit in the description to Weaverfish because he made the original plane
+2https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/5FE6P3/B-17-Fortress-w-Incendiary-Canister
Holy Morgan Freeman. This is awesome! All those new features. Gosh... aaaaand looks like I gotta remake the USS Beast again * sigh *, but hey it looks fantastic and has new features! Amazing job guys! 😀
+2Omg this is awesome! Is that Bumblebee's head on the backseat? I'm only guessing from the screenshot cuz I'm away from computer right now.
+2dude this isn't an UH-60, it's just a repainted UH-1 Huey. Also, you should give some credit to the original author.
+2@metallicplanes The more features there are, the more controls needed ;)
+2@Jetliner101 The LVT-4 Water Buffalo was an amphibious tracked vehicle (LVT = Landing Vehicle Tracked) used mainly by the USMC (but the US Army used it too) during WWII. The LVT was able to carry troops, supllies and even smaller vehicle such as Jeeps. My build tries to represent the latter one. So yes, it a tank that swims and carries a Jeep which it can unload on land.
+2@JamesBleriot Yes, I hid seven types of viruses into this build, your device is full of malwares now.
+2Putting sarcasm away, what do you think can be the problem on my end? Or what do you think did I do wrong here? It's really funny that you blame me because your device is too weak to run this. Btw part count is not always a determining factor, size can be too. A 50 part build can crash a game too if it's big enough (I tried building a real size Statue of Liberty once and when I was at somewhere around 50 part, the game crashed cuz it was so big) so no, the problem is on your end, your device simply can't handle big stuff with many parts, that's it.
@EternalDarkness Thanks :D
+2What is the name of this designer mod? Nice ship btw
+2No offense bro but this looks nothing like the zero. Keep practicing dude 😉
+2@FastDan you're welcome!
+2@ThePilotDude I fixed it now, the original sentence was supposed to be a small reference to the game 'Rising Storm 2: Vietnam' (which inspired me to make this) as in the game when a vietnamese soldier taunts he often shouts this.
+2@Marschall https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/ME7U9f/AC-47-Spooky
+2Stay Cheeki breeki and drink vodka Tovarisch! oi Blyat!
+2T for these AI-auto-aim ships
+1@BrieCheese Did you use the cockpit from this post? If not, no problem, I'll just ask a moderator to make it a successor to this post. Also no need to tag me there, just drop a comment here when you are finished uploading and I'll check out your profile to find it
+1@BrieCheese It's bit complex Funky Tree system. It would be a bit long to explain it here
+1Do you have discord account perhaps? in the Port SP server I have a detailed guide to it. (invite link)
@BrieCheese Good luck! there is not much time left so you gotta hurry, but Im looking forward to your entry:)
+1@Speedhunter Ooooh that sounds very cool, and a very difficult hull too. I'm looking forward to it!
+1@Speedhunter Of course! Only one and a half months left tho, so you gotta hurry. Good luck!
+1@DatTrainAndCarGuy19 Thanks mate, you cool!:)
+1@FOXHOUND26 He had many good original creations (the Trueno an SunDale for example), the problem was really that he tried to steal and lie about his other creations, hopefully he'll act different this time, but we'll see
+1@FOXHOUND26 He stole from other people and lied about it (as well as about other things too). Btw, this build also uses a part that wasn't made by him, namely the MG-34 that WCAC conveniently forgot to credit again (it was made by LocalDealer). This is the thing that he did before, he stole parts (or in some cases entire vehicles) and didn't credit people, and when he was called out about it, he deleted comments to hide his theft. It became a big drama and WCAC was forced to leave but now he is back doing the exact same thing again
+1@Mousewithamachinegun122 Yup, a lot has happened since then, but I'm quite proud of my first year (as I am of most of the years of my SP work), I reached a lot of achievements
+1@Mousewithamachinegun122 I quickly counted all that I could find: together with you, 6 people commented it so far
+1@Mousewithamachinegun122 I've added that thing to my bio in like 2018 iirc but only a handful of people commented it so far, like 4 or 5 at most
+1@Mousewithamachinegun122 Thanks mate, you are cool:)
+1As far as I know there is no way. Best you can do is go through who upvoted your builds and check on their profiles one by one but ofc that's very tedious and time consuming
+1@Hoawdie Well, it's preferred to build the ship entirely by yourself, but you can use assets from others (with proper credit of course), although expect some score deduction for it (the more borrowed parts you use, the more points would be deducted from your final score)
+1@KSB24 Yea fair, I don't want any drama either, I'm just making sure the truth is known, because you said, it's important to be known
+1@KSB24 Glad I could help with a big info then. That user has a history of using taken builds as challenge entries (or just uploading taken builds or parts without credit in general) so if you are planning another challenge in the future, I recommend checking entries extra carefully
Also if you got two other random pings, those were me too, I tried to tell you this info under his post but he deleted my comments both times and blocked me, showing that he is trying to hide the truth about the build's origins
+1did you just... enter your own challenge with an alt account?
+1@SILVERPANZER yea, unfortunately I lost interest in tanks in the past few years, hence why I dont see much of a chance of that particular one finished
+1I'd say my biggest recent disappointment was my Olympic and Titanic. They both got over 50 upvotes but for the amount of work I put into them, I expected at least about 80-ish upvotes, but unfortunately I screwed up by making them be too many parts so most players couldn't even try them out.
+1@soldier289 figured I'd give you a tag, the challenge is now open, in case you want to update your Mikasa;)
+1Hey there! your ships are awesome, really well made. I figured I'd let you know that there is a discord server dedicated to ship building in SP, where we share our building progress, help each other, have some events and so on. If you are interested, I'll leave an invite link here, I hope you dont mind: >>clicky<<
+1@Tookan
@EternalDarkness
Thank you for suggesting this ship to build
+1@HuskyDynamics01 final part count is around 3680, but Im making a 2k-or-less part version
+1@PapaKernels Yea, device limitation is a pain (hence why I put the 2500 limit in the beginning, to give low-end users a chance)
+1Still, it's not a bad entry and you can be very proud of yourself for being able to do this much even with your device limitations.
Thanks for participating! o7
@MentallyDistorted
+1Official evaluation
Additional Points (-0, +3):
+3 for the effort of building a König class from scratch just to show it next to Bayern on the screenshots
Total: 90
Congratulations for your second place!
+1Official evaluation
Additional Points (-0, +0):
Total: 72
+1Official evaluation
Additional Points (-0, +2):
+2 for using vanilla props and still making them look like normal ship propellers
Total: 60
+1Bocsi a pingekért, csupán arra lennék kíváncsi, hogy mekkora érdeklődés lenne egy esetleges magyar-only discord szerverre? :)
+1Ha a többségeteket érdekli akkor szívesen összedobok egyet. Nem lennénk túl sokán bár a jövőben még csatlakozhatnak (kirakatnám a hivatalos szerver listára) és lenne egy kis magyar SP közösségünk
@TakicraftCorporation
+1@RedIndustries
@SanyiHun
@UnmanagedReservoir You mixed them up: text goes in rectangular brackets, url goes in normal brackets, and the ! is not needed here
+1@PapaKernels I'd say try Vincent or BaconAircraft, I tried them last time and one of them helped (not sure which one of them as they didn't reply just silently set the successor)
+1@PapaKernels Can you please ask a mod to set it as a successor (it was one of the challenge requirements). It looks great btw, Im looking forward to test it! :D
+1@PapaKernels I'm sure it will be great, can't wait to see it! :D
+1