I saw the "Mobile-Friendly" tag while looking for the right tags for my plane (Flying Wing MkII) and I would like to know what makes a design mobile-friendly. (I put the tag on my planes because they were all created and tested on my crappy Android device)
@DisferGoatz ok is an lg g4 good enough?
By the way... i have 1.354 GB in simpleplanes because of saving alot of laggy planes
@niccotaglia i have xml big supersonic engines tho
@WalrusAircraft Mee too
Well thats a bit good card
No, XML does not affect how the part interacts with other parts. @niccotaglia
I didn't see it. Was it made of structural panels? @CaesiciusPlanes
are xml modded parts memory intensive? (xml modded super engines)
You might find this interesting... My new Asus ROG gaming laptop has 40 GB of RAM and when I explode more than 4 large bombs at the same time running on highest settings, my laptop lags. My laptop runs a NIVIDA GFORCE 965M.
@niccotaglia - I don't believe so. Pistons, rotators, weapons, floating blocks, deachers, and similar blocks that affect other parts affect performance. Structural parts OK. Some of Hypnotoads airplanes are a good example of high performance parts that don't affect performance. Take our original Mikasa It is a pig because we were forced to use floating blocks (which the devs originally warned us were memory intensive), detachers, and rotators. Even our mobile friendly version is not that friendly. @CaesiciusPlanes - BogdanX's Red Baron is only 145 parts. Also note that when the Maywar island was created, it was over 700,000 polygones, which is why it does not run on mobile. WeeBabySeamus (game artist) created Sky Park for the mobile users as an alternative.
@DisferGoatz 1GB RAM 8GB storage and Android 5.1 is good? (The G4 is bootlooped)
@WalrusAircraft are big wings and control sirfaces physics hungry?
i have a plane that has quite a few surfaces (10) but doesn't lag on my phone
this is the link to it https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/v6B00v/Flying-Wing-MkII
Well, depending on your devices software (iOS 9 for example), age (the older iPad 3s and the newer iPad pros) and storage. If you have a newer device with lots of storage, you could,probably get around 500-650 or so parts like me.
There is no specific size, but planes around 250 parts with limited numbers of physics hungry parts like rotators are usually okay for mobile. Note that the AI planes are under 30 parts. 800 + parts won't even load on mobile. SP is a memory intensive game.