For taildraggers, your landing gear should be decently in front of your CoM. I'd recommend shifting your main wings forward quite a bit and also lowering them.
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It also looks awkward because your cockpit is too far forward and your engine is too small. WWII aircraft are designed on the philosophy of attaching the biggest engine possible to the smallest airframe possible while still having room for weapons and armour. The front of the aircraft on radial aircraft is often taken up by cannons or guns, and usually the oil sump is located behind the engine. Plus a lot of them have stuff like turbocharger and supercharger ducts behind the engines. Another reason WWII aircraft have quite rearward cockpits is to counteract the weight of the heavy engine up front with the armour needed around the cockpit.
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I would highly recommend taking a look at real WWII aircraft with a similar role to the one you're making and take design cues and proportions off them. Key things to look at would be where they position their wings and the position of their cockpits in relation to the wings and the engine.
Are you planning on adding any different engine configurations to the game? I feel like limiting it to only V engines makes it easier for only total noobies to make more realistic looking builds, but anyone slightly above that who wants to make a vehicle with say, an inline engine, a flat engine or a radial engine, has to make their engine from scratch still.
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If you keep the V engines in the game but negate any other configurations from the game, it actually makes it more of a ball ache to make other engine configs because you're making it with the idea in the back of your mind that you could cheap out and use an unrealistic engine and save 2 hours of work.
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It actually discourages people from improving their building skills, which for long term playability is not a good thing.
I have a few questions with the wheels.
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Why have you made it so that you have to change a tyre style toggle to change the profile of the tyre, instead of simply making it a slider? Is there some kind of technical limitation or something? I REALY REALLY think you should make the tyre profile adjustable with a slider. It would be way more simple, versatile and intuitive to use.
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Also do you have more aircraft related wheel options like airliner tyres, bush wheels and small GA planes or tail wheels?
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Also is the simple rim type that was in SP1 still in the game? Even though it looked overly simple, it looked pretty similar to a huge number of cheap rims, especially ones that you see on a lot of aircraft.
FYI, tyre physics in SP are total garbage. To the point that you can happily do things that are unrealistic to fix the handling, and realistic ways to fix the handling don't really work properly.
Just set the traction to manual and give it a bit more traction in the rear to fix the oversteer. Weight doesn't seem to change tyre grip in the same way it does irl.
today i went to a war museum and there was a display in the medic section. there was a manequin with an amputated leg and somebody had hidden some graphiti under his collar that said "womp womp womp bro" and it was pretty funny tbh
If you want the most performance for the least amount of money, I'd suggest looking for something second hand, but if you wanna save up, I suggest you give [PCPartPicker] a go and figure out how much you wanna spend on what
I still reign supreme
+2For taildraggers, your landing gear should be decently in front of your CoM. I'd recommend shifting your main wings forward quite a bit and also lowering them.
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It also looks awkward because your cockpit is too far forward and your engine is too small. WWII aircraft are designed on the philosophy of attaching the biggest engine possible to the smallest airframe possible while still having room for weapons and armour. The front of the aircraft on radial aircraft is often taken up by cannons or guns, and usually the oil sump is located behind the engine. Plus a lot of them have stuff like turbocharger and supercharger ducts behind the engines. Another reason WWII aircraft have quite rearward cockpits is to counteract the weight of the heavy engine up front with the armour needed around the cockpit.
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I would highly recommend taking a look at real WWII aircraft with a similar role to the one you're making and take design cues and proportions off them. Key things to look at would be where they position their wings and the position of their cockpits in relation to the wings and the engine.
Probably a Cessna 206 and 207. I've wanted to make one for a while but I've gone off SP lately
+1@PlaneFlightX hell yeah :D
+2I mean, if you're not doing it on the site, sure
+2Are you planning on adding any different engine configurations to the game? I feel like limiting it to only V engines makes it easier for only total noobies to make more realistic looking builds, but anyone slightly above that who wants to make a vehicle with say, an inline engine, a flat engine or a radial engine, has to make their engine from scratch still.
