@Echo77 also since you are on Windows go to the mods page if you haven't discovered it yet. And get fine tuner, overload, smoke trails, land of mass is fun, Interstate, armor, minimap, music replacer and any other mod that catches your fancy if you have any questions go ahead and let me know. If you are on Steam you need to open with Steam bootstrapper.
@RedstoneAeroAviation and also one of the razor's needs to be clicked back one tenth of a percent on the cones because in first person it makes it look like it's not there.
@RedstoneAeroAviation yeah I noticed that too on further playing after I uploaded it. Probably just needs to be unclipped and then clicked back into place
@RedstoneAeroAviation most of my older ones I built on an Android tablet so they can be played on your phone. It's just the newer ones that I moved to PC that when I went crazy on parts.
My best advice is to download other planes and vehicles and take them apart and see how they work "oh that's how they did that"
The main point is to try to improve yourself as a builder and build better and better builds. Eventually.
Make sure to go into people's profiles click on posts and look through their past planes/builds.
Don't copy other peoples planes and just add a few parts and then publish them that's a No-No. (And there is always someone watching)
If you're going to use somebody else's build make a vast Improvement.
But saving parts of a plane into sub-assemblies is fine. And then you use the parts on your own builds.
But also hello and welcome to simpleplanes.
I know that you said no mods, but SMOKE? Seriously can we have smoke. Everyone should have smoke seeing as it is on all platforms already. (it should be in the game in the next update. RE. @AndrewGarrison)
Oh and as to my second comment. Rick Astley is the patron saint of simpleplanes. Because of his song never gonna to Give You Up there is even a tag in the SP website named Rick that you can label a plane "that will never give you up." So when somebody posts the video at you, like I just did, it's called being "RickRolled"
That's a very nice shape. Try using fuselage to build the body it makes a better looking build you can hide the fuel inside the fuselage also. How you might ask since you are new. Get the fuselage reduce both ends to .25 width and height and then once you got a long rod, stick it on top of your gas cans, and go back in and edit it to the size that you want, and it will grow into the gas cans leaving them inside.
FYI same thing goes with wings they still function even inside of the fuselage.
You can set your gyro for an activation group and once you turn the gyro off by disabling the activation group it will hold it's position, same thing with VTOL keeping same thrust level after the activation group is disabled. I am pretty sure, I will double check. Yep it is true. @Shmexysmpilot
Very nice ship. Here are some notes.
Instead of the VTOL Jets, get rid of those and put in a rudder in the front to help you steer turning in the opposite direction of the back one.
Make the Rockets, left side action group 1, right side Action Group 2 - you don't want to waste ammo if your target is on a certain side.
You might want to use the half hemisphere. You can stretch it out using overload or fine tuner, and then plop it right on the bottom of the ship. the beauty of the hemisphere is you can turn the friction down which helps your speed versus the wind. My wind powered ship gets 54% speed, while your's only gets 32%.
Also black is a bad color with that background. When you take a picture to upload and you only get 3, try to make the very first one your best one, a nice close-up that takes entire vehicle into the picture. A better picture equals more traffic to this vehicle. More followers on your profile page equals more traffic. More traffic equals more downloads and more upvotes.
Either download the water designer background or paint the ship wood colored so it looks like a wooden sailing ship.
@exosuit the higher Point users are higher Point users for a reason. They have more time in game and more followers. The more followers you have the more people see your posts and are likely to upvote if it is good...and if you are Hi-Point user they better freaking be good.
But do you see them in the air?
JK @Treadmill103 I saw one not five minutes ago on a road here in California. Definitely not like this one though. It was black with red highlights.
@Jerushah maybe you should update the description telling us a little backstory on the vehicle, how to drive it, etc. etc. Did you make the boat? If so, don't give credit where credit's not due, and vice versa.
@JMicah4 if you get that system you won't want to play Simple planes guess you'll be too busy playing top-of-the-line awesome games that you can afford because you spent nine grand on the computer
I got one for you
@Echo77 also since you are on Windows go to the mods page if you haven't discovered it yet. And get fine tuner, overload, smoke trails, land of mass is fun, Interstate, armor, minimap, music replacer and any other mod that catches your fancy if you have any questions go ahead and let me know. If you are on Steam you need to open with Steam bootstrapper.
@RedstoneAeroAviation and also one of the razor's needs to be clicked back one tenth of a percent on the cones because in first person it makes it look like it's not there.
@RedstoneAeroAviation yeah I noticed that too on further playing after I uploaded it. Probably just needs to be unclipped and then clicked back into place
@RedstoneAeroAviation most of my older ones I built on an Android tablet so they can be played on your phone. It's just the newer ones that I moved to PC that when I went crazy on parts.
My best advice is to download other planes and vehicles and take them apart and see how they work "oh that's how they did that"
The main point is to try to improve yourself as a builder and build better and better builds. Eventually.
Make sure to go into people's profiles click on posts and look through their past planes/builds.
Don't copy other peoples planes and just add a few parts and then publish them that's a No-No. (And there is always someone watching)
If you're going to use somebody else's build make a vast Improvement.
But saving parts of a plane into sub-assemblies is fine. And then you use the parts on your own builds.
But also hello and welcome to simpleplanes.
@BaconRoll it's still going on, it's only been 19 days.
@Rugpeersdude @LiamW it's okay I took away the smoke
@ReischetzFokke gets honorable mention.
I like the designer BG. Which one is it?
I know that you said no mods, but SMOKE? Seriously can we have smoke. Everyone should have smoke seeing as it is on all platforms already. (it should be in the game in the next update. RE. @AndrewGarrison)
I like building cars you should check out some of mine.
@Treadmill103 And Make sure to grab that afterburner for your sub assemblies. I use it all the time.
@SimpleFlow Dude! #IAMSOF*INGOLD
And I'm about to do this one too.
@ChiChiWerx no it is an old glitch.
That's funny even they have it labeled wrong. In the cartoon Marvin's ship is clearly labeled Martian maggot and it's yellow and drippy. Horse's mouth
...And the tides of time wash away at the shore...
Have since moved on past the AU version. ;-)
Technically, that is Duck Dodgers's ship https://youtu.be/OEXvsGe657Q
@destroyerP little do you know
See my Cooper Super Trooper. :-)
@IAMLZT yes, I do that all the time, hence my plethora of grey circle, black background posts.
Even in real life "mousetrap" was always a fail for me.
Also you should get the workbench background instead of the shipping yard.
Oh and as to my second comment. Rick Astley is the patron saint of simpleplanes. Because of his song never gonna to Give You Up there is even a tag in the SP website named Rick that you can label a plane "that will never give you up." So when somebody posts the video at you, like I just did, it's called being "RickRolled"
Oh and welcome
That's a very nice shape. Try using fuselage to build the body it makes a better looking build you can hide the fuel inside the fuselage also. How you might ask since you are new. Get the fuselage reduce both ends to .25 width and height and then once you got a long rod, stick it on top of your gas cans, and go back in and edit it to the size that you want, and it will grow into the gas cans leaving them inside.
FYI same thing goes with wings they still function even inside of the fuselage.
@EternalDarkness no, but on my list of things to do is to test this with the new gyroscope, see what happens.
Simply amazing
You can set your gyro for an activation group and once you turn the gyro off by disabling the activation group it will hold it's position, same thing with VTOL keeping same thrust level after the activation group is disabled. I am pretty sure, I will double check. Yep it is true. @Shmexysmpilot
Sweet googly moogly.
I just saw somebody driving this in multiplayer
Very nice ship. Here are some notes.
Instead of the VTOL Jets, get rid of those and put in a rudder in the front to help you steer turning in the opposite direction of the back one.
Make the Rockets, left side action group 1, right side Action Group 2 - you don't want to waste ammo if your target is on a certain side.
You might want to use the half hemisphere. You can stretch it out using overload or fine tuner, and then plop it right on the bottom of the ship. the beauty of the hemisphere is you can turn the friction down which helps your speed versus the wind. My wind powered ship gets 54% speed, while your's only gets 32%.
Also black is a bad color with that background. When you take a picture to upload and you only get 3, try to make the very first one your best one, a nice close-up that takes entire vehicle into the picture. A better picture equals more traffic to this vehicle. More followers on your profile page equals more traffic. More traffic equals more downloads and more upvotes.
Either download the water designer background or paint the ship wood colored so it looks like a wooden sailing ship.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention I didn't get a chance to upvote @grandmother's Enzo Ferrari.
@exosuit the higher Point users are higher Point users for a reason. They have more time in game and more followers. The more followers you have the more people see your posts and are likely to upvote if it is good...and if you are Hi-Point user they better freaking be good.
But do you see them in the air?
JK @Treadmill103 I saw one not five minutes ago on a road here in California. Definitely not like this one though. It was black with red highlights.
@MediciAviation243 Check out what I have been doing the last few months.
@sexylips35 oh. do negative length in overdrive. It turns it inside-out makes it so you can see in but not out.
Seriously can you link me to t-buckets profile I cannot find him.
@Jerushah maybe you should update the description telling us a little backstory on the vehicle, how to drive it, etc. etc. Did you make the boat? If so, don't give credit where credit's not due, and vice versa.
@Jerushah you said in the description that the boat was made by T Bucket. 😊
then we shall go find him and upvote him
Good old Lucy. Straight out of Guillermo del Toro's nightmares.
@JMicah4 if you get that system you won't want to play Simple planes guess you'll be too busy playing top-of-the-line awesome games that you can afford because you spent nine grand on the computer
@Maxwell1 Bada bump chish
@Gestours Advanced cockpit mod will solve your clear cockpit problem. Besides you need it to download my newest plane
Does OSX not have spellcheck? Or is it the Swiss?
@ProvingMars thank you
and @Mahadi your planes might have been in my mind when I built this.
Let's go cruising. You and this, me in my Laker