I understand you may be going through a tough time. Now understand the position of everyone else when you post irrelevant content on a site dedicated to a game about making planes. Please seek somewhere relevant for that sort of post. Mods removed the irrelevant content and did their task very well.
Detailed aircraft in this game only look good from a distance anyway. It’s impossible to make a perfect nose or wing without scripts. I just focus on making things functional in SP. For my RC planes and quad designs I make things much more sophisticated @BaconAircraft
I don't get what makes this more 'unpatriotic' than dogfights between vietcom/soviet/german/american/japanese/etc aircraft. The end result is the same: you blow up an aircraft and someone dies in a horrific fireball.
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Fun game though! (seriously)
It looks good in the editor, but it needs much higher suspension travel with softer shocks. That way, it will sink down into its travel and have the same ride height but with better performance. Remember that in the editor, suspension is built at maximum extension, not ride height
That's because the game messes around with mass tensors to smooth out vibrations. The end result is that flipping a 1 gram switch can make a heavy plane rock around like it was hit by a cannon. The tensor system can be turned off in XML but this introduces even worse issues.
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But I see you've already discovered the solution of 'just mess around until it works'
@Maximum777 I'm certainly impressed. Want to collab with a rock bouncer? I'm thinking of coming back to building on SImplePlanes with a heavily revised rock bouncer that's much tougher, looks half-decent and can drive a little better. It looks like you've found solutions to all the problems I encountered with suspension in the past
@iwannabeelected not often I see legitimate rocker-bogie suspension. Even heavily modified rocker-bogie isn't supposed to go over 10cm/hour so it's pretty boring most of the time lol
@CDRxavier Yeah, bogies are pretty bad for high speed vehicles. I just made this for the hell of it. If you want good suspension, look at the highlighted creations on my profile
@CDRxavier Yep, it's weird alright. It's the closest you can come to actually simulating the lockheed twister in simpleplanes. If there were damped rotators i could make it work properly
@Hyattorama The quality of on-screen controls depends on the quality of your screen. An old ipad air with otterbox case (trashy screen protector) is never going to have the same quality as a $280 controller I guess. I never could get on-screen aircraft controls to work on any games really because of the jumpy touch screen (which is completely undamaged too). That being said, I have made some of my most complex vehicles on ipad, even if i couldn't control them.
@Hyattorama Since I'm already used to CAD software, I find the keyboard and mouse much, much better. As for flying, the mouse and keyboard is hopeless. I usually use a xbox 360 controller for flying but I can use my Taranis X9D+ which is normally used for FPV quads and RC planes. I found that simpleplanes physics is too simple to warrant the accuracy of a taranis though
I just don’t see why you would bother complaining that it’s dead. What do you expect to happen to happen when you complain? I don’t think a game is dead until there’s only a handful of people playing it and there’s still thousands of simpleplanes players
Extend the suspension. You've built the suspension to sit at ride height in the designer. It should be sitting at max extension in the designer. Trucks sag a long way into the suspension travel to get the suspension soft enough to absorb small bumps. You’ve got it with almost no sag so it is very stiff. This vehicle, good looking as it is, has 50% less suspension travel than it should and isn’t very good off-road. That being said, damn it looks good
I wouldn't say that the C-130 is their only good thing. I disagree with the application of their creations but Skunk Works has made some pretty insane stuff. They created the fastest manned jet aircraft, highest flying jet aircraft, P-38, multiple other record-setting UAVs.
@SaturnV ouch. I'm still flying my first planes because they're made of EPP. They've lasted over 3 years and have been torn in half a few times but they've glued together perfectly with no warping at all. My friend bought an expensive EPO plane that was completely destroyed within a week because the foam crushed and wouldn't return to its original form.
Download Overload mod. Using that mod, set the range of the rotator to “Infinity” and speed to “10” (or anything you want to change speed). Then set the input to “Activate1”. If you follow those instructions exactly, you should have a weapon that spins infinitely when you press 1 and deactivates when you deactivate 1
But anyway, here’s my weekend:
Waaayyy too windy for planes, but alright for quads
All my quads are being refitted/built on the workbench Plays liftoff and simpleplanes all weekend
That's just realistic mostly. Ornithopters are typically very heavy and very twisty and don't work very well. You could try diableInertiaTensors but that could make it worse. To make rotators less wobbly, add damperMultiplier in multiples of 10 at a time until it works or gets worse (eg, 10, 100, 1000...). Try preventBreaking on pistons to make them stronger
I understand you may be going through a tough time. Now understand the position of everyone else when you post irrelevant content on a site dedicated to a game about making planes. Please seek somewhere relevant for that sort of post. Mods removed the irrelevant content and did their task very well.
+2But seriously though... S I M P L E P L A N E S... there’s a time and a place for this
+2OK Silver, you're going to be gold soon
+2Fall to your knees and grovel peasants for the master race shall rule!
+2Detailed aircraft in this game only look good from a distance anyway. It’s impossible to make a perfect nose or wing without scripts. I just focus on making things functional in SP. For my RC planes and quad designs I make things much more sophisticated @BaconAircraft
+2The airfoil you used is for barely-subsonic, ultra-aerobatic aircraft
+2A wee bit overpowered. Did you shrink a fusion bomb to fit inside there?
+2I don't get what makes this more 'unpatriotic' than dogfights between vietcom/soviet/german/american/japanese/etc aircraft. The end result is the same: you blow up an aircraft and someone dies in a horrific fireball.
