Get a can of compressed air, most office supply stores carry it. Or just close your eyes and try blowing out the dust with a straw. This is an easy fix, just be careful not to touch anything inside the case.
Memes are a great way to get easy upvotes. Unfortunately, this game is littered with players that EZ-moded their way to gold or platinum, but never learned how to build, and nobody upvotes a white-level plane made by a gold-rated player. Just something to think about.
@randomusername I completely understand what you're saying, and I agree with your sentiment, so I will explain myself.
As I said, I encourage ppl not to delete if they are leaving. However, this particular person has revealed that he is doing so out of contempt for the people of our community. He actually said so. And then he tried to threaten everyone by "shortening" his pathetic little countdown because people were asking him questions. Like some kind of bizarre hostage situation. That last part was too much for me. I simply lack the self control to let that kind of foolishness go unrewarded.
@Strikefighter04 Cops see teenagers as unsupervised children. Not bad people, but extra work and potentially troublesome. Think about the kids at your school, how many of them act like idiots? Picking on each other, breaking stuff, stealing or just being loud and obnoxious? Now imagine a bunch of men in their mid-40's acting like that on the street. Those people are called "drunks" and cops aren't too fond of them, either. It's not fair, but hey, cops have never been fair, and it could be a lot worse.
@CjrLdy I don't have a problem with people mutating old cars into bizarre drag contraptions, absolutely fine and often cool. I have a problem with people chopping up rare pieces of history just because they can. There can't be more than a hundred real '70 Charger R/T's left, and if someone guts one for racing, that count sinks to 99, doesn't it? After all, he'll tear up the interior, rip out the transmission, exhaust, motor, everything that moves and drop in a custom block. The only things to survive would be some of the panelling, the seats and the frame.
And for what? So it kind of looks like a Charger? Why not just do that to something ugly like an 82 Caprice station wagon? Or if that requires too much imagination, why not chop-shop a base model Charger? He'd get the same level of performance and he wouldn't have sprayed bright orange graffitti over a work of art.
Oh, I almost forgot, this is the best car build I've seen in years. You're incredibly talented. :)
@Gameboi14 Exactly. I've found that people tend to treat you differently based on how you communicate, so I try to talk like I'm smart. Sometimes I manage to fool people.
@AWESOMENESS360 That's very strange. I guess cars are less taxing on the CPU on account of not having wings. Thanks for your input, I'm not sure how to cut the part count in half. :(
I get this problem from time to time. The easiest way to fix it is to ignore the cause completely. I just make a small vertical fin and hide it inside the vertical tail, then I rotate it by very small amounts until it cancels out the yaw problem. It creates a little extra drag, but nothing bad.
You don't need to make the fin very big, only like 1×1 block depending on the size of the plane and the size of the problem. As for rotation, it's usually very fine: 0.72° 1.45° etc.
@mojoyup Details are important. Include them. I see you are building on a windows platform and that you have quite a lot of potential, but you're struggling to get more than a handful of votes. The answer is details. People upvote stuff that looks exciting. Are you using Finetuner and Overload mods? If not, get them. Download a few builder background mods too, to make your screenshots look exciting. See if you can include more fine details like panel seams, gauges and decals. I like your work, it shouldn't take much more effort to get you on the front page.
Looks like a Fairchild C-119. There aren't very many twin-boom cargo planes, and even fewer that saw large scale production, so it's a pretty safe bet it's an old Flying Boxcar
@FishMiner Yeah, Apple has done a great job of marketing itself as a lifestyle instead of a company that assembles 3rd party computer hardware. Just like politics, fewer and fewer people are interested in looking behind the curtain and figuring out how it works.
@randomusername It applies to all aspects of flight. So not taxiing, but everything else.
What you're describing below is flying at the exact perfect speed for the wings on your plane. Perfect conditions. The speed of the airflow over the wings perfectly counterbalancing the pull of gravity on the mass of the plane causing it to fly perfectly level.
Not only do such circumstances not exist in the real world (thanks to factors like weather etc.) but even if they did, it would be short lived as fuel is consumed and the mass of the plane changes.
But setting all that aside, having a wing with no trim controls means you have to fly at a specific speed without any deviation whatsoever in order to maintain even altitude and that speed varies depending on air density (again, affected by temperature, weather, and altitude).
The whole point of trim controls, control surfaces, flaps, slats, swing wings, boundary control systems, the point of all that stuff is to allow the plane to be as versatile as possible. To fly as efficiently and handle as capably under as many conditions as possible. It might seem like a small inconvenience to be forced to pull the nose up every few seconds, but in real life such issues could have serious consequences including equipment fatigue and more fuel consumption. In the old days before GPS it could even get you lost.
