Please stop trying to spread misinformation as if the moderation team were just handing out that punishment for saying Allahu Akbar, while omitting the fact that you followed it up with "B o o m", clearly implying you were making reference to terrorism and extremism, rather than peaceful religious practice. If you continue to lie like this, you'll probably be banned again.
@BigAeroplane this isn't a thread for suggestions, it is for issues. However, if you want to customise the units in the game, you can create a custom unit system by modifying the game's Settings.xml file. All the existing unit systems are in there so they should be self-explanatory.
Curating is a check to make sure that the craft is usable in VR, but also that the content is appropriate to be shown directly in the app. If you want to change your description, ask a curator to un-curate it while you change the description and have it re-curated.
There are some changes that were made to the account deletion system to comply with Apple app store regulations. I think the name of the button was changed to clarify its function.
@Prerewsertre still won't work. That's the old version from when android did support code mods. Trust me, just because the square block fits through the square hole, it doesn't mean it'll do anything good in there.
@Weirdoguymajig there's two ways really, if you just want a simple conversion just multiply the value by the conversion factor (ie {Altitude * 3.28084} would express altitude in feet. The label formatting also has a feature built in that hooks into the game's built in units system and formats units in the user's currently selected unit system. For that, there must be 3 sections in the {}, each separated by semicolons. The first is your expression, the second is the format specifier, which is just a string that controls how the number is formatted (how many decimal places, leading and trailing zeros, commas etc). Putting N there will give a fairly standard format but there is more info here. Then the 3rd section indicates what type of units to use. The options are: LongDistance - takes input in m, shows mi/km/nm ShortDistance - takes m, shows ft/m - use this for altitude TinyDistance - takes m, shows mm/inches Speed - takes m/s, shows mph/kmh/kts Mass - takes kg, shows kg/lbs Force - takes N, shows N/lbf Volume - takes L, shows L/gal (US gallons) Area - takes m^2, shows m^2/ft^2 WingLoading - takes kg/m^2, shows kg/m^2 or lbs/ft^2.
For instance for altitude, {Altitude;N0;ShortDistance} would make an altitude readout.
@Deandash The layer selector is in the top right of the Inspector panel, just below the name of the GameObject. You should be able to set it to 20: Terrain. If you did this and it didn't work, make sure that it's also set on child objects (and specifically make sure it's set on the object that has the terrain collider on it). Also make sure you're re-saving the map object with the mod tools before you export.
The "empty forum title" thing has been done many times before, it's kinda boring now. Also, you directly linked the image here to an image on an aircraft post which means everyone can see the ID string 9dG2oh and put it into an aircraft URL and access your "private chat room"
@Lake that's just the website formatting glitching. if you put " inside code block it shows as ". I changed the text to be bold so it doesn't do that
@Mrdumb9l191 most of the maths functions could be constructed from simpler functions, but that doesn't mean they're not useful. They allow people to write simpler, cleaner and probably faster expressions. Also, your expression will return NaN in the case x = 0, which is not desired behaviour for sign
What that is is the post ID for the biography, as the biography is handled similar to other posts like forums for the purposes of editing, reporting, removing etc. Users existed well before biographies implemented into the site so this isn't an accurate indicator of when an account was created, more so when their bio was created. Note that also post IDs are shared between all posts, so post ID 1 million doesn't make it the millionth user. here's an old archive page of the site before biographies existed
As trivia: The first account created on the site is AndrewGarrison. Followed by PhilipTarpley, and an old account of Nathan's. First user account was HellFireKoder, followed by Nassassin.
Just found this post. Looks like you removed it? Can't see anyone removing it in the mod log. Either way, I want to say that I have been following these posts today and yesterday and I do agree that, from having followed messages in SPBC from time to time, that the culture/environment there hasn't been the most welcoming and there is a lot of people in there into the "edgy teen" humour or making excessive digs at particular groups, as well as a sense of apathy to things like that in the moderators/regulars. It is definitely an issue in the server's wider culture. It's something that had bothered me for a while about that server and I'm glad you're recognising it. I wish you good luck in improving the environment in SPBC, I'll make sure to check in from time to time.
