Traffic goes up and down. My newest planes get less upvotes than some of my older ones, by I get much more downloads. I prefer it like that, I make planes that I love and think are important so as to get people to learn about them.
This is just my opinion, without having flown the plane and assuming your wings arent too small or the nose too heavy, but your landing gear is probably pulling the nose down.
The fixed landing gear has drag, and as the plane is pulled forward by the engine, the landing gear is pulled backward by drag, causing the plane to "trip over its feet" so to speak. This happens a lot with float planes and @jamesPLANESii should know better.
There are two ways to improve the situation. Either XML edit each part of the landing gear to have no drag, or enlarge the horizontal stabilizer and angle it leading-edge-downwards by around 1 or 2 degrees. Setting the air foil on the main wings (not the tail) to "flat bottom" may also help.
@Tazziedevil04 Don't feel too bad about download vs upvote. Only about 5% of players ever log into the website, so downloads usually dwarf upvotes if you've done a good job.
As a matter of fact, if a plane has as many upvotes as downloads, it usually means that the plane looks good but flies like crap.
@Tazziedevil04 Not in this post, but on a couple of your planes. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that you're getting pretty good and I think you'll probably keep getting better.
Engine sound is closely tied to fuel consumption, even tho it has almost nothing to do with engine power. Weird, huh?
I'll explain. Each engine has a set amount of fuel it consumes at 100% throttle (different for each engine, of course). At different throttle settings, that fuel consumption changes: 50% throttle- 50% consumption etc.
There is an engine power multiplier, but it does not affect fuel consumption at all. So to create a hyper-efficient engine, you just set the max throttle setting to something very small (.01 for instance) and then multiply the engine power to compensate (in this case, 100).
The problem here, is that engine noise is tied to throttle setting. In order to get a nice, loud engine, it has to be throttled up which means it has to be consuming considerable amounts of fuel. You can sometimes get around this problem for planes with multiple engines by only using one, small Blasto-50 hidden somewhere to give you sound and use larger, silent, xml modded engines to move the plane.
But generally, more sound = more fuel consumed. Also, you can change the max throttle setting above 1 to change the sound of the engine, 2 or 3 usually makes it sound very different.
Whenever I see a really shameless rip-off, I ignore the rip-off upload and follow the successor trail all the way back to upvote the original purely out of spite.
The wings are too small. You can use XML to make bigger wings and then shrink them down to fit, but this thing is basically an elephant with a pair of bee-wings.
Look up three-view pictures of real AWACS aircraft and note how big the wings are compared to the plane. Keep in mind that in Simple Planes only the "wing" pieces actually give the plane lift, not the fuselage blocks and other stuff that might be used to make what looks like a wing.
This plane looks awesome by the way. I love the paint job and it's got a really interesting shape, too.
@CSP27 That's too many parts. Try using a fuselage intake or a wheel ( I know that sounds weird, but I can show you how) for the engine cowling. Obviously, this is your thing and you can make what you want, just suggestions.
Supersonic aircraft do not have elevators. Instead, the entire horizontal tail rotates up and down, sometimes the vertical tail is the same way.
The other common mistake is to put the rear landing gear in the back of the plane. Don't do that. The "rear" landing gear is actually the main landing gear and it holds almost the entire weight of the plane. Put it in the middle of the plane a block or two behind the center of mass.
@RamboJutter No need to be sorry. The Navy had plenty of trouble with that ridiculous bomb bay in real life, so you can certainly consider this build "realistic."
@Trijets Its a bit of math to resize the picture properly, but once that's done you can easily measure anything by using the rectangular selection tool like a tape measure. Just make sure you type out how many pixels per block right there on the picture so you dont forget.
Find a three-view diagram (sometimes called a blueprint or an orthographic).
Each block in Simpleplanes is 0.5 meters. So look up the wing span of the plane (in meters) on wikipedia and multiply that number by two, that's how you figure out many blocks wide the wings should be.
Open up the three-view picture and resize it so that one block is ten pixels. Then you can use the selection tool to measure any part of the plane and easily know what size to make it in the game.