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Fun game though! (seriously)
It looks good in the editor, but it needs much higher suspension travel with softer shocks. That way, it will sink down into its travel and have the same ride height but with better performance. Remember that in the editor, suspension is built at maximum extension, not ride height
+2@Berstagator Not exactly how wings work in this game but I know what you mean and that would work quite well
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+2like thisusing back ticks `@melojamIt looks cool, but I dunno why you called it 'USS Beast lander'
+2That's because the game messes around with mass tensors to smooth out vibrations. The end result is that flipping a 1 gram switch can make a heavy plane rock around like it was hit by a cannon. The tensor system can be turned off in XML but this introduces even worse issues.
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But I see you've already discovered the solution of 'just mess around until it works'
They're stealthy. You're not meant to be able to see them everywhere ;)
+1@Maximum777 That'd be good. We can decide the next step from there I guess
+1@Maximum777 I'm certainly impressed. Want to collab with a rock bouncer? I'm thinking of coming back to building on SImplePlanes with a heavily revised rock bouncer that's much tougher, looks half-decent and can drive a little better. It looks like you've found solutions to all the problems I encountered with suspension in the past
+1beautiful
+1@iwannabeelected not often I see legitimate rocker-bogie suspension. Even heavily modified rocker-bogie isn't supposed to go over 10cm/hour so it's pretty boring most of the time lol
+1I think they use that configuration because it’s usually more effective. I’ve seen other designs in use as well @CDRxavier
+1@CDRxavier Yeah, bogies are pretty bad for high speed vehicles. I just made this for the hell of it. If you want good suspension, look at the highlighted creations on my profile
+1@CDRxavier Yep, it's weird alright. It's the closest you can come to actually simulating the lockheed twister in simpleplanes. If there were damped rotators i could make it work properly
+1@Hyattorama The quality of on-screen controls depends on the quality of your screen. An old ipad air with otterbox case (trashy screen protector) is never going to have the same quality as a $280 controller I guess. I never could get on-screen aircraft controls to work on any games really because of the jumpy touch screen (which is completely undamaged too). That being said, I have made some of my most complex vehicles on ipad, even if i couldn't control them.
+1@Hyattorama Since I'm already used to CAD software, I find the keyboard and mouse much, much better. As for flying, the mouse and keyboard is hopeless. I usually use a xbox 360 controller for flying but I can use my Taranis X9D+ which is normally used for FPV quads and RC planes. I found that simpleplanes physics is too simple to warrant the accuracy of a taranis though
+1Yes and yes. It might be tricky to get setup but you’ll be able to get workaround and adapter programs for it if it doesn’t initially work.
+1@DepressedTortoise If you were Australian I’d say it was a possum falling off a tree onto your roof
+1L
+1I just don’t see why you would bother complaining that it’s dead. What do you expect to happen to happen when you complain? I don’t think a game is dead until there’s only a handful of people playing it and there’s still thousands of simpleplanes players
+1Extend the suspension. You've built the suspension to sit at ride height in the designer. It should be sitting at max extension in the designer. Trucks sag a long way into the suspension travel to get the suspension soft enough to absorb small bumps. You’ve got it with almost no sag so it is very stiff. This vehicle, good looking as it is, has 50% less suspension travel than it should and isn’t very good off-road. That being said, damn it looks good
+1Looks great but suspension is not very good
+1That’s not a bug. Maybe it isn’t intentional but it's been like that for as long as I can remember.
+1For which server? There’s dozens of simpleplanes servers
+1Nah it’s fake. You can see the puppet string at the back
+1I wouldn't say that the C-130 is their only good thing. I disagree with the application of their creations but Skunk Works has made some pretty insane stuff. They created the fastest manned jet aircraft, highest flying jet aircraft, P-38, multiple other record-setting UAVs.
+1I thought so too but I couldn’t replicate it. I honestly don’t know at this point @ThePrototype
+1That happens to websites sometimes. Usually you just wait a few minutes and reload to fix it. Nothing special, your browser is just faulty
+1Wut be this
+1sigh...
+1I thought everyone had finally stopped these posts
Use structural wings XML modded to allow control surfaces
+1I think you overdid it with the weaponry but it’s otherwise pretty good
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Sorry, I had to do that. What do you specifically need help with? I won’t do any building for you but I can give you tips
@SaturnV ouch. I'm still flying my first planes because they're made of EPP. They've lasted over 3 years and have been torn in half a few times but they've glued together perfectly with no warping at all. My friend bought an expensive EPO plane that was completely destroyed within a week because the foam crushed and wouldn't return to its original form.
+1@FLYGUY101 Just XML modding. If you have overload or an XML editor, just type "Activate1" into the input
+1Download Overload mod. Using that mod, set the range of the rotator to “Infinity” and speed to “10” (or anything you want to change speed). Then set the input to “Activate1”. If you follow those instructions exactly, you should have a weapon that spins infinitely when you press 1 and deactivates when you deactivate 1
+1@FLYGUY101 thanks
+1You could have put a bit more effort into it. At least nudge the vtol engine inside the bus so it’s hidden and doesn’t obstruct the view
+1But anyway, here’s my weekend:
+1Waaayyy too windy for planes, but alright for quads
All my quads are being refitted/built on the workbench
Plays liftoff and simpleplanes all weekend
That's just realistic mostly. Ornithopters are typically very heavy and very twisty and don't work very well. You could try diableInertiaTensors but that could make it worse. To make rotators less wobbly, add damperMultiplier in multiples of 10 at a time until it works or gets worse (eg, 10, 100, 1000...). Try preventBreaking on pistons to make them stronger
+1Believe it or not, there is no white. It’s just the lighting that makes grey look white @randomusername
+1Sounds good! @FLYGUY101
+1Sounds good @FLYGUY101
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