#thermals

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sinful hill
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birds can ride in them (if we ever get them) and can support any future planes like gliders

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hybrid tiger
sinful hill
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stop posting memes in a suggestion about meteorology

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pls

hybrid tiger
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It's just my honest reaction

sinful hill
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sure

hybrid tiger
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Let's keep in mind this is a Roblox game

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The way thermals work and their effect on planes is a little too complex for the kind of game we're running

ember echo
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just an aeronautican, but a bird

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thanks

plain horizon
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just flying aeronauticans

sinful hill
plain horizon
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delusional

sinful hill
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jump off horota or ttlge

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it fli

plain horizon
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it falls

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it doesent fly

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if i jumped off an airship id fly briefly too

sinful hill
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it fly

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i tried it

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it fly

ember echo
stuck raptor
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YEA

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PLEASE YES

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I’ve flown in a thermal irl and it’s very fun :D

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also what’s happening with the glider card on the trello? Has it just be forgotten about or abandoned?

lunar relic
lunar relic
hybrid tiger
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You with this again?

stuck raptor
grave locust
# hybrid tiger The way thermals work and their effect on planes is a little too complex for the...

Many hundreds of apologies for bumping such an old suggestion but could I suggest that a simplistic approximation of thermals could be a decent compromise? If it were modelled as just a simple cylinder of "up" and a surrounding cylinder of "down" air, with just some arbitrary random value for the vertical velocity then I'm sure it could be quite simple. You guys have already implemented localised windspeed so a thermal can be affected by that, just as an aircraft would and to keep it as simple as possible, just "spawn" the thermals anywhere where there is land and its not a cold climate. If you wanted just a bit more detail you could have areas of hotspots over things like crop or settlements but if you're not interested in a huge amount of detail you don't need to add that.

I'm not sure what the status on gliders/sailplanes is but obviously if the development team is serious about implementing them, thermals would be the simplest way of allowing those flights to remain airborne (bc implementing something like wave or ridge soaring would be farrrrr too complicated). Otherwise all they'll be able to do is drop out the sky at a slower rate than normal aircraft and there wouldn't be much point in that.

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Side note, what's the deal with contributions? From what I can tell from the trello some aircraft is noted as being assigned to the community but I can't find any details on how you would put forward a contribution.

hybrid tiger
hybrid tiger
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Be warned the standards have become quite high though, and it's less likely for your model to be accepted

grave locust