@Jacobdaniel Naw, everyone but you has been playing it for weeks. It's a real treat! We were gonna clue you in but then you made this thread, and well, it'd be against the rules.
To back up your claim about the TU-160, the only plane that could theoretically carry a higher weapon load was the enormous B-36 Peacemaker, but doing so would limit its range to uselessness. The TU-160 is literally the biggest, baddest, fastest, nastiest bomber ever to fly.
@Oski I sympathize with you. I mean it. But let's try some other stuff before we go to the top.
Try disabling all your mods, like Jester said. If that doesn't work, upload one of your planes that has the problem. We'll take a look at it. Ok?
+1Yeah, don't upload or screenshot anything, that's for suckers. Just immediately demand the head of the company take a look, he's not busy. /s
+3You guys are always hyper-fixated on upvotes! Planes continue to get a slow but steady flow of downloads if they're any good.
@klm747klm747 That's why I posted the link for you! :)
Anyway, you just [type some words in some brackets](and paste the link in some parenthesis). Easy peasy.
You built this whole thing yourself?
Is good. Food for you.
+1Very nice!
CLICKABLE
+1@CruzerBlade Here's a link to the most complete XML guide know of. It covers how to change input controllers etc.
Courtesy of WNP78
+3Traffic goes up and down. My newest planes get less upvotes than some of my older ones, by I get much more downloads. I prefer it like that, I make planes that I love and think are important so as to get people to learn about them.
@jamesPLANESii I meant no offense. I was honestly surprised you didn't mention it. Your Beaver is the first float plane I've seen on here that worked.
Anyway, good luck to you and @Trijets Modifying the horizontal stabs should drastically fix any problems here, whatever the cause.
+1@Trijets 32 is fine. The Spitfire had 26, but you've got 2 engines. Did you read my explanation?
This is just my opinion, without having flown the plane and assuming your wings arent too small or the nose too heavy, but your landing gear is probably pulling the nose down.
The fixed landing gear has drag, and as the plane is pulled forward by the engine, the landing gear is pulled backward by drag, causing the plane to "trip over its feet" so to speak. This happens a lot with float planes and @jamesPLANESii should know better.
There are two ways to improve the situation. Either XML edit each part of the landing gear to have no drag, or enlarge the horizontal stabilizer and angle it leading-edge-downwards by around 1 or 2 degrees. Setting the air foil on the main wings (not the tail) to "flat bottom" may also help.
@Tazziedevil04 Don't feel too bad about download vs upvote. Only about 5% of players ever log into the website, so downloads usually dwarf upvotes if you've done a good job.
As a matter of fact, if a plane has as many upvotes as downloads, it usually means that the plane looks good but flies like crap.
@Tazziedevil04 Not in this post, but on a couple of your planes. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that you're getting pretty good and I think you'll probably keep getting better.
Engine sound is closely tied to fuel consumption, even tho it has almost nothing to do with engine power. Weird, huh?
I'll explain. Each engine has a set amount of fuel it consumes at 100% throttle (different for each engine, of course). At different throttle settings, that fuel consumption changes: 50% throttle- 50% consumption etc.
There is an engine power multiplier, but it does not affect fuel consumption at all. So to create a hyper-efficient engine, you just set the max throttle setting to something very small (.01 for instance) and then multiply the engine power to compensate (in this case, 100).
The problem here, is that engine noise is tied to throttle setting. In order to get a nice, loud engine, it has to be throttled up which means it has to be consuming considerable amounts of fuel. You can sometimes get around this problem for planes with multiple engines by only using one, small Blasto-50 hidden somewhere to give you sound and use larger, silent, xml modded engines to move the plane.
But generally, more sound = more fuel consumed. Also, you can change the max throttle setting above 1 to change the sound of the engine, 2 or 3 usually makes it sound very different.
+6You've got plenty skill to make good planes, you just need to have more faith in your own designs and stop begging for upvotes.
