@Nicholastzilinis That's good to know, though some users' phones can't even handle 400 parts. I might make the Dark Aster if I could find one good photo of it. The ones available are too dark to make out the shapes.
@Treadmill103 It's not even my idea: 3D printing cooling channels into the airframe itself is part of the basis for Lockheed's proposal for the SR-72. Heat is one of the limiting factors in hypersonic flight. The SR-71's top speed, in fact, was not limited by its engines: it could have gone faster, but the increased heat would have exceeded the airframe's limits. Here's quite a fascinating video showing metals melting at hypersonic speeds.
@Imagardenhose Where should you put what, a gyroscope? It doesn't need additional gyroscopes, it already has one. All you need to add is your zero-mass build around it. Just fuselage blocks and guns etc., no engines or wings.
@Notaleopard Feel free to use any building technique I use, no one can ask anyone else not to use a building method, a subassembly, a color scheme, or anything like that. If you use a significant piece of someone else's work, just give credit where credit is due, that's all.
@Spectre2520 The differences are internal, not visible to the end user. The performance is the same since v7 but there are some improvements that make the module easier to use and more capable.
@Morel234 I think I based it off the MiG-25PD. The missiles are more because for testing I pretty much blow up the ships and that's it, so I used air-to-ground missiles. I don't make exact replicas, anyway.
@Spectre2520 Thanks. The flight module evolved over months. This build was my first to use a flight module. It was posted 1.4 years ago and I joined 1.8 years ago, so about 5 months of experience went into that first version. I've been refining it ever since. I just finished version 10 a few days ago, this build is the first one to use it.
@Chancey21 Tags are only gonna help if a post has at least 50 upvotes or so. With twenty-something upvotes, a post is lost to the back pages forever, no matter how many tags you add to it.
@Notaleopard This is an example of a different flight module. It can fly at any speed between 40 to around 2000 mph.
In SP, it's very easy to make anything fly the way you like. Tweak a few variables on a given flight module and you can have a slow-flying biplane or a hypersonic vehicle, and anything in between.
@Spectre2520 Interesting design, keep up the good work. You shouldn't have to change anything about the flight module if you use it correctly. The mistake I'm seeing is that you set dragScale=0 on your fuselage blocks, which makes the aircraft's total drag close to zero and causes it to keep accelerating endlessly. I reset the dragScale and reinstalled my original flight module, and it works as expected.
@Spectre2520 I don't use tags because first, people who download a build later never seem to upvote it, so why should I bother; and second, with twenty-something upvotes, this build will be pretty far down the results pages no matter how many tags I add to it.
You can toggle the HUD with a keyboard shortcut, I think the default is 'Enter'.
@ChickenMcNuggets007 No, I don't even have a joystick. I was thinking about getting the Warthog HOTAS but the reviews said the quality varies a lot, so I didn't. At that price I want to be assured I'm getting a good product. Anyway, the only flying game I play is SP and the keyboard is enough for that.
@Spectre2520 When the instructions are this long... read the instructions. In fact, always read instructions. Anyway, glad you figured it out. The real fun with this thing is firing a projectile shell from 10 miles out and scoring a hit. Much more satisfying than the point-and-shoot of a regular gun.
@Notaleopard Hmm that's too complex a build to debug, it would take too long. When building something like that, you should test it at every step, so that you know when the problems start to occur. In general, if you're using lots of rotators, keep the mass of everything quite low (I'm talking a total mass of 1000 pounds or less). Experiment with different values of speed and damperMultiplier, like 0.4 and 100,000 respectively. You can also try setting diffuseInertiaTensors="false" on the aircraft itself, though that causes terrible lag on larger/more complex builds.
@Notaleopard No, but you could stack two rotators, one activated by AG1, the other by AG2. The downside is that when both 1 and 2 are active, you'll get double the rotation. I wish SP had logic gates...
Good luck, but I can't say I approve. 2000+ part builds that are only good for looking at because they lag too much and/or don't fly well don't interest me at all.
@Nicholastzilinis That's good to know, though some users' phones can't even handle 400 parts. I might make the Dark Aster if I could find one good photo of it. The ones available are too dark to make out the shapes.
Thanks, @enzoBoeing757. Does it run well on your device?
@ChallengerHellcat It's only a matter of money...
@Treadmill103 It's not even my idea: 3D printing cooling channels into the airframe itself is part of the basis for Lockheed's proposal for the SR-72. Heat is one of the limiting factors in hypersonic flight. The SR-71's top speed, in fact, was not limited by its engines: it could have gone faster, but the increased heat would have exceeded the airframe's limits. Here's quite a fascinating video showing metals melting at hypersonic speeds.
Wow, this is really well done.
Thanks, @CYBERBEAST @TheBadKolibri Try this one, it's only 164 parts.
@Flamingpepperz I used this.
@Imagardenhose Where should you put what, a gyroscope? It doesn't need additional gyroscopes, it already has one. All you need to add is your zero-mass build around it. Just fuselage blocks and guns etc., no engines or wings.
