Fuselage blocks should be able to twist- like a drill bit. This would be extremely useful for making ships as at the moment building properly shaped hulls is near impossible to do smoothly. And creating complex shapes with the current ones is incredibly tedious at the moment.
Alternatively a system where you can select coordinates and fill them with a fuselage that contours to that shape.
Do you mean it's unstable in the water? Does it seem top-heavy?
Ideally you want to have the centre of mass below the water.
If that doesn't fix it you can make some small buoyant fuselages and nudge them to the sides as stabilisers. But the main thing is weight below the water- look at ship designs, and you will see most have lots of ballast, In the old days it was rocks or other weights, but now its usually a load of water tanks at the bottom of the hull.
@Mustang51 The only thing that took longer was doing the research. I spent several hours going through old forums to find the holy grail of WWII German ordinance, A declassified US Army document with every single weapon system used by Germany in WWII. Its some fascinating stuff. I might make a forum post with a link to the PDF.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
I believe that someone decides. I asked once a very long time ago but I don't remember what the answer was. A bunch of mods came to my post and left lists of profanities I think.
They can't stop you from speaking in code or doing acrostics. For unlike certain kindred methods nobody can be sure whether they are intentional.
@Sgtk No problemo. Its a fun build and very nice to fly.
And since you ask for tips on improvement I shall share a few small constructive criticisms of your rather lovely plane that you can easily ignore as they don't really matter to the average joe.
The radiator is missing (the original aircraft had a radiator between the fuel tank and the engine)
The fuselage is slightly too shallow but that doesn't really matter.
The rear fuselage should have a constant taper to the tail rather than being straight and then tapering.
The rigging wires are too thick for the scale (imo)
And a custom engine would have looked great on this plane.
The steering wheel would be relatively easy to animate using scaled down rotators.
It is missing a few small details such as the sprung tail skid and several rigging wires on the undercarriage and the wires connecting the bottom wing to the middle wing.
Still I will rate it a 10/10 because I tend to focus on silly insignificant details that nobody else notices because I am a sperg.
Simply do not care about followers, just build what comes from your soul, do not pretend to do anything else. Don't be a drama user it's not worth the hassle.
@ColonelRelford I will never loose my flair for the dramatic, I think that it is innate. If I stop being dramatic something will have gone horribly wrong.
@Aerofy To stop the guns hitting the props, they either have to be right behind the props so the bullet spawns infront of it, or you can use the overload mod to disable part collisions on the props- it should make them invulnerable to bullets.
IMO putting the armament there under the nose was for the best.
Fuselage blocks should be able to twist- like a drill bit. This would be extremely useful for making ships as at the moment building properly shaped hulls is near impossible to do smoothly. And creating complex shapes with the current ones is incredibly tedious at the moment.
Alternatively a system where you can select coordinates and fill them with a fuselage that contours to that shape.
+14Or do the bigbrain move and make the entire build out of wings.
+6@TheMouse @WisconsinStatePolice I hope you both do! It's the peak of oldschool simpleplanes.
+4Do you mean it's unstable in the water? Does it seem top-heavy?
Ideally you want to have the centre of mass below the water.
If that doesn't fix it you can make some small buoyant fuselages and nudge them to the sides as stabilisers. But the main thing is weight below the water- look at ship designs, and you will see most have lots of ballast, In the old days it was rocks or other weights, but now its usually a load of water tanks at the bottom of the hull.
+4This whole lark is just random luck, it all depends when you post and if it gets swamped in new.
+4I have two
Fiat S,76
Auto Union Type C
+4Crabs are people
+4Clams are people
Krakens are people
Legit or quit
Upload around 7pm US time,
Good screenshots.
Teasers.
Consistent quality.
Unique style.
+3@Mustang51 The only thing that took longer was doing the research. I spent several hours going through old forums to find the holy grail of WWII German ordinance, A declassified US Army document with every single weapon system used by Germany in WWII. Its some fascinating stuff. I might make a forum post with a link to the PDF.
+3I say.. What a spiffing reproduction.
+3I lol'd at the examples!
+3happy bidet
+3In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
+3To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
It still has terrible handling when on high, @Hazo
+3amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing ... But what's with the spontaneous combustion? And litteraly no pitch
+3I believe that someone decides. I asked once a very long time ago but I don't remember what the answer was. A bunch of mods came to my post and left lists of profanities I think.
