FOR REAL THOUGH, SPBC IS WAY MORE HELPFUL THAN THE FORUMS WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING HELP WITH YOUR PROJECTS. SURE, I GET TIRED OF ALL THE ANIME. BUT THERE'S PLENTY OF NICE PEOPLE AND THE MODERATORS BAN THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF ANYONE THAT ACTS LIKE A JERK, BUT THEY'RE NOT SUPER STRICT EITHER. IT'S A GOOD PLACE TO POST PICS AND LINKS TO STUFF YOU'RE WORKING ON TO GET FEEDBACK AND IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS. ALSO, BLUE BULL POSTS SOME PRETTY DECENT MUSIC ON THERE SOMETIMES.
9/10 would recommend to friends (I subtracted one point for all the anime)
SPBC is an extremely helpful discord server where you can ask questions, find advice and get to know other builders.
Most of the people who call it "toxic" are in fact trolls that have been banned for being obnoxious, which is another great reason to join if you really think about it.
Have you considered using an analog rotator and piston system for this? 457 is a lot of parts, and having a single light moving around with a black background and a couple circles to mark distance would probably use fewer than 20 parts.
No disrespect, this is a staggering amount of effort and the result looks awesome.
Many modern propeller aircraft use turbo-prop engines, which are related to jet engines. Likewise, most modern jets have turbofan engines which feature large, propeller-like fans.
But I understand your question to mean "wouldnt it look cool if modern high speed aircraft featured prominent, exterior propellers"
It is important to keep in mind that all propeller aircraft are limited to subsonic speeds unless diving steeply.
@Strikefighter04 The Nazis relied heavily on French industry during WW2, but were often disappointed. Citroen trucks were particularly notorious for their terrible reliability. What the Germans never realized was that the trucks were fine if they had the proper amount of engine oil, the factory workers had merely sabotaged them by shortening all the oil dipsticks.
@JustDatGuy This is just a secret between you and me, ok? That's actually what this post is all about. See, if I made a post called "How to get better" or something, nobody would click on it. But this one messes with you. Reverse psychology. Get it? Don't tell anyone.
That guy posted as a joke. Funny jokes will get upvotes, but they won't teach you how to build better stuff. This game is littered with gold and platinum users that absolutely suck at building. They posted a few lucky memes and got some attention, but now they run around crying about how no one upvotes their stuff anymore because they never bothered to learn anything.
Don't worry about it. Just focus on learning how to build the stuff you want to play with. Make the truck/plane/boat/cheeseburger/etc. that you can enjoy playing with.
@Numbers One time I made a successor to the highest rated tank I could find, but I deleted all the connections in it. In the thumbnails it looked awesome, but it would completely disintegrate into a pile of blocks and blow away when you tried to drive it.
It's music, an artform. It's not a contest. It's not professional sports! I can play you a death metal album so complicated that only a few living people on Earth could ever perform it live, but I guarantee you won't enjoy it as much as a Kinks song that only uses power chords. Trying to quantify music by its complexity completely removes it from its emotional impact, its social context, and utterly guts the fun from it. It's like eating a hamburger and complaining that the cook didn't pay close enough attention to the geometric arrangement of sesame seeds on the bun.
There is no point in promoting Discord servers when SIMPLE PLANES BUILDERS CHAT already has it all! The biggest Simple Planes discord, SPBC has everything you could ever want. From helpful advice to ridiculous weebs, SPBC has it all!
My guess is that it's a near certainty, but only because you haven't defined the specs of the hardware involved. There are some mighty slow PC's out there and some mighty powerful mobile hardware. At what point the two intersect is a matter of research and debate.
Your attempts at getting attention are already beginning to backfire. I recommend you reevaluate your situation before you are heaped with more social setbacks. I understand you need an outlet for your feeling and that you've lost some friends but you will have to be patient, perhaps you can join additional social networks that may be more suitable to your needs.
I like how the point system gets new players interested in the game, but I really hate this constant scheming. Just build what you like. If you really want points, then learn how to build great stuff. But enough with the shortcuts, seriously.
There are two main roads you can take here: the real life method (which I do not recommend) or the cheaty method (which is easier).
The real life method is that you learn funkytrees, and use a sophisticated set of input instructions to control a carefully positioned array of control surfaces including elevons, air brakes and spoilers. For fighter aircraft you would also need to use thrust vectoring.
The cheaty way is to build a pair of large vertical tails, xml mod them to be tiny and then hide them inside the fuselage of the craft. A powerful gyroscope could be another way of simulating the complicated fly-by-wire system used by modern tailless aircraft.
No wings, no machineguns, too many wheels in the landing gear, no discernable propeller, too many seats, not nearly enough horsepower. I am almost certain that the 8th Airforce would be out of luck if they were issued this aircraft to defend its bombers from the predation of the Luftwaffe.
The years between 15 and 21 are two edged. On the one hand, you are at the peak of your health: every physical thing you do is at its easiest, even wounds heal faster and you are somewhat resistant to damage. People you know are attractive and fun: because of school you are literally surrounded by people your own age, this may seem like no big deal but it is, never again will it be so easy to make friends and romantic partners. Life isn't hard yet: some teenagers have to pay bills, support their family and work full time jobs but chances are that you don't, life hasn't beat the crap out of you yet and there is much to look forward to in terms of ambition.
On the other hand you begin to see yourself as an adult despite having zero experience with the real world. You haven't yet realized that opinions (and your opinion in particular) are almost totally worthless. Many (most?) teenagers are extremely self absorbed, spending tremendous amounts of time cultivating a look or persona and very little time observing the cause and effect of other peoples lives. Worse yet, other people will assume you are selfish and shallow, even if that is not the case.
Every year has its challenges, the key is identifying opportunies and taking advantage of them.
A long time ago, on a computer that is now in a trash heap far, far away I decided to recreate the pyramid temple of Chichen Itza in Minecraft. It was glorious. 1:1 scale, intricate semi-precious stone inlays, interdimensional portal. Did I mention that I built it a hundred feet in the air and used lava to illuminate it? Glorious.
At least, it should've been. I didn't plan out my project very well. I only set aside enough raw materials to make the outside walls and the floating floor it sat on. Once the walls were complete, the whole interior was infested with mobs and I had an exponentially larger amount of stone to mine. At first I tried to fix things quickly by dumping layers of lava and then water, but that just made huge blobs of fire, water and stone scattered about. In the end I just gave up and the pyramid sat there in the sky, bright as a Las Vegas casino, dumping lava and water, laughing at me.
That's kind of how a lot of creations on here are. Cool ideas that get turned into gigantic flying messes that look pretty but are basically junk because people didn't think beyond the surface.
Engine sound is closely tied to fuel consumption, even tho it has almost nothing to do with engine power. Weird, huh?
I'll explain. Each engine has a set amount of fuel it consumes at 100% throttle (different for each engine, of course). At different throttle settings, that fuel consumption changes: 50% throttle- 50% consumption etc.
There is an engine power multiplier, but it does not affect fuel consumption at all. So to create a hyper-efficient engine, you just set the max throttle setting to something very small (.01 for instance) and then multiply the engine power to compensate (in this case, 100).
The problem here, is that engine noise is tied to throttle setting. In order to get a nice, loud engine, it has to be throttled up which means it has to be consuming considerable amounts of fuel. You can sometimes get around this problem for planes with multiple engines by only using one, small Blasto-50 hidden somewhere to give you sound and use larger, silent, xml modded engines to move the plane.
But generally, more sound = more fuel consumed. Also, you can change the max throttle setting above 1 to change the sound of the engine, 2 or 3 usually makes it sound very different.
Whenever I see a really shameless rip-off, I ignore the rip-off upload and follow the successor trail all the way back to upvote the original purely out of spite.
This is why I could never be a mod. I'd be like "You literally asked for this."
+26@RandomUser09 so then you admit you broke the site rules and should be perma-banned?
+22Wouldn't it be great if we tried to get attention by creating great builds instead of posting this trash?
+21@BuiltBionixInd10
Great point! Being rude, insulting or just a general drama queen is an excellent way to avoid success.
+16SIMPLE PLANES BUILDERS CHAT:
ARGUE ABOUT ANIME
MAKE FUN OF SWITZERLAND
DONT MESS WITH BLUE BULL
(seriously, don't mess with him)
SPBC HAS IT ALL
FOR REAL THOUGH, SPBC IS WAY MORE HELPFUL THAN THE FORUMS WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING HELP WITH YOUR PROJECTS. SURE, I GET TIRED OF ALL THE ANIME. BUT THERE'S PLENTY OF NICE PEOPLE AND THE MODERATORS BAN THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF ANYONE THAT ACTS LIKE A JERK, BUT THEY'RE NOT SUPER STRICT EITHER. IT'S A GOOD PLACE TO POST PICS AND LINKS TO STUFF YOU'RE WORKING ON TO GET FEEDBACK AND IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS. ALSO, BLUE BULL POSTS SOME PRETTY DECENT MUSIC ON THERE SOMETIMES.
9/10 would recommend to friends (I subtracted one point for all the anime)
+16This person is clearly under 13.
+14Your design? No.
Our design.
[COMMUNISM INTENSIFIES]
+14ALL-GLASS FLANKERS INCOMING
+14DONT CLICKBAIT
TEASERS ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE EXCITING PICTURES
Don't let your fans down with boring blocks of text, post some images to keep them interested
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+12FYI to new players:
SPBC is an extremely helpful discord server where you can ask questions, find advice and get to know other builders.
+11Most of the people who call it "toxic" are in fact trolls that have been banned for being obnoxious, which is another great reason to join if you really think about it.
Have you considered using an analog rotator and piston system for this? 457 is a lot of parts, and having a single light moving around with a black background and a couple circles to mark distance would probably use fewer than 20 parts.
No disrespect, this is a staggering amount of effort and the result looks awesome.
+11GAME OVER MAN
+11You can tell it's communist because the guy in the back is pointing a gun at the guy doing all the work.
+11Many modern propeller aircraft use turbo-prop engines, which are related to jet engines. Likewise, most modern jets have turbofan engines which feature large, propeller-like fans.
But I understand your question to mean "wouldnt it look cool if modern high speed aircraft featured prominent, exterior propellers"
It is important to keep in mind that all propeller aircraft are limited to subsonic speeds unless diving steeply.
+10Peoples Liberation Army Navy confirmed
+10@Strikefighter04 The Nazis relied heavily on French industry during WW2, but were often disappointed. Citroen trucks were particularly notorious for their terrible reliability. What the Germans never realized was that the trucks were fine if they had the proper amount of engine oil, the factory workers had merely sabotaged them by shortening all the oil dipsticks.
+10@Phoza This dude is gonna be a monster as he gets the hang of building stuff on here.
+10@JustDatGuy This is just a secret between you and me, ok? That's actually what this post is all about. See, if I made a post called "How to get better" or something, nobody would click on it. But this one messes with you. Reverse psychology. Get it? Don't tell anyone.
+9Me. All the points are for me.
Give them to me and you will come to no harm.
+9UPVOTES DONT MATTER
That guy posted as a joke. Funny jokes will get upvotes, but they won't teach you how to build better stuff. This game is littered with gold and platinum users that absolutely suck at building. They posted a few lucky memes and got some attention, but now they run around crying about how no one upvotes their stuff anymore because they never bothered to learn anything.
Don't worry about it. Just focus on learning how to build the stuff you want to play with. Make the truck/plane/boat/cheeseburger/etc. that you can enjoy playing with.
+9Usually the voices of youtubers make me want to smash my phone with a hammer. But this guy wasn't annoying.
+9I downloaded the highest rated tank, painted it blue, deleted all the connection points and re-uploaded it as "winter camo."
It fell apart into a pile of confetti the moment anyone tried to drive it.
+8@Numbers One time I made a successor to the highest rated tank I could find, but I deleted all the connections in it. In the thumbnails it looked awesome, but it would completely disintegrate into a pile of blocks and blow away when you tried to drive it.
+8You've got it all wrong.
It's music, an artform. It's not a contest. It's not professional sports! I can play you a death metal album so complicated that only a few living people on Earth could ever perform it live, but I guarantee you won't enjoy it as much as a Kinks song that only uses power chords. Trying to quantify music by its complexity completely removes it from its emotional impact, its social context, and utterly guts the fun from it. It's like eating a hamburger and complaining that the cook didn't pay close enough attention to the geometric arrangement of sesame seeds on the bun.
+8Secret police send him to gulag
+8Part Damaged
+8What if I told you that so does water?
+7100% AGREE
There is no point in promoting Discord servers when SIMPLE PLANES BUILDERS CHAT already has it all! The biggest Simple Planes discord, SPBC has everything you could ever want. From helpful advice to ridiculous weebs, SPBC has it all!
+7Can't they just edit the mod to only allow small explosions, or to automatically replace said explosives with vanilla weapons?
+7FACT:
You can immediately discern if someone is from the UK by insulting the TSR2 and observing their response.
+7Worst airplane ever
Can't fly, no landing gear, very slow. 1 out of 5 stars
+7My guess is that it's a near certainty, but only because you haven't defined the specs of the hardware involved. There are some mighty slow PC's out there and some mighty powerful mobile hardware. At what point the two intersect is a matter of research and debate.
+7Your attempts at getting attention are already beginning to backfire. I recommend you reevaluate your situation before you are heaped with more social setbacks. I understand you need an outlet for your feeling and that you've lost some friends but you will have to be patient, perhaps you can join additional social networks that may be more suitable to your needs.
+7"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"
+7@BagelPlane Sure, now tell me the one about how none of the items your lifestyle hinges upon were made in China
+6"...Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they never stopped to think if they should."
+6-Dr. Ian Malcolm
UNDA DA SEA!
+6I like how the point system gets new players interested in the game, but I really hate this constant scheming. Just build what you like. If you really want points, then learn how to build great stuff. But enough with the shortcuts, seriously.
+6POST OF THE WEEK
+6There are two main roads you can take here: the real life method (which I do not recommend) or the cheaty method (which is easier).
The real life method is that you learn funkytrees, and use a sophisticated set of input instructions to control a carefully positioned array of control surfaces including elevons, air brakes and spoilers. For fighter aircraft you would also need to use thrust vectoring.
The cheaty way is to build a pair of large vertical tails, xml mod them to be tiny and then hide them inside the fuselage of the craft. A powerful gyroscope could be another way of simulating the complicated fly-by-wire system used by modern tailless aircraft.
+6This is the most detailed Tiger tank I have ever seen!
+6No wings, no machineguns, too many wheels in the landing gear, no discernable propeller, too many seats, not nearly enough horsepower. I am almost certain that the 8th Airforce would be out of luck if they were issued this aircraft to defend its bombers from the predation of the Luftwaffe.
Sweet interior.
1/5 stars
+6HOW ABOUT YOU GO TELL HIM TO PLAY SIMPLE PLANES INSTEAD OF BOTHERING US HERE?
SP needs your support a lot more than some jerk who gets paid a bazillion dollars to pander to children and play videogames badly.
+6The years between 15 and 21 are two edged. On the one hand, you are at the peak of your health: every physical thing you do is at its easiest, even wounds heal faster and you are somewhat resistant to damage. People you know are attractive and fun: because of school you are literally surrounded by people your own age, this may seem like no big deal but it is, never again will it be so easy to make friends and romantic partners. Life isn't hard yet: some teenagers have to pay bills, support their family and work full time jobs but chances are that you don't, life hasn't beat the crap out of you yet and there is much to look forward to in terms of ambition.
On the other hand you begin to see yourself as an adult despite having zero experience with the real world. You haven't yet realized that opinions (and your opinion in particular) are almost totally worthless. Many (most?) teenagers are extremely self absorbed, spending tremendous amounts of time cultivating a look or persona and very little time observing the cause and effect of other peoples lives. Worse yet, other people will assume you are selfish and shallow, even if that is not the case.
Every year has its challenges, the key is identifying opportunies and taking advantage of them.
+6RAF CHALLENGE
(posts a Stuka)
+6Sounds legit.
How dare you talk about minecraft like that!
+6A long time ago, on a computer that is now in a trash heap far, far away I decided to recreate the pyramid temple of Chichen Itza in Minecraft. It was glorious. 1:1 scale, intricate semi-precious stone inlays, interdimensional portal. Did I mention that I built it a hundred feet in the air and used lava to illuminate it? Glorious.
At least, it should've been. I didn't plan out my project very well. I only set aside enough raw materials to make the outside walls and the floating floor it sat on. Once the walls were complete, the whole interior was infested with mobs and I had an exponentially larger amount of stone to mine. At first I tried to fix things quickly by dumping layers of lava and then water, but that just made huge blobs of fire, water and stone scattered about. In the end I just gave up and the pyramid sat there in the sky, bright as a Las Vegas casino, dumping lava and water, laughing at me.
That's kind of how a lot of creations on here are. Cool ideas that get turned into gigantic flying messes that look pretty but are basically junk because people didn't think beyond the surface.
+6We'll survive, somehow.
+6Engine sound is closely tied to fuel consumption, even tho it has almost nothing to do with engine power. Weird, huh?
I'll explain. Each engine has a set amount of fuel it consumes at 100% throttle (different for each engine, of course). At different throttle settings, that fuel consumption changes: 50% throttle- 50% consumption etc.
There is an engine power multiplier, but it does not affect fuel consumption at all. So to create a hyper-efficient engine, you just set the max throttle setting to something very small (.01 for instance) and then multiply the engine power to compensate (in this case, 100).
The problem here, is that engine noise is tied to throttle setting. In order to get a nice, loud engine, it has to be throttled up which means it has to be consuming considerable amounts of fuel. You can sometimes get around this problem for planes with multiple engines by only using one, small Blasto-50 hidden somewhere to give you sound and use larger, silent, xml modded engines to move the plane.
But generally, more sound = more fuel consumed. Also, you can change the max throttle setting above 1 to change the sound of the engine, 2 or 3 usually makes it sound very different.
+6Whenever I see a really shameless rip-off, I ignore the rip-off upload and follow the successor trail all the way back to upvote the original purely out of spite.
+6