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Flexing Needs Fixing!!

18.9k Zippy6  6.4 years ago

So first thing first. My first forum post woo! I can’t believe it took me so long to figure this out. But anyway, I’m making a very large and heavy bomber with very large wings. In flight and even on the ground the wings have an immense amount of flex in them that causes them to clip through the fuselage blocks I have in the wings and thus kinda ruining the look of the plane. My question is why do they flex so much and what can I do to stop it. For clarification the wings consist of two normal wing panels. I heard something mentioned once about modded structural wings or something? Why do these flex less?

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    18.9k Zippy6

    @StallFlight epic
    ill link ya to the meme
    https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/4vbX4z/Modding-help

    6.2 years ago
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    @Zippy6 Okay.

    6.2 years ago
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    18.9k Zippy6

    @StallFlight can I ask you to do some modding for me?

    6.2 years ago
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    13.8k vonhubert

    1) You can use structural wings and than change "allowcontrolsurfaces" to "True" in XML. Or use a normal wing and than change the type "wing-3" to "wing-2" in xml. Thats exactly the same - wing-2 is not flexible
    2) Attach fuselage parts you use as a wing shape to the wing segments - they will move together with them

    They flex OK - test this as an example. Tu-114 WIP

    6.4 years ago
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    They don’t flex at all. @Zippy6 @StallFlight

    6.4 years ago
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    @Zippy6 I'm not sure about those panels, you can try. If you need any XML modding just ask me or make a forum post.

    6.4 years ago
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    18.9k Zippy6

    @StallFlight they will still flex tho? I need like 0 flex. I can’t modd them myself. I saw that. Mikoyansters drone challenge had some modded panels, would those work?

    6.4 years ago
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    Structural wings are stronger, thus they flex less. They aren't supposed to have control surfaces, but if you XML mod them, you can add them, and make primary wings etc. out of them, whilst keeping their strongness.

    +2 6.4 years ago