V-22 Osprey [WIP]

[hasty glade]

Just wanted to showcase my current progress on my V-22 Osprey build. I'm trynna make it fully functional and survival friendly. It still needs texturing, but the overall shape and details are finished. If any of you have some tips on how to improve, feel free to give suggestions. This is my first aircraft builds using VS and Create. Hope you guys enjoy.

I will probably post a few more pictures once in a while in this thread as I make progress with my build

[flint scroll]

peakopter

[valid temple]

why is it two wide in the cockpit

[graceful lichen]

tried to make smth like this recently
its painful

but if I can get it to work
then ittl be super cool

how'd u get yours to work?

[hasty glade]

Im using real life dimensions scaled up by a third, so that's about as big as the irl one would be, just in minecraft proportions

[hasty glade]

I still haven't tested any of the propellers and tiltrotors yet so idk if it will work or not

I only tested the hatch at the back to see if it would stay aligned and tested the engines to see if they at least can provide a bit of thrust to move the aircraft

All the navigation stuff havent done yet

but im planning on controlling the tiltrotors together, while the propeller's rotation speed independently using drive by wire mod

[graceful lichen]

ah haha

[hasty glade]

Yea, right now it's just running on hopes n dreams

I wanna finish the texturing and main mechanisms first

Then I'll move on to testing and optimization

[graceful lichen]

cool

[languid root]

Hi, I'm also trying to build an ofsprey-like vtol

Are you planning on using vanilla clockwork and drive by wire, or making a cc system?

Also what are going to use for pitch and yaw?

[hasty glade]

I have no idea how to code at all, so im definitely not gonna use cc

I dont wanna waste like half a year learning Lua just to make a small navigation system in game

[hasty glade]

The V-22 Osprey, and probably all other VTOLs ever made have 2 flying modes

Helicopter mode and plane mode

Helicopter mode is when the tiltrotors are vertical, with propellers facing up
in this mode the VTOL uses a difference in thrust from propellers to adjust control its yaw

basically to turn in one direction, one propeller must spin faster than the other to create a difference in drag

and turn the aircraft

In airplane mode, the V-22 Osprey has flaps on its wings and on its tail, which are often used as help to control both pitch and yaw

Then if im not mistaken, the propellers also still spin at different speeds when turning to reduce the load on the flaps

Hope this helps 😁

[languid root]

My question was what were you going to do in vs2 to achieve this

[languid root]

The thing is that was what I thought earlier too, but today I found out that they actually do it with rotor disk tilt on helis and v22, which is not achievable in vs2

So I'll try using nacelle tilt(tilting the motors to simulate rotor disk tilt)

[languid root]

Also, i'm trying to make a cc vtol framework(in collaboration with AstroGamer) so if I succeed, maybe that'll be an option

I want to make it configurable for different aircrafts

And have multiple modes including transitions

Its in early development right now, but I hope we can finish it

[hasty glade]

That's sick

[hasty glade]

How long have u been working on it already

[hasty glade]

Ohh to make a difference in thrust from each propeller u mean?

I was gonna use redstone resistors from clockwork

But now that you pointed it out, it might not work due to vs2 limitations

[languid root]

1-2 months

[languid root]

Hey @hasty glade random question are you using phys bearings or prop bearings and have you assembled them yet

Bc in my prototype I have 4 phys bearings: two for rotors and two for nacelle tilt, and the vs entity just flies off thousands of blocks in a split second when I log into the world

[hasty glade]

I'm using vs 2.3.0-beta.10 for my build. I haven't tested if it works, but I'm using phys bearings for the tiltrotors, and propeller bearings for the propellers

So far I haven't encountered any issue while moving it

And yes, it is assembled

[hasty glade]

I think its because u have phys bearings connected to other phys bearings, so the game freaks out a bit

cuz Im having no issues with the prop bearings

[languid root]

Yeah I do

But its the only way

[hasty glade]

Really?

doesnt it work with 2 prop bearings and 2 phys bearings?

[languid root]

I'm using a setup where the rotor is a vs ship on a phys bearing with a cc computer in the middle and two flaps on the sides

[hasty glade]

Ohh that's why

[hasty glade]

Alright all the mechanisms r basically done

I just need to connect everything and test it and then texture it

why am I so scared to take it for a test flight T_T

[languid root]

How did it go?

[hasty glade]

Well...

After a few explosions, I managed to get most of the stuff working

but then I realized I forgot to leave space to power the flaps ;-;

so now theres just 2 flap bearings that cannot

well

flap

[languid root]

Bro I genuinely hate the clockwokr phys bearings

[hasty glade]

The phys bearings werent a problem for me

it was mostly just the engine

getting it to turn in the right direction

[languid root]

I decided to make it with control craft, but haven't started yet bc don't have time

[languid root]

Yeah bc you have just a few

[hasty glade]

Yea tru

[languid root]

I have no idea how they make the mechs with like 8 bearings

Its a mystery to me

[hasty glade]

They probably have some datapacks or additional mods for that

or maybe just different mod versions

where that bug didnt exist yet or smt

[languid root]

In older versions it was even more broken

Welp we've got what we've got

[hasty glade]

Oh

Anyways now I gotta redesign the whole wings just to fit the energy transmitter for the flaps

T_T