@Notaleopard Try big numbers, like 1,000 - 100,000. Also, this is an old flight module -- it wasn't designed to have the airplane's drag set to zero. The drag of this build is so low that it accelerates too fast and decelerates too slowly.
@Smoothray You can try finding by filename. Save one of your airplanes with a distinctive filename, say xyzzy.xml, then paste this into a terminal window:
@Smoothray It's not really a Steam problem, it's up to the developers to enable cloud syncing for airplanes. I'm pretty sure there's a way to access your SimplePlanes files/folders on your Mac. The files should be in the ~/Library folder. In Finder, click Go > Go to folder, then enter ~/Library in the dialog box that opens. The SimplePlanes data should be in
Compile error means an error in the source code. It could be something as simple as a missing semicolon, or a dependency that you forgot to import. Look at the source code in the editor, it should highlight the exact location of the error(s).
@Stingray Well, if the MiG-25 couldn't do it, the F-4 didn't stand a chance. I think the US should have kept the Blackbirds operational, for national pride if nothing else. With modern tech, who knows how much faster it could have gone. Unless I'm misinformed, the limiting factor was inlet temperature, so with some advanced cooling systems like those in the Skylon SABRE engines, it should've been possible to push beyond mach 3.3.
@Stingray Yeah, even the F-117 is only slightly bigger. Ben Rich mentioned in his book that they used off-the-shelf parts wherever they could, to keep costs down:
I remember this Air Force colonel came down to the test site and asked me how much we spent on this program. I told him $34 million. He said, “No, I don’t mean one airplane. I mean both airplanes—the entire program.” I repeated the figure. He couldn’t believe it.
@Stingray And he certainly lived by it. The U-2 took eight months from first sketch to final product, if I remember correctly. One hell of a man. I wonder what he could have achieved if he were starting out today.
@Stingray Another of my favourite Kelly Johnson stories:
Nothing got by the boss. Nothing. And that was my sharpest impression of him, one that never changed over the years: I had never known anyone so expert at every aspect of airplane design and building. He was a great structures man, a great designer, a great aerodynamicist, a great weights man. He was so sharp and instinctive that he often took my breath away. I’d say to him, “Kelly, the shock wave coming off this spike will hit the tail.” He would nod. “Yeah, the temperature there will be six hundred degrees.” I’d go back to my desk and spend two hours with a calculator and come up with a figure of 614 degrees. Truly amazing. Or, I’d remark, “Kelly, the structure load here will be…” And he would interrupt and say, “About six point two p.s.i.” And I’d go back and do some complicated drudge work and half an hour later reach a figure of 6.3.
@Stingray Wow, you've certainly lived an interesting life -- I envy you. I bet any meeting with Kelly in it would be memorable. I remember reading about Kelly's reaction to the F-117 in Ben Rich's Skunk Works:
He took one look at Dick Scherrer’s sketch of the Hopeless Diamond and charged into my office. Unfortunately, he caught me leaning over a work table studying a blueprint, and I never heard him coming. Kelly kicked me in the butt—hard too. Then he crumpled up the stealth proposal and threw it at my feet. “Ben Rich, you dumb ----,” he stormed, “have you lost your goddam mind? This ---- will never get off the ground.”
Also that he could beat all the Skunk Works engineers at arm-wrestling, well into his old age, because he'd been a hod-carrier as a youth and "had arms like ship’s cables."
@Stingray The F-117 and the F-22... I wish my resumé was half as interesting. Having seen an SR-71 low pass is also pretty nifty... I envy you. Did you ever meet Kelly Johnson, or was he retired by the time you were there?
Interesting. What aspect of the launch were you involved in, unless that's classified? I seem to remember you worked for Lockheed at one point. Ever get to see an operational Blackbird?
It's not the search engines that bother me so much, it's sleazy ISPs selling my browsing history, and their sleazy employees having access to it. The silver lining around that particular cloud is that for all their snooping, the people who analyze (scoff) that data seem spectacularly unable to actually determine what someone wants, or needs. Case in point: many years ago when I used to build websites, I did some search engine optimization for a dental practice, which entailed making many, many searches for dental health key phrases. And even now, years later, I still get bombarded with ads for dental care, even though I have perfect teeth (never needed braces, or had a single cavity, not even a toothache). Another example: I'm interested in health, and research every disease I read or hear about. And now, even though the worst thing I've ever had is the flu, I get ads for treatments for diabetes, heart ailments, and all the other lucrative diseases. So far their "analysis" seems to be quite simple-minded: "look at the list of what we're selling, and if their search history contains those keywords, then spam, spam, spam them until they buy."
To paraphrase good old Albert, the distastefulness of their prying is more than amply alleviated by their utter stupidity. I'll start to worry if I ever see/hear an ad for something I actually want or need.
@Stingray I find Tor almost unusable because of the terrible speed, tiny window size, and ugly rendering (which you can't change if you want to remain anonymous), but kudos to you for sticking up for privacy. The internet is ruined for me anyway. Once you realise that everything you do is being watched by the scum of the earth, it pretty much takes away all the fun. It's like setting up a chair in the garden to read your favourite book in peace, then looking up and seeing thousands of monkeys staring at you and over your shoulder, from all directions, as far as the eye can see.
Oh no, I'm not that hardcore -- I don't see the point of constraining myself to 80x24 characters and 16 colors when I have a gigantic 4K monitor. I use Sublime Text (for once, an aptly named product) and what's more, I commit the heresy of using proportional fonts for programming. There are plenty of free alternatives as well, like Notepad2 and Notepad++ if you prefer native applications like me, and Atom/VSCode if you're OK with desktop applications built in JavaScript.
For a file manager I recommend XYPlorer as by far the very best. Out of the box it doesn't look very special, but its beauty lies in its customizability. The single best feature is that you can assign keyboard shortcuts for every single one of its hundreds of commands/actions. Other than that, you can do things like scripting, color-code filenames by any attribute you choose.
1440 On a laptop.
Well, if you went for a custom built laptop by Sager, for instance, you could get a 4K screen.
I use a MacBook Pro at work, and am not impressed after over a year and a half of daily use. For me, they're ruined by their heritage of being designed for the more ooh-la-la type of "computer" "users", those who don't mind clicking (and clicking... and clicking... ad infinitum) to do something that could and should be done with one keystroke combination. I suppose one hand must be kept free for that soy latte. The file manager is infinitely worse than Windows Explorer, and things like not having Alt-key shortcuts for the application menu commands just make me go picard_facepalm.
I'd switch to Linux in a heartbeat, if the UI didn't look like it was designed by a not particularly talented high school student.
@enzoBoeing757 Yeah, but then you have to save every subassembly you want to scale as a separate build, scale it, then save it as a subassembly again, and so on.
@Stingray Well, you have to remember that most products, especially in retail stores, are tailored for the middle of the bell curve. If you want something that's not completely dumbed down, you have to do your research online and usually buy online as well.
I was dreading the switch to Windows 10, but find that if I use it strictly as an operating system, without using any of its applications (Explorer/Edge/Start menu/Tiles etc.), it's actually not that bad in terms of functionality... if you can get past the ugliness. Most of my work is done in a code editor, Firefox, and a third-party file manager, so I rarely see the hideousness that is the Windows UI itself. The half-baked Dark theme is a mess, so I use high contrast mode with registry hacks to set custom colors. It's still far from pretty, but tolerable.
@Stingray I'm sure there has to be a way to get around that. You may want to return that Alienware and get a regular laptop. Try Sager or another reseller for Clevo -- you can get whatever configuration you want (even dual desktop graphics cards, and desktop CPU), without the big-brand crapware.
@Stingray Yeah, I once lost all my local build files (typed del *.xml instead of del *.bak by accident) and had to download everything one by one, so I feel your pain. Since then I use a script that backs up my AircraftDesigns and Subassemblies folders as a rar file.
It's possible to access the file system on both iOS and Android tablets, so you could just do it that way...?
@enzoBoeing757 For a spiral, you'd need to do this:
Install the first gun pointing straight ahead.
For every gun after that, clone it in the first gun's position, then rotate it around the Y-axis by a fixed increment, then rotate it around the Z-axis by another fixed increment.
@EternalDarkness I was happy to end this conversation quite a few comments ago, but then @Tully2001 somehow decided to invite himself to the conversation and stoke the flames. If I never see another comment from him it'll be too soon.
@enzoBoeing757 I usually don't like scaling things or using Fine Tuner, because its way of multi-select is very tedious - click on every single part you want to select. I work with subassemblies of several hundred parts, so that would get tiring very quickly.
@enzoBoeing757 Yeah. The problem with using really small fuselage blocks is that the attachment "regions" get bigger than the blocks themselves, so attaching blocks together becomes a real problem -- they go "through" the block you're actually trying to attach them to, and stick to a block behind them.
Thanks, @SpiritusRaptor
No problem @JohnnyBoythePilot
@Mumpsy Thanks. It took quite a few attempts to get this one right :)
Thanks, @Strikefighter04. My best Blackbird so far, I think.
Thanks, @Simplemike
@Simplemike Sorry, I decided to add some detail to this one. Each nozzle is over 120 parts.... I might make a low part count version later.
+1@Chancey21 For a moment I thought you were counting in binary, there.
