Alright, you've clearly worked hard on this and it shows. I made a couple of edits here to deal with what I thought needed the most work, you can either take that for yourself, use it for ideas, or ignore it completely, your call! It's a cool and original design, you should be proud of it
@PhantomTiger105 place the .spmod file in to C:\Users[you]\AppData\LocalLow\Jundroo\SimplePlanes\Mods, open SimplePlanes, go to the "mods" menu option, and enable the mod. You should now have a new part category available in the editor. We're working on improving it, but it's a nice little basic version for now
@TheRicks2 autopilot is in v1.3, so hopefully mobile platforms will get it this month. It tries to keep the plane flying in a straight line at the altitude you engaged it at, other than avoiding collisions
The thing that is usually referred to as "modding" on here is editing your planes' xml files in a text editor. This isn't really modding, so to speak, just bypassing the restrictions of the editor. That's how people do things like more powerful engines, weirdly clipped parts, and really tiny fuselage sections.
You can also do actual modding, which is adding new content in to the game. Which one is it that you're looking for?
It might be different for you, especially if you keep your game files on an SD card, but once you find them you can still use any text editor just the same way.
@DatsunVehiclesCompany I'm afraid you won't be able to, then. Sorry about that. Feel free to post requests for parts on the forums, though. It shouldn't stop you from building cool stuff, General360 doesn't use any modding at all and he manages fine
That's done through xml editing, which is an option on every platform except iOS, I believe. I wrote a guide about it recently which I can link you to if you want to try it, but basically it means editing your plane's save file with a text editor, rather than using the game. If you don't want to do this, or can't, feel free to save components from other planes in your subassemblies, or ask on the forums for a modded part if you need one.
Hi Oicraftian, sorry it took me so long to get back to you on this, I've had a busy weekend. I tried out four or five of your planes, generally speaking they fly really well and are all incredibly manouevrable. The way you do thicker wings with numerous wing sections is probably pretty important to this, dat wing loading is just so low. So yeah, there's definitely no issue with how your planes fly.
In terms of looks, you usually do a decent job but there's not a lot to distinguish a lot of your prop planes from each other. Don't be afraid to build on a slightly larger scale like you did with the BK-29, which looks awesome.
As for deleting old planes, I wouldn't worry about that. Take a look at my old planes, they're still all up. It's kinda nice to be able to look back and see how far you've come, and nobody is gonna show up to look through your page and say "Hah look Oicraftian's planes weren't as good last year!".
Above all just have fun, I'm sure you'll enjoy v1.3 when it comes to mobile soon.
@AirplaneExpert624 it probably is the same one, the Hawk is a very successful jet trainer in real life. The RAF and a whole load of other air forces use it, and the US Navy has a modified version too.
Alright so there's two things causing the problems for you. The first is that the CoT is really far down, so the engines are causing you plane to pitch up constantly. This can be sorta countered by setting the main wings to symmetric and the stabilisers to semi-symmetric, which basically just gives you more lift at the back to counter the thrust forcing a pitch up.
The other issue is the roll stability, which is caused by your main wings having a really big anhedral (downward dihedral). I'm still working on fixing that without changing the appearance too much, because I know that's what the Banshee is actually like
Heh, this is kinda fun. I changed the prop to have an 80“ diameter and 5 2.5x thickness blades, it made taking off a fair bit easier without losing performance
@osame well since this stuff is pretty important to building planes and will help you a lot, I'll write a quick guide for you. If you can build a version that flies a bit more easily with that, I'll gladly upvote it. The basics:
CoM, CoL, and CoT are the centres of mass, lift, and thrust. You can view them by pressing the space bar or selecting it from the left-hand menu in the builder. Red is mass, blue is lift, yellow is thrust. Most of the time, you don't need to worry about CoT. It's important if you have really off-centred engines, but that won't be often.
Your plane's stability depends on the relationship between the CoM and CoL. If the CoL is ahead of the CoM, your plane will be unstable. If the CoL is too far behind the CoM, it will be so stable that it can't turn. In this case the CoL is behind the CoM, but only by a really tiny amount. As such, the plane loses control really easily.
The ideal situation is where the CoL is far back enough to provide stability, but not by so much that you can't turn. For a plane like this, moving the CoM forwards by adding some fuel near the front or removing some near the back should do the trick. Test it out until it works well for you. Good luck!
@LeoBrasi check out some examples and see how they did it. Andrew Garrison made one almost a year ago that should demonstrate it pretty nicely for you.
Hehe it's like a little chibi plane. Thanks for building it! My biggest piece of advice for you would be to work on making your planes a little more stable - this one can be controlled, but only just. Do you know how the CoM and CoL work, and all that?
