SimplePlanes is one of my favorite games but building is still extremely limited. Players resort to placing pieces of fusalage to make a camouflage effect and thrust vectoring engines aren't a thing even though they really should be. Here is a list of parts that should be eventually added to SimplePlanes. Upvote or comment if you agree.
Aircraft Decals: A selection of aircraft decals such as USAF, Russian Air Force, Belgium Air Force, and Luftwaffe insignias as well as different camouflage types.
Thrust Vectoring Engines: Engines that swivel in different directions to add maneuverability. Three directional would be nice for fictional planes such as the ones from the "Ace Combat" series with engines effecting pitch as well as yaw and roll.
Smoke Pods: A small pod that attaches to the wing to create a smoke effect with customizable colors.
Detailed Wings: Wings with a realistic appearance rather then the square style of wing we have now.
Helicopter Parts: Car parts were a stupid idea. All the developing power should have been focused on aircraft parts such as functioning helicopter parts. We need a multi directional moving resizeable rotor and a resizeable, umm... Side propellor thingie? You get what I mean, the sideways thing on the tail of a helicopter that controls yaw.
Detailed Cockpits: Default cockpit parts, each with a different view such as fighter, civillian, and commercial. Preferably each view can be picked according to the cockpit you have placed. Such as 'cockpit settings' = civillian/military/commercial.
Flap control Surfaces for Wings: An option to add flaps to your wings with control options like VTOL and Break.
Detailed Color Option: The ability to bring up a color chart and fine tune the desired color.
Better Design Tray: You know that ugly grey thing under the plane creation? Well It has been around since the dawn of time and I think it should be prettied up a bit. My proposal is that it is exchanged with a dark grey but mirrored and sexier looking thing. I honestly have know idea how this should look but as it is now, it is sort of ugly.
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@FarrowAirlines true. moding does not add heli physics and rotor rotation speed though.
yeah they do @dogspit
@MechWARRIOR57 not really
there are square wings they exist, not anymore but they are still existant
Thanks!!! @dogspit
@Destroyer5713 for sure
We need these so bad! As well as cockpits for planes like a Boeing 737. Commercial cockpits.
Ha Ha Ha very funny! @Panzerfauster28
@DeezNuts52 yup
Is that what u mean @dogspit?
A tail rotor?
I hope SP can join the helicopter engine. I mean, you can easily control the helicopter's engine. Instead of using the propeller of an aircraft to replace or use a vertical take-off engine. I also hope to be able to join the deceleration parachute. Of course, the engine of the vector control is what I want.
I personally don't think we need anything else. Anything else and the fun of the game is just taken. It takes out the creativity and difficulty of the game. Its already easy enough to whip up a plane or an awesome car by yourself, and if you can't, there are plenty of parts all over the site that are perfectly ripe to use. All I'm saying is that with difficulty comes solutions, many of which will be customizable to your problem. So enjoy making the parts you need, or if you can't make it, go explore and find it.
@Panzerfauster28 lol
A way to round off wings would be nice. Some designs just need an elliptical wing cough cough Spitfire cough. Sorry allergy season is in full swing.
@AndrewGarrison could you guys maybe make the building area a hangar? It would be very cool not to just have a huge black void... is it possible to make it so you can build in a hangar at Murphy/Yeager airport?
Noting wrong with car parts, though helicopters are much better
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On phones and tablets only (i think)there is a problem that if you are building a plane then you place a block on the plane but you accidently misplace the block and you want to remove it but when you try to remove the block then the whole plane moves but you only wanted to move the one small block but instead you moved the whole plane and then you have to undo multiple times and it very annoying so there should be a button that lets you move the blocks one at time and a button that lets you move the whole plane @AndrewGarrison
@Scottydoesthings lol I hate it when that happens. You try to put something in the garbage and then all of a sudden it is off in the distance screwing everything up.
You CAN already use VTOL for control surface input. By modding.
Instead of having camo piecs, what about having it built into the paint. Below the gloss, semi-gloss, and flat section, there would be the camo type. This would inclued things like grass, tiger, digital, etc. It would also include a flat type camo for solid colors. After selecting the camo, the main color square would have 3 or 4 secondary color selectors to paint the different parts of the camo. The primary color selector would be showing the camo type and colors instead of showing the flat color.
Don't forget the black abyss that you shall be in on hours on end, building an aircraft and when the plane goes into warp drive, YOU NEED TO HUNT FOR LOOSE PARTS IN THE DISTANCE.