@Boeing727200F Hey will you be free on the 25th? I may have sold your flesh to some Old Gods in exchange for my freedom and I need you to show up for the blood ritual on time. Can you do that for me? Make sure you bathe beforehand; I doubt the Old Gods would be particularly pleased with an offering that staggered in smelling like motor oil and dog shit waffle-stomped into railyard gravel.
Thanks a bunch.
Yes, the screenshot was taken in SP2. I don' have Reshade reinstalled since my last technical clusterfuck and may very well never install it again.
Shame there's no way (that I know of) to manually move the camera's centre in SP2, even paused.
To add, since I couldn't fit it in the original post (and it'd wreck my bit to add content after the fact):
You may paint however you wish, HOWEVER any Rotator blocks you may use MUST be single-colour only! They are functional, not decorative! You may not use them as textures!
Also, it should go without saying, but XML modding is not allowed beyond making rotators into spinning motors (which must be done with sum(Throttle) as the sole input). There's simply no need.
Edit: You may also use free-spinning rotators if you so wish.
Oh. Yeah. Criteria.
Basically just make something cool. Not super strict or anything, whatever I like most wins.
Rewards are in the same vein as the previous challenge.
Assuming this one actually gets participants this time.
Anyhow, I'm gonna give the deadline of... Hm, the [25]th of [December]? May be subject to change, we'll see.
One more thing. As in the previous challenge:
Submissions can be done either through successor posts, or by hyperlinking it in the comments of this post. So long as I can easily access it for judgement.
I consider it cheap to use a challenge to get points via others' work, so as long as I can easily access the submission it'll be considered valid.
The deadline I'm pulling out of my nonexistence ass is... December [25]? Idk. Depends if I get any submissions, and if so how many. And how busy I am. etc. etc.
Oh, and as for rewards:
1st: 10 upvotes, may be exchanged for three spotlights
(if I forget, harp on me)
2st: 7 upvotes, or alternatively 2 spotlights
3nd: 4 upvotes, or a spotlight and a "good job, baby" on whatever post you choose. Yes, I know, it's a bit usual for the best reward to be for third place but I am a generous god.
All accepted submissions: an upvote, maybe tagging some of my affluent friends if I find it funny or excellent enough.
NOTE: I reserve the right to reject a submission for any reason, whether it be its content (do not give the jet car tits), troubles with the person submitting it (chances are you know who you are), or some other thing. Probably won't happen to you, though. Leaving this here as a "just in case" point.
Yes, this is slated to end December 25. Get to it!
@HuskyDynamics01 Nice.
Yeah, sometimes the allure of the Faux Preset is too strong.
Funny thing, the other day the patterns on it just... disappeared. Wonder if I should've submitted a bug report for that...
@HuskyDynamics01 Oh absolutely.
Messing around with textures a bit for the first time a moment ago (if only for a few minutes), it's clear the compatibility with the old system may not be quite as great.
Of course, all this doesn't seriously impact the crafts as they were designed, but it's nice if you want your craft to look a little different with only a few clicks of a button. Want a red plane? Boom, red plane. Blue plane? Beige plane? Green plane? No problem, all those work quickly. It also helps quickly get yourself oriented if you want to modify another paintjob; you immediately know what slot changes what.
Frankly I'm surprised none of the Devs told you.
At the same time, most of the old 1.2(?)-era stock craft don't use it properly either, including (ironically) the P-51. So, uh, Devs don't seem to use it either. Hm.
For all I know, I'm one of a small handful of people who actually bother to get the paints to line up.
@HuskyDynamics01 Gotcha.
Not every part, as far as I'm aware, has a direct tie (or at least not one that's obvious). Some of them do appear to be unused (such as the unrepentant yellow).
Probably the easiest way to work it out is to take TutorialPlane and see what changes between presets.
I'm a bit short on time, but I'll boot up SP2 to see what goes where.
Aight.
First is fuselage (and other Primary slots), second is wing, third is surfaces, fourth is Trims, fifth is propeller hubs, sixth is engine nozzles, seventh is tires, eighth is canopies, ninth I think is pylons, tenth appears unmapped, annnd pretty much everything past that I believe is also unmapped, except for sixteen which is glass and nineteen which is instruments.
Is that what you meant? Or did you mean something else?
If my memory serves me right, going from right to left and then down a row...
Fuselage, wing, control surface, trim, gun barrel,
engine nozzle, tire, cockpit, ?, ?, ?,
Glass, ?, instrument(?), ?, ?
It's been a while since I've played SP, so my memory is foggy. That's the gist, though.
@HuskyDynamics01 ... I would figure someone would work it out themselves after a few years when finding how ugly other presets would look if done wrong, but apparently not.
When each part type is taken out of the inventory its paint is already mapped to a given slot (e.g. the top right being minigun and cannon barrels, if my memory serves). This is reflected in the other presents (e.g. tires being grey, canopies usually being blue/grey, etc.), which all behave accordingly. The whole point here is that if mapped correctly, all presets can be used while looking as they are supposed to. If your plane's fuselage turns yellow when switching to "Military" you've done something very wrong.
Not all craft with these mistakes have them especially badly (as mentioned, Stinker in SP2 is mostly good with the notable exceptions of the canopy and tires), but it's still annoying. It should be noted, of course, that's there's a cockpit and a glass preset. The cockpit colour varies by preset, while glass is always the same.
The paint presents only work if mapped correctly, otherwise they have errors. Sometimes these errors are only noticeable on some presets but not others; sometimes they're incredibly obvious in all of them (usually the worse with the unchanging/barely changing paints on the bottom and right).
@Randomplayer That wasn't directed at you, thus the break before I tagged you.
Though it is often very tempting to let a missile loose. I'll be flying a GLF-80A and have the Hellpit of BuzzBird missile selected (both of which have high firing angles) and just... mmmm I need it I need it.
I rarely do, though, since I have some manners.
Issue is when someone blows you up it's hard to tell if it was an on purpose with intent to anger you (thus warranting retaliation or a kick), or just an accident/not expecting to actually do anything/hit.
@Monarchii woah woah woah pump the breaks, that’s blasphemy!
@BIFINIX I don’t see it.
Just out of frame in the second picture: Me hauling ass directly into every tree I came across.
+1I did have a good idea for once wow
I've 50,000 and you're still better than I am.
There's a forum too, if that's worth anything at all to someone already here.
I mean, it has bits of its own. But not crumbs! Those are here.
Bits there, crumbs here, and somewhere in between I seem to have dropped my common sense. I'm sure it'll turn up sometime.
Scratches in notebook
Yep, I'd say that's my daily quota for questionable jokes fulfilled. Later losers.
@TheMouse For the record, I don't consider you a problem. You're one of the good ones.
+1@Boeing727200F Hey will you be free on the 25th? I may have sold your flesh to some Old Gods in exchange for my freedom and I need you to show up for the blood ritual on time. Can you do that for me? Make sure you bathe beforehand; I doubt the Old Gods would be particularly pleased with an offering that staggered in smelling like motor oil and dog shit waffle-stomped into railyard gravel.
Thanks a bunch.
Yes, the screenshot was taken in SP2. I don' have Reshade reinstalled since my last technical clusterfuck and may very well never install it again.
Shame there's no way (that I know of) to manually move the camera's centre in SP2, even paused.
To add, since I couldn't fit it in the original post (and it'd wreck my bit to add content after the fact):
You may paint however you wish, HOWEVER any Rotator blocks you may use MUST be single-colour only! They are functional, not decorative! You may not use them as textures!
Also, it should go without saying, but XML modding is not allowed beyond making rotators into spinning motors (which must be done with sum(Throttle) as the sole input). There's simply no need.
Edit: You may also use free-spinning rotators if you so wish.
Grading is basically the same as the last challenge:
As are rewards:
Yes, this is slated to end December 25. Get to it!
I'll tag you when I make the post.
@Boeing727200F I more meant for the coming week, dingus.
Simple building challenge. Very straightforward.
@Boeing727200F I... dunno if you've already seen that tag from before. See below comment.
Anyhow I have an SP challenge idea. Interested?
@Boeing727200F Golly
@Boeing727200F Ah, yes, I remember.
Even the black ones? And the domesticated ones?
@Boeing727200F Aight. G'night.
@Boeing727200F I take it you're done.
+1@Mrcooldude ?
I am the 3000th follower on this 11 year old account. Heh.
@Boeing727200F You're speaking to the ruler of procrastination right now. I will procrastinate on EVERYTHING.
+1@Boeing727200F You lot are an odd sort.
@Boeing727200F ... what
@Boeing727200F What does any of that mean
@Boeing727200F Oof. Good luck with that. Don't forget to consume a hazardous amount of sugar and caffeine.
@Boeing727200F In case you're on, I've got a server running.
I'm... far less patient with the kicks today.
@TheLoadingGorilla The bots are copying you.
@LunarEclipseSP I see.
