You are correct, I saw the same thing awhile ago. In SP, horiz stabs shift the CoL back, as if they're adding lift (Even though the stabs are symmetric in SP). They only work that way when a plane uses canards, but in most conventional aircraft, the stab pushes down to lift the nose which naturally falls (for stall recovery purposes). This is why canards are more efficient--the horiz stab ADDS to the total lift of the aircraft. So, you are correct...but...SP's emulation makes it close enough for our purposes. What do you think?
Well, I think it looks great, but cannot fly it on my iPhone...my only suggestion is that you must might want to change the nozzles to a color other than highlighter yellow.
Well, despite the wing issue, it flies very nicely. Using modded structural wings (to allow control surfaces) will fix this issue. Recommend you download the Overload Mod as you are on Windows. You can also find them is you search "unbreakable wings" on the site.
@Seeras thanks, got it. So, do I have the generally correct idea? 1. Attach camera to intake. 2. Nudge camera down, down, as far as necessary (possibly below the intake) to have the flight mode view looking out the intake. 3. Use shrunken fuse pieces as crosshairs and nudge to front of intake. 4. Attach whole thing to aircraft block and angle (with Fine Tuner), then nudge into the fuse?
Also, I see from your description that you use AG6 for your landing gear extension and retraction? Overload Mod gives you the ability to modify the rotators to use the "LandingGear" control to extend and retract the gear.
@Mainblocks did you fix the gear clipping issue? I found that blocks which are resized smaller (using Fine Tuner) do not easily clip. I have had to resize the block larger, then clip it to the second part and then resize smaller to get it to clip.
@mushr0om what is frustrating, is that in the editor, I see the camera right smack in the middle of the intake opening, but the view doesn't change to see out of the intake while in flight. When you nudged it down (or in), did you have to nudge it below the intake?
@Mainblocks, I will try to follow your advice to get this to work, thank you. Do you know if I can "assemble" the sight outside the plane, then use Fine Tuner to nudge it all into the plane and angle it as a group?
@Mainblocks, thank you for your advice. When you say to "manually setup and adjust the camera to view in your bombsight", should I do so in the editor? In the editor, I have tried to place, then nudge the camera into the correct position inside the intake, but it still will not look through the intake, it still "sees" as if it is on top of the intake, not inside of it. I have not tried to angle the camera in the editor, as you suggest, to see if the view changes, though, but I will try that.
@EternalDarkness is correct and he gives a good workaround...but it's not a glitch, the game is doing exactly what it should do, if you want to know why it does it, how to avoid it in the first place and additional workarounds (like canting one horizontal stab to counteract the roll), I made a fairly extensive post on the problem, here.
@BogdanX as with most AF pilots, I have time in both the T-37 and T-38 and a good chunk of time in the type I'm flying in my self-portrait (to the left), plus a couple of other aircraft.
So, I checked out your page, like what I saw and you now have a new follower. I like your builds, nice overall design, plus they're pretty much all aircraft, which is fantastic. For some reason, my Jet Stream has had 75% other than aircraft as of late!
Nice build, you can use rotators stacked on top of each other and nudged into place for the tailerons and my friend @BogdanX here below loves to sweat the details, but nice overall effort!
I'm having trouble with getting it to actually fire or launch. I hit AGs 1 through 5, can see the chamber rotating, but nothing launches or fires. I press air to ground, launch weapon...nothing...what am I doing wrong?
Hey, you have some nice builds. Sorry I haven't noticed you before; I don't think your problem getting noticed has anything to do with what you build, but, rather, how they're posted. I strongly recommend you do some high-angle screenshots, where the wings stand out against the grey and black background. Check out some of my posts for an illustration of what I'm talking about. BTW, which country do you live in? I lived in both Argentina and Uruguay a few years ago.
Well, there actually were a slew of NCC-1701 builds in the last 6 months or so, but this one is definitely the best one, from what I can see from your screenshots. I would recommend you avoid putting landing gear on this one, it's just too attractive, plus it's not true to life...or fiction...or science fiction...or whatever...
I noticed that a new build by a new user, F7N-Jet was very similar--too similar--to Visify's F7F post from a couple of months ago. I compared the two and, yes, it's a modification of Visify's original post. However, the successor note does not appear on the new build. I know how to remove the successor notes, it's fairly easy, but Visify is not going to get the credit he deserves due to this plagiarism, which concerns me. If it's in accordance with community standards, then I don't want to make a big deal of it, but the plagiarism aspect still bugs me.
You are correct, I saw the same thing awhile ago. In SP, horiz stabs shift the CoL back, as if they're adding lift (Even though the stabs are symmetric in SP). They only work that way when a plane uses canards, but in most conventional aircraft, the stab pushes down to lift the nose which naturally falls (for stall recovery purposes). This is why canards are more efficient--the horiz stab ADDS to the total lift of the aircraft. So, you are correct...but...SP's emulation makes it close enough for our purposes. What do you think?
Pretty well. I had the pleasure of living in Germany for 3 years and we loved it there!
Here's a weird, off the wall question for you: Did you use the stock custom color palette, or did you XML mod the colors at all?
Nice!
Also, modded builds don't get the attention of original aircraft.
Well, I think it looks great, but cannot fly it on my iPhone...my only suggestion is that you must might want to change the nozzles to a color other than highlighter yellow.
Nice build, looks good, needs a little help with flying qualities...and bigger intakes. You could then get rid of the stacked engines.
+2It's a bit of a fun challenge, but it DOES fly!
Y'know...you could do one of those Hank Caruso series of SP builds, you know those pics where the planes are all cartoony and angry...? Y'know?