On supersonic jets, the pitch controls are strong. The whole tail moves, and at full deflection it can pull quite a few G's at high speed. Trim allows you to make the subtle changes that permit you to manage your rate of climb or descent. The difference between crashing and landing is how softly you make it happen, a bit of subtlety can really help there.
@Rub3n213 It is a good idea, and very thoughtful of you to carefully explain it in this post. As a spoiled PC user, I'd prefer they add new content to 1.8 (stuff like cannons, new fuselage block shapes, things that might bring people back into the game or let us build new things) but I can see how a lot of IOS users could benefit from your suggestions.
Black holes are merely centers of incomprehensibly powerful gravity. Treating them like wormholes is like pretending the garbage disposal is a secret passage to Narnia.
Assuming there were advanced civilizations in adjacent dimensions that could travel here, their overwhelming motivation would be to exploit us and our planet without mercy. Look at human history, when has anyone ever come into contact with a less advanced society and done anything but rob them blind?
@ThePrototype oh comrade, you have fallen for a lie from our secret police. The PO2 was designed as a tank. Its usefulness in cosmic exploration was only discovered by accident!
But scientists have discovered tricks to allow wings to squeeze extra lift from lower and lower speeds. The most powerful trick is angle of attack. Basically, if the trailing edge of the wing moves downward relative to incoming wind, it provides more and more lift. In other words, nosing up gives more lift. A good way to use this is by installing elevators controlled by the trim tab, allowing you to fully control how much lift you have at any speed.
The other trick is flaps. They change the shape of the wing so it gives a lot more lift, but aren't safe to use at high speeds. You can install these on your main wings and they go well with AG activation groups or the VTOL slider.
The next and simplest issue is weight. Lighter planes accelerate faster, turn tighter and require less lift to stay in the air. It's that simple.
Heavier planes need more lift to keep flying. They can get that lift by either moving faster (more powerful engines) or having more lift (more powerful wings).
Wings are usually designed to work within a certain range of speeds. The lowest speed is called the stall speed and I think you know what happens there. On the other end is the maximum speed, above that bad stuff happens (controls stop working, wings rip off, all kinds of fun stuff). Engineers try to spread the range as far apart as they can, but high-speed wings tend to have the nasty habit of stalling at higher speeds anyway.
There's a variety of issues at work here. On the one hand is lift vs weight, another is control surface strength and finally you've got stability. I can break down each issue and talk about it if you want, but it's going to be a lot of reading for you. Let me know if you're interested.
I want to see you start reviewing people's builds based on if they are Messerschmitts or not. Like if someone makes a Bf-110 they still get an upvote but you have to yell at them.
This would be especially fun for ships. "1/10 This plane has no wings or landing gear, I doubt it can even fly. Certainly not a Messerschmitt. Good details though, one point."
@ThatoneMArtist Your english is fine, I just needed more information.
This was my first upload. The plane is far from perfect, I want to make a new one that flies more realistically. But I did spend almost a month building it.
I started by collecting data from wikipedia about the size, performance and shape of the plane. I collected 30-40 photographs of the plane from different angles, showing all little details like air-brakes, intakes, etc. Then I carefully resized a schematic diagram of the plane so that each 20 pixels of the diagram was one block in the game and used Microsoft Paint to measure everything as I finally started to build.
As much as I hate "bye-bye" posts, I really do love how international these forums are. Your english is very good and I think it's cool that you take learning so seriously. Good luck.
Get a can of compressed air, most office supply stores carry it. Or just close your eyes and try blowing out the dust with a straw. This is an easy fix, just be careful not to touch anything inside the case.
+2Memes are a great way to get easy upvotes. Unfortunately, this game is littered with players that EZ-moded their way to gold or platinum, but never learned how to build, and nobody upvotes a white-level plane made by a gold-rated player. Just something to think about.
+2This post is crap, but I'm gonna miss you, Diego. I wish you well, wherever you go.
+2TYL3K
+2@Randomusername @Chancey21 I couldn't agree with you two more, so now that the problem has worked itself out, I have deleted my response.
+2@randomusername I completely understand what you're saying, and I agree with your sentiment, so I will explain myself.
As I said, I encourage ppl not to delete if they are leaving. However, this particular person has revealed that he is doing so out of contempt for the people of our community. He actually said so. And then he tried to threaten everyone by "shortening" his pathetic little countdown because people were asking him questions. Like some kind of bizarre hostage situation. That last part was too much for me. I simply lack the self control to let that kind of foolishness go unrewarded.
+2That's a mighty fine debris field you got there.
