@asteroidbook345 right now I'm actually printing a solid-PLA wing section. It looks like the benefits of having only the frame and then paper skin on it are outweighed by the disadvantages; the wings are pretty much impossible to keep straight, they warp under the smallest force, and almost nothing properly adheres to the thin PLA strips they're made of, so even after I successfully wrap the skin around it, it comes off and completely distorts the shape of the airfoil.
And as I said, I plan on having Mark 3 or 4 fully controllable and powered, which will require much stronger wings that can carry the weight of a servo, cables, and the mechanism to move the control surface.
@CrazyCatZe also, I actually went with tape at first, but it doesn't adhere to the PLA at all. The only one that does is electrical tape, but that's made of rubber and stuff and would end up heavier than just making solid PLA wings
@Chancey21 the issue is that I have no convenient way of getting balsa wood. Besides, if this works, I plan to have a motor and control surfaces on Mark 3 or 4, at which point any weight savings that balsa would provide over PLA would be minuscule compared to the weight of a motor and an 18650 cell
@CrazyCatZe it is small because it doesn't really play any role besides limited pitch stability. Normal gliders have even smaller elevators when compared to their main wings. If it doesn't work as is, I can always print a third fuselage section and offset it further back where it will have larger effect on the center of lift
@CrazyCatZe I've bought waxed paper that's thinner, lighter, and has much less surface drag. I just wanted to test the first print, but I don't think a different skin would save it due to its fundamental flaws
@asteroidbook345 not for this one, it's just a throwing glider to test how strong the "wireframe" is. But yes, I will have an Arduino driving five servos and full 3-axis control on the large scale model.
@asteroidbook345 yes, hopefully it'll work straight out of SP. If it will, I'll scale it way up, print it in separate pieces, and then slap a motor on it
I used a text file containing almost all aircraft on Wikipedia and picked 10 random entries;
Miles Mercury
Waco E series
Aero Boero AB-180
Boeing C-75
Shaanxi Y-7
de Havilland Dragon
Auster J-1U Workmaster
Vickers Vimy
Grumman E-2 Hawkeye
Champion Citabria
WW2barracks is the building with windows either in Bandit or Yeager, and WW2hangar are the hangars on Bandit.
Source: I reuse these assets in unity all the time lol
@DPSAircraft eh, what matters is that I had fun building and flying it, and I firmly believe that right now this is the truest representation of the Lun on SP
Imma say it rn; pirating the game is how I started. Now I have it bought on Steam and twice on Google Play. I don't think I would've gotten into the game if it wasn't for WeaselZone's video and the cracked version
Hey, just a question out of the blue; do you happen to know a simple way to implement "render distance" to map plugin objects? I noticed that the stuff I add doesn't unload when I get far away from it (unlike the vanilla islands)
@CRJ900Pilot as long as it runs fine on high physics. So I guess you can have more parts that maybe have disabled drag or stuff like that, if you're talking about things like cosmetics or cockpit interior
@SnoWFLakE0s there's no mention of activation groups in the post, unless I'm completely blind. To be clear, I'm talking about inputs in activationGroup, not activation groups in inputID
Hey whatsup guys my name derek and I will resolve this conflict once and for all.
All you have to do to see if it was stolen is look at the individual part ID patterns;
F-A1 nosecone: 556
F-A1 tail: 318
F-A1 mid-cockpit window separator: 290
DC-10 nosecone: 125
DC-10 tail: 326
DC-10 mid-cockpit window separator: 51
I also looked at some other random parts and found no correlation, therefore I can safely conclude that this aircraft has nothing to do with Matty's creation.
@Shortnessmcgee @BnanaX
@WNP78 I have a question. I have this on a propeller input: clamp01(Throttle - Activate1)
I want the propeller to throttle only when AG1 is inactive, so that whenever AG1 is 1 it'll negate any Throttle value between 0 and 1.
The issue is that for some reason this function makes the engine go full throttle on spawning, when both Throttle and Activate1 should be 0, so clamp01(0 - 0)
should result in 0, right? Why doesn't it work?
EDIT: is there a way to show all the input values of the aircraft so that I can debug better?
EDIT2: I now also tried having clamp01(VTOL) and abs(VTOL) on a control surface input, and it doesn't move at all
@BACconcordepilot it's destiny
@Plane66373637 Welcome to SimplePlanes, mister Plane66373637
+1@asteroidbook345 right now I'm actually printing a solid-PLA wing section. It looks like the benefits of having only the frame and then paper skin on it are outweighed by the disadvantages; the wings are pretty much impossible to keep straight, they warp under the smallest force, and almost nothing properly adheres to the thin PLA strips they're made of, so even after I successfully wrap the skin around it, it comes off and completely distorts the shape of the airfoil.
And as I said, I plan on having Mark 3 or 4 fully controllable and powered, which will require much stronger wings that can carry the weight of a servo, cables, and the mechanism to move the control surface.