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If you keep the V engines in the game but negate any other configurations from the game, it actually makes it more of a ball ache to make other engine configs because you're making it with the idea in the back of your mind that you could cheap out and use an unrealistic engine and save 2 hours of work.
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It actually discourages people from improving their building skills, which for long term playability is not a good thing.
I have a few questions with the wheels.
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Why have you made it so that you have to change a tyre style toggle to change the profile of the tyre, instead of simply making it a slider? Is there some kind of technical limitation or something? I REALY REALLY think you should make the tyre profile adjustable with a slider. It would be way more simple, versatile and intuitive to use.
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Also do you have more aircraft related wheel options like airliner tyres, bush wheels and small GA planes or tail wheels?
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Also is the simple rim type that was in SP1 still in the game? Even though it looked overly simple, it looked pretty similar to a huge number of cheap rims, especially ones that you see on a lot of aircraft.
NO WAY BRO LEARNT GRAMMAR!!!!
+2(Edit: you're not starting every word with a capital letter anymore! Is this the real Copty???)
Hell yeah
+1Won loads of races with this in GT4
subaru plane !!
too bad it has 4 now :( I wanted to see it
Duo lingo owl has entered the chat
+1FYI, tyre physics in SP are total garbage. To the point that you can happily do things that are unrealistic to fix the handling, and realistic ways to fix the handling don't really work properly.
Just set the traction to manual and give it a bit more traction in the rear to fix the oversteer. Weight doesn't seem to change tyre grip in the same way it does irl.
@Ren Yo
+1And yep I'm still around lmao
I think heavy metal is the only genre I don't listen to. Buuut my favourites are the ones who are pretty chill like Bon Iver
today i went to a war museum and there was a display in the medic section. there was a manequin with an amputated leg and somebody had hidden some graphiti under his collar that said "womp womp womp bro" and it was pretty funny tbh
+4Someone plz notify me when the next round of beta testers is gonna be in so I can set my alarm for 4AM to sign up lol
Oh yo, I remember you!
@FUNPLANEGUY yoink
A lot of work went into those corners I see lol
Question, you say that we're allowed XML editing, does that include editing guns and missiles?
+2Weird that everyone is making their planes look like actual fighter aircraft instead of making an unhittable weapons platform with wings
+2here is another
here is one
What was their username?
sp users when they leave for one week
+11This is a really awesome map, but holy moley you really need to reduce the saturation of those greens lol.
+1If you want the most performance for the least amount of money, I'd suggest looking for something second hand, but if you wanna save up, I suggest you give [PCPartPicker] a go and figure out how much you wanna spend on what
+2@Mibus No politics
Rules, no politics
Looks a lot more late 70s or early 80s rather than 2005 but still, cool looking car
Definitely gonna ignore advice and head to the beach when it hits NZ lol
+2You should have seen how much drama there was when randomusername and BogdanX were around lol
+6I love your building style so much!
That pitch trim system is freaking clever!
Actually the whole thing is insanely clever lol
I might steal the pitch trim for myself tho XD
@Rb2h I also made this over 6 years ago
+1Pffff it'll buff out
+2@LunarEclipseSP SP players when desert
+3That's almost as many guns as I've put on any of my aircraft ever
+1This is the most hideous viable design I've ever seen and I love it!
+8r/WeirdWings would have a field day with this if it were real lol
It always goes down around this time of year. Plus people come and go
+1@moderators ban this individual
+1Cool styling, but I must say, this is extremely narrow
+1Or it's just extremely long and tall
If there wasn't a limit, this site would be hell with spam posters.
Instead of waiting until you can upload, how about you use that time to improve your builds and hone your skills?
+3Are you still able to access SP on your old phone? You could share your current projects on the site unlisted and finish them off on your new phone
SP literally has a kamakazi AI mode in the coding
+2It's pretty obvious why this concept was never built lol. The extra wings for the engine pods would have added a lot of drag
@BOSKnight go ahead :)
+1just like me fr
@WinsWings Thanks for the spotlight! :D
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