Well, let‘s see…
Right now: Linkin Park - A Place For My Head
Previously:
Linkin Park - Lost
Linkin Park - Qwerty
Blur - Song 2
Opal in Sky - Planetary Bliss (quite new band, if you like… “calm“ music, go check them out - but wait for the refrain, that often sounds like a completely different song)
Skillet - Hero (sth a little more “epic“ - not the best word to describe it, but I can‘t think of anything better rn)
Linkin Park - Given Up (wait for around 2:20 for 17 seconds of Chester screaming)
Everlast - Stones (that really doesn‘t fit into the rest today, does it?)
Opal in Sky - The Blight
Linkin Park - Forgotten
Linkin Park - No More Sorrow (a lot of Linkin Park today)
Opal in Sky - Reflection
Opal in Sky - The Sacral
@Livingg017 I talked to Lq11 and we got sth that should work. If he hasn't sent you anything yet (I was away for a few hours), I think you can expect results... let's say tomorrow, it's quite late in my timezone (and I think in his too)
@Lq11 Oh, that's what you mean. Would that be SubPartRotator.Data.CurrentEnabledPercent? Cause I can't find a currentEnabledPercent for landing gear bays, only for the gear itself
I couldn't test it yet, but I think such a program could look like this:
while ( true ) {
wait until ( not(activation group 8) )
Set Activation Group ( 7 ) to ( true )
wait ( 2.5 ) seconds
Set ( Slider 4 ) to ( 1 )
Set Activation Group ( 10 ) to ( false )
wait ( 2 ) seconds
Set Activation Group ( 7 ) to ( false )
wait until ( activation group 8 )
Set Activation Group ( 7 ) to ( true )
wait ( 2.5 ) seconds
Set ( Slider 4 ) to ( 0 )
Set Activation Group ( 10 ) to ( true )
wait ( 2 ) seconds
Set Activation Group ( 7 ) to ( false )
}
If you want to use Lq11's suggestion, simply replace all the set AGs with set variable to true/false and the Set Slider 4s with set variable to 1/0 - the value the variables are set to are the same as with the AGs (e.g. if the AG is set to false, the variable needs to be set to false too).
A little note about what Lq11 said:
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that won't work if the command pod's name has a space. E.g., if the name is Command Pod, I think it will see Command and Pod.VZ.variableName as two separate instructions because of the space. So you'll probably have to rename it (e.g. to Command_Pod)
Edit: Since the website ignores lines starting with spaces even in code blocks: everything in the program above has to be in the while ( true ) loop
@PZLAgencies Let's wait with the fire station till a future update then. Depending on how much time I have to work on it I might get the rest done this week, and I don't want to put unnecessary pressure on you. I'll tell you once I start working on v1.1
The problem is Google - according to their policy for developers, "[The developer is] responsible for ensuring that third-party code and practices do not cause [the] [...] app to violate the Google Play Developer Program Guidelines." So if any mod violated Google's guidelines, the devs would be responsible. Overcoming the apple app store's guidelines would be a bit easier (the website already has most of the stuff they require, like the ability to report and ban people), but they'd still have to make mod makers give things like contact information
Hey brother, I saw your comments on TriVector. He probably won't tell you much, so I'll try to explain it briefly. Quite a few of his posts were removed. He claims the mods removed them, but after talking to one I'm not so sure about some of his posts. He also removed all comments on the one you commented on, seems like my (and others') arguments were a bit too good. Also noteworthy: he was banned for a few days just a few days after creating his account. I don't want to start another discussion with him though, so I'll leave it at that for now
@PZLAgencies Picture
You see the red circle on that picture? A fire station for that corner would be great, do you think you can do that? I had to hide the only custom building I made so far in a hangar, a fire station is far out of my planet studio capabilities. I wouldn't consider that "basic stuff" though, so if that's too much, please be honest - I don't want to waste your time by making you build sth and then not using it
@PZLAgencies Thanks! Are you good at making buildings (like a fire station) in planet studio? Apart from that, the base is mostly done, I just need to work a bit on taxiway lights (one rapid exit is done, need to do the same for the other one) and add some more decoration. And the LODs, I surely forgot to set some...
Sadly I still can't reach im.ge, so I still can't add any pictures
@MAKO2143 Also, when you answer people, it‘s usually best to ping them - otherwise they won‘t see it. To ping someone, simply click on the “reply“ button on the right of their comment
@Lq11 Oh, he's banned again? Could be copying others, I talked to a mod about him a while ago. I'm not sure though, back then we couldn't find enough proof
@Livingg017 The ping didn‘t work for some reason, I just stumbled across this in the forum list. Declaring Usrelia as the winner seems logical though, I‘d take him blocking you as a surrender, especially with you already leading 1-0
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For the first contest I'd probably pick a photography one as that's the easiest to participate. 2 options you say? photography - land vehicles and photography - ships sound interesting. Though I won't be able to participate cause I'm really bad at building, ignore my vote if you only want participants to vote
I tried that once, iirc the craft is crushed even with damage at 0%. I don‘t think you can bypass that without deactivating crush height in planet studio
@castellareospace160706 You need to get a link to the image, one that ends with the file type (e.g. https://www.somewebsite.com/imagelink.jpg).
If the picture already is somewhere on the internet (e.g. as thumbnail of a craft here), that link already exists and you can just copy it. How that works depends on your browser and the website. On samsung internet, to copy a picture link from most websites (including simplerockets.com) you need to click on the picture and wait for a window with a button that says "show picture" to appear (on PC it's probably right click, I'm not sure how it works on safari). It then opens a link with just the picture. Copy that link and insert it here (note: doesn't work in comments) like this: . It should then show the picture.