+4@Notaleopard Try big numbers, like 1,000 - 100,000. Also, this is an old flight module -- it wasn't designed to have the airplane's drag set to zero. The drag of this build is so low that it accelerates too fast and decelerates too slowly.
Nice. A couple of suggestions:
- Add a cockpit view
- Add a damperMultiplier to the rotators, so they move smoothly.
+1Thanks, @AWESOMENESS360
@Smoothray OK. I'd be interested to know your feedback on SR2.
@Smoothray You can try finding by filename. Save one of your airplanes with a distinctive filename, say xyzzy.xml, then paste this into a terminal window:
sudo find / -name xyzzy.xml
@Smoothray It's not really a Steam problem, it's up to the developers to enable cloud syncing for airplanes. I'm pretty sure there's a way to access your SimplePlanes files/folders on your Mac. The files should be in the ~/Library folder. In Finder, click Go > Go to folder, then enter ~/Library in the dialog box that opens. The SimplePlanes data should be in
Application Support/unity.Jundroo.SimplePlanes/
@Smoothray That's odd. The 'Subassemblies' directory should be a sibling to 'AircraftDesigns.'
@Smoothray To get the subassemblies, you'll have to copy the SubAssemblies folder. It's in the same location as CloudSettings.xml.
@Smoothray As a matter of fact, that's possible now that you're on a PC. The path to the file that contains saved locations is
C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Jundroo\SimplePlanes\CloudSettings.xml
You can copy the entire file, or just the individual Location blocks inside it.
Compile error means an error in the source code. It could be something as simple as a missing semicolon, or a dependency that you forgot to import. Look at the source code in the editor, it should highlight the exact location of the error(s).
@Smoothray Could do with a few more missiles... just kidding.
@Stingray Well, if the MiG-25 couldn't do it, the F-4 didn't stand a chance. I think the US should have kept the Blackbirds operational, for national pride if nothing else. With modern tech, who knows how much faster it could have gone. Unless I'm misinformed, the limiting factor was inlet temperature, so with some advanced cooling systems like those in the Skylon SABRE engines, it should've been possible to push beyond mach 3.3.
@Stingray Yeah, even the F-117 is only slightly bigger. Ben Rich mentioned in his book that they used off-the-shelf parts wherever they could, to keep costs down:
@Stingray I've seen that one, love the bit where he calls the SR-71 "the family model." Hard to be stealthy with that distinctive sonic boom, though.
@Stingray Have Blue photos and blueprints seem hard to find.
@Stingray Thanks, I came across that story in Skunk Works and thought it was worth sharing. Why a new account, though?
@Stingray Any other interesting stories about your time at Lockheed you could share without revealing classified info?
@Chancey21 You mean something like a Skylon or HOTOL with big engines? That's easy.
@Smoothray Thank you :)
@Stingray And he certainly lived by it. The U-2 took eight months from first sketch to final product, if I remember correctly. One hell of a man. I wonder what he could have achieved if he were starting out today.
@Simplemike I agree.
+1Nice. I like the massive engines.
@Stingray Another of my favourite Kelly Johnson stories:
@Stingray Wow, you've certainly lived an interesting life -- I envy you. I bet any meeting with Kelly in it would be memorable. I remember reading about Kelly's reaction to the F-117 in Ben Rich's Skunk Works:
Also that he could beat all the Skunk Works engineers at arm-wrestling, well into his old age, because he'd been a hod-carrier as a youth and "had arms like ship’s cables."
@Stingray The F-117 and the F-22... I wish my resumé was half as interesting. Having seen an SR-71 low pass is also pretty nifty... I envy you. Did you ever meet Kelly Johnson, or was he retired by the time you were there?
@Stingray
Interesting. What aspect of the launch were you involved in, unless that's classified? I seem to remember you worked for Lockheed at one point. Ever get to see an operational Blackbird?
@Stingray
It's not the search engines that bother me so much, it's sleazy ISPs selling my browsing history, and their sleazy employees having access to it. The silver lining around that particular cloud is that for all their snooping, the people who analyze (scoff) that data seem spectacularly unable to actually determine what someone wants, or needs. Case in point: many years ago when I used to build websites, I did some search engine optimization for a dental practice, which entailed making many, many searches for dental health key phrases. And even now, years later, I still get bombarded with ads for dental care, even though I have perfect teeth (never needed braces, or had a single cavity, not even a toothache). Another example: I'm interested in health, and research every disease I read or hear about. And now, even though the worst thing I've ever had is the flu, I get ads for treatments for diabetes, heart ailments, and all the other lucrative diseases. So far their "analysis" seems to be quite simple-minded: "look at the list of what we're selling, and if their search history contains those keywords, then spam, spam, spam them until they buy."
To paraphrase good old Albert, the distastefulness of their prying is more than amply alleviated by their utter stupidity. I'll start to worry if I ever see/hear an ad for something I actually want or need.
Thanks, @TimeTraveler
@Stingray I find Tor almost unusable because of the terrible speed, tiny window size, and ugly rendering (which you can't change if you want to remain anonymous), but kudos to you for sticking up for privacy. The internet is ruined for me anyway. Once you realise that everything you do is being watched by the scum of the earth, it pretty much takes away all the fun. It's like setting up a chair in the garden to read your favourite book in peace, then looking up and seeing thousands of monkeys staring at you and over your shoulder, from all directions, as far as the eye can see.
@Stingray
Oh no, I'm not that hardcore -- I don't see the point of constraining myself to 80x24 characters and 16 colors when I have a gigantic 4K monitor. I use Sublime Text (for once, an aptly named product) and what's more, I commit the heresy of using proportional fonts for programming. There are plenty of free alternatives as well, like Notepad2 and Notepad++ if you prefer native applications like me, and Atom/VSCode if you're OK with desktop applications built in JavaScript.
For a file manager I recommend XYPlorer as by far the very best. Out of the box it doesn't look very special, but its beauty lies in its customizability. The single best feature is that you can assign keyboard shortcuts for every single one of its hundreds of commands/actions. Other than that, you can do things like scripting, color-code filenames by any attribute you choose.
Well, if you went for a custom built laptop by Sager, for instance, you could get a 4K screen.
I use a MacBook Pro at work, and am not impressed after over a year and a half of daily use. For me, they're ruined by their heritage of being designed for the more ooh-la-la type of "computer" "users", those who don't mind clicking (and clicking... and clicking... ad infinitum) to do something that could and should be done with one keystroke combination. I suppose one hand must be kept free for that soy latte. The file manager is infinitely worse than Windows Explorer, and things like not having Alt-key shortcuts for the application menu commands just make me go picard_facepalm.
I'd switch to Linux in a heartbeat, if the UI didn't look like it was designed by a not particularly talented high school student.
@enzoBoeing757 Yeah, but then you have to save every subassembly you want to scale as a separate build, scale it, then save it as a subassembly again, and so on.
+1@Stingray Well, you have to remember that most products, especially in retail stores, are tailored for the middle of the bell curve. If you want something that's not completely dumbed down, you have to do your research online and usually buy online as well.
I was dreading the switch to Windows 10, but find that if I use it strictly as an operating system, without using any of its applications (Explorer/Edge/Start menu/Tiles etc.), it's actually not that bad in terms of functionality... if you can get past the ugliness. Most of my work is done in a code editor, Firefox, and a third-party file manager, so I rarely see the hideousness that is the Windows UI itself. The half-baked Dark theme is a mess, so I use high contrast mode with registry hacks to set custom colors. It's still far from pretty, but tolerable.
@Frenchyfry Hmm, now that you mention it...
+1@Stingray I'm sure there has to be a way to get around that. You may want to return that Alienware and get a regular laptop. Try Sager or another reseller for Clevo -- you can get whatever configuration you want (even dual desktop graphics cards, and desktop CPU), without the big-brand crapware.
@Stingray Huh. Amazing the way those OSes lock users out of their own machines. Sure glad I'm on Windows (until they "improve" it to be the same).
@Stingray Yeah, I once lost all my local build files (typed del *.xml instead of del *.bak by accident) and had to download everything one by one, so I feel your pain. Since then I use a script that backs up my AircraftDesigns and Subassemblies folders as a rar file.
It's possible to access the file system on both iOS and Android tablets, so you could just do it that way...?
Thanks, @BusterShortWolf
@enzoBoeing757 For a spiral, you'd need to do this:
@EternalDarkness I was happy to end this conversation quite a few comments ago, but then @Tully2001 somehow decided to invite himself to the conversation and stoke the flames. If I never see another comment from him it'll be too soon.
@enzoBoeing757 I usually don't like scaling things or using Fine Tuner, because its way of multi-select is very tedious - click on every single part you want to select. I work with subassemblies of several hundred parts, so that would get tiring very quickly.
+1@enzoBoeing757 Or did you mean how did I get them to be a grid? I did that by arranging the guns (20, I think) in a "sprayer" configuration.
@enzoBoeing757 Yeah. The problem with using really small fuselage blocks is that the attachment "regions" get bigger than the blocks themselves, so attaching blocks together becomes a real problem -- they go "through" the block you're actually trying to attach them to, and stick to a block behind them.
+1@enzoBoeing757 You can set a property called bulletScale on guns.