@Minecraftpoweer I don't see any simpleplanes pictures on that link, probably because I'm not logged into google. It just knows you like simpleplanes, so that listing gets put higher up.
@ChicagoDude05 once you've downloaded the mod, opened it in simpleplanes to install it, enabled it in the mods section on the main menu, then go into the designer and the icon should be in the bottom left.
@Chancey21 rolling into a bank turns it just as much as it should. A banked turn is governed by very simple principles and the rate of turn only depends on (true) airspeed, angle of bank, and gravity. As long as these are the same and the aircraft holds its pitch stable then the rate of turn will be the same. see here
@Minecraftpoweer @CruzerBlade oh, it would be possible. Easily. To get the fire effect, the particle system changes from orange initially to black for smoke. It would be pretty useless though... like once the novelty of having a blue explosion wears off, what are you going to do?
@Chancey21 not only is gliding a great sport but it's a way into aviation. I won't go into the details now but there are a lot of advantages over power flying.
@Chancey21 I solo-ed at 14. Gliding is the way to solo young. In the UK, the gliding solo age is 14. Not sure about the US. It's fun though. And better than just stooging around in a cessna: you actually have a purpose.
@PlanesOfOld what platform? try deleting the mod from all places it is currently, launch SP to make sure it's gone, and redownloading. Maybe if that doesn't work try clearing your browser cache... I can't think of anything else
@GIZMOTHECAT sorry, I may have set the default size a bit big. Get Mod Settings and change the UI scale to around 1 to 1.5 depending on your preference.
@CH3COOH you can turn down the Max Simulation time to make it stop when it gets that far, or turn down the accuracy to reduce lag. Both can be changed in Mod Settings
@MasterCreeper so, you tried to open the mod in Space Agency? and it broke the file? Just re-download it then, I guess. And I don't think it's compatible, space agency probably thought it was something else...
Unfortunately trucks die after being off the ground for over 10 seconds or something, or at least they did when I did that about half a year ago... I made a quick mod to disable that and show the path they were taking, so I could park in the right place. I used a plane with a cargo bay and a helicopter with a grabber on the bottom...
@Minecraft44 once you have this and the mod settings mod you can open mod settings > designer settings. Then change the background colour field. It is a HTML-style hexadecimal colour code. You can use a site to pick them like this (you'll have to remove the #)
@Chancey21 look at existing designs, sure it's in the future but people are still the same size and physics will still apply. Try and get the passenger subassembly to compare sizes at least (an average sitting person is 0.9m or 1.8 in fuselage). Try not to cover up your prop - physics still exists in the future.
Keep the wing area realistic and don't scale the wings massively.
Instead of powering up the engines to increase top speed, settle for a realistic horsepower or thrust to weight ratio and then tweak the drag (yes, using the dragscale stuff en masse is quite laborious but I will have a tool to batch edit in the future) to get realistic speeds. Because thrust and mass and wing area etc can be quantified by numbers and specs and only leaves drag to be found experimentally.
You should try and make it more realistic...
- Size is off. Try getting the passenger, (hidden part, you can find a subassembly somewhere, partType is Passenger-1. You could almost fit two floors of sitting people in that cabin if they reclined, and it's supposed to be a one-seater. The cabin itself is about the same width as a 4-seat Cessna 172.
- Also weighs a lot too much (heavier than a 172 on max load)
- Has way too much drag, so that despite having modded wing area (twice that of a decent glider), it's glide ratio is that of a brick
- To compensate for the huge amount of drag you've massively overpowered the engines, which causes it to accelerate at roughly 0.9g forwards, and can maintain a climb of 50 degrees. The thing this is based on which only floats were added to claims "realistic performance". It does 0-60 in the same time as a Ferrari F50, but on water.
- The engine placement is simply not feasible. Putting the engines in a reinforced airtight metal box would protect them from a propstrike very well, but blocking off so much of it is just terrible for efficiency.
- It carries roughly as much fuel as a Cessna 208 regional airliner but with it's flight endurance of a drunk cockroach can only just about make it to Bandit from the seaplane hangar at water, and landed with 2% fuel. It uses 3% to take off.
You've put some work into detailing it, but it's better to start out with a reasonable design in the first place.
@Chancey21 search works by following links. Since the craft section isn't linked of course it won't show, and it'll be blocked off to all but devs, and that includes google
well, I had a prototype autopilot - SimplePilot mod a while back. Well, I still have it, and use it occasionally. It was basically a load of PIDs that you tuned mid flight hoping for it to work. I always had more exciting projects to do so it got sidelined. I was working on auto tanker refueling but that was a very precarious thing that required 10 minutes of tuning PIDs on the fly.... It would be possible I guess. One thing I wanted to do was to add different presets ie Large Cargo, Fighter jet, GA, glider, so it can fly them all properly. One thing that is a bit simpler that could really be good is being able to switch aircraft mid flight (worked on a mod, it kinda worked but the control system just isn't designed to work like that) and then a little UI to tweak the autopilot behaviour mode or settings. If you're wondering, the current AI modes it switches between are:
Default, Aerobatic Path, Buzz, Follow the Leader, General Path, Kamakaze, Land, Race, Random Locations, Take Off
however most of these don't get activated...
@Chancey21 It's 6 alphanumerical (case-sensitive) digits. That's 10 (numbers) + 32 (upper and lower case) = 42 combos per character
42 to the power of 6 (6 digits) = 5489031744
that's five billion combinations to try randomly. I think they'd notice the server melting.
I think he might have just explained it. But the upcoming mod that I mentioned a while ago (with the ortho camera and blueprints) also has a working connection editor ingame so you won't have to worry for long.
@RailfanEthan I mean, that's true, but not even the issue here. Handing out upvotes as a reward for a challenge or something is just abusing the system.
Upvotes are designed to show builds that deserve them, that people have put effort into. They are not just a reward to hand out regardless, something to trade. If you actually took the time to download something and test it out before you click upvote, you'd never see a cooldown.
@Minecraftpoweer I don't see any simpleplanes pictures on that link, probably because I'm not logged into google. It just knows you like simpleplanes, so that listing gets put higher up.
@weisofns where are you putting that? Make sure the capitalisation is right as well, for instance
+1FireGunsandFireWeapons.@ChicagoDude05 once you've downloaded the mod, opened it in simpleplanes to install it, enabled it in the mods section on the main menu, then go into the designer and the icon should be in the bottom left.
@Barito911 that's not possible sorry
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time....
+1you put trim on vtol and flaps on trim how could you
+1@Chancey21 rolling into a bank turns it just as much as it should. A banked turn is governed by very simple principles and the rate of turn only depends on (true) airspeed, angle of bank, and gravity. As long as these are the same and the aircraft holds its pitch stable then the rate of turn will be the same. see here
+1@Minecraftpoweer @CruzerBlade oh, it would be possible. Easily. To get the fire effect, the particle system changes from orange initially to black for smoke. It would be pretty useless though... like once the novelty of having a blue explosion wears off, what are you going to do?
+3@Hyattorama I'm very skeptical of the computing power of a raspberry pi for use as a gaming computer.
+1@Chancey21 not only is gliding a great sport but it's a way into aviation. I won't go into the details now but there are a lot of advantages over power flying.
@Chancey21 I solo-ed at 14. Gliding is the way to solo young. In the UK, the gliding solo age is 14. Not sure about the US. It's fun though. And better than just stooging around in a cessna: you actually have a purpose.
+1@PlanesOfOld what platform? try deleting the mod from all places it is currently, launch SP to make sure it's gone, and redownloading. Maybe if that doesn't work try clearing your browser cache... I can't think of anything else
@Jacobdaniel you have to change
dragScaleandcalculateDragto modify drag.dragis reset during drag calculations.@GIZMOTHECAT sorry, I may have set the default size a bit big. Get Mod Settings and change the UI scale to around 1 to 1.5 depending on your preference.
@AdlerSteiner dragScale and calculateDrag should work after version 1.0....
@CH3COOH you can turn down the Max Simulation time to make it stop when it gets that far, or turn down the accuracy to reduce lag. Both can be changed in Mod Settings
@MasterCreeper so, you tried to open the mod in Space Agency? and it broke the file? Just re-download it then, I guess. And I don't think it's compatible, space agency probably thought it was something else...
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+2transportation
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Unfortunately trucks die after being off the ground for over 10 seconds or something, or at least they did when I did that about half a year ago... I made a quick mod to disable that and show the path they were taking, so I could park in the right place. I used a plane with a cargo bay and a helicopter with a grabber on the bottom...
+3@grizzlitn get mod settings by hellfirekoder (linked in overload description) and lower the UI scale.
@Americancheese12 @Theron @nomadeam
@Minecraftpoweer I don't know, find out
+1@Chancey21 bad things. Like the game crashing
@Minecraftpoweer it's infinity but negative.....
+1@Chancey21 you can put
+1NegativeInfinityorNaNin there too but I'd advise against the latter.@Minecraft44 once you have this and the mod settings mod you can open mod settings > designer settings. Then change the background colour field. It is a HTML-style hexadecimal colour code. You can use a site to pick them like this (you'll have to remove the #)
+1Well, here's to 20 more comments saying "oh no I can't come!", haha!
I guess I will be there in spirit only. Or I'll be on holiday. Either.
+3@BigCheese @TheEpicMOONHAWK you need to set the input to
LandingGear(capitals matter, no spaces)@Chancey21 look at existing designs, sure it's in the future but people are still the same size and physics will still apply. Try and get the passenger subassembly to compare sizes at least (an average sitting person is 0.9m or 1.8 in fuselage). Try not to cover up your prop - physics still exists in the future.
Keep the wing area realistic and don't scale the wings massively.
Instead of powering up the engines to increase top speed, settle for a realistic horsepower or thrust to weight ratio and then tweak the drag (yes, using the dragscale stuff en masse is quite laborious but I will have a tool to batch edit in the future) to get realistic speeds. Because thrust and mass and wing area etc can be quantified by numbers and specs and only leaves drag to be found experimentally.
You should try and make it more realistic...
+7- Size is off. Try getting the passenger, (hidden part, you can find a subassembly somewhere, partType is
Passenger-1. You could almost fit two floors of sitting people in that cabin if they reclined, and it's supposed to be a one-seater. The cabin itself is about the same width as a 4-seat Cessna 172.- Also weighs a lot too much (heavier than a 172 on max load)
- Has way too much drag, so that despite having modded wing area (twice that of a decent glider), it's glide ratio is that of a brick
- To compensate for the huge amount of drag you've massively overpowered the engines, which causes it to accelerate at roughly 0.9g forwards, and can maintain a climb of 50 degrees. The thing this is based on which only floats were added to claims "realistic performance". It does 0-60 in the same time as a Ferrari F50, but on water.
- The engine placement is simply not feasible. Putting the engines in a reinforced airtight metal box would protect them from a propstrike very well, but blocking off so much of it is just terrible for efficiency.
- It carries roughly as much fuel as a Cessna 208 regional airliner but with it's flight endurance of a drunk cockroach can only just about make it to Bandit from the seaplane hangar at water, and landed with 2% fuel. It uses 3% to take off.
You've put some work into detailing it, but it's better to start out with a reasonable design in the first place.
@Othawne oh.... RIP back it up first next time ;)
@Othawne Quite confused.... You say the graphics card went kaput which would imply the hard drive was fine and therefore your tank is recoverable?
@Othawne so what's that about the graphics card?
so, you got it back?
@Chancey21 search works by following links. Since the craft section isn't linked of course it won't show, and it'll be blocked off to all but devs, and that includes google
@Chancey21 heheheh
+1@Adam12 ah, the UI may be scaled too big. Try getting the mod settings mod (link in description) and scale it down back to 1.
+2well, I had a prototype autopilot - SimplePilot mod a while back. Well, I still have it, and use it occasionally. It was basically a load of PIDs that you tuned mid flight hoping for it to work. I always had more exciting projects to do so it got sidelined. I was working on auto tanker refueling but that was a very precarious thing that required 10 minutes of tuning PIDs on the fly.... It would be possible I guess. One thing I wanted to do was to add different presets ie Large Cargo, Fighter jet, GA, glider, so it can fly them all properly. One thing that is a bit simpler that could really be good is being able to switch aircraft mid flight (worked on a mod, it kinda worked but the control system just isn't designed to work like that) and then a little UI to tweak the autopilot behaviour mode or settings. If you're wondering, the current AI modes it switches between are:
+1Default, Aerobatic Path, Buzz, Follow the Leader, General Path, Kamakaze, Land, Race, Random Locations, Take Off
however most of these don't get activated...
@Chancey21 It's 6 alphanumerical (case-sensitive) digits. That's 10 (numbers) + 32 (upper and lower case) = 42 combos per character
+442 to the power of 6 (6 digits) = 5489031744
that's five billion combinations to try randomly. I think they'd notice the server melting.
@Chancey21 ID's are random. Finding unlisteds isn't that easy you know...
@Chancey21 well they gotta test the uploading somehow haven't they?
@Chancey21 nope, its hardwired
@AndrewHamm first of all, check the end of the description. Secondly no, buy I'm currently working on something that can
@Chancey21 no idea when it'll be ready, it's kind of a bundle of designer tools all in one
I think he might have just explained it. But the upcoming mod that I mentioned a while ago (with the ortho camera and blueprints) also has a working connection editor ingame so you won't have to worry for long.
hey its sos again.
the nose wheel is inverted
not in the top gun sense tho :/
The mod I'm currently working on will have far better usability and also other designer tools
+2- We have uservoice. Please stop
- You missed 6
+3@RailfanEthan I mean, that's true, but not even the issue here. Handing out upvotes as a reward for a challenge or something is just abusing the system.
+1Upvotes are designed to show builds that deserve them, that people have put effort into. They are not just a reward to hand out regardless, something to trade. If you actually took the time to download something and test it out before you click upvote, you'd never see a cooldown.
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