+2@Strikefighter04 Cops see teenagers as unsupervised children. Not bad people, but extra work and potentially troublesome. Think about the kids at your school, how many of them act like idiots? Picking on each other, breaking stuff, stealing or just being loud and obnoxious? Now imagine a bunch of men in their mid-40's acting like that on the street. Those people are called "drunks" and cops aren't too fond of them, either. It's not fair, but hey, cops have never been fair, and it could be a lot worse.
+2The stealth thing has 13 now. If you want more votes, you gotta up your game.
+2@CjrLdy I don't have a problem with people mutating old cars into bizarre drag contraptions, absolutely fine and often cool. I have a problem with people chopping up rare pieces of history just because they can. There can't be more than a hundred real '70 Charger R/T's left, and if someone guts one for racing, that count sinks to 99, doesn't it? After all, he'll tear up the interior, rip out the transmission, exhaust, motor, everything that moves and drop in a custom block. The only things to survive would be some of the panelling, the seats and the frame.
And for what? So it kind of looks like a Charger? Why not just do that to something ugly like an 82 Caprice station wagon? Or if that requires too much imagination, why not chop-shop a base model Charger? He'd get the same level of performance and he wouldn't have sprayed bright orange graffitti over a work of art.
Oh, I almost forgot, this is the best car build I've seen in years. You're incredibly talented. :)
+2@Gameboi14 Exactly. I've found that people tend to treat you differently based on how you communicate, so I try to talk like I'm smart. Sometimes I manage to fool people.
+2@AWESOMENESS360 That's very strange. I guess cars are less taxing on the CPU on account of not having wings. Thanks for your input, I'm not sure how to cut the part count in half. :(
+2Please give it a v stab, or at least a diagonal stabilizer.
+2@CoolPeach It's always better to get the problem at its root, but if the root can't be found, this solution should prevent hairloss or aneurisms.
+2I get this problem from time to time. The easiest way to fix it is to ignore the cause completely. I just make a small vertical fin and hide it inside the vertical tail, then I rotate it by very small amounts until it cancels out the yaw problem. It creates a little extra drag, but nothing bad.
You don't need to make the fin very big, only like 1×1 block depending on the size of the plane and the size of the problem. As for rotation, it's usually very fine: 0.72° 1.45° etc.
+2Strikey, you have upped your game!
+2If JamesPlanesII can do it, then JamesPlanesI can do it better!
+2@mojoyup Details are important. Include them. I see you are building on a windows platform and that you have quite a lot of potential, but you're struggling to get more than a handful of votes. The answer is details. People upvote stuff that looks exciting. Are you using Finetuner and Overload mods? If not, get them. Download a few builder background mods too, to make your screenshots look exciting. See if you can include more fine details like panel seams, gauges and decals. I like your work, it shouldn't take much more effort to get you on the front page.
+2Looks like a Fairchild C-119. There aren't very many twin-boom cargo planes, and even fewer that saw large scale production, so it's a pretty safe bet it's an old Flying Boxcar
+2You should make more stuff like this, very well done Strikey!
+2HILUX IS LOVE!
+2The center of mass goes IN FRONT of the center of lift, not in the same place.
+2@ACEPILOT109 That was my first time seeing his clips, he's certainly a credit to FSX.
+2@FishMiner Yeah, Apple has done a great job of marketing itself as a lifestyle instead of a company that assembles 3rd party computer hardware. Just like politics, fewer and fewer people are interested in looking behind the curtain and figuring out how it works.
+2@TheOtherBaconEggs BUILD a PC instead.
FIFY
+2@randomusername It applies to all aspects of flight. So not taxiing, but everything else.
What you're describing below is flying at the exact perfect speed for the wings on your plane. Perfect conditions. The speed of the airflow over the wings perfectly counterbalancing the pull of gravity on the mass of the plane causing it to fly perfectly level.
Not only do such circumstances not exist in the real world (thanks to factors like weather etc.) but even if they did, it would be short lived as fuel is consumed and the mass of the plane changes.
But setting all that aside, having a wing with no trim controls means you have to fly at a specific speed without any deviation whatsoever in order to maintain even altitude and that speed varies depending on air density (again, affected by temperature, weather, and altitude).
The whole point of trim controls, control surfaces, flaps, slats, swing wings, boundary control systems, the point of all that stuff is to allow the plane to be as versatile as possible. To fly as efficiently and handle as capably under as many conditions as possible. It might seem like a small inconvenience to be forced to pull the nose up every few seconds, but in real life such issues could have serious consequences including equipment fatigue and more fuel consumption. In the old days before GPS it could even get you lost.