Is there a place where I can catch up on current RP? Would like to join maybe at some point
@CrazyCatZe also, I actually went with tape at first, but it doesn't adhere to the PLA at all. The only one that does is electrical tape, but that's made of rubber and stuff and would end up heavier than just making solid PLA wings
@Chancey21 the issue is that I have no convenient way of getting balsa wood. Besides, if this works, I plan to have a motor and control surfaces on Mark 3 or 4, at which point any weight savings that balsa would provide over PLA would be minuscule compared to the weight of a motor and an 18650 cell
@CrazyCatZe it is small because it doesn't really play any role besides limited pitch stability. Normal gliders have even smaller elevators when compared to their main wings. If it doesn't work as is, I can always print a third fuselage section and offset it further back where it will have larger effect on the center of lift
@CrazyCatZe I've bought waxed paper that's thinner, lighter, and has much less surface drag. I just wanted to test the first print, but I don't think a different skin would save it due to its fundamental flaws
Ditch that b███h
Sometimes you just have to let detail go. Take this from someone who's never actually had any detail on any plane
+1mmmm not saying these are weak memes, but if you ever want to make another one of these, hmu, i can contribute
+3Upload it
+5@asteroidbook345 not for this one, it's just a throwing glider to test how strong the "wireframe" is. But yes, I will have an Arduino driving five servos and full 3-axis control on the large scale model.
@asteroidbook345 yes, hopefully it'll work straight out of SP. If it will, I'll scale it way up, print it in separate pieces, and then slap a motor on it
@XxMegamonsterxX l'aer?
idk
I used a text file containing almost all aircraft on Wikipedia and picked 10 random entries;
Miles Mercury
Waco E series
Aero Boero AB-180
Boeing C-75
Shaanxi Y-7
de Havilland Dragon
Auster J-1U Workmaster
Vickers Vimy
Grumman E-2 Hawkeye
Champion Citabria
pick one
+2it guards the border between England and the European Union
+1@ACEPILOT109 good choice
@Noname918181 @asteroidbook345 ah, yes, I see it now, I just dismissed the icon as being "reconnect part", which I do with he Shift+K hotkey
Okay listen here this is a robbery it's either your life or a download link for the SimplePlanes font
@e1theoriginalguy not even that, overload can do basically anything you could do in the XML file
+1WW2barracks is the building with windows either in Bandit or Yeager, and WW2hangar are the hangars on Bandit.
+1Source: I reuse these assets in unity all the time lol
@DPSAircraft eh, what matters is that I had fun building and flying it, and I firmly believe that right now this is the truest representation of the Lun on SP
+3@DPSAircraft thanks, I have to say I am a bit bummed out by the lack of upvotes lol
+2@Armyguy1534 hmm
+1I don't think it is possible to assign custom inputs to cannons and countermeasure dispensers.
+2@TheFantasticTyphoon hmm the drag points are different
@Aeromen that screws up the missile, though
@Minecraftpoweer yes, I deliberately tried to do as little XML mods to this build as possible. If you want I can tag you under an unlisted post
@Minecraftpoweer also just tried it and it has literally no influence
@Minecraftpoweer but it's at 1
Imma say it rn; pirating the game is how I started. Now I have it bought on Steam and twice on Google Play. I don't think I would've gotten into the game if it wasn't for WeaselZone's video and the cracked version
+5@WNP78 it all makes sense now, thanks
@Griffinthedragon it is Italian, so no vodka but a lot of spagét
+2@Tully2001 tagging u bcs you're literally the only mod whose name I remember
+1Hey, just a question out of the blue; do you happen to know a simple way to implement "render distance" to map plugin objects? I noticed that the stuff I add doesn't unload when I get far away from it (unlike the vanilla islands)
@CCCP I believe it is a privately shared mod
+1Yeh the AI's been crap for as long as I remember
+5@HellFireKoder ah, alright. Thanks
It's because the new Android Mono Runtime environment no longer supports the format. I don't think there's anything the devs can do about that
@CRJ900Pilot livery's fine. Idk if you already disable drag on cosmetic parts, but its a good practice
@CRJ900Pilot as long as it runs fine on high physics. So I guess you can have more parts that maybe have disabled drag or stuff like that, if you're talking about things like cosmetics or cockpit interior
@asteroidbook345 Sure, as long as it makes sense as a people mover (by that I mean no two/four seaters)
@SnoWFLakE0s I am using the builtin Overload for it, could that be the issue? Although some other statements work just fine
@SnoWFLakE0s there's no mention of activation groups in the post, unless I'm completely blind. To be clear, I'm talking about inputs in activationGroup, not activation groups in inputID
Hey whatsup guys my name derek and I will resolve this conflict once and for all.
+2All you have to do to see if it was stolen is look at the individual part ID patterns;
F-A1 nosecone: 556
F-A1 tail: 318
F-A1 mid-cockpit window separator: 290
DC-10 nosecone: 125
DC-10 tail: 326
DC-10 mid-cockpit window separator: 51
I also looked at some other random parts and found no correlation, therefore I can safely conclude that this aircraft has nothing to do with Matty's creation.
@Shortnessmcgee @BnanaX
@EternalDarkness ah, damperMultiplier, completely forgot about it. Thanks
@Oski yep I know, I had a lot of issues like this in the exact opposite situation, but now I am completely clueless and frustrated
@SnoWFLakE0s activationGroup can be an input?
@WNP78 I have a question. I have this on a propeller input:
clamp01(Throttle - Activate1)I want the propeller to throttle only when AG1 is inactive, so that whenever AG1 is 1 it'll negate any Throttle value between 0 and 1.
The issue is that for some reason this function makes the engine go full throttle on spawning, when both Throttle and Activate1 should be 0, so
clamp01(0 - 0)should result in 0, right? Why doesn't it work?
EDIT: is there a way to show all the input values of the aircraft so that I can debug better?
EDIT2: I now also tried having clamp01(VTOL) and abs(VTOL) on a control surface input, and it doesn't move at all
This deserves a feature