Can you upload it for us to see? If you post it unlisted and then link here, it won't be published to the "new" page or your profile when other people look. It's hard to really tell anything from the picture.
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@DatsunVehiclesCompany it doesn't work on iOS, I'm afraid. I guess it could with a jailbreak, but that's not worth it just for this. Do you have SimplePlanes on any other systems?
They are pretty destructive, but you actually can take damage without losing. I won the WWII challenge with an engine shot off earlier. I suspect the reasoning behind it is that aiming is actually pretty tricky for human players without the use of slow motion.
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@XVIindustries @Jammyman21 yeah I considered that but apart from how horrendously difficult it would be, the rudder would clip through it, which would look a bit awful
@Brields95 like xml edits or actual mods?
@HellFireKoder thanks dude, honestly that mod is just really useful in general
What's the deadline?
Alright, you've clearly worked hard on this and it shows. I made a couple of edits here to deal with what I thought needed the most work, you can either take that for yourself, use it for ideas, or ignore it completely, your call! It's a cool and original design, you should be proud of it
@PhantomTiger105 place the .spmod file in to C:\Users[you]\AppData\LocalLow\Jundroo\SimplePlanes\Mods, open SimplePlanes, go to the "mods" menu option, and enable the mod. You should now have a new part category available in the editor. We're working on improving it, but it's a nice little basic version for now
Use the "share" button at the top of the left-hand menu in the builder
I don't think that would be possible, they aren't made from regular blocks in v1.3. You'll get them soon, though!
@TheRicks2 autopilot is in v1.3, so hopefully mobile platforms will get it this month. It tries to keep the plane flying in a straight line at the altitude you engaged it at, other than avoiding collisions
I was testing Oicraftian's Zero earlier and it was wickedly agile because of how the wings are done, it should fare pretty well
The thing that is usually referred to as "modding" on here is editing your planes' xml files in a text editor. This isn't really modding, so to speak, just bypassing the restrictions of the editor. That's how people do things like more powerful engines, weirdly clipped parts, and really tiny fuselage sections.
You can also do actual modding, which is adding new content in to the game. Which one is it that you're looking for?
Intakes that can be customised and reshaped like fuselage sections would be awesome, as would an in-game xml editor
@Rennfan Android users can access their files too, just the same as PC players. For me, they're in:
It might be different for you, especially if you keep your game files on an SD card, but once you find them you can still use any text editor just the same way.
@LemonLad sweet
Here you go
Note that free-spinning rotators don't have any power. It might be worth getting a large modded prop off of some of the other helicopters on the site
Huh, weird. Moving the rear landing gear forward so it's closer to the CoM should help with that
Nice work, it looks great. Changing the stabilisers to semi-symmetric helps it fly level too
@Rennfan here it is, split across a couple of comments. dsr1's help is good to have too, s/he builds cool stuff.
To answer your questions, yes and yes. Good luck, and feel free to ask either of us for help!
@DatsunVehiclesCompany I'm afraid you won't be able to, then. Sorry about that. Feel free to post requests for parts on the forums, though. It shouldn't stop you from building cool stuff, General360 doesn't use any modding at all and he manages fine
@LemonLad alright, detach the cockpit and you should be able to make it a subassembly
@LemonLad is it detached from the cockpit in that separate design?
That's done through xml editing, which is an option on every platform except iOS, I believe. I wrote a guide about it recently which I can link you to if you want to try it, but basically it means editing your plane's save file with a text editor, rather than using the game. If you don't want to do this, or can't, feel free to save components from other planes in your subassemblies, or ask on the forums for a modded part if you need one.
Hi Oicraftian, sorry it took me so long to get back to you on this, I've had a busy weekend. I tried out four or five of your planes, generally speaking they fly really well and are all incredibly manouevrable. The way you do thicker wings with numerous wing sections is probably pretty important to this, dat wing loading is just so low. So yeah, there's definitely no issue with how your planes fly.
In terms of looks, you usually do a decent job but there's not a lot to distinguish a lot of your prop planes from each other. Don't be afraid to build on a slightly larger scale like you did with the BK-29, which looks awesome.
As for deleting old planes, I wouldn't worry about that. Take a look at my old planes, they're still all up. It's kinda nice to be able to look back and see how far you've come, and nobody is gonna show up to look through your page and say "Hah look Oicraftian's planes weren't as good last year!".
Above all just have fun, I'm sure you'll enjoy v1.3 when it comes to mobile soon.
It needs to be detached from the plane to make it a subassembly
@dsr1aviation mwahahahahahaha, fear my forum-response powers!