On supersonic jets, the pitch controls are strong. The whole tail moves, and at full deflection it can pull quite a few G's at high speed. Trim allows you to make the subtle changes that permit you to manage your rate of climb or descent. The difference between crashing and landing is how softly you make it happen, a bit of subtlety can really help there.
+2@Rub3n213 It is a good idea, and very thoughtful of you to carefully explain it in this post. As a spoiled PC user, I'd prefer they add new content to 1.8 (stuff like cannons, new fuselage block shapes, things that might bring people back into the game or let us build new things) but I can see how a lot of IOS users could benefit from your suggestions.
+2JAMES PLANES NUMBER 2 IS NUMBER ONE!
+2I'd rather the 4 or 5 people behind this game spend their time on new features.
+2A sports car that only turns left.
+2SEXY AIRPLANES CAN'T RESIST THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK
+2Black holes are merely centers of incomprehensibly powerful gravity. Treating them like wormholes is like pretending the garbage disposal is a secret passage to Narnia.
Assuming there were advanced civilizations in adjacent dimensions that could travel here, their overwhelming motivation would be to exploit us and our planet without mercy. Look at human history, when has anyone ever come into contact with a less advanced society and done anything but rob them blind?
+2Worst P-51 Mustang ever.
+2The vintage radial engine is probably based off of a Wright R-1820 Cyclone, one of the mosts successful motors of all time.
+2People post these every single week and they are always self-serving and short-sighted.
+2@ThePrototype oh comrade, you have fallen for a lie from our secret police. The PO2 was designed as a tank. Its usefulness in cosmic exploration was only discovered by accident!
+2How will you taxi, takeoff or land if you have no forward visibility?
+2@RailfanEthan I thought step 4 was profit?
+2@randomusername Sounds like I should do some digging, thanks.
+2But scientists have discovered tricks to allow wings to squeeze extra lift from lower and lower speeds. The most powerful trick is angle of attack. Basically, if the trailing edge of the wing moves downward relative to incoming wind, it provides more and more lift. In other words, nosing up gives more lift. A good way to use this is by installing elevators controlled by the trim tab, allowing you to fully control how much lift you have at any speed.
The other trick is flaps. They change the shape of the wing so it gives a lot more lift, but aren't safe to use at high speeds. You can install these on your main wings and they go well with AG activation groups or the VTOL slider.
+2The next and simplest issue is weight. Lighter planes accelerate faster, turn tighter and require less lift to stay in the air. It's that simple.
Heavier planes need more lift to keep flying. They can get that lift by either moving faster (more powerful engines) or having more lift (more powerful wings).
Wings are usually designed to work within a certain range of speeds. The lowest speed is called the stall speed and I think you know what happens there. On the other end is the maximum speed, above that bad stuff happens (controls stop working, wings rip off, all kinds of fun stuff). Engineers try to spread the range as far apart as they can, but high-speed wings tend to have the nasty habit of stalling at higher speeds anyway.
+2There's a variety of issues at work here. On the one hand is lift vs weight, another is control surface strength and finally you've got stability. I can break down each issue and talk about it if you want, but it's going to be a lot of reading for you. Let me know if you're interested.
+2@MailboxIsMyGender You're just jelly that he posts planes and you post memes.
+2Sup dawg. We heard u like planes.
We put a plane in your plane so you can be fly while u fly!
+2Confirmed, BF-109 was not a tank.
I want to see you start reviewing people's builds based on if they are Messerschmitts or not. Like if someone makes a Bf-110 they still get an upvote but you have to yell at them.
This would be especially fun for ships. "1/10 This plane has no wings or landing gear, I doubt it can even fly. Certainly not a Messerschmitt. Good details though, one point."
+2@ThatoneMArtist Your english is fine, I just needed more information.
This was my first upload. The plane is far from perfect, I want to make a new one that flies more realistically. But I did spend almost a month building it.
I started by collecting data from wikipedia about the size, performance and shape of the plane. I collected 30-40 photographs of the plane from different angles, showing all little details like air-brakes, intakes, etc. Then I carefully resized a schematic diagram of the plane so that each 20 pixels of the diagram was one block in the game and used Microsoft Paint to measure everything as I finally started to build.
+2@AdlerSteiner You'd keep us afloat. You've got a special permit to spam V's for thee good reasons.
1) You're good
+22) I admire your dedication
3) There is literally no way I could stop you anyway.
This plane has no wings. Gulag, 5 years.
+2Those little guys find a way deep into your heart. Try to remember the good times.
+2As much as I hate "bye-bye" posts, I really do love how international these forums are. Your english is very good and I think it's cool that you take learning so seriously. Good luck.
+2