This thing is awesome. Downloaded it on my iPhone and it ran like a dream, drove it in the dark and noticed the engine bay with parts lit up red which looks cool as f**k! There’s a crazy amount of detail in this car considering it’s only 900 parts, well done sir…
Try these for the landing gear.
ceil(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75))
floor(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75)). It might have just been my phone running it at 1 frame per day but the delay between the doors opening and the gear lowering seemed quite long. This is a massive part count for my phone and I had to reload it twice just to load the runway so someone else might tell you different.
@L0RR3B0RR3 on the rotator for the wheel type - ceil(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75))
On the rotator for the door type - floor(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75))
Pilot pal is fun but for me the best bit of this build is such a ridiculous detail that most people will probably overlook it... yes the moving pedals and joystick are awesome, as too is the work you put into those crazy blades but the best bit by far is...... the black tie holding the exhaust pipe to the boom(?) support.
It’s quite rare (in my limited experience anyway) to find a plane that looks this good, fly’s this good and has special tech like the hover landing gear (which worked fine on my iOS by the way). Well done kiddo, this thing is awesome!
I can’t get it to do all that fancy stuff in the short clip above because my iPhone 6 is a potato but I did manage to get it out for a “flight” at several frames per second and from what I could tell it seems to fly awesome. My crappy phone aside the plane looks brilliant too. If I could run it properly it’d be going in my save folder for the odd blast around at future times.
@STDeath it’s cool, you just need to check the connections on the parts. The rotator should be connected to one piece of fuselage and one wing ( because you’ve used wings for the doors) and the door should only be attached to a hinge rotator.
I like it.
However...
1st, the two rear wings need changing to stop the rear wobbling. Highlight one and open xml editor, change the “wing type” to 2 instead of 3 then you have to reconnect the wings to the plane.
2nd, the rotators on the wings... change the rotation from 90 to 85 and bump the rotating speed up to 30, this’ll help with the transition a lot.
3rd (this will help transmission from vtol to flight), highlight the gyro and open the xml editor, open the drop box and choose gyro. Change the stability to 3.5 and the speed to 5. I’d also put the gyro on AG2.
@Nerfaddict it did not lol. It did however make for great cinematic viewing of me nose diving into the water and sinking the entire ww2 fleet which was probably some 10-15 km away from the cockpit!!!
@Nerfaddict granted but I wanted to have a good luck at it and when it was full size I just couldn’t zoom out. I’ll perhaps go make a spawn far enough away and try again.
My potato iPhone 6 loaded it, the thing is so gigantic though I couldn’t even see if it was flying, stuck on a mountain or whatever so, I scaled the whole thing down to 0.1, then I scaled it down to 0.1 again and then it fit on my screen lol....
@Ninja15 ok, start with a glass block and attach a single block to the end of it. You’ll need that block to find the glass because you’re about to become a wizard lol. Hi light the glass and open the xml editor. Open the drop down box and select “transparency”, now the next bit I can’t remember all the names so I’ll just list the value to enter in order...
3.4
True
True
True
Then press ok(tick)
You’re glass block should be invisible, if not open xml again and change the transparency back to 3.4 as is sometimes resets itself back to 1. When you’ve done that open paint and change to “custom” colours. Paint it any colour then scroll down, you should find 2 more slide bars, metallic and smoothness. Play with those until you find something you like
@Ruvien0Republic0Officer that worked fine, just had to add a - before the clamp for the opposite side so they spun the same way when activated. Thank you 🙏
For the front landing gear try this input...
On the gear piston type; ceil(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75))
On the gear door piston type ; floor(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75))
Your current setting seems to leave a long pause between gear up and door closing. Other than that and the fact that my POS phone runs it laggy as f* I really like the plane!
It’s literally just turned 1:30 in the AM (UK time) as I started writing this, I’ve made it to level 3 in the jet engine saga and I gotta say that for an uneducated spud like me, I’ve learned some sh*t tonight! I am a bit gutted that Thrust Vectoring will have to wait until tomorrow but ya know, sleep... Thank you Squirrel for managing to do what 11 years worth of teachers couldn’t all that time ago, you’ve made education bearable, just..
