YSFlight Headquarters

Some of your normals are going the wrong way. Each face of a model is only visible from one side, and the other side is transparent.

I think if it's truly ugly it'll always fly because the Earth is trying to get away from it.

Calling all modders! Throw away your sketchpads, drain your creative juices, and replace them with alcohol: it's time to design the ugliest airplane you can. Gone are the days of structured competitions with defined roles and performance requirements. In this comp, build whatever type of aircraft yo...

Lupus 1 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:20 pm

I would help you out, but I know nothing about creating mods. sorry.

It's a good thing the problem has already been solved, then.

Oh my god it's adorable and I need it

Set the gear position lower. The aircraft is blowing up because the origin is crossing below the ground, or enough of the collision file is. Probably a good idea to double check the .coll anyway by changing aircraft quality to minimum with the Control menu in-flight.

You can set gear and cockpit positions by trial and error (set a number, check where it sits relative to the model, modify number, check again), or find the location in Blender and use those coordinates. I tend to use trial and error, and Decaff will know more about the Blender process.

I replaced a stock aircraft with the X1 .dat file and it crashes YS. I've never experienced this before, but something in the .dat is the problem. EDIT: Aha! It's the WEAPONCH line that doesn't have a value after it, so it's reading it as a null (because the next value is RADARCRS which is a variabl...

The filepath is just in the name field, so it isn't causing problems. The crashes look to me like the line count specified for one of the SRFs within the DNM is wrong: PCK Mesh.036 170646 SURF They look about a factor or two of ten too high on cursory inspection, compared to other .dnms. Also you mi...

The 2015 version (https://ysflight.org/download/) has the setup executable. The 2018 version does not, nor do any test versions.

The most recent version has no installer .exe. Just drag and drop the game files into the location you want them. Normally Soji only uses that process for test versions, and builds an installer for full releases, but not this time. I'd recommend against the newest anyway. No one's using it, people h...

To convert back from test version to 2009 version, you have to remove AIRROUTEs (AI flight paths), SPEC (reflective elevation grids), GNDSPECULAR (reflective ground), BASEELV (changes ground height), MAGVAR (changes compass heading relative to ground), CANRESUME (allows resuming flight after death, ...

Tentative yes.

Welcome! Keep any eye on the sidebar for when people are on servers. Take a gander around addon releases for new aircraft, and feel free to ask questions here and in the Discord.

Oh wow, that's pretty.

Ground objects don't calculate collisions with the ground or other ground objects, so it's not that.

I can't speak to the others, but I just did some tests to quantify distance shaking: By my math, YS has 24 binary bits of floating point precision. This means just visible shaking (roughly 1cm precision) occurs beyond 80 miles from map center. See the following table: https://i.imgur.com/LsnBQTJ.png...

It's likely that one of the files overwrote an air .lst, or for some reason overwrote the entire contents of your aircraft folder. What were you trying to install, and what does your aircraft folder look like?

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