+1@LunarEclipseSP Not sure what I'm supposed to see. I see gacha game nonsense.
+1oh my
Oh god if it's happened again I will be dead laughing
@keiyronelleavgeek566 ... Has it happened again?
I believe the fuselage should be an oval shape, not circular, if my memory serves me right.
@TOMAIR0808 Oh 2016, where did you go?
@TOMAIR0808 Nine. Years.
@Mrcooldude 🧯
@HuskyDynamics01 Nice.
Yeah, sometimes the allure of the Faux Preset is too strong.
Funny thing, the other day the patterns on it just... disappeared. Wonder if I should've submitted a bug report for that...
@BaconEggs You are the death of all whimsy and joy.
I want my Green Slime and I shall have it at will!
@HuskyDynamics01 Oh absolutely.
Messing around with textures a bit for the first time a moment ago (if only for a few minutes), it's clear the compatibility with the old system may not be quite as great.
Of course, all this doesn't seriously impact the crafts as they were designed, but it's nice if you want your craft to look a little different with only a few clicks of a button. Want a red plane? Boom, red plane. Blue plane? Beige plane? Green plane? No problem, all those work quickly. It also helps quickly get yourself oriented if you want to modify another paintjob; you immediately know what slot changes what.
Frankly I'm surprised none of the Devs told you.
At the same time, most of the old 1.2(?)-era stock craft don't use it properly either, including (ironically) the P-51. So, uh, Devs don't seem to use it either. Hm.
For all I know, I'm one of a small handful of people who actually bother to get the paints to line up.
@HuskyDynamics01 Gotcha.
Not every part, as far as I'm aware, has a direct tie (or at least not one that's obvious). Some of them do appear to be unused (such as the unrepentant yellow).
Probably the easiest way to work it out is to take TutorialPlane and see what changes between presets.
I'm a bit short on time, but I'll boot up SP2 to see what goes where.
Aight.
First is fuselage (and other Primary slots), second is wing, third is surfaces, fourth is Trims, fifth is propeller hubs, sixth is engine nozzles, seventh is tires, eighth is canopies, ninth I think is pylons, tenth appears unmapped, annnd pretty much everything past that I believe is also unmapped, except for sixteen which is glass and nineteen which is instruments.
Is that what you meant? Or did you mean something else?
If my memory serves me right, going from right to left and then down a row...
Fuselage, wing, control surface, trim, gun barrel,
engine nozzle, tire, cockpit, ?, ?, ?,
Glass, ?, instrument(?), ?, ?
It's been a while since I've played SP, so my memory is foggy. That's the gist, though.
@HuskyDynamics01 ... I would figure someone would work it out themselves after a few years when finding how ugly other presets would look if done wrong, but apparently not.
When each part type is taken out of the inventory its paint is already mapped to a given slot (e.g. the top right being minigun and cannon barrels, if my memory serves). This is reflected in the other presents (e.g. tires being grey, canopies usually being blue/grey, etc.), which all behave accordingly. The whole point here is that if mapped correctly, all presets can be used while looking as they are supposed to. If your plane's fuselage turns yellow when switching to "Military" you've done something very wrong.
Not all craft with these mistakes have them especially badly (as mentioned, Stinker in SP2 is mostly good with the notable exceptions of the canopy and tires), but it's still annoying. It should be noted, of course, that's there's a cockpit and a glass preset. The cockpit colour varies by preset, while glass is always the same.
The paint presents only work if mapped correctly, otherwise they have errors. Sometimes these errors are only noticeable on some presets but not others; sometimes they're incredibly obvious in all of them (usually the worse with the unchanging/barely changing paints on the bottom and right).
@SuperSuperTheSylph I couldn't make sense of it.
+1congarats
@LunarEclipseSP I looked up Nikke Doro, yes. Not fond of what I saw.
+1@SuperSuperTheSylph What?
@Randomplayer That wasn't directed at you, thus the break before I tagged you.
Though it is often very tempting to let a missile loose. I'll be flying a GLF-80A and have the Hellpit of BuzzBird missile selected (both of which have high firing angles) and just... mmmm I need it I need it.
I rarely do, though, since I have some manners.
Issue is when someone blows you up it's hard to tell if it was an on purpose with intent to anger you (thus warranting retaliation or a kick), or just an accident/not expecting to actually do anything/hit.
Ah.
+1Gacha goonbait game. Yuck.
Upvote is for the craft itself, not for the source material. Even then, leaving it is highly reluctant.
It gave something.
What on Earth.
Why was the first search result an NSFW reddit post.