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@AirplaneExpert624 it probably is the same one, the Hawk is a very successful jet trainer in real life. The RAF and a whole load of other air forces use it, and the US Navy has a modified version too.
@Coolengineer thanks!
@Jasperjl oh, one more thing about the fixed version: it's still pretty unsteady beneath 300mph, so be gentle on takeoff
Alright, fixed! Changes are listed in the description. Again, I'm really sorry that I forgot about this, thank you for reminding me
Alright so there's two things causing the problems for you. The first is that the CoT is really far down, so the engines are causing you plane to pitch up constantly. This can be sorta countered by setting the main wings to symmetric and the stabilisers to semi-symmetric, which basically just gives you more lift at the back to counter the thrust forcing a pitch up.
The other issue is the roll stability, which is caused by your main wings having a really big anhedral (downward dihedral). I'm still working on fixing that without changing the appearance too much, because I know that's what the Banshee is actually like
This looks awesome dude, I'm looking forward to it
Hi there kickincool. Just a quick question: did you change anything on this?
It has no landing gear, but Mod and I made this. Yours still actually looks like a complete plane, though
@Jasperjl oh I totally forgot! Really sorry dude. I will get it fixed today
Heh, this is kinda fun. I changed the prop to have an 80“ diameter and 5 2.5x thickness blades, it made taking off a fair bit easier without losing performance
@osame well since this stuff is pretty important to building planes and will help you a lot, I'll write a quick guide for you. If you can build a version that flies a bit more easily with that, I'll gladly upvote it. The basics:
CoM, CoL, and CoT are the centres of mass, lift, and thrust. You can view them by pressing the space bar or selecting it from the left-hand menu in the builder. Red is mass, blue is lift, yellow is thrust. Most of the time, you don't need to worry about CoT. It's important if you have really off-centred engines, but that won't be often.
Your plane's stability depends on the relationship between the CoM and CoL. If the CoL is ahead of the CoM, your plane will be unstable. If the CoL is too far behind the CoM, it will be so stable that it can't turn. In this case the CoL is behind the CoM, but only by a really tiny amount. As such, the plane loses control really easily.
The ideal situation is where the CoL is far back enough to provide stability, but not by so much that you can't turn. For a plane like this, moving the CoM forwards by adding some fuel near the front or removing some near the back should do the trick. Test it out until it works well for you. Good luck!
@LeoBrasi check out some examples and see how they did it. Andrew Garrison made one almost a year ago that should demonstrate it pretty nicely for you.
Hehe it's like a little chibi plane. Thanks for building it! My biggest piece of advice for you would be to work on making your planes a little more stable - this one can be controlled, but only just. Do you know how the CoM and CoL work, and all that?
Can you upload it for us to see? If you post it unlisted and then link here, it won't be published to the "new" page or your profile when other people look. It's hard to really tell anything from the picture.
Thank you all for making this my most popular post by a long shot, it's really cool that so many people can have fun with something I made @Noman0rumeral @Cedy117 @dsr1aviation @Mod @Earthbenderrwefa @Misha1004 @CDUflappy @grizzlitn @TheLatentImage @XVIindustries @General360 @Rugpeersdude @rocketbootkid @JShay @AerostyleAviation @Nightraider @bloob002 @KurtTank @DeezDucks @Rohan @Sirstupid @Nickasaurus @NovaTopaz @AgDynamics @BoxGlow @Authros @FredDeane @jimbojet @MrMecha @JaySto @AeroEngineering @Theplanekill @gros93 @RyneKuczy @hadesrocksz @Gdc2001 @Dynimerous @TheStapler @Spikerya @FullFruntall @trocan @TheJohnnyMan @pike101 @WalrusAircraft @Ace360 @thealban
@DatsunVehiclesCompany it doesn't work on iOS, I'm afraid. I guess it could with a jailbreak, but that's not worth it just for this. Do you have SimplePlanes on any other systems?
They are pretty destructive, but you actually can take damage without losing. I won the WWII challenge with an engine shot off earlier. I suspect the reasoning behind it is that aiming is actually pretty tricky for human players without the use of slow motion.
@XVIIndustries this sounds right up your street
@Flightsonic HellFireKoder is the other guy working on it
@Rohan that's nonsense dude you've built loads of cool stuff. Looks at your F-21, for example. I do not have the patience for camo like that haha
@AeroEngineering I have never actually made one, I'll try to on my next plane
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@XVIindustries @Jammyman21 yeah I considered that but apart from how horrendously difficult it would be, the rudder would clip through it, which would look a bit awful
Having it for our planes would also be really nice.
@DatsunVehiclesCompany it's in my comment here, just use two props instead of a prop and a nosecone