@humangrenade that's exactly what this is. Put the mod in to the folder, just like you would with Krazy Parts, enable, and you're good to go. Also you might want to edit out the part about your age, technically the terms and conditions require you to be 13 to have an account, and people have been banned for it before.
@Nickasaurus aww thanks Nick! I promise I really am trying to get that build sorted, by the way, but it's proving harder than I expected... I'll get back to you with progress tonight
@JetstreamAeroEngineering an old one of mine done back before I had the PC version for a challenge. It's here if you want, but there was some kind of problem with the stabilisers and they need to be reattached to stop them flopping about
Wings don't cause drag in the game, so I guess missiles mustn't either. I tested this monstrosity quickly and rotated fuselage sections definitely affect drag.
All of the post formatting on the website is totally independent from the system you do it on - it works the exact same way whether you're on Windows, OSX, Android, iOS, it doesn't matter. It's all just done with specific strings of text. For images:
Note that it needs to be an image URL specifically. A google images search result will not work. This won't work, but this will.
@Baldovino if you need help arranging all of the fights and keeping track of them, go make an account on challonge.com (it's free). It'll arrange everything for you
@LeoBrasi you should try doing a few stunts and challenges - things like the dive under the aircraft carrier that you mentioned. I managed to land a plane inside the volcano without VTOL yesterday, that can be another one for you to try
@LeoBrasi I'm helping a couple of other people just now, but I can check yours out afterwards if you want? Remind me tomorrow and I should have a little more time
@Halfstrike wing loading is your plane's weight divided by the area of its wings. It tells you how much weight each unit of area of wing has to lift, basically. This is important because when you turn, the g-force on your aircraft increases the amount of force the wings have to support. If your wing loading is already high, and you do a high-G turn, your wings can't support it and you won't turn much.
Basically big wings + low weight makes turning easier.
@Halfstrike you should enter it anyway! It doesn't matter if you don't win. As for how this is so manoeuvrable: super low wing loading (you could get away with a wing loading about five times higher than this and still have excellent performance), and it's actually not that small. Most of the other entries seem to have assumed that only ten parts means their plane has to be tiny, and as a result their control surfaces have no leverage to work with.
It's just an automatic thing that applies to everyone on the site, it isn't targeting you specifically. Jundroo is only a small company, and there's only a couple of mods on the site, so they have stuff like this in place to help out
@LeoBrasi IT'LL BE A WHILE because I'm making this. The island in the bottom right is the original stock one. Don't say anything about this yet, though!
@LeoBrasi I would quite like to do the P.125, which the JAST concept was based on, but I haven't really figured out how yet. Also other projects like map mods take up way too much time
@LeoBrasi judging by the appearance of Sidious, I reckon he's actually still human and just horribly corrupted by his usage of the force. Maybe it's Plagueis?
@LeoBrasi Legend? You're kind but I would not go that far hahaha. I think this was the fourth plane I built on the game, I still occasionally get the updated version out for post-stall nonsense
I really liked it, it captured the feeling of a proper Star Wars film. Favourite moment was probably the TIE fighters against the sun and the X-wings flying low over the lake on Takodana, those shots just looked too good
Don't worry dude, it's just a case of practice and understanding, like everything else.
"Planes that can't get off the ground."
If you've got taildragger landing gear, make the front gear longer and/or lower than the rear one. If you've got tricycle gear, move the rear gears to be only slightly behind the CoM.
"Planes that roll too fast."
Smaller roll control surfaces.
"Planes who's nose bounces up and down in flight reguardless of the buttons I press."
This one could be a couple of things, but the most likely ones are that your wing loading is too high or your pitch control surfaces are too big.
"sometimes they nose up so badly"
This usually means that either your CoT is too low, or you need to change the wing profile of your rear stabilisers to produce some lift. Making them semi-symmetric or flat-bottom will do this.
Keyboard controls
Yeah... keyboard controls are clumsy. Try the new mouse joystick option, though, it makes for much smoother flying once you get the hang of it. Right click to turn it on or off.
It's alright to be bad at flying stuff - I still can't win the bombing challenge, no matter what sort of plane I use. The best thing for it is, as is often the case, to start with slower and steadier planes until you get more familiar with it. The stock P-51, for example, rolls almost irritatingly fast, so it's quite fine to find that one a little tricky. Fortunately, this is a building game, so making the control surfaces smaller is an option we have!
I hope I explained that stuff alright, feel free to ask questions.
@humangrenade whether you act it or not isn't the point, it's still in the T&Cs.
@DeezDucks pfft, doesn't look vewy sewious to me
@DeezDucks you're making it really hard to resist posting stupid gifs hahaha
must... behave...
@DeezDucks well... mostly...
@humangrenade that's exactly what this is. Put the mod in to the folder, just like you would with Krazy Parts, enable, and you're good to go. Also you might want to edit out the part about your age, technically the terms and conditions require you to be 13 to have an account, and people have been banned for it before.
@humangrenade I don't get what you mean... you can just have it. It's there, free to download
@Meawk definitely, I've been genuinely (and pleasantly) surprised by how responsibly it is being used
@iiRazor as a fellow dude that got slapped by genetics, don't stress about it. We're just playing the dating game on hard mode. You can still do well.
@grizzlitn
@Nickasaurus aww thanks Nick! I promise I really am trying to get that build sorted, by the way, but it's proving harder than I expected... I'll get back to you with progress tonight
@JetstreamAeroEngineering an old one of mine done back before I had the PC version for a challenge. It's here if you want, but there was some kind of problem with the stabilisers and they need to be reattached to stop them flopping about
Make sure you show him this
Wings don't cause drag in the game, so I guess missiles mustn't either. I tested this monstrosity quickly and rotated fuselage sections definitely affect drag.
