plane

[paper folio]

i hope you’re ready for a lot of people asking “can you make jets and ac130s?”

[acoustic pond]

Haha I am good at being ignorant

[buoyant hound]

Looks good man. awesome job

[acoustic pond]

All real credit goes to the goat @oblique wyvern for his thunderplane April fools day mod. Its early days yet but hopefully this can be pulled off

[spice stone]

Looks amazing, only thing to note is the AOA (angle of attack) on takeoff was very steep for a general aviation aircraft…idk if it was because of piloting or the handling of the flight model but I hope it can do a nice gradual ascent on takeoff instead of a steep climb

[acoustic pond]

@spice stone Yeah its early early days, the flight model will be looked at. I have to say though, it lands very well and its easy to land. I am still working with the model at the moment doing player animations then Bacon is going to take a look at the flight model in more depth when he has time

[oblique wyvern]

welp now I guess I gotta do it, send the thing over before the weekend if you can, regardless of state

[acoustic pond]

I am glad that's in writing 😂 You will have it Wednesday latest

[spice stone]

Honestly I was surprised with the landing….10/10 very smooth

[still chasm]

https://tenor.com/view/essp-galahad-slumber-party-advanced-warfare-cod-gif-25200193

[acoustic pond]

Water variant also planned

[oblique wyvern]

I guess we can add the zu-23 cannons to the wings

[acoustic pond]

Hell yeah

[spice stone]

https://tenor.com/view/wow-ok-oh-my-god-shocked-gif-14346907

[dark sundial]

Some far cry 5 shit

[odd stump]

I was wanting to make a plane Luke this but honestly I was never gonna vet around to it and I had no idea how. thank you for making it

[magic valley]

ik someone will make a an actual plane mod with that

https://tenor.com/view/ac130-gunship-gunshots-gif-13733274

reforger in few months

[odd stump]

That would be sick

[magic valley]

u have get 12 kills

[acoustic pond]

I was planning a motorbike before the Thunderbird.

[paper folio]

motorbike would be sick, i know strider and zelik were working on one.

[acoustic pond]

Yeah I have scooter ready to go but its on the back burner for now

Just done the pilot animations, I have no idea what button does what so if this is not how you start a plane dont be mad at me lol

[paper folio]

would it even be possible to lean on it?

[acoustic pond]

Yeah, I think I know a way that would work well

[spice stone]

If you need help with what button/switch does what dm me, I’m happy to help! (student pilot)

[acoustic pond]

You would not like what I have done haha

[spice stone]

Haha now I’m intrigued👀

[acoustic pond]

Well, I pressed the red button

It just looked cool, that was my only thinking but let me know how to do it for real and I will change 🤣

the red button is engine off by the way

[buoyant hound]

That is pimp, your getting me all excited 😊.. stop... lol

[acoustic pond]

While your getting exited @spice stone is throwing a fit at the buttons I just pressed on the dash haha

[spice stone]

For the knobs it goes like this.

-Black is throttle
-red is fuel/oxygen mixture
-blue is propellor control aka rpm control

[spice stone]

Heh😂

[acoustic pond]

Okay so when I start the plane, what should I be pressing, I guess pressing all three isnt right. I remember watching Conair back in the day and thats my reference. The pilot pressed a lot of buttons

[spice stone]

Do you know what specific maule it is? I can try and find interior photos or aircraft manuals for it

[acoustic pond]

M5

[spice stone]

https://www.aerodynamicaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Maule-checklist-Rev01.pdf

Was able to find this, I can decipher it if needed😂

[acoustic pond]

I am not far off I dont think

The start is fine when I turn the knob

pressing the three buttons is checking the pressure, setting the throttle so yeah I am happy with that I think

[magic valley]

those are buttons

arnt*

[unique goblet]

Begs the questions of real jet planes lol

[shell onyx]

Ok now the time is ready.... It's time for a parachute mod to jump from the plane or from the back of the Chinook 👍

[paper folio]

i saw zelik working on parachutes awhile back, not sure how close they are to being done though.

[odd stump]

Are you planning on making the propeller work

[still chasm]

Plan

[fierce fable]

If y’all need any help information wise (and no one else can help) you can DM me. I’m a commercial pilot

[fierce fable]

Maule M5 starts via key ignition to the bottom right of the yoke. I went ahead and circled it in the picture

[lusty wedge]

All ya need now is some miniguns and rocket pods duct-taped to the wings and boom, dollar store CAS plane

But yeah seriously this looks super impressive

[acoustic pond]

Jumping out the plane at the moment kills you as you hit the plane but I could work on a jump out animation which could prevent that

[acoustic pond]

Of course man, this is early days and the propeller is set up already to rotate, it just needs to go into a script based on RPM

[acoustic pond]

Thanks dude, I will have to add that in

[acoustic pond]

Yeah I saw that last night, I watched a video of someone flying a maule, he pushed in the black and red knob so I will do the same

[shell onyx]

Blue and red are the controls for fuel mixture, propeller rpm. At take-off/landing they are always activated at maximum and only adjusted when flying at high altitude.
The black knob is the throttle. Works like gas pedal... All down 100% power

[acoustic pond]

Okay, so if I started the plane, pushing down all three buttons/sticks would be the way to go?

[shell onyx]

When you start the engine you press all red and blue.Black is the accelerator pedal basically...it stays up to have the engine idle and stand still on the track.When you need to take off and give full power to the engine then push all the black lever.