They can't stop you from speaking in code or doing acrostics. For unlike certain kindred methods nobody can be sure whether they are intentional.
+2@ColonelRelford you seem to have trumped my collection, my oldest books are all from the 1840s-50s.
(And few of them are worthy of display cases.)
I also had no idea you made forays into archaeology, how interesting.
+2@asteroidbook345 Its
+2Rule Britannia
Britannia rules the waves
Britons never ever ever shall be slaves.
@Sgtk No problemo. Its a fun build and very nice to fly.
And since you ask for tips on improvement I shall share a few small constructive criticisms of your rather lovely plane that you can easily ignore as they don't really matter to the average joe.
The radiator is missing (the original aircraft had a radiator between the fuel tank and the engine)
The fuselage is slightly too shallow but that doesn't really matter.
The rear fuselage should have a constant taper to the tail rather than being straight and then tapering.
The rigging wires are too thick for the scale (imo)
And a custom engine would have looked great on this plane.
The steering wheel would be relatively easy to animate using scaled down rotators.
It is missing a few small details such as the sprung tail skid and several rigging wires on the undercarriage and the wires connecting the bottom wing to the middle wing.
Still I will rate it a 10/10 because I tend to focus on silly insignificant details that nobody else notices because I am a sperg.
+2When you build a perfection class Voisin III and nobody cares # feelsbadman
+2realistically a Morgan car (any of them)
+2I have definitely noticed a significant lack of upvotes on my builds.
Perhaps people don't like wing builds anymore.
+2I remember making one of these in the old days before fuselage blocks, good times.
+2They cometh, they goeth, as all trends.
+1As far as I remember you must do the ritual of exiting the hangar and re entering 3 times (or once) but 3 times seems more ritualy.
+1@32 yes I did! That's why I was checking the site – and noticed the almost complete absence of wing built planes!
+1The hawker sea hawk, it's hands down the most beautiful carrier jet ever made.
+1@WaterFlavouredSpitfires I feel like a Sumerian who has timewarped to modern London
+1@Graingy yes yes, pain is the mother of creation.
+1It is nice to hear that it will be backwards compatible!
+1@Noname918181818181818181 of course, I just wished to highlight possibilities that are easily overlooked.
+1@WisconsinStatePolice this one is a real fossil, not quite sure if it even flies!
+1@TheMouse I'm slow nevermind!
+1Simply do not care about followers, just build what comes from your soul, do not pretend to do anything else. Don't be a drama user it's not worth the hassle.
+1Build a loggery (multiplicity of logs conjoined by friendly relations)
+1It always touches me when I get a ping even though I am inactive.
+1@Mousewithamachinegun122 I certainly do!
+1@Graingy breathing mostly. Contemplation, music, reading many books. Etc etc.
+1@ColonelRelford I have always wanted to be addressed as "the chair"
+1@ColonelRelford You have excellent taste sir.
+1@ColonelRelford indeed; few moderns have the patience to master the form, or the correct manner of breathing required for the perfect throw.
+1Oh good lord. Flashbacks to the glory days.
I think you will find it was a plastic chair; but these are accurate enough -nice and sturdy too, which is what one wants in a chair.
Chairs should not have much give to them, or else, I find that they are rather poor for throwing, and poorer for sitting.
9/10 doctors and psychotics alike reccomend strong, stiff chairs.
+1Personally, I have a predilection for sniffing antique books; it is something of an art to take a big huff without subsequently sneezing.
+1There is truly nothing more beautiful than the smell of burning coal.
+1@ColonelRelford I will never loose my flair for the dramatic, I think that it is innate. If I stop being dramatic something will have gone horribly wrong.
+1@ColonelRelford And a belated Merry Christmas to you sir, may '24 be an excellent year for us all.
+1@abuttifulpigeon EST
+1Erm. Who?
+1
+1Tea
Simplerockets, Downloaded the game on launch.
I like aeroplanes.
@Aerofy To stop the guns hitting the props, they either have to be right behind the props so the bullet spawns infront of it, or you can use the overload mod to disable part collisions on the props- it should make them invulnerable to bullets.
IMO putting the armament there under the nose was for the best.
+1