@Notaleopard Feel free to use any building technique I use, no one can ask anyone else not to use a building method, a subassembly, a color scheme, or anything like that. If you use a significant piece of someone else's work, just give credit where credit is due, that's all.
@Imagardenhose Of course it has a gyro, it wouldn't stay stable without one.
@Spectre2520 You can configure the key in settings. I don't remember what the default is.
@Notaleopard Yes, right here. You can use that build as a chassis to build upon.
@Spectre2520 If you post a few links to the images you're trying to post, I can tell you what the problem is.
@Spectre2520 The differences are internal, not visible to the end user. The performance is the same since v7 but there are some improvements that make the module easier to use and more capable.
@Morel234 I think I based it off the MiG-25PD. The missiles are more because for testing I pretty much blow up the ships and that's it, so I used air-to-ground missiles. I don't make exact replicas, anyway.
Thanks, @Ryn176
Thanks, @WalrusAircraft
Thanks, @Redvis
@mikoyanster Many of my planes? Let's see... nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
@Spectre2520 Thanks. The flight module evolved over months. This build was my first to use a flight module. It was posted 1.4 years ago and I joined 1.8 years ago, so about 5 months of experience went into that first version. I've been refining it ever since. I just finished version 10 a few days ago, this build is the first one to use it.
@ChickenMcNuggets007 If paper planes were made of polished metal and had a lot of curves...
@CYBERBEAST Sorry to hear that, and thanks. How many parts can your device handle? Maybe I can make something similar at a lower part count.
@mikoyanster Huh. Call me crazy, but I don't feel inclined to help people who routinely don't upvote my builds.
@Chancey21 Tags are only gonna help if a post has at least 50 upvotes or so. With twenty-something upvotes, a post is lost to the back pages forever, no matter how many tags you add to it.
@grizzlitn Sorry to hear that, hope your work gets less burdensome soon.
What is happiness? The feeling that power increases... that a resistance is overcome. @AWESOMENESS360
Merci beaucoup, @grizzlitn. Have you been away? Haven't seen you around in a while.
@Notaleopard This is an example of a different flight module. It can fly at any speed between 40 to around 2000 mph.
In SP, it's very easy to make anything fly the way you like. Tweak a few variables on a given flight module and you can have a slow-flying biplane or a hypersonic vehicle, and anything in between.
Thanks, @CRJ900Pilot
@Notaleopard Nearly all of them, yes.
Thanks, @F104Deathtrap
@Spectre2520 Interesting design, keep up the good work. You shouldn't have to change anything about the flight module if you use it correctly. The mistake I'm seeing is that you set dragScale=0 on your fuselage blocks, which makes the aircraft's total drag close to zero and causes it to keep accelerating endlessly. I reset the dragScale and reinstalled my original flight module, and it works as expected.
@Spectre2520 I don't use tags because first, people who download a build later never seem to upvote it, so why should I bother; and second, with twenty-something upvotes, this build will be pretty far down the results pages no matter how many tags I add to it.
You can toggle the HUD with a keyboard shortcut, I think the default is 'Enter'.
@ChickenMcNuggets007 No, I don't even have a joystick. I was thinking about getting the Warthog HOTAS but the reviews said the quality varies a lot, so I didn't. At that price I want to be assured I'm getting a good product. Anyway, the only flying game I play is SP and the keyboard is enough for that.
@ChickenMcNuggets007 Which one?
@ChickenMcNuggets007 Cool, I get it now.
@Tang0five And... it speaks softly (both the cannon, and the missile shield are silent).
If you mean the size, though, there are very good reasons for that.
Thanks, @CRJ900Pilot
@ChickenMcNuggets007 Huh?
@Tang0five Always a good policy. Because there are too many people in this world who think speaking softly is a sign of weakness.
Thank you for the kind words, @AWESOMENESS360
@Texasfam04 Thanks, Tex
@Spectre2520 When the instructions are this long... read the instructions. In fact, always read instructions. Anyway, glad you figured it out. The real fun with this thing is firing a projectile shell from 10 miles out and scoring a hit. Much more satisfying than the point-and-shoot of a regular gun.
@Notaleopard Hmm that's too complex a build to debug, it would take too long. When building something like that, you should test it at every step, so that you know when the problems start to occur. In general, if you're using lots of rotators, keep the mass of everything quite low (I'm talking a total mass of 1000 pounds or less). Experiment with different values of speed and damperMultiplier, like 0.4 and 100,000 respectively. You can also try setting diffuseInertiaTensors="false" on the aircraft itself, though that causes terrible lag on larger/more complex builds.
@Notaleopard No, but you could stack two rotators, one activated by AG1, the other by AG2. The downside is that when both 1 and 2 are active, you'll get double the rotation. I wish SP had logic gates...
@Z3RO Nothing aggressive about this build, not at all...
Thanks, @Treadmill103. Try taking out any targets with it yet?
@natedog01 Yeah, I've noticed that on a few other builds of mine. Probably a bug in the targeting/warhead triggering code, not sure what causes it.
Good luck, but I can't say I approve. 2000+ part builds that are only good for looking at because they lag too much and/or don't fly well don't interest me at all.
@natedog01 Does it? I didn't know.