If the picture isn't on the internet yet, you need to do that yourself. Upload your picture to an image hosting platform (e.g. im.ge, linked on my profile) and find "markdown full linked" in a dropdown menu you'll see after uploading (says "viewer link" by default). That already does all the formatting (the ![]() stuff) for you, so you can simply paste this entire string into a post here.
There are tons of other ways of formatting here, check out Mostly's post formatting guide.
@Christine56 I like it, it has a cool cinematic look. It just took me a bit to get what exactly it is (cause of the zoom, maybe a bit the blur too), so I only gave 11 points on task fulfillment
You‘ll receive your upvotes soon. Please have some patience, thanks to the Upvote limit it will take a while. I‘m going to tag Void and Chtite about the demos in an unlisted post
Thanks to @lawedgie for helping out giving the upvotes!
@BeaconIndustries I didn't expect so many submissions, so I tried to make it as easy as possible to participate. But I'm surely going to make more contests at some point, so at some point there will surely be one about Planet Studio or spaceships
Wow, that really deserves the bonus point. I should probably tell you why you weren't even further up (even though 7th is great!). You took pictures with a ton of hidden meanings and insane details, however, that wasn't the point of the challenge. I wanted you to "show one of your crafts or planets from its best side on a picture", to make a craft or planet look good. I hope you understand that I couldn't give full marks on a picture where the craft only is a little spot (helicopter) or where the craft is so dark all you can see it its shape (plane with missile).
About the visuals: I don't think any of your pictures look bad, I just think those above look even better. Their crafts have tons of little details (where they need them) and are put in a fitting environment that does exactly what the contest was about: it made picture and craft look better without taking the focus (or too much of it) from the craft. On your picture (the one that scored best) the environment doesn't take too much of the focus from the craft (even though I think it could've been even better without / with different tonemapping), but it didn't make it look better either - it was just... there. Possibly because of the tonemapping, the craft blended in to the background, instead of the opposite. Those and a few more reasons (e.g. I'm not sure if that's really the angle the plane in the dunes looks best from) led me to give others more points.
If you had followed the task and "show[ed] one of your crafts or planets from its best side on a picture" you would've surely been in the top 5, maybe even won.
Hope that clears it up a bit.
Also, I had wifi issues again while writing this, so I couldn't read your other comment(s) yet
@destoria I didn't know pings in comments had a limit, sorry
6 days agoWow, congrats!
9 days ago@Livingg017 Cool, I didn't know that. Gotta check those out
9 days agoWell, let‘s see…
10 days agoRight now: Linkin Park - A Place For My Head
Previously:
Linkin Park - Lost
Linkin Park - Qwerty
Blur - Song 2
Opal in Sky - Planetary Bliss (quite new band, if you like… “calm“ music, go check them out - but wait for the refrain, that often sounds like a completely different song)
Skillet - Hero (sth a little more “epic“ - not the best word to describe it, but I can‘t think of anything better rn)
Linkin Park - Given Up (wait for around 2:20 for 17 seconds of Chester screaming)
Everlast - Stones (that really doesn‘t fit into the rest today, does it?)
Opal in Sky - The Blight
Linkin Park - Forgotten
Linkin Park - No More Sorrow (a lot of Linkin Park today)
Opal in Sky - Reflection
Opal in Sky - The Sacral
@Livingg017 I talked to Lq11 and we got sth that should work. If he hasn't sent you anything yet (I was away for a few hours), I think you can expect results... let's say tomorrow, it's quite late in my timezone (and I think in his too)
11 days agoCause otherwise it could be
12 days agoCargoBay.OpenAmounttoo@Lq11 The cargo bay properties don't work on landing gear bays, do they?
12 days ago@Lq11 Oh, that's what you mean. Would that be
12 days agoSubPartRotator.Data.CurrentEnabledPercent? Cause I can't find a currentEnabledPercent for landing gear bays, only for the gear itself@Lq11 Oh, I really thought I'd had problems with spaces in the name before... good to know. Wait, funk? How would you do that with funk?
12 days agoI couldn't test it yet, but I think such a program could look like this:
while ( true ) {
wait until ( not(activation group 8) )
Set Activation Group ( 7 ) to ( true )
wait ( 2.5 ) seconds
Set ( Slider 4 ) to ( 1 )
Set Activation Group ( 10 ) to ( false )
wait ( 2 ) seconds
Set Activation Group ( 7 ) to ( false )
wait until ( activation group 8 )
Set Activation Group ( 7 ) to ( true )
wait ( 2.5 ) seconds
Set ( Slider 4 ) to ( 0 )
Set Activation Group ( 10 ) to ( true )
wait ( 2 ) seconds
Set Activation Group ( 7 ) to ( false )
}
If you want to use Lq11's suggestion, simply replace all the
set AGs withset variable to true/falseand theSet Slider 4s withset variable to 1/0- the value the variables are set to are the same as with the AGs (e.g. if the AG is set to false, the variable needs to be set to false too).A little note about what Lq11 said:
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that won't work if the command pod's name has a space. E.g., if the name is
Command Pod, I think it will seeCommandandPod.VZ.variableNameas two separate instructions because of the space. So you'll probably have to rename it (e.g. toCommand_Pod)Edit: Since the website ignores lines starