![]() ![]() Currently, adding FT functions to a craft requires save editing or mods. These can be used to create complex moving parts, autopilot-like features, and much more. An FT script takes player inputs and flight parameters as input, processes them via mathematical and logical functions, and its output is used to control a part, such as setting engine thrust. The game provides a scripting language called FunkyTrees (FT). Moving parts, such as actuated doors, bomb bays, and custom landing gear can be created with the help of rotators and pistons. Custom cockpit instrumentation can be created and made to display flight parameters. Parts like engines, rotators, wheels and cannons are also highly customizable: the player can change the size, power, controls, etc. Aerodynamics, weights and fuel volumes will be automatically updated when parts are modified. Control surfaces can be customized and be bound to different inputs. The wings are made in a similar matter, the player specifying the span, chords and offsets of a wing section. The sections can be hollow, or feature intakes and nose cones and side cuts. This technique, of course, can be used not only to create fuselages, but almost any shape. The fuselage block allows to set a cross section, corner style (hard corners or different variations of curved ones), length and offsets of a fuselage section, and the fuselage can smoothly blend between different cross-sections. While SimplePlanes has such blocks, most parts can be reshaped by the player to make the complex curves of any aircraft. Most building games have structures made out of parts whose shape cannot be changed. Īn outstanding feature of SimplePlanes is the procedural building system. Planes (or other creations) created by the community can also be downloaded from the website, which has social-network like features: player profiles with their creations, aircraft rating via upvotes, forums, and a gallery of all designs. Players can additionally use XML modifications (save editing) on their creation. In SimplePlanes the player is given the freedom of building anything they want using the materials and objects provided. The latest version, v1.12.200 beta, was released in September 2023. From 2014 until 2023, SimplePlanes has got 12 updates (1.1 - 1.12, excluding minor updates, such as bug fixes). However, it is known for its innovative, though sometimes complex, building mechanics. The game received mixed reviews from users and video game reviewers, with the main downfalls mentioned the most being the "slippery controls" and the graphical design. It was released onto Steam on the 17th of December 2015 after going through the Steam Greenlight process. The game was first released on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows and was ported to iOS and Android later. SimplePlanes followed the release of SimplePhysics and SimpleRockets and preceded Juno: New Origins and SimplePlanes VR. ![]() SimplePlanes is a simulation video game developed and published by the American indie studio Jundroo LLC. The home page (shown here) displays the most upvoted aircraft publicly shared within the last 5 days. The SimplePlanes website, where you can download community made aircraft. A Saab 340 is taking off from Bandit Airfield. ![]()
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