@Graingy Pretty much. Heck there’s a dude named Peter sripol that makes a crazy build every year and has a YouTube channel. He made a build that’s like thirty six feet long one year. Looked like a train in the sky lmao!
@Graingy I’d think so, maybe I might make some plastic or carbon fiber strengtheners next time I build this airframe. The big thing was major hits had a strong chance of kicking the motor right off the fuselage.
@Graingy you could probably locate the antennas on the outside of the airframe and tape em down. Well. If they aren’t the new spectrum ones. The newer AR620s don’t have an external antenna. On those, it’s small and hidden inside the plastic case of the receiver itself. Antennas have gotten allot smaller nowadays.
@Graingy I think you can do that but it gets expensive fast. Receivers tend to be the most expensive part on a build. The can transmit and receive through foam, plastics and wood real easily though so they end up very ideal materials.
@Graingy personally I like radiomaster stuff better. Spectrums a more common manufacturer and once you have a bunch of airplanes up in the air. Their signals start stepping on each other and planes stop receiving input and drop out of the sky.
@Graingy maybe I could use it in the motor mount if it doesn’t mess with signal. I’ve had enough receiver signal losses in the last few years to be cautious of it lol!
@Graingy I’d say structural. If you can hit another build and keep flying, that’s another chance to survive longer. Well unless your build gets called out by the announcer. You get called and you’ll be swarmed till you go down. prizes are at stake now lol!
@Graingy nah I’m using them as parts in a foambard wing structure. This makes a foam airframe pretty strong for being mostly foam. Think wing spars-
Unless you’re referring to sticks. Sticks are rc planes that use arrow shafts or balsa sticks as fuselages. lol! (Funny enough, I designed one of em recently)
@Graingy yeah mostly crashing into each other. Hence why I went with paint stick leading edges this year. Some tow lines that’ll entangle props too. Can’t fly long if your motor can’t spin.
@Graingy it can be. This year I went with a build that could tank hits. It kinda came out of seven combats in a repairable state. Think I gotta fly harder lmaooo
@Graingy and creative too. They have everything ya need there to build new stuff. They have materials and an entire shop right on site and that’s on top of their two massive build tents.
@Graingy yeah lmao.
The event was great this year. Hard to go wrong flying and combating rc airplanes to the last person standing. especially if it’s three times a day for four days straight.
@Graingy yeah it’s screaming by. Gosh Flite fest was like two moths ago already. (Big remote control airplane event I look forward to every year that happens in June)
@Graingy also yeah it’s pretty much been a very hot minute. Think I kinda disappeared shortly after the SPVR drop. Think it’s been like a year or two now?
Overall, I’m very happy with how this build came out still, definitely outclasses the previous 2.0 version by a long shot. I think Going from the ground up was definitely worth it. I’ll probably do the same with the R103 Delphinus whenever I get around to it. I have some new cockpit ideas and it’s gonna very different then what I usually work with. It’s gonna be crazy technical.
It’s a quirk, simpleplanes has things setup so the rocket I’m using for the smoke effect must always explode. That’s why when the five seconds are up, the build is setup to automatically forcefully eject it using a detacher. That gets it safely away from the airplane. Until rockets get an explosion scale xml option, I can’t make a fully working fix for that quirk.
It doesn’t affect how the build flys but it’s a small thing to note until a update makes it plausible to fix
So curious question, will this work properly in vr mode? I’d love to get proper clouds since allot of these mods and maps have been missing vr shaders since simpleplanes vr beta.
@MrSilverWolf
This is much appreciated information. I’ll take it to note if someone outright re-uploads one of my builds again.
It happened once and it was a very distressing experience that put me off my game for quite a while. Allot of work goes into my builds especially in cockpit detail. To have it just stolen like that with zero effort put in was a hard thing to deal with, especially considering it was a very long term project that predated modern simple planes build systems.
Funny enough, I actually can as a curator. I’ve been working vr compatible airplanes for quite a bit so this build pretty much came out of the box ready to fly in VR with all of its collisions Set up. Lmao
@Rework
@Graingy it can be a couple things. Sometimes props dig themselves into the large airframes
With the big CA.60 he flew. It had like nine wings. A flying wing got entrapped between two of them lol!
@Graingy yeah, he definitely flys longer. Sometimes the smaller foam planes get entangled in big builds like that and end up big drag generators.
@Graingy Pretty much. Heck there’s a dude named Peter sripol that makes a crazy build every year and has a YouTube channel. He made a build that’s like thirty six feet long one year. Looked like a train in the sky lmao!
+1@Graingy for Flite fest that all goes out the window lol.
@Graingy not really. I could probably double up the foam to give the hot glue more surface to connect to the fuselage though.
@Graingy more like it peels entire top end of the nose, Motor mount included, from the wing. Easy to fix cause of its square design though.
@Graingy it’s skewered down to the airframe. Common for a foam board build. It’s strong enough for flying but struggles when. Taking a massive hit.
@Graingy I’d think so, maybe I might make some plastic or carbon fiber strengtheners next time I build this airframe. The big thing was major hits had a strong chance of kicking the motor right off the fuselage.
@Graingy you could probably locate the antennas on the outside of the airframe and tape em down. Well. If they aren’t the new spectrum ones. The newer AR620s don’t have an external antenna. On those, it’s small and hidden inside the plastic case of the receiver itself. Antennas have gotten allot smaller nowadays.
@Graingy I think you can do that but it gets expensive fast. Receivers tend to be the most expensive part on a build. The can transmit and receive through foam, plastics and wood real easily though so they end up very ideal materials.
@Graingy it’s just called that. It’s pretty much a second receiver wired into the main via a cable you can plug in.
@Graingy personally I like radiomaster stuff better. Spectrums a more common manufacturer and once you have a bunch of airplanes up in the air. Their signals start stepping on each other and planes stop receiving input and drop out of the sky.
@Graingy yeah, you can get what’s called satellite recivers depending on what receiver you’re using.
I think spektrum and radiomaster make a few.
@Graingy maybe I could use it in the motor mount if it doesn’t mess with signal. I’ve had enough receiver signal losses in the last few years to be cautious of it lol!
The stepped airfoil on it is called a KF airfoil. it has an entire family of variants with different flying characteristics.
If you’re curious, this is the build. It’s much stronger than it looks.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jLmy8sidA7AgCucz5hQfFJ9R8vQ99pYC/view?usp=drivesdk
Not really it’s pretty much a free for all. I haven’t broken the paint stick spars but the foam and paper skin does get torn up after a good hit.
@Graingy I’d say structural. If you can hit another build and keep flying, that’s another chance to survive longer. Well unless your build gets called out by the announcer. You get called and you’ll be swarmed till you go down. prizes are at stake now lol!
@Graingy nah I’m using them as parts in a foambard wing structure. This makes a foam airframe pretty strong for being mostly foam. Think wing spars-
Unless you’re referring to sticks. Sticks are rc planes that use arrow shafts or balsa sticks as fuselages. lol! (Funny enough, I designed one of em recently)
@Graingy yeah mostly crashing into each other. Hence why I went with paint stick leading edges this year. Some tow lines that’ll entangle props too. Can’t fly long if your motor can’t spin.
@Graingy it can be. This year I went with a build that could tank hits. It kinda came out of seven combats in a repairable state. Think I gotta fly harder lmaooo
@Graingy and creative too. They have everything ya need there to build new stuff. They have materials and an entire shop right on site and that’s on top of their two massive build tents.
@Graingy yeah lmao.
The event was great this year. Hard to go wrong flying and combating rc airplanes to the last person standing. especially if it’s three times a day for four days straight.
@Graingy yeah it’s screaming by. Gosh Flite fest was like two moths ago already. (Big remote control airplane event I look forward to every year that happens in June)
@Graingy definitely does. I’m sure being the worst kinda workaholic definitely doesn’t help it either.
@Graingy gosh it’s been that long! Geez-
@Graingy also yeah it’s pretty much been a very hot minute. Think I kinda disappeared shortly after the SPVR drop. Think it’s been like a year or two now?
@Graingy hmm. That throws a wrench into things- I’d have to add them as a one-drive link or something if that’s the case.
Man this I was just something chaotic I built on a friends request. Even at 0.1 throttle it’s hardly even flyable lol
Pretty sweet!
AND THIS BUILD WAS TECHNICAL AS IS WEHHHH
Overall, I’m very happy with how this build came out still, definitely outclasses the previous 2.0 version by a long shot. I think Going from the ground up was definitely worth it. I’ll probably do the same with the R103 Delphinus whenever I get around to it. I have some new cockpit ideas and it’s gonna very different then what I usually work with. It’s gonna be crazy technical.
It’s a quirk, simpleplanes has things setup so the rocket I’m using for the smoke effect must always explode. That’s why when the five seconds are up, the build is setup to automatically forcefully eject it using a detacher. That gets it safely away from the airplane. Until rockets get an explosion scale xml option, I can’t make a fully working fix for that quirk.
It doesn’t affect how the build flys but it’s a small thing to note until a update makes it plausible to fix
LMAO YOU TURNED IT INTO A BIPLNE! THATS GLORIOUS
@hpgbproductions AWSOME! Super exited for that~
Can’t wait to fly through some clouds in my somewhat secret new build in progress
+1So curious question, will this work properly in vr mode? I’d love to get proper clouds since allot of these mods and maps have been missing vr shaders since simpleplanes vr beta.
HAHAHAHA ITS BEEN HELICOPTERED
I think I’ll experiment and see if I can get something that looks good next build.
@ColonelCanada magical places lol
@X99STRIKER funny enough I was thinking of mixing it together in the primary thumb nail. Probably might put it in a corner or something.
If you use mobile or Vr, I highly recommend using the roll assist system on AG3 it’ll smooth things out quite a bit in this build
Can we get ways to affect VTOL and TRIM with buttons. Probably with a step or slow increase kind of function
It would be really handy for electronic trims and other gear that use buttons instead of a lever
@SIRCOMMANDER031 thanks allot! It took an obscene amount of time to develop
+1@MrSilverWolf
This is much appreciated information. I’ll take it to note if someone outright re-uploads one of my builds again.
It happened once and it was a very distressing experience that put me off my game for quite a while. Allot of work goes into my builds especially in cockpit detail. To have it just stolen like that with zero effort put in was a hard thing to deal with, especially considering it was a very long term project that predated modern simple planes build systems.
+1Sounds great, maybe I’ll shoot ya a ping if I have something that’s particularly difficult.@Rework
+1I also got some other builds in the works but they are currently VERY detail hungry lmao.
Funny enough, I actually can as a curator. I’ve been working vr compatible airplanes for quite a bit so this build pretty much came out of the box ready to fly in VR with all of its collisions Set up. Lmao
+1@Rework
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FIVE ENTIRE YEARS
@MrCOPTY OH MY GOD THIS MISTAKE HAS BEEN UNCHECKED FOR YEARS