As for the original post by Bummer, I think it was automatically removed due to spam reports, but I think it can remain that way if this is properly resolved. Though, I was disappointed in the brigade of people that appeared to try and kick it off the site and deny the issue exists, including a lot of prominent members of the server, even someone who has recently left the site creating a new account under a pseudonym to make rude comments on that post and elsewhere.
If I had two tips for dealing with people who will inevitably drag their heels at being told to be more respectful it's this: You don't have to be "woke" or an "ally" to extend the basic human dignity to all people for being people. This includes standing up for people who can't stand up for themselves. Don't mistake this for a political statement of course, because it doesn't matter if it's about political views, race, gender, sexuality or anything else. You can stand up for someone without endorsing their views. Don't be scared to because you think you'll be associated with them in some way.
The other tip would be that perhaps if we're seeking a more welcoming environment, making those announcements with a badge by your name labelled "Stasi" isn't the best look. I never did get an answer as to why that role exists, and it doesn't sound like the kind of thing that we really need...
This statement has obviously been my own work and obviously the SP mod/admin team doesn't have total influence over discord servers by them being unofficial, but personally I really want to see the community have a good face and put its best foot forwards into what the future has lined up for it.
Another thing - pressing the S key to pitch up will max out your elevator to full pitch up. You'd very rarely do this in a real aircraft, so it might struggle to pull itself. You might gain some knowledge by taking a look at the very simple fly-by-wire system on the stock "Wasp" aircraft. The elevon rotator is a bit hard to get to, but the expression for it is fairly simple:
The -PitchRate expression is what is used here to dampen the oscillations caused when abrupt keyboard inputs are used. It has a similar damping for yaw on the rudder.
As for "it will start rolling down while pitching", what you might be experiencing is a "flick roll" (I think it's a "snap roll" in the US) where due to increasing the angle of attack greatly, one of your wings stalls before the other causing it to rotate down, which then increases the difference in angle of attack of that wing further, causing the aircraft to spin. The way to stop that is simply to not stall your main wing.
Holding shift while dragging a part will break it away from all connected parts and drag it alone. There were also a bunch of new designer inputs added in the steam deck compatibility update that was pushed.
It's all based on experimental data. If I had to guess it could be that there's 24 individually moving nozzle flaps that aren't combined into the part group mesh like most parts are.
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1 - Removing an upvote will remove the points it gave when that users points next update
2 - Here's a super old video of SP https://youtu.be/clglambOTHA, on Andrew's channel. This was well before my time (I joined between 2 and 3 years ago) but it gives you some idea of when the game was being initially developed. Jundroo had already made a number of engineering/building games including the original SimpleRockets, so it was probably a continuation of this trend, upped to 3d.
3 - Don't know, probably a test mod. Mods section is relatively new (on the timescale of the game's lifetime). Previously they were on the forums, and maybe even on the subreddit before that.
4 (and 5) - Depends what the mod is and who makes it. Mods can do basically anything if you know how to do said thing. It's not about what a mod can do but what the person making the mod makes it do.
7 - There's no hard limit, just what system resources can handle. It'd definitely blow up over 2147483647 since integer indexing would overflow but you'd run out of memory way way before then.
8 - Don't know
9 - I think it's this one - it was uploaded before accounts were a thing so nobody has the points from it, but I think it was Andrew's.
10 - no clue, and "release" is a relative term given it was released at different times on android/ios, gumroad, then steam, and also other app stores like amazon and GOG.
11 - dunno. Probably by Andrew because he's the one that does the website development.
in terms of "reducing part counts" SP pretty much already does this behind the scenes. Parts that don't have rotators, detachers or other physics-related joints between them are combined into a single physics body during flight, which greatly reduces the physics processing. Within these bodies there are part groups which are automatically generated. A part group is the smallest unit of parts that can "break off" of from the craft, and this means all of the parts in a group can be actually combined into a single mesh (3d object) to reduce the amount of draw calls sent to the GPU. This all happens automatically as the aircraft is loaded into the game.
@Ohmyus it is a shame they aren't consistent however as was said below I wouldn't want to change things and potentially break existing designs. To simplify working with them, the deltaangle(a, b) function will probably be useful to you.
@Korzalerke I don't maintain the site, however I am able to tell pretty easily that what you have stumbled on is in fact your own bio. They're posts like any other so that they can fit in with the rest of the system for reporting, deleting, editing etc.
I removed your post - while I don't want to come across as suppressing information, the SimplePlanes forums just aren't really the place for breaking news, true or false. People can get their news from other sources, this is a forum about a plane game.
Please stop trying to spread misinformation as if the moderation team were just handing out that punishment for saying Allahu Akbar, while omitting the fact that you followed it up with "B o o m", clearly implying you were making reference to terrorism and extremism, rather than peaceful religious practice. If you continue to lie like this, you'll probably be banned again.
+4I'm gonna take this down because the forums really aren't for calling out individual users, even if you think they're cringe.
@PlaneFlightX nothing happened to it
@BigAeroplane on windows,
+1%APPDATA%\..\LocalLow\Jundroo\SimplePlanes@BigAeroplane this isn't a thread for suggestions, it is for issues. However, if you want to customise the units in the game, you can create a custom unit system by modifying the game's
Settings.xmlfile. All the existing unit systems are in there so they should be self-explanatory.@JacksEpicGamingYT added Iran, Iraq, Norway, Denmark.
+2@SheriffHackdogMCPE added Philippines.
Ukraine tag has been added. If anyone wants another country to be added, feel free to ask.
+6Yeah if it's a comment like that with an advertising link just drop a report and the account should be banned if it is just an ad bot.
+10I suppose it was only a matter of time
+13conversely, consider the following: this button
+1Curating is a check to make sure that the craft is usable in VR, but also that the content is appropriate to be shown directly in the app. If you want to change your description, ask a curator to un-curate it while you change the description and have it re-curated.
+5There are some changes that were made to the account deletion system to comply with Apple app store regulations. I think the name of the button was changed to clarify its function.
+1@Prerewsertre still won't work. That's the old version from when android did support code mods. Trust me, just because the square block fits through the square hole, it doesn't mean it'll do anything good in there.
+3@YourLocalPerson iOS doesn't support mods
+1@Seel50 quest 2 is based on android so won't support code mods anyway, which is why there's currently no UI for enabling them either.
+2@Weirdoguymajig there's two ways really, if you just want a simple conversion just multiply the value by the conversion factor (ie
{Altitude * 3.28084}would express altitude in feet. The label formatting also has a feature built in that hooks into the game's built in units system and formats units in the user's currently selected unit system. For that, there must be 3 sections in the {}, each separated by semicolons. The first is your expression, the second is the format specifier, which is just a string that controls how the number is formatted (how many decimal places, leading and trailing zeros, commas etc). PuttingNthere will give a fairly standard format but there is more info here. Then the 3rd section indicates what type of units to use. The options are:LongDistance- takes input in m, shows mi/km/nmShortDistance- takes m, shows ft/m - use this for altitudeTinyDistance- takes m, shows mm/inchesSpeed- takes m/s, shows mph/kmh/ktsMass- takes kg, shows kg/lbsForce- takes N, shows N/lbfVolume- takes L, shows L/gal (US gallons)Area- takes m^2, shows m^2/ft^2WingLoading- takes kg/m^2, shows kg/m^2 or lbs/ft^2.For instance for altitude,
+2{Altitude;N0;ShortDistance}would make an altitude readout.@Deandash The layer selector is in the top right of the Inspector panel, just below the name of the GameObject. You should be able to set it to
+120: Terrain. If you did this and it didn't work, make sure that it's also set on child objects (and specifically make sure it's set on the object that has the terrain collider on it). Also make sure you're re-saving the map object with the mod tools before you export.Yeah this does sound like the terrain being on the wrong layer, make sure it's on the Terrain layer.
+1Removed for spam
The "empty forum title" thing has been done many times before, it's kinda boring now. Also, you directly linked the image here to an image on an aircraft post which means everyone can see the ID string 9dG2oh and put it into an aircraft URL and access your "private chat room"
+2@Lake that's just the website formatting glitching. if you put " inside code block it shows as
+1". I changed the text to be bold so it doesn't do that@Louisianaboy2021024 that looks like part of a dev console command, not an FT variable.
@Mrdumb9l191 most of the maths functions could be constructed from simpler functions, but that doesn't mean they're not useful. They allow people to write simpler, cleaner and probably faster expressions. Also, your expression will return NaN in the case x = 0, which is not desired behaviour for sign
+2An alternative format of this could be
(using a logical AND operator)
+1@Ghaves it probably once was but gun have infinite ammo now
+2@Ghaves nothing, it's an old unused property left in there.
What that is is the post ID for the biography, as the biography is handled similar to other posts like forums for the purposes of editing, reporting, removing etc. Users existed well before biographies implemented into the site so this isn't an accurate indicator of when an account was created, more so when their bio was created. Note that also post IDs are shared between all posts, so post ID 1 million doesn't make it the millionth user.
+14here's an old archive page of the site before biographies existed
As trivia: The first account created on the site is AndrewGarrison. Followed by PhilipTarpley, and an old account of Nathan's. First user account was HellFireKoder, followed by Nassassin.
Just found this post. Looks like you removed it? Can't see anyone removing it in the mod log. Either way, I want to say that I have been following these posts today and yesterday and I do agree that, from having followed messages in SPBC from time to time, that the culture/environment there hasn't been the most welcoming and there is a lot of people in there into the "edgy teen" humour or making excessive digs at particular groups, as well as a sense of apathy to things like that in the moderators/regulars. It is definitely an issue in the server's wider culture. It's something that had bothered me for a while about that server and I'm glad you're recognising it. I wish you good luck in improving the environment in SPBC, I'll make sure to check in from time to time.
As for the original post by Bummer, I think it was automatically removed due to spam reports, but I think it can remain that way if this is properly resolved. Though, I was disappointed in the brigade of people that appeared to try and kick it off the site and deny the issue exists, including a lot of prominent members of the server, even someone who has recently left the site creating a new account under a pseudonym to make rude comments on that post and elsewhere.
If I had two tips for dealing with people who will inevitably drag their heels at being told to be more respectful it's this: You don't have to be "woke" or an "ally" to extend the basic human dignity to all people for being people. This includes standing up for people who can't stand up for themselves. Don't mistake this for a political statement of course, because it doesn't matter if it's about political views, race, gender, sexuality or anything else. You can stand up for someone without endorsing their views. Don't be scared to because you think you'll be associated with them in some way.
The other tip would be that perhaps if we're seeking a more welcoming environment, making those announcements with a badge by your name labelled "Stasi" isn't the best look. I never did get an answer as to why that role exists, and it doesn't sound like the kind of thing that we really need...
This statement has obviously been my own work and obviously the SP mod/admin team doesn't have total influence over discord servers by them being unofficial, but personally I really want to see the community have a good face and put its best foot forwards into what the future has lined up for it.
+1no guys you just press the pin button it's right there look:
Another thing - pressing the S key to pitch up will max out your elevator to full pitch up. You'd very rarely do this in a real aircraft, so it might struggle to pull itself. You might gain some knowledge by taking a look at the very simple fly-by-wire system on the stock "Wasp" aircraft. The elevon rotator is a bit hard to get to, but the expression for it is fairly simple:
The -PitchRate expression is what is used here to dampen the oscillations caused when abrupt keyboard inputs are used. It has a similar damping for yaw on the rudder.