All of the post formatting on the website is totally independent from the system you do it on - it works the exact same way whether you're on Windows, OSX, Android, iOS, it doesn't matter. It's all just done with specific strings of text. For images:
Note that it needs to be an image URL specifically. A google images search result will not work. This won't work, but this will.
@Baldovino if you need help arranging all of the fights and keeping track of them, go make an account on challonge.com (it's free). It'll arrange everything for you
@TehDuck that's because you used a link to a SimplePlanes forum post, not an image
@LeoBrasi you should try doing a few stunts and challenges - things like the dive under the aircraft carrier that you mentioned. I managed to land a plane inside the volcano without VTOL yesterday, that can be another one for you to try
@LeoBrasi heh, you guys seemed to be having a laugh. My poor planes hahahaha. Definitely get that mic sorted, though!
@LeoBrasi I'm helping a couple of other people just now, but I can check yours out afterwards if you want? Remind me tomorrow and I should have a little more time
@Pauciloquent ahahahaha I had that issue too, I wanted to use structural wings with control surfaces to fix it, but the rules are the rules
This thing has a solid chance of winning, nice work
@TheHappyHellcat what physics setting are you flying on? I got that problem at around 730mph, which is why the prop has been downsized a bit
@Halfstrike wing loading is your plane's weight divided by the area of its wings. It tells you how much weight each unit of area of wing has to lift, basically. This is important because when you turn, the g-force on your aircraft increases the amount of force the wings have to support. If your wing loading is already high, and you do a high-G turn, your wings can't support it and you won't turn much.
Basically big wings + low weight makes turning easier.
@Halfstrike you should enter it anyway! It doesn't matter if you don't win. As for how this is so manoeuvrable: super low wing loading (you could get away with a wing loading about five times higher than this and still have excellent performance), and it's actually not that small. Most of the other entries seem to have assumed that only ten parts means their plane has to be tiny, and as a result their control surfaces have no leverage to work with.
It's just an automatic thing that applies to everyone on the site, it isn't targeting you specifically. Jundroo is only a small company, and there's only a couple of mods on the site, so they have stuff like this in place to help out
This is hilarious, and actually also one of the best-flying entries yet hahaha
@skubadogg it's alright dude, patience is a virtue and all that
@Geekpride I hope you're gonna try anyway, I saw that you did pretty well in the previous contest
@LeoBrasi IT'LL BE A WHILE because I'm making this. The island in the bottom right is the original stock one. Don't say anything about this yet, though!
@LeoBrasi hahahaha that is ridiculous. I guess it might have been to make sure he stays about for the next two as well, though?
@LeoBrasi I would quite like to do the P.125, which the JAST concept was based on, but I haven't really figured out how yet. Also other projects like map mods take up way too much time
@LeoBrasi so I should keep building slightly obscure BAe concepts and prototypes? Hahahaha
@LeoBrasi man I wish I could have seen Mark Hamill's reaction to the script
@LeoBrasi judging by the appearance of Sidious, I reckon he's actually still human and just horribly corrupted by his usage of the force. Maybe it's Plagueis?
@LeoBrasi Legend? You're kind but I would not go that far hahaha. I think this was the fourth plane I built on the game, I still occasionally get the updated version out for post-stall nonsense
@Delphinus @Cedy117 @Kimo @MediocrePlanes thanks guys!
@zap210 heh, well I figured that the more simple I make it, the more guns I can get on while staying under the part limit hahaha
@LeoBrasi I wish we had gotten more of him, although I think he was best when he was being bros with Finn haha
I really liked it, it captured the feeling of a proper Star Wars film. Favourite moment was probably the TIE fighters against the sun and the X-wings flying low over the lake on Takodana, those shots just looked too good
@Pauciloquent well I just tried the first two on your page and they were both excellent, so it's only fair that they get some votes haha
@aseder @grizzlitn thanks guys. You should both enter as well!
@Pauciloquent I'll be looking forward to your entry. I just checked out your planes, I can't believe I haven't seen them before, they're really cool!
Link to the challenge
Don't worry dude, it's just a case of practice and understanding, like everything else.
If you've got taildragger landing gear, make the front gear longer and/or lower than the rear one. If you've got tricycle gear, move the rear gears to be only slightly behind the CoM.
Smaller roll control surfaces.
This one could be a couple of things, but the most likely ones are that your wing loading is too high or your pitch control surfaces are too big.
This usually means that either your CoT is too low, or you need to change the wing profile of your rear stabilisers to produce some lift. Making them semi-symmetric or flat-bottom will do this.
Yeah... keyboard controls are clumsy. Try the new mouse joystick option, though, it makes for much smoother flying once you get the hang of it. Right click to turn it on or off.
It's alright to be bad at flying stuff - I still can't win the bombing challenge, no matter what sort of plane I use. The best thing for it is, as is often the case, to start with slower and steadier planes until you get more familiar with it. The stock P-51, for example, rolls almost irritatingly fast, so it's quite fine to find that one a little tricky. Fortunately, this is a building game, so making the control surfaces smaller is an option we have!
I hope I explained that stuff alright, feel free to ask questions.
You do, but you can just make an email address specifically for it with no personal information and use that.
@Flightsonic good plan, it's the easiest and the tutorial is still up to date.
Have you looked at the modding wiki on reddit yet? And what sort of mods are you interested in making?
Happy new year to you too!
@TOPDOG7 THE LINK WILL WORK you just need to use the one for the image, instead of the page:
Super quick 3-view sketch with stuff like nacelles for the landing gear added: