@Graingy The SP2 demo also wouldn't have been subjected to the laptop wipe, so it wouldn't have been missing anything if the Cloud re-backed it up for some reason.
@Graingy Like I said, no idea why it took so long for it to do that (and that might not even be what happened, just my guess based on my own experiences with Steam Cloud in the past). The stock craft are saved in the same folder though, so no surprise that they're gone too. There's a button in the settings (accessible from the main menu, not from the flight scene) to restore them, I think, but unfortunately it's only for the stock craft.
Is the "date written" in the Steam Cloud viewer thing the same for all of the saves that it has? I wonder if it just cleared itself and refreshed for some reason. Dunno if that's even a thing it does, but I guess it's a possibility.
@Graingy If you wiped your laptop, that would be why. Steam Cloud syncs save data to and from your PC, so it probably overwrote whatever was in the cloud with the more recent data on your laptop, which unfortunately was only the stuff that had been saved after the laptop had been wiped.
The problem in this case is that Steam Cloud isn't very good at understanding what should and shouldn't be kept. It thought it was being good by updating your cloud save data with newer files (since normally the files are first saved to your computer and then copied to the cloud), but to do that it overwrites whatever it had saved previously. Essentially, it replaced the files in the cloud with whatever was in your local save folder, which unfortunately only contained stuff that had been saved after your computer was wiped (since, well, the old ones got wiped).
From my (limited) understanding, your local files are always the "master" copy of whatever is in the Steam Cloud. If stuff gets deleted and then the Steam Cloud decides to update what it has saved, it will also delete files that are no longer present on the local version. I'm not knowledgeable enough about how it works to know why it was working fine between when your computer was wiped and now (can the game pull from both your local files and the cloud? I have no idea), but my guess would be that the cloud saw that everything had been deleted from your computer and went "cool, I'll update my save to match."
Again, no idea why it took so long to do that (or why it didn't detect that your local save and the cloud were no longer synced - normally that's what should happen in cases like this, and it prompts you to choose which one to keep), but that's my guess as to what happened.
@Mrcooldude I've been using a Prusa MK3S in my college's makerspace. Had access to a Bambu X1C at work over the summer and it was super nice, but the Prusa has worked well so far too.
Hard to say, I don't really have a single favorite.
Owl City and Marianas Trench are definitely the largest in my collection in terms of quantity, but there's a lot of good ones beyond them. Then, of course, there's the classics (Johnny Cash, Billy Joel, ABBA, a-ha, and so on).
Sabaton is cool if you like metal with interwoven history lessons, but a lot of their older stuff (pre-Heroes) all ends up sounding kind of the same.
The Longest Johns is one of the best shanty groups currently around, and they're a lot of fun.
If you're looking for some good instrumentals (mostly) to put on in the background while you game, I'd recommend Two Steps from Hell, Lucas Ricciotti, 2CELLOS, 40 Fingers, Lindsey Stirling, and maybe Ally the Piper if you're into that.
...I tend to listen to pretty much anything except rap, if you couldn't tell...
@StockPlanesRemastered That'd definitely work too. Honestly whatever you think is the best should be what you use - make the build you want to make, how you want to make it.
I'd recommend standing it up on its tail to print so that you don't have to remove supports from inside the engine and intakes (and also so that the wings have a nicer finish). Also, use organic/tree supports if your slicer can do them; they're way easier to remove.
A circular airship with an engine assembly that spins around the outer ring would be sick (and by sick I mean mechanically nightmarish but aesthetically neat)
@Graingy Oh, y'know. Lots of stuff. My washing machine decided not to do the spin cycle yesterday for some reason, Microsoft keeps trying to force me to "upgrade" to Windows 11, and certain people (without getting too specific) are becoming increasingly vocal about their preference for me to be about twelve feet shorter than I am.
Here's a question you should ask yourself: Are you doing this because you want to be done with the site, or because you want attention or to be edgy or whatever? Changing your name to "Unwanted," opening the post with "I am hated throughout this community," and pinning a comment that says "I should probably kms" heavily suggests that you're doing it for attention or to be edgy or whatever, in which case you'd most likely be back on a new account in like 1-6 months anyway so it literally doesn't matter.
On the other hand, if you feel like you just want to be done with the site, then you could just stop using the account. Outright deleting it benefits nobody because 1) it prevents anyone from using your builds in the future and 2) it's more difficult if you change your mind and want to come back in the future.
@Graingy Hm, I'll keep an eye out for that. Apology accepted.
Anyway fear not, I'm not going to do the "copy-the-sand-guy's-pfp-thing-to-look-cool-or-whatever" bit; this other idea I've got is way funnier and a lot less petty. I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually ;)
@Graingy What, or whom, exactly have I defended, and where have I done so? Please be specific, no faffing about what I "might" or "can" do. You can even quote me, if you'd like.
@Graingy Ooh, that's a good idea. Y'know, I do have a rather unfortunate tendency to be petty. Out of curiosity, can you point me to what I've said that strictly goes against your (collective, apparently??*) views?
*can you also explain this? are there multiple people running the account or are you representing a bunch of different users or what? I'm a little confused...
@Graingy You're right, it's way more palatable for you when you say it that way.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have the opportunity to do something really funny and I'm going to need a bit to decide whether or not to do it.
yoooooo
edit: if it's just Thor with him then it might not be, there's usually more than two of them at a time on recording. Guess we'll wait and see. Good spotting regardless, though!
@Graingy And here I thought this was SimplePlanes, not a news website. All I was looking for was one word.
In any case, thank you for clarifying and I'm sorry to hear that you think your hatred is mutual.
Move the wings lower. Generally, the position of the wings that you currently have would be more suitable for a twin-engine aircraft (the DH Mosquito or the P-38, for instance); the vast majority of single-engine fighters and attack aircraft had the wings mounted below the fuselage centerline, often all the way at the bottom of the fuselage. This is true for not just WWII but also well into the Cold War and the early jet era (e.g. the Century series or the F-4 Phantom II).
I'd also suggest making the tip tanks a bit smaller, but that's up to you.
sounds like maybe you shouldn't have broken your phone in the first place
you can't be upset at your sister for wiping the phone after you gave it to her so that you could buy a new one
It's a community meme that started with this build, which got upvoted into space for... some reason. This then spawned a whole trend of "German _" from people trying to achieve the same level of absurdity. I have no idea why the original was named that, but that's where it comes from.
@nwa That doesn't help. Let the moderators handle it.
@satgat Yes, but you should use parenthesis.
Throttle>0 ? (VTOL>0.5 ? Throttle : 0) : 0yoooo it's the thing I nearly ran into while Linus was recording
how did I forget about that song when making my CAS playlist lol
Huh
The pillow fort has fallen.
no way we're getting adobe flash game adbots in the big 25
@Graingy The SP2 demo also wouldn't have been subjected to the laptop wipe, so it wouldn't have been missing anything if the Cloud re-backed it up for some reason.
@Graingy Like I said, no idea why it took so long for it to do that (and that might not even be what happened, just my guess based on my own experiences with Steam Cloud in the past). The stock craft are saved in the same folder though, so no surprise that they're gone too. There's a button in the settings (accessible from the main menu, not from the flight scene) to restore them, I think, but unfortunately it's only for the stock craft.
Is the "date written" in the Steam Cloud viewer thing the same for all of the saves that it has? I wonder if it just cleared itself and refreshed for some reason. Dunno if that's even a thing it does, but I guess it's a possibility.
@Graingy If you wiped your laptop, that would be why. Steam Cloud syncs save data to and from your PC, so it probably overwrote whatever was in the cloud with the more recent data on your laptop, which unfortunately was only the stuff that had been saved after the laptop had been wiped.
The problem in this case is that Steam Cloud isn't very good at understanding what should and shouldn't be kept. It thought it was being good by updating your cloud save data with newer files (since normally the files are first saved to your computer and then copied to the cloud), but to do that it overwrites whatever it had saved previously. Essentially, it replaced the files in the cloud with whatever was in your local save folder, which unfortunately only contained stuff that had been saved after your computer was wiped (since, well, the old ones got wiped).
From my (limited) understanding, your local files are always the "master" copy of whatever is in the Steam Cloud. If stuff gets deleted and then the Steam Cloud decides to update what it has saved, it will also delete files that are no longer present on the local version. I'm not knowledgeable enough about how it works to know why it was working fine between when your computer was wiped and now (can the game pull from both your local files and the cloud? I have no idea), but my guess would be that the cloud saw that everything had been deleted from your computer and went "cool, I'll update my save to match."
Again, no idea why it took so long to do that (or why it didn't detect that your local save and the cloud were no longer synced - normally that's what should happen in cases like this, and it prompts you to choose which one to keep), but that's my guess as to what happened.
Don't forget to make bug reports in the Discord server so they can track and fix these :)
@StockPlanesRemastered congratulations, you noticed the part I forgot to do :D
@ShinyGemsBro it's fine™
Formula Itasha is not something that I thought would work but those are honestly done quite well.
I bet they'd look cursed from the top though XD
hap birty
@Mrcooldude I've been using a Prusa MK3S in my college's makerspace. Had access to a Bambu X1C at work over the summer and it was super nice, but the Prusa has worked well so far too.
Hard to say, I don't really have a single favorite.
Owl City and Marianas Trench are definitely the largest in my collection in terms of quantity, but there's a lot of good ones beyond them. Then, of course, there's the classics (Johnny Cash, Billy Joel, ABBA, a-ha, and so on).
Sabaton is cool if you like metal with interwoven history lessons, but a lot of their older stuff (pre-Heroes) all ends up sounding kind of the same.
The Longest Johns is one of the best shanty groups currently around, and they're a lot of fun.
If you're looking for some good instrumentals (mostly) to put on in the background while you game, I'd recommend Two Steps from Hell, Lucas Ricciotti, 2CELLOS, 40 Fingers, Lindsey Stirling, and maybe Ally the Piper if you're into that.
...I tend to listen to pretty much anything except rap, if you couldn't tell...
@Mrcooldude ayyy nice
@StockPlanesRemastered That'd definitely work too. Honestly whatever you think is the best should be what you use - make the build you want to make, how you want to make it.
This is why.
ayy nice
also your camera's date needs to be reset lol
I'd recommend standing it up on its tail to print so that you don't have to remove supports from inside the engine and intakes (and also so that the wings have a nicer finish). Also, use organic/tree supports if your slicer can do them; they're way easier to remove.
I mean I don't think anyone would stop you.
He absolutely knows what he said.
A circular airship with an engine assembly that spins around the outer ring would be sick (and by sick I mean mechanically nightmarish but aesthetically neat)
I thought the nose was the eyes for a second and now I can't unsee it.
@Graingy In that case, "catch-me-if-you-can..." sometimes.
@Graingy I'm referring to what might also be termed a lead-based altitude inversion. I hear you're big on those recently.
@Graingy Oh, y'know. Lots of stuff. My washing machine decided not to do the spin cycle yesterday for some reason, Microsoft keeps trying to force me to "upgrade" to Windows 11, and certain people (without getting too specific) are becoming increasingly vocal about their preference for me to be about twelve feet shorter than I am.
Unpleasant discoveries.
Also [redacted], but I'm not allowed to disclose that at present.
Here's a question you should ask yourself: Are you doing this because you want to be done with the site, or because you want attention or to be edgy or whatever? Changing your name to "Unwanted," opening the post with "I am hated throughout this community," and pinning a comment that says "I should probably kms" heavily suggests that you're doing it for attention or to be edgy or whatever, in which case you'd most likely be back on a new account in like 1-6 months anyway so it literally doesn't matter.
On the other hand, if you feel like you just want to be done with the site, then you could just stop using the account. Outright deleting it benefits nobody because 1) it prevents anyone from using your builds in the future and 2) it's more difficult if you change your mind and want to come back in the future.
It's roughly synonymous with "withheld."
Jundreaux
I think most of us play SimplePlanes for fun, mister adbot.
@Graingy Hm, I'll keep an eye out for that. Apology accepted.
Anyway fear not, I'm not going to do the "copy-the-sand-guy's-pfp-thing-to-look-cool-or-whatever" bit; this other idea I've got is way funnier and a lot less petty. I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually ;)
@Graingy You can still go to my comments page, things don't get removed from there when a post is deleted :)
@Graingy What, or whom, exactly have I defended, and where have I done so? Please be specific, no faffing about what I "might" or "can" do. You can even quote me, if you'd like.
@Graingy Ooh, that's a good idea. Y'know, I do have a rather unfortunate tendency to be petty. Out of curiosity, can you point me to what I've said that strictly goes against your (collective, apparently??*) views?
*can you also explain this? are there multiple people running the account or are you representing a bunch of different users or what? I'm a little confused...
@BOSSentinel lol rip
@Graingy You're right, it's way more palatable for you when you say it that way.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have the opportunity to do something really funny and I'm going to need a bit to decide whether or not to do it.
yoooooo
edit: if it's just Thor with him then it might not be, there's usually more than two of them at a time on recording. Guess we'll wait and see. Good spotting regardless, though!
@Graingy And here I thought this was SimplePlanes, not a news website. All I was looking for was one word.
In any case, thank you for clarifying and I'm sorry to hear that you think your hatred is mutual.
Move the wings lower. Generally, the position of the wings that you currently have would be more suitable for a twin-engine aircraft (the DH Mosquito or the P-38, for instance); the vast majority of single-engine fighters and attack aircraft had the wings mounted below the fuselage centerline, often all the way at the bottom of the fuselage. This is true for not just WWII but also well into the Cold War and the early jet era (e.g. the Century series or the F-4 Phantom II).
I'd also suggest making the tip tanks a bit smaller, but that's up to you.
Expensive
ooo wee ooo
Because it's pi, not pie.
sounds like maybe you shouldn't have broken your phone in the first place
you can't be upset at your sister for wiping the phone after you gave it to her so that you could buy a new one
It's a community meme that started with this build, which got upvoted into space for... some reason. This then spawned a whole trend of "German _" from people trying to achieve the same level of absurdity. I have no idea why the original was named that, but that's where it comes from.
sounds like it's working as intended based on the name
insanity is in fact being formed
hap birtd