Sorry if my joke earlier was in poor taste. The short story is this sounds like a graphing function and you may not need to know how to use it in order to do what you want with FT. If I remember high school, they spent a whole semester drilling this sort of thing into our heads.
@ThomasRoderick I can only assume that a and b are coordinates on a graph. So a could be 3,2 and b could be 6,4. Lerp would take the number 4.5 and spit out 3. But that's speculation as I didn't read the article because it doesn't interest me. I also assume that any values have to lie along a straight line between a and b. Inverse lerp is probably values on that same line, but outside of the area between a and b. Again, all guesswork here. If this is in three dimensions, it may involve coordinates like 3,2,3 and 6,4,9 etc. It would also be a little more complicated.
There are going to be so many B-17's in the next few months... I just hope the Brit bombers get some love, especially the Lancaster and the Sunderland.
Take apart some high rated builds, see what the other guy did to make them awesome, do that. Otherwise, read some tutorials about xml modding, funkytrees and EterntalDrankness tutorial on how to make wings.
I got the UH-1 Huey module for DCS on steam summer sale a couple years ago. It took me a matter of minutes to discover that me and helicopters do not mix. Holy crap there are so many ways to crash a helicopter that you'd never expect, it's amazing.
Seriously though, all this scheming on how to get upvotes is pointless. You get attention for building good stuff. You build good stuff by learning how to build good stuff. You learn how by downloading good stuff other people have made, tearing it apart and studying it.
It doesn't matter what you build, if it's good people will like it. Except anime. Anime stuff doesn't get upvotes.
@Ryn176 Assuming the maintenance crew had adequate protective gear, I can't imagine it would've been much worse than the mechanical nightmare the B-36 already presented. Its engines weren't designed for reverse-installation and often had cooling and icing issues. Each of the 6 engines had 28 pistons, a turbocharger and a supercharger and that was on top of the 4 jet engines to take care of.
@BagelPlane Nope! B-36 is an important chunk of history, but there's plenty of people on here who post great Peacemakers. I try to find stuff that has slipped through the cracks, but shouldn't be forgotten.
Fuselage and hollow-fuselage blocks split lengthwise into quarters. With only one adjustable corner that effects the entirety of the two sides it touches (rather than half, like corners do on normal fuselage blocks).
@KnightOfRen People make mistakes, or so I've heard. I make mistakes, and I try my best to pass myself off as a human right now whilst I live among them. I'm getting off topic here. It's best we just move on from the whole G-C thing and not mention it.
@KnightOfRen Mean? No. MEAN IS SHARING AN AMAZING LOOKING VERSION OF MY FAVORITE JET IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (WHICH I WILL NOT MENTION HERE BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO OPEN MYSELF UP EMOTIONALLY LIKE THAT RIGHT NOW) THAT TURNS LIKE A FISH UNDERWATER BUT EXPLODES IF YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT TRYING TO LAND IT. THAT IS MEAN. TORMENTING ME WITH FALSE VISIONS OF MY LOVE. ok, i might be exaggerating a little bit here for lolz, but seriously, half the fun of this game is the physics engine. nothing has to be perfect, but it would be cool if people made planes that flew well instead of just collecting upvotes
@Aeromotive It depends on the engine design. In the case of the SR71 and the Foxbat, they were completely designed around using their afterburners to the fullest extent. The J58 is a partial ramjet because of its unique bypass system, but the Foxbat's engines were traditional after burning turbojets, just really really big ones. The thing about afterburners is that you can more than double your thrust with them under the right circumstances, especially with unburned air coming from a bypass. The downside is that afterburners use an astounding amount of fuel, as much as 385 gallons per minute.
During the Vietnam War, the USAF outfitted its fleet of of B-52 D's with something called the "Big Belly" mod. This change allowed them to carry 42,000 lbs of bombs each. Under Operation Arc Light groups of three B-52's would completely pulverize strike zones a half-mile wide and 2 miles long in what came to be known as "carpet bombing." This was the largest tactical use of high explosives in history.
@asteroidbook345 I always thought of SP in polytheistic terms. SpiritusRaptor, SimpleFlow, REW. Zhou, Bogan and Bogdan all ruling and battling over the heavens as we, mere mortals, gaze up in awe. Sort of like the Norse gods.
@brians1209 Warthunder is a game about shooting things, Simpleplanes is a game about building things. What I'm trying to get at here is that SimplePlanes is a physics sandbox at its heart. Your control inputs are fed to parts that interact with the physics to do things, that's it. There's no hidden AI making things easier for you, no fly-by-wire system forcing the vehicle to do what you tell it. So if you want something to fly in a certain way, you have to design that something. And test it. And fix it. And ask for help. And look up the xml values. And get Snowflakeos to help you with the Funkytrees math. And test it some more... The building part is the game. Actually flying the darn thing is like a bonus. Take my last plane for example, I had to figure out how to get it to fly one speed when the wings were extended, another speed when they were pulled back, change the amount of lift as the wings moved, add even more lift when the flaps extend, make sure its a realistic speed at all altitudes. It took forever to make it handle right and that was AFTER I was done building the thing!
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You do you, amigo. Don't let anybody stand in the way of your dreams.
@Strucker Me too bro. Me too.
+1Vadim looks so sad in the last picture. Have an upvote.
+1God &@₩% this thing is such a #@€£¡₩& BEAST!
+1@ThomasRoderick Good luck dude. Hopefully Snow or Speffy gets back to you with some info.
+1Sorry if my joke earlier was in poor taste. The short story is this sounds like a graphing function and you may not need to know how to use it in order to do what you want with FT. If I remember high school, they spent a whole semester drilling this sort of thing into our heads.
+1@ThomasRoderick I can only assume that a and b are coordinates on a graph. So a could be 3,2 and b could be 6,4. Lerp would take the number 4.5 and spit out 3. But that's speculation as I didn't read the article because it doesn't interest me. I also assume that any values have to lie along a straight line between a and b. Inverse lerp is probably values on that same line, but outside of the area between a and b. Again, all guesswork here. If this is in three dimensions, it may involve coordinates like 3,2,3 and 6,4,9 etc. It would also be a little more complicated.
+1Keep in mind, anyone that has the URL of your build can share it with anyone else, or even download, modify and upload a successor
+1Why not just hit Alt-F4? It'll waste less time.
+1No. No one can get to it without a link.
+1There are going to be so many B-17's in the next few months... I just hope the Brit bombers get some love, especially the Lancaster and the Sunderland.
+1@DarthAbhinav Most of my stuff is so old and behind the times, I'd need to rebuild anyway.
+1@DarthAbhinav You can't just activate it for one and then copy that block?
+1@StepBro rofl
+1Bro. You stealing my joke?
+1@DarthAbhinav can the smoothing go side to side, like with the old panelling technique or is it only front to back?
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+1Take apart some high rated builds, see what the other guy did to make them awesome, do that. Otherwise, read some tutorials about xml modding, funkytrees and EterntalDrankness tutorial on how to make wings.
+1Open xml save file with text editor. Use 'find and replace' feature. Profit.
+1Visually stunning
+1NO THANK YOU!
I got the UH-1 Huey module for DCS on steam summer sale a couple years ago. It took me a matter of minutes to discover that me and helicopters do not mix. Holy crap there are so many ways to crash a helicopter that you'd never expect, it's amazing.
+1Hello there
+1Seriously though, all this scheming on how to get upvotes is pointless. You get attention for building good stuff. You build good stuff by learning how to build good stuff. You learn how by downloading good stuff other people have made, tearing it apart and studying it.
It doesn't matter what you build, if it's good people will like it. Except anime. Anime stuff doesn't get upvotes.
+1@Ryn176 Assuming the maintenance crew had adequate protective gear, I can't imagine it would've been much worse than the mechanical nightmare the B-36 already presented. Its engines weren't designed for reverse-installation and often had cooling and icing issues. Each of the 6 engines had 28 pistons, a turbocharger and a supercharger and that was on top of the 4 jet engines to take care of.
+1@BuiltBionixInd10
Now that you mention it, I hadn't really thought about it that way. Kind of a revelation.
+1Silly Japan, you need sub-chasers to win the war not this enormous thing. Oh well at least she's pretty.
+1@blackvultureaeroespace Plus you'd go crazy-fast... for a little while.
+1@rexzion If you get shot down in this thing, the crash is going to be the least of your problems!
+1@BagelPlane Nope! B-36 is an important chunk of history, but there's plenty of people on here who post great Peacemakers. I try to find stuff that has slipped through the cracks, but shouldn't be forgotten.
+1I hope the company bounces back, my job kinda depends on it!
+1Fuselage and hollow-fuselage blocks split lengthwise into quarters. With only one adjustable corner that effects the entirety of the two sides it touches (rather than half, like corners do on normal fuselage blocks).
+1I really think this was MiG Bureau's finest hour and the best fighter of its generation. The Polish roundel looks so cool here.
+1@WarshipDude Same. Thus I made this post so I can look back and see how long it really took.
+1@WarshipDude No one could ever accuse you of inconsistency
@DarthAbhinav We need to develop a new joke
+1Looks like a Ta-152.
+1@AccilianMilitaryAircraft Nah, I'm good. Thanks tho.
+1The camo really makes it stand out, figuratively speaking.
+1@KnightOfRen People make mistakes, or so I've heard. I make mistakes, and I try my best to pass myself off as a human right now whilst I live among them. I'm getting off topic here. It's best we just move on from the whole G-C thing and not mention it.
+1@Taylorchaff14 Plane is Polish. I am of United State of Freedum
+1PZL M15 BELPHEGOR
+1@KnightOfRen Mean? No.
+1MEAN IS SHARING AN AMAZING LOOKING VERSION OF MY FAVORITE JET IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (WHICH I WILL NOT MENTION HERE BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO OPEN MYSELF UP EMOTIONALLY LIKE THAT RIGHT NOW) THAT TURNS LIKE A FISH UNDERWATER BUT EXPLODES IF YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT TRYING TO LAND IT. THAT IS MEAN. TORMENTING ME WITH FALSE VISIONS OF MY LOVE.
ok, i might be exaggerating a little bit here for lolz, but seriously, half the fun of this game is the physics engine. nothing has to be perfect, but it would be cool if people made planes that flew well instead of just collecting upvotes
PZL M15 BELPHEGOR
+1¡VAMOS ARGENTINA! My wife is a huge fan of your country and I am a big fan of your country's food. Oh, and the plane looks great.
+1@Aeromotive It depends on the engine design. In the case of the SR71 and the Foxbat, they were completely designed around using their afterburners to the fullest extent. The J58 is a partial ramjet because of its unique bypass system, but the Foxbat's engines were traditional after burning turbojets, just really really big ones. The thing about afterburners is that you can more than double your thrust with them under the right circumstances, especially with unburned air coming from a bypass. The downside is that afterburners use an astounding amount of fuel, as much as 385 gallons per minute.
+1During the Vietnam War, the USAF outfitted its fleet of of B-52 D's with something called the "Big Belly" mod. This change allowed them to carry 42,000 lbs of bombs each. Under Operation Arc Light groups of three B-52's would completely pulverize strike zones a half-mile wide and 2 miles long in what came to be known as "carpet bombing." This was the largest tactical use of high explosives in history.
+1I am so relieved you ran this computer simulation with the elephant moving forward and not free falling.
+1@Aeromotive I wish. Turbo-ramjet confirmed.
+1@asteroidbook345 I always thought of SP in polytheistic terms. SpiritusRaptor, SimpleFlow, REW. Zhou, Bogan and Bogdan all ruling and battling over the heavens as we, mere mortals, gaze up in awe. Sort of like the Norse gods.
+1Thanks for posting this, it is exactly what I was looking for!
+1@brians1209 Warthunder is a game about shooting things, Simpleplanes is a game about building things. What I'm trying to get at here is that SimplePlanes is a physics sandbox at its heart. Your control inputs are fed to parts that interact with the physics to do things, that's it. There's no hidden AI making things easier for you, no fly-by-wire system forcing the vehicle to do what you tell it. So if you want something to fly in a certain way, you have to design that something. And test it. And fix it. And ask for help. And look up the xml values. And get Snowflakeos to help you with the Funkytrees math. And test it some more... The building part is the game. Actually flying the darn thing is like a bonus. Take my last plane for example, I had to figure out how to get it to fly one speed when the wings were extended, another speed when they were pulled back, change the amount of lift as the wings moved, add even more lift when the flaps extend, make sure its a realistic speed at all altitudes. It took forever to make it handle right and that was AFTER I was done building the thing!
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