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[Closed] Best Bird Build Battle (Flying Bird Challenge)

6,374 Thunderhawk  3.4 years ago
34 downloads

This is a challenge to make a bird. (A flying one) You can make it a conventional aircraft or an ornithopter or figure out other ways to make it fly. You can make it realistically detailed or comically out of proportion... all the details are up to you! (Except the bird part, thats kind of important)

Rules:
-Don’t steal somebody else’s design
-XML Modding is allowed, but no mods that won’t work on iOS
-Must be a successor to this plane
-It has to be a bird
-It has to fly in some way
-You can use subassemblies from other players if you give credit

Scoring:
10pts : Does it look like a bird
10pts : How well does it fly
10pts : Creativity/Uniqueness
10pts : Extra Features and general Fun-ness

Deadline: July 24 (may extend deadline if needed)

Happy bird building!

Spotlights

General Characteristics

  • Successors 7 airplane(s) +472 bonus
  • Created On iOS
  • Wingspan 36.0ft (11.0m)
  • Length 36.0ft (11.0m)
  • Height 49.2ft (15.0m)
  • Empty Weight 374lbs (170kg)
  • Loaded Weight 374lbs (170kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading 439,839.3lbs/ft2 (2,147,483.6kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
  • Drag Points 2043

Parts

  • Number of Parts 12
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 18
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    6,374 Thunderhawk

    Podium:
    1st place @JuanShot2Go
    -best functionality and fun to fly
    2nd place @winterro
    -very good all round and a better dog fighter than any bird I have seen in real life
    3rd place @Wibbley
    -very ominous looking raven. Has a very cool look overall.
    ...
    Congratulations to the winners
    Thanks to everyone who upvoted and participated
    All of the entries were fun to download and test and each had its own interesting features
    ...
    This was a very good turn out for my first attempt at making a challenge.

    Pinned 3.3 years ago
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    50.6k BeastHunter

    @Thunderhawk That makes sense. Give the less talented players a chance to shine. Otherwise they would never enter another challenge.

    +1 3.3 years ago
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    6,374 Thunderhawk

    @BeastHunter I had to disqualify it for being too good

    +1 3.3 years ago
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    50.6k BeastHunter

    @Thunderhawk Why didn’t I win? I obviously had the best build.

    +1 3.3 years ago
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    12.7k JuanShot2Go

    Wow! Thanks! I am stoked. Considering all the amazing things that get created here it gave me a real thrill.

    +1 3.3 years ago
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    93.3k winterro

    @Thunderhawk great challenge! i hope this wasnt the last one (my chalenges suck)

    +1 3.3 years ago
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    6,374 Thunderhawk

    @JuanShot2Go I'm unable to score anything because I tried knocking over my monitor without realizing I am on mobile
    ...
    (I'll score it soon)

    3.3 years ago
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    12.7k JuanShot2Go

    Wow you marked my first one within a few minutes of uploading. (The Wrong one), which I deleted. Sorry. could you possible repost my score? My only defense is insanity.

    3.3 years ago
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    12.7k JuanShot2Go

    @Thunderhawk That's it. Thanks! So when judging my entry, please knock your monitor off the desk it seems to fix it. (Jokes). Actually Don't! it made me upload the wrong file. Now its the right one.

    +1 3.3 years ago
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    6,374 Thunderhawk

    @JuanShot2Go if you knock the monitor down it might be harder to see it deviating in flight

    3.3 years ago
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    12.7k JuanShot2Go

    Nearly......finished...Just (whack) getting the (whack) birdy to fly straight..(Whack). No, hitting the computer doesn't work.

    +1 3.3 years ago
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    @Thunderhawk it’s fine it would take too long

    +1 3.3 years ago
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    6,374 Thunderhawk

    @asteroidbook345 how long do you think it would take? I could extend the deadline I guess

    3.3 years ago
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    93.3k winterro

    @Thunderhawk mine's complete

    +1 3.3 years ago
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    Except the deadline is tomorrow so I guess not lol

    3.3 years ago
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    Time to make a replica of one of my budgies

    3.3 years ago
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    12.7k JuanShot2Go

    I love flapping builds so I am very excited about seeing what people make for this this challenge. I'd like to build a new bird based around my cybird for this if I have the time, but I just wanted to share some funky trees code that some people may like to use. In my builds I use this one my hinges for up and down flapping motions that uses no fuel.
    sin( smooth(Time,smooth(Throttle,1)) * 90)
    More throttle = faster flapping
    also you can change 90 up to about 300 for even faster flapping.
    hope it helps.

    +1 3.4 years ago
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    6,374 Thunderhawk

    @BluebonBane

    3.4 years ago
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    6,374 Thunderhawk

    @SemedianIndustries It has to look like a bird but you can build it however you want.

    3.4 years ago
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    I might enter your challenge, but does it have to be a realistic replica of a bird or an Ornithopter my own way will suffice?

    3.4 years ago
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    6,374 Thunderhawk

    @SemedianIndustries thanks for the spotlight

    3.4 years ago
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    50.6k BeastHunter

    @Thunderhawk Ok... Well I didn't build a bird.

    3.4 years ago
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    6,374 Thunderhawk

    @BeastHunter getting disqualified is essentially the same as building a bird

    3.4 years ago
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    50.6k BeastHunter

    @Thunderhawk ok. I can't build a bird, but I can get disqualified.

    +1 3.4 years ago
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    @Thunderhawk ok I made some modifications and it is done

    +1 3.4 years ago
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