I saw a model someone had made in a Facebook group which was literally this, a plane with the wings removed and a huge v8 in the rear section. It looked the muts nuts so I recreated it...
I’ve downloaded a few planes that were visually stunning but flew worse than Noah’s ark with da vinci’s first flying machine design tacked on (possible build there for someone)!!! My personal pet hate are the ones that roll excessively....
I can’t decide if that was a “man crush” rant or proof that “interwebbing when you drunk” is a bad bad idea. Anyway, is there a link to this discord because even though my coding experience amounts to 1 big fat 0 and the best funk of tree I can produce is for gear and door timing, I do like funky trees and would be interested in trying to get my somewhat broken brain around something a bit more complex than “floor(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.25))”.
I generally stay away from planes with this many parts because of my potato phone but thought I’d give this a go, wow! My crappy iPhone 6 ran this smooth as butter and it’s awesome. Well done sir, take my vote, it’s well deserved.
This thing is awesome. Downloaded it on my iPhone and it ran like a dream, drove it in the dark and noticed the engine bay with parts lit up red which looks cool as f**k! There’s a crazy amount of detail in this car considering it’s only 900 parts, well done sir…
+3Try these for the landing gear.
+2ceil(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75))
floor(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75)). It might have just been my phone running it at 1 frame per day but the delay between the doors opening and the gear lowering seemed quite long. This is a massive part count for my phone and I had to reload it twice just to load the runway so someone else might tell you different.
Open xml editor, choose Parachute from the drop down box and in the Activation Group type exactly this
+2floor(smooth(clamp01(Activate1),0.25))
These “good for A.I” are better to fly than anything I’ve uploaded lol!
+1@L0RR3B0RR3 on the rotator for the wheel type - ceil(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75))
+1On the rotator for the door type - floor(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75))
Yessir you can have my vote without me even taking it out for a spin yet.
+1Awesome as per usual and only 83 parts to boot so even my potato can run it without a hitch.
+1Pilot pal is fun but for me the best bit of this build is such a ridiculous detail that most people will probably overlook it... yes the moving pedals and joystick are awesome, as too is the work you put into those crazy blades but the best bit by far is...... the black tie holding the exhaust pipe to the boom(?) support.
+120th upvote. Don’t know why I felt the need to point that out, makes me sound 8 rather than 38. Any way, nice plane dude.
+1@SnoWFLakEs oh yeah, the big blue writing lol...
+1It’s quite rare (in my limited experience anyway) to find a plane that looks this good, fly’s this good and has special tech like the hover landing gear (which worked fine on my iOS by the way). Well done kiddo, this thing is awesome!
+1I’ll try this later but I’m upvoting it just because it looks kinda cool.
+1I can’t get it to do all that fancy stuff in the short clip above because my iPhone 6 is a potato but I did manage to get it out for a “flight” at several frames per second and from what I could tell it seems to fly awesome. My crappy phone aside the plane looks brilliant too. If I could run it properly it’d be going in my save folder for the odd blast around at future times.
+1Love it. Only downside I see is that it’s soooooooooo nose heavy!
@STDeath it’s cool, you just need to check the connections on the parts. The rotator should be connected to one piece of fuselage and one wing ( because you’ve used wings for the doors) and the door should only be attached to a hinge rotator.
Thanks Beasthunter. Glad you liked it.
No problem.
@STDeath XML editor. I set the Activation group to “none” the xml edited the input to “Activate1”.
@Chillybaconface no problem.
I like it.
However...
1st, the two rear wings need changing to stop the rear wobbling. Highlight one and open xml editor, change the “wing type” to 2 instead of 3 then you have to reconnect the wings to the plane.
2nd, the rotators on the wings... change the rotation from 90 to 85 and bump the rotating speed up to 30, this’ll help with the transition a lot.
3rd (this will help transmission from vtol to flight), highlight the gyro and open the xml editor, open the drop box and choose gyro. Change the stability to 3.5 and the speed to 5. I’d also put the gyro on AG2.
I upvoted because it looks cool af!
@Nerfaddict it did not lol. It did however make for great cinematic viewing of me nose diving into the water and sinking the entire ww2 fleet which was probably some 10-15 km away from the cockpit!!!
@Nerfaddict granted but I wanted to have a good luck at it and when it was full size I just couldn’t zoom out. I’ll perhaps go make a spawn far enough away and try again.
My potato iPhone 6 loaded it, the thing is so gigantic though I couldn’t even see if it was flying, stuck on a mountain or whatever so, I scaled the whole thing down to 0.1, then I scaled it down to 0.1 again and then it fit on my screen lol....
@Ninja15 ok, start with a glass block and attach a single block to the end of it. You’ll need that block to find the glass because you’re about to become a wizard lol. Hi light the glass and open the xml editor. Open the drop down box and select “transparency”, now the next bit I can’t remember all the names so I’ll just list the value to enter in order...
3.4
True
True
True
Then press ok(tick)
You’re glass block should be invisible, if not open xml again and change the transparency back to 3.4 as is sometimes resets itself back to 1. When you’ve done that open paint and change to “custom” colours. Paint it any colour then scroll down, you should find 2 more slide bars, metallic and smoothness. Play with those until you find something you like
@Ninja15 you can get some mental colours, just open paint menu and hi light a section of glass, then just play with the sliders.@Ninja15
This is cool!
@L0RR3B0RR3 thought you might but if someone else stumbles upon this thread looking for the same answer at least it’s there lol.
@Harisss no problem.
@Harisss don’t know if you’ve seen it yet but it actually flies pretty well for it’s size.
@Harisss I’ll do it now and re upload it.
Highlight each wing and open xml editor and where it says “wing type-3” change the 3 to a 2. You’ll have to reconnect the wings afterwards though.
It looks cool, flies kinda strange though and I not sure why the gyros are connected to rotators.
@Ruvien0Republic0Officer that worked fine, just had to add a - before the clamp for the opposite side so they spun the same way when activated. Thank you 🙏
For the front landing gear try this input...
On the gear piston type; ceil(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75))
On the gear door piston type ; floor(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.75))
Your current setting seems to leave a long pause between gear up and door closing. Other than that and the fact that my POS phone runs it laggy as f* I really like the plane!
Thanks Ergithemobilef
Well thank you Hg1yt.
Use this frame
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/hE6vrD/Orange-Patriot-mtb-frame
Go through every rotator and make sure the “input” is “disabled”
It’s literally just turned 1:30 in the AM (UK time) as I started writing this, I’ve made it to level 3 in the jet engine saga and I gotta say that for an uneducated spud like me, I’ve learned some sh*t tonight! I am a bit gutted that Thrust Vectoring will have to wait until tomorrow but ya know, sleep... Thank you Squirrel for managing to do what 11 years worth of teachers couldn’t all that time ago, you’ve made education bearable, just..
I saw a model someone had made in a Facebook group which was literally this, a plane with the wings removed and a huge v8 in the rear section. It looked the muts nuts so I recreated it...
I’ve downloaded a few planes that were visually stunning but flew worse than Noah’s ark with da vinci’s first flying machine design tacked on (possible build there for someone)!!! My personal pet hate are the ones that roll excessively....
I can’t decide if that was a “man crush” rant or proof that “interwebbing when you drunk” is a bad bad idea. Anyway, is there a link to this discord because even though my coding experience amounts to 1 big fat 0 and the best funk of tree I can produce is for gear and door timing, I do like funky trees and would be interested in trying to get my somewhat broken brain around something a bit more complex than “floor(smooth(clamp01(LandingGear),0.25))”.
Thanks sarnnox
Apart from the 4 massive jet engines lol@CaptainRex123
Don’t be afraid to leave a comment or an upvote...!
Cool plane although that camera on the winch is irritating lol.
Set the motion range to 30 and the speed to 50%. Fine tune it from there
I generally stay away from planes with this many parts because of my potato phone but thought I’d give this a go, wow! My crappy iPhone 6 ran this smooth as butter and it’s awesome. Well done sir, take my vote, it’s well deserved.
No prop-lemo....🤦🏻♂️