hi guys! I know I haven't been very active in the last..... MONTH. To make up for this grievous error, I will show you something cool I found out and did. Chances are you have downloaded planes. I have downloaded HUNDREDS. But how much space to they take up each? 100 mb? 100 kb? No. 6 BYTES. Just if you didn't know, a byte is 1000x smaller than a kilobyte, which in its own way, is 1000x smaller than a megabyte. Well, I guess that's neat. But this doesn't really mean much. I mean if you just checked your downloads, you would have found this out too. Well, I recently got 10 1.44 mb IBM formatted 3.5-inch floppy disks. Y'know, the save icon! And because I'm weird like that, I put hundreds of planes onto a disk! This means you can put ALL your planes, downloaded or made yourself, onto a single disk. Unless you made literal millions.
Hey guys, I made new post explaining how it is possible to run Simpleplanes and Minecraft off of a DVD! Go check it out!!
ok fun fact, even though those ids are only 6 bytes, the server hosting never actually takes down planes after they have been deleted from the website. That means that with a little technical skill and an aircraft ID you can recover deleted aircraft. So if you have all those IDs archived that could actually be really, really useful.
@THEOKPILOT no i live in brazil >:(
@LowQualityRepublic I can mail you one.
@Nerfaddict I can run it off of a DVD-RW, that good enough?
@HuskyDynamics01 y r u so smrt
Cool
Now save the entire game to a floppy disc
@LowQualityRepublic okay I guess there's one thing stopping you then haha
@HuskyDynamics01 eh, i don't have a floppy disk so i can't try that myself
@LowQualityRepublic I mean yeah (like, there's nothing stopping you), but if you want to save the actual build instead of just a link to it, the file will be in the kilobyte range instead of six bytes.
@HuskyDynamics01 so does that mean we can technically save a random build to a floppy disk?
Fun fact: Most planes are actually between 100 and 900 kilobytes. The 6-byte .splane files you download from the website are nothing more than the six-character aircraft ID that the game then uses to actually download the plane into the editor. It's basically a link to the aircraft page that the game uses to get the actual aircraft.
Your actual saved aircraft location is
AppData\LocalLow\Jundroo\SimplePlanes\AircraftDesigns; the Downloads folder just holds the downloaded links to planes and you can safely delete them.Bro literally saved his build