@KillerDread What would you like me to do with it? It's nothing like my build style, and I haven't built any boats/ships yet, so maybe I'm not the man to ask. EternalDarkness and Feanor come to mind as two leading ship builders on this site.
@KSPFSXandSP Yeah. Hopefully, if Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos etc. have their way, passenger space flights will be a reality and we can all travel at Mach 25 someday.
@KSPFSXandSP It's just two Boom 50s, scaled up by 3x. The "special" explosion happens sometimes, I don't know if it's random or whether it depends on where you hit the target. Either way, the Jundroo developers did that, not I :)
@DJ123 I use OBS Studio to record videos, and VirtualDub to convert them to gifs. But there are plenty of alternatives out there, I'm sure. A gif is just an image and can be posted like any other image.
@Davisplanez Absolutely. Accurate dive-bombing in SimplePlanes is hard enough, let alone with a bomb big enough to be visible from a distance. On top of that, you need an airplane that flies steady enough so you can switch to orbit view and get a nice video, without veering off target. And finally, to get a video like that, with the airplane climbing away, framed by the explosion and flying debris... well, it takes a lot of things to come together just right.
@BaconRoll When you get a direct hit, it really is awesome. Luckily it's not difficult with this airplane, I can get direct hits on the Beast about 80% of the time.
@Davisplanez It's just a bomb-like shape comprised of fuselage blocks, containing two bombs, attached to some detachers. You can drag it off this build by using the "pylon" attaching the bomb to the airplane. It's probably too large for most builds, though.
Thanks, @mikoyanster. I was wondering, were you going to re-submit your level flight entry? If you just add a crosshair and reduce the control sensitivity, it would do very well.
@KSPFSXandSP Yeah, but at that speed it might have to be. Adding a meatbag and associated systems would probably make it too big/heavy/expensive. Anyway, at that speed you'd only be flying in a straight line. For "fun" flying you probably need something like an agile, Mach ~2 fighter.
@Nqrz Well, unless you're a programmer (and a good one) it'll be hard to explain. Meanwhile, you can try my parts kits here and here. My builds, including this one, are composed of subassemblies like these.
@FGW2014 Understanding is only a couple of Google searches away :) OBS Studio is a screen recording program, which gives you a video that you can upload to Youtube etc. as is. VirtualDub is a video editing program that lets you trim, crop, and resize the video, and so on, and export it as a GIF. That's all.
@PhantomBladeCorp Minor point, it's not the aircraft that are script-generated, just the primitive shapes (tapered sections, cylindrical sections, etc.). The aircraft themselves are designed by me and put together by hand. If I could write a script to come up with the entire aircraft designs that I make, I'd be a shoo-in for a Nobel Prize in AI.
But either way, it's a bit like asking someone who's automated the assembly line in a car factory to build a car entirely with his hands, including carving each part from blocks of metal by hand. It doesn't make sense (to me).
To put it another way, it takes more skill to write the scripts to generate these shapes, than to put an entire aircraft together by hand single piece by single piece -- which is more a matter of painstaking but mindless effort. I respect effort, but I respect creativity and skill more.
@PhantomBladeCorp Well, I know you love replicas and also build great replicas and I respect that, but they just don't interest me. Different folks, etc.
@PlaneBuild0512 That is pretty weird. Never happened to me though, but then I'm on a PC, so that might be a factor. I'd recommend saving a new version regularly when you're working on a build. I regularly go through five or six versions before getting to the finished build.
Nice, especially the gunsight.
@Al3jandro6304 No problem. Nice build, it handles well. Looks a little like the Global Hawk.
Thanks, @ACMECo1940
@Aeroman77 Nice. That makes me happy.
@Aeroman77 Let me guess... you got direct hits?
@KillerDread What would you like me to do with it? It's nothing like my build style, and I haven't built any boats/ships yet, so maybe I'm not the man to ask. EternalDarkness and Feanor come to mind as two leading ship builders on this site.
@KillerDread Sure, that's an idea. I'll put it on my list.
@KSPFSXandSP I know, but I like the metallic look. It's very easy to apply your own paint scheme, so you can always do that if you like.
@KSPFSXandSP Yeah. Hopefully, if Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos etc. have their way, passenger space flights will be a reality and we can all travel at Mach 25 someday.
That makes two of us, @Aeroman77. Did you try dive bombing with it?
@KSPFSXandSP It's just two Boom 50s, scaled up by 3x. The "special" explosion happens sometimes, I don't know if it's random or whether it depends on where you hit the target. Either way, the Jundroo developers did that, not I :)
@KerlonceauxIndustries missed your comment first time around. They're smooth because they're computer-generated.
@chancey21 I can, but why would I? You don't upvote my builds, you don't even give credit for custom parts, what's in it for me?
@DJ123 I use OBS Studio to record videos, and VirtualDub to convert them to gifs. But there are plenty of alternatives out there, I'm sure. A gif is just an image and can be posted like any other image.
@Davisplanez You're not supposed to, you're a fairly new user :) Have you tried out this build yet?
@Davisplanez Absolutely. Accurate dive-bombing in SimplePlanes is hard enough, let alone with a bomb big enough to be visible from a distance. On top of that, you need an airplane that flies steady enough so you can switch to orbit view and get a nice video, without veering off target. And finally, to get a video like that, with the airplane climbing away, framed by the explosion and flying debris... well, it takes a lot of things to come together just right.
Thanks, @Davisplanez. That first GIF is the most spectacular moment of my entire SimplePlanes career.
@grizzlitn Nice job, look forward to what you come up with on PC.
@phanps Er, it's not me, it's the airplane :) That's why I uploaded it, so that anyone can perform the maneuver if they want to.
@Al3jandro6304 The power output goes from 1x to 50x. It's in the description.
@FGW2014 Set ammo="1000" on CounterMeasureDispenser.State.
@BaconRoll When you get a direct hit, it really is awesome. Luckily it's not difficult with this airplane, I can get direct hits on the Beast about 80% of the time.
@Davisplanez Yes, just one. It'll take down destroyers, but not the Beast. The point of this one was just to demonstrate level flight.
Thanks, @Davisplanez
@Davisplanez It's just a bomb-like shape comprised of fuselage blocks, containing two bombs, attached to some detachers. You can drag it off this build by using the "pylon" attaching the bomb to the airplane. It's probably too large for most builds, though.
Nice.
@Davisplanez :)
@TomShift Maybe, but I don't like wasting my time on things that don't work well.
No problem, @SoulDestroyer9
@Reaper9 Sure thing, it's a nice build.
@SoulDestroyer9 Here you go. Let me know when you've downloaded it so I can delete it (I don't want unlisted posts cluttering up my posts pages).
Thanks, @mikoyanster. I was wondering, were you going to re-submit your level flight entry? If you just add a crosshair and reduce the control sensitivity, it would do very well.
@Ephwurd Yeah, the convoy's too small to be much fun. There's a link to my shaders in my profile.
@Ephwurd Yeah... I wish there was more to do in the sandbox, though. Seven targets just aren't enough.
Glad you like it, @KSPFSXandSP
@KSPFSXandSP Yeah, but at that speed it might have to be. Adding a meatbag and associated systems would probably make it too big/heavy/expensive. Anyway, at that speed you'd only be flying in a straight line. For "fun" flying you probably need something like an agile, Mach ~2 fighter.
@Nqrz Go for it.
@Nqrz Well, unless you're a programmer (and a good one) it'll be hard to explain. Meanwhile, you can try my parts kits here and here. My builds, including this one, are composed of subassemblies like these.
@EternalDarkness But of course...
Glad you think so, @JettStorm. Try it out, if only to see how level it flies.
@RandomDude How about this thing?
@FGW2014 Understanding is only a couple of Google searches away :) OBS Studio is a screen recording program, which gives you a video that you can upload to Youtube etc. as is. VirtualDub is a video editing program that lets you trim, crop, and resize the video, and so on, and export it as a GIF. That's all.
@PhantomBladeCorp Minor point, it's not the aircraft that are script-generated, just the primitive shapes (tapered sections, cylindrical sections, etc.). The aircraft themselves are designed by me and put together by hand. If I could write a script to come up with the entire aircraft designs that I make, I'd be a shoo-in for a Nobel Prize in AI.
But either way, it's a bit like asking someone who's automated the assembly line in a car factory to build a car entirely with his hands, including carving each part from blocks of metal by hand. It doesn't make sense (to me).
To put it another way, it takes more skill to write the scripts to generate these shapes, than to put an entire aircraft together by hand single piece by single piece -- which is more a matter of painstaking but mindless effort. I respect effort, but I respect creativity and skill more.
@PhantomBladeCorp Well, I know you love replicas and also build great replicas and I respect that, but they just don't interest me. Different folks, etc.
Thanks, @CreativeDean
@MisterMitchell Thanks! You can always depend on SD Industries products to be very capable :)
@VOVAK Sure, but I'd need a good reason to do that. Large builds have a lot of advantages.
@PlaneBuild0512 That is pretty weird. Never happened to me though, but then I'm on a PC, so that might be a factor. I'd recommend saving a new version regularly when you're working on a build. I regularly go through five or six versions before getting to the finished build.
@MisterMitchell Yeah, this build was just crying out for some color :)
@FGW2014 I record it using OBS Studio, then edit and convert it to a GIF using VirtualDub.