+2As for "it will start rolling down while pitching", what you might be experiencing is a "flick roll" (I think it's a "snap roll" in the US) where due to increasing the angle of attack greatly, one of your wings stalls before the other causing it to rotate down, which then increases the difference in angle of attack of that wing further, causing the aircraft to spin. The way to stop that is simply to not stall your main wing.
Good luck changing it back again :P
+1Holding shift while dragging a part will break it away from all connected parts and drag it alone. There were also a bunch of new designer inputs added in the steam deck compatibility update that was pushed.
+1It's all based on experimental data. If I had to guess it could be that there's 24 individually moving nozzle flaps that aren't combined into the part group mesh like most parts are.
+16.
+111 - Removing an upvote will remove the points it gave when that users points next update
2 - Here's a super old video of SP https://youtu.be/clglambOTHA, on Andrew's channel. This was well before my time (I joined between 2 and 3 years ago) but it gives you some idea of when the game was being initially developed. Jundroo had already made a number of engineering/building games including the original SimpleRockets, so it was probably a continuation of this trend, upped to 3d.
3 - Don't know, probably a test mod. Mods section is relatively new (on the timescale of the game's lifetime). Previously they were on the forums, and maybe even on the subreddit before that.
4 (and 5) - Depends what the mod is and who makes it. Mods can do basically anything if you know how to do said thing. It's not about what a mod can do but what the person making the mod makes it do.
7 - There's no hard limit, just what system resources can handle. It'd definitely blow up over 2147483647 since integer indexing would overflow but you'd run out of memory way way before then.
8 - Don't know
9 - I think it's this one - it was uploaded before accounts were a thing so nobody has the points from it, but I think it was Andrew's.
10 - no clue, and "release" is a relative term given it was released at different times on android/ios, gumroad, then steam, and also other app stores like amazon and GOG.
11 - dunno. Probably by Andrew because he's the one that does the website development.
@IceCraftGaming no, it does not use the subassembly system, it automatically combines parts at all times, behind the scenes.
+3in terms of "reducing part counts" SP pretty much already does this behind the scenes. Parts that don't have rotators, detachers or other physics-related joints between them are combined into a single physics body during flight, which greatly reduces the physics processing. Within these bodies there are part groups which are automatically generated. A part group is the smallest unit of parts that can "break off" of from the craft, and this means all of the parts in a group can be actually combined into a single mesh (3d object) to reduce the amount of draw calls sent to the GPU. This all happens automatically as the aircraft is loaded into the game.
+11@Ohmyus it is a shame they aren't consistent however as was said below I wouldn't want to change things and potentially break existing designs. To simplify working with them, the
+2deltaangle(a, b)function will probably be useful to you.Simply recolouring and reuploading a post isn't considered enough to be "significant changes" to a craft.
+7Your post has been removed because it appears to have broken the website rules. You can read them here
@Madelvasallo7 no
+4@Korzalerke I don't maintain the site, however I am able to tell pretty easily that what you have stumbled on is in fact your own bio. They're posts like any other so that they can fit in with the rest of the system for reporting, deleting, editing etc.
+6@Ambarveis if you mean the android version, no the android version of the game can no longer load code from mods so it wouldn't work.
+1@Korzalerke yes
Try again, should hopefully be fixed now
You know, I'm just going to assume this post is because of that thing that has just got you banned for a week so bye bye mr forum post
@SkullKid25 idk man I'm from the UK
+3The landing gear raises with the aircraft every time you ascend.
+5@LobsterBisque128 nope, moving things only work when they are directly connected to a control base.
Please use the report feature to send a report to the moderators instead of posting screenshots on the forums to cause even more attention
I removed your post - while I don't want to come across as suppressing information, the SimplePlanes forums just aren't really the place for breaking news, true or false. People can get their news from other sources, this is a forum about a plane game.