Also, people are much less likely to upvote successor builds, lately you've been building stuff that's 100% yours so keep that up.
Whenever I see a really shameless rip-off, I ignore the rip-off upload and follow the successor trail all the way back to upvote the original purely out of spite.
+610/10
My face hurts from laughing.
+4@GhostHTX Thanks
+1@GhostHTX Looks really sharp! I dig it.
+1The wings are too small. You can use XML to make bigger wings and then shrink them down to fit, but this thing is basically an elephant with a pair of bee-wings.
Look up three-view pictures of real AWACS aircraft and note how big the wings are compared to the plane. Keep in mind that in Simple Planes only the "wing" pieces actually give the plane lift, not the fuselage blocks and other stuff that might be used to make what looks like a wing.
This plane looks awesome by the way. I love the paint job and it's got a really interesting shape, too.
@CSP27 That's too many parts. Try using a fuselage intake or a wheel ( I know that sounds weird, but I can show you how) for the engine cowling. Obviously, this is your thing and you can make what you want, just suggestions.
I like the pistons, but the cowling is meh.
Truck 2 gud. I hate u now.
Supersonic aircraft do not have elevators. Instead, the entire horizontal tail rotates up and down, sometimes the vertical tail is the same way.
The other common mistake is to put the rear landing gear in the back of the plane. Don't do that. The "rear" landing gear is actually the main landing gear and it holds almost the entire weight of the plane. Put it in the middle of the plane a block or two behind the center of mass.
+1@RamboJutter Yeah, strike aircraft are the most fun to make in my opinion.
+1@RamboJutter Of course you were the first to spot this one!
One of the very first aircraft in a design theme common even today. Nice pick, nice job.
@RamboJutter No need to be sorry. The Navy had plenty of trouble with that ridiculous bomb bay in real life, so you can certainly consider this build "realistic."
@aplayer I'm slowly making an awesome plane, and you will just have to be patient.
@Trijets Nope. I just alt-tab between Simple planes and MS paint.
@Trijets Its a bit of math to resize the picture properly, but once that's done you can easily measure anything by using the rectangular selection tool like a tape measure. Just make sure you type out how many pixels per block right there on the picture so you dont forget.
@RamboJutter I feel bad about telling people how I do this stuff because there's probably a better, faster way than counting pixels in MSpaint.
Find a three-view diagram (sometimes called a blueprint or an orthographic).
Each block in Simpleplanes is 0.5 meters. So look up the wing span of the plane (in meters) on wikipedia and multiply that number by two, that's how you figure out many blocks wide the wings should be.
Open up the three-view picture and resize it so that one block is ten pixels. Then you can use the selection tool to measure any part of the plane and easily know what size to make it in the game.
+2@aplayer Too bad.
@Jacobdaniel Naw, everyone but you has been playing it for weeks. It's a real treat! We were gonna clue you in but then you made this thread, and well, it'd be against the rules.
It's actually been out for several months now, but only available to people who refuse to ask silly questions.
+2@BACconcordepilot It's a European conspiracy, designed to steal our freedom.
There is no such thing as the metric system.
@BogdanX not enough.
@Bogdanx I'murprised you've haven't made this one yet.
OFF TOPIC
Thank god everybody doesn't make a post like this every time they have to run to the store for some milk or something.
+1Just steal whatever you need offa one of my recent planes. No need to credit me.
STOP MAKING BYEBYE POSTS, PEOPLE.
+2@Mattangi2 I mustve missed them.
Nice work, as usual!
To back up your claim about the TU-160, the only plane that could theoretically carry a higher weapon load was the enormous B-36 Peacemaker, but doing so would limit its range to uselessness. The TU-160 is literally the biggest, baddest, fastest, nastiest bomber ever to fly.
@Awsomur Meth is spelled with a t.
@RamboJutter Considered doing the more popular recon version?
Are all parts set to disableaircraftcollisions? How about wheel settings, is suspension disabled? What are the traction settings like?
Also: Gotta hand it to you, the Vigi is an excellent choice! I can't wait to see it.