One day, an A-7 collided with a J29, sending both of them smashing into a Ta-183, which happened to be airborne at the time...
Agreed a great description and a very well done build!
Yes, it is quite the dank bizjet...very nice, haven't really seen that many bizjets on the site for awhile, used to be just full of them.
Well, despite the wing issue, it flies very nicely. Using modded structural wings (to allow control surfaces) will fix this issue. Recommend you download the Overload Mod as you are on Windows. You can also find them is you search "unbreakable wings" on the site.
Nice, straightforward Sabre!
@EngineerOtaku yes, please link the page, I am interested, thanks.
Reminds me of something from the old Macross anime series. Cool.
Wow, incredible!
Very cool, I like how you did the missiles...did you have to turn off collision to get this to work correctly?
@Seeras thanks, got it. So, do I have the generally correct idea? 1. Attach camera to intake. 2. Nudge camera down, down, as far as necessary (possibly below the intake) to have the flight mode view looking out the intake. 3. Use shrunken fuse pieces as crosshairs and nudge to front of intake. 4. Attach whole thing to aircraft block and angle (with Fine Tuner), then nudge into the fuse?
Your'e welcome, it's a beautiful build, it should really see the light of day.
@AndrewGarrison, you might know this already, but it appears the site is not uploading new builds.
There have been no new posts for 2 hours now, there's probably a problem...
Also, I see from your description that you use AG6 for your landing gear extension and retraction? Overload Mod gives you the ability to modify the rotators to use the "LandingGear" control to extend and retract the gear.
@mushr0om OK thanks, will try that.
@Mainblocks did you fix the gear clipping issue? I found that blocks which are resized smaller (using Fine Tuner) do not easily clip. I have had to resize the block larger, then clip it to the second part and then resize smaller to get it to clip.
Do I need to put a second block at the back of the intake, THEN place the camera on top of that?
@mushr0om what is frustrating, is that in the editor, I see the camera right smack in the middle of the intake opening, but the view doesn't change to see out of the intake while in flight. When you nudged it down (or in), did you have to nudge it below the intake?
@Mainblocks, I will try to follow your advice to get this to work, thank you. Do you know if I can "assemble" the sight outside the plane, then use Fine Tuner to nudge it all into the plane and angle it as a group?
Wow, this is a very impressive build! Have you released the final version?
@Mainblocks, thank you for your advice. When you say to "manually setup and adjust the camera to view in your bombsight", should I do so in the editor? In the editor, I have tried to place, then nudge the camera into the correct position inside the intake, but it still will not look through the intake, it still "sees" as if it is on top of the intake, not inside of it. I have not tried to angle the camera in the editor, as you suggest, to see if the view changes, though, but I will try that.
@mushr0om @Seeras you both have figured this out, how do you do it? How do you move and angle the camera to actually look down and out of the intake?
Nice!
@EternalDarkness is correct and he gives a good workaround...but it's not a glitch, the game is doing exactly what it should do, if you want to know why it does it, how to avoid it in the first place and additional workarounds (like canting one horizontal stab to counteract the roll), I made a fairly extensive post on the problem, here.
Did you publish a jet, but then delete it? I got a notification, but then couldn't find your build...
OK, now this is hilarious. Not a great flyer, but hilarious!
@BogdanX as with most AF pilots, I have time in both the T-37 and T-38 and a good chunk of time in the type I'm flying in my self-portrait (to the left), plus a couple of other aircraft.
@BogdanX as someone who's survived nearly 4,000 hours of military flying, I agree that details are important!
This one is pretty nice, as well. You nailed the proportions, which many builders struggle with, for some reason.
So, I checked out your page, like what I saw and you now have a new follower. I like your builds, nice overall design, plus they're pretty much all aircraft, which is fantastic. For some reason, my Jet Stream has had 75% other than aircraft as of late!
Nice build, you can use rotators stacked on top of each other and nudged into place for the tailerons and my friend @BogdanX here below loves to sweat the details, but nice overall effort!
I like it...A-20 meets Marauder meets B-26 thing going on here :)
I'm having trouble with getting it to actually fire or launch. I hit AGs 1 through 5, can see the chamber rotating, but nothing launches or fires. I press air to ground, launch weapon...nothing...what am I doing wrong?
Hey, you have some nice builds. Sorry I haven't noticed you before; I don't think your problem getting noticed has anything to do with what you build, but, rather, how they're posted. I strongly recommend you do some high-angle screenshots, where the wings stand out against the grey and black background. Check out some of my posts for an illustration of what I'm talking about. BTW, which country do you live in? I lived in both Argentina and Uruguay a few years ago.
That's Warp Factor .00004643102 (approximately)!
@BaconEggs noice!!!
Strong like bull!
Well, there actually were a slew of NCC-1701 builds in the last 6 months or so, but this one is definitely the best one, from what I can see from your screenshots. I would recommend you avoid putting landing gear on this one, it's just too attractive, plus it's not true to life...or fiction...or science fiction...or whatever...
I noticed that a new build by a new user, F7N-Jet was very similar--too similar--to Visify's F7F post from a couple of months ago. I compared the two and, yes, it's a modification of Visify's original post. However, the successor note does not appear on the new build. I know how to remove the successor notes, it's fairly easy, but Visify is not going to get the credit he deserves due to this plagiarism, which concerns me. If it's in accordance with community standards, then I don't want to make a big deal of it, but the plagiarism aspect still bugs me.
Wasn't this originally @Visify 's aircraft. How come no credit for doing the vast majority of work?
Very nice...looks fantastic, great use of VTOL nozzles, low-ish part count, nicely detailed insignia!