[acoustic pond]

Okay, just thinking in my head how I can do this in terms or Arma and using the simple method. I could use it like a gear change and fully out could replace the handbrake animation

[shell onyx]

As an engine ignition animation, it would be correct to see the PG turn the key and press the red and blue lever all the way down.
The throttle command should be incremental and you should see the character press or pull the black lever when the engine power increases or decreases

[acoustic pond]

Okay thanks for the info, let me see what I can do

[shell onyx]

For what would be needed in reforger the blue and red levers can also be fixed (don't worry too much) Just see the PG turn the key to start the engine and push/pull the black lever to manage the engine power 😉

The tricky thing is having controls in arma to manage roll, pitch and yaw 🫡

[acoustic pond]

I am going to go for it, so the blue red are going to be pushed in on engine start animation. The black will be left alone until rpm increase's, I will use the gear change (in terms of arma) to manage the throttle animation

[frigid phoenix]

Does it fly or is it just a vehicle that goes on water and land

[oblique wyvern]

see the video

[frigid phoenix]

Oh wow

Paratroopers :D.

[frigid phoenix]

Well done

[warped heron]

the first plane in arma reforger, your name will go down in history

[acoustic pond]

If it works, then its Bacons name that would go down in history, he is the brains behind the flight model

[oblique wyvern]

nuh-uh, a-10 gokart is the first plane you can fly

this would be the first real plane tho lol

[magic valley]

no thats bacon

give credit when credit is due

[warped heron]

along side bacon to my bad og

but then bacon is already a renowned moder for reforger so I’m sure he’ll be set in its history

love you tho bacon

[odd stump]

Nice

[tulip quiver]

This is ace

[odd stump]

Bacon will go down in history as the creator of the funny vehicles mod

[oblique wyvern]

yeah when I die let's put "put a stryker cannon on a mrap" on my tombstone

[still chasm]

Can we have a Stryker cannon on the plane?

[lusty wedge]

Idk why but I read this as "when I die put a stryker cannon on my tombstone"

[oblique wyvern]

that works, in reference to the bug where you could carry them around

[still chasm]

Have it clipping with the soil

Good old arma style bugging around everywhere

[still chasm]

@odd stump where did he say It will release tomorrow

[lusty wedge]

He did not

[acoustic pond]

Fake news on the tomorrow release date! It will be a little while yet

[odd stump]

I could have swore you said wensday the latest

Ah nevermind I saw where you said it you were talking about something else

[acoustic pond]

If I get a lot of DMs tomorrow asking where the plane is, I am forwarding all the DMs onto you 🙂

Pilot get in animation done, I am never working on a small vehicle again, that was some squeeze

[frigid phoenix]

👍

[tulip quiver]

A-10 confirmed whoooppp

jk jk

im more excited that we actually have a plane

[lusty wedge]

I sorta hope someone makes rudimentary bombs for it or something so I can carpet bomb people with the contraption

[acoustic pond]

Ha next one will be a boeing for sure a fucking massive boeing

[fierce fable]

That’s freakishly accurate to how I get in my little fly swatter

[acoustic pond]

I watched so many videos haha

[fierce fable]

Bro no wonder. I was like G dam that’s exactly how it’s done

[acoustic pond]

Good to hear, I swear though if someone sees my browsing history, it looks like an odd fetish I have got going on here with peoples getting into small planes.

[fierce fable]

lmao, well I think we all love the attention to detail. Again lmk if you need anything

[lusty wedge]

That much trouble with animations?

[acoustic pond]

To be fair, I like doing animations more then anything else but its not easy to get it right if you know what I mean. Trying to get that natural look in blender is harder then say Cascadeur where its AI driven. Also small spaces make for it to be more difficult but having a refence like a video of someone doing what you are aiming for helps out massively

The get in animation for example will be on your screen for 3 seconds, you would not notice it or know thats like 2 hours of work for that 3 seconds in game, but if it was not there you would notice it

[lusty wedge]

Yeah that's true

[oblique wyvern]

no spam please

[lusty wedge]

Also out of curiosity, how many people can the plane hold

[frigid phoenix]

By the animation video it'd be 4 right?

[acoustic pond]

4 seated , there is space for a 5th where the luggage would go if I was to put a spot there but to be honest I dont think I will, I am going to leave it at 4, meaning I have 3 more animations to go, after I go an cut my grass

[frigid phoenix]

Wherever you live I hope the weather's good outside

[naive monolith]

Always love your mods @acoustic pond

[still chasm]

Duct tape some bombs under the wing lol

[fierce fable]

How’s the bug catcher coming along?

[oblique wyvern]

I'll try to do the scripts around the weekend, cant find time for it right now

[dusty topaz]

The update effect the progress of this at all?

[oblique wyvern]

yes, for example I need to fix my mods before I do anything new

[acoustic pond]

The update sadly broke 3 of my mods and @oblique wyvern has about 20 mods on the workshop, I really feel for you 🤣 . I am working on my 3 this coming week then once they are addressed work on this will resume.

[still chasm]

E

[rotund flare]

A

[still chasm]

Sports

[still chasm]

It's in

[unique goblet]

The game

[acoustic pond]

A little update from me to hopefully stop the EA posts 🤣 I have finished with my current mods for now meaning I can go back to working on the plane. There is a lot to do still. Also Bacon I am sure is still working through his mods and projects since the last update. In the meantime, I will get the model complete and this is the to do list for the next week or so.

[oblique wyvern]

@sly finch how far are you in with your flight model? maybe you could help out here with an actual flight model

[sly finch]

Still early. Need to refine physics assumptions and play some more with different methods

[acoustic pond]

@sly finch if you needed the model to help support let me know and I can send over the file or I can put out on the workshop what I have already for you to play around with. Whilst the plane fly's with @oblique wyverns script it, it needs to act as a ground vehicle until a certain speed that reduces the gravity.

[woven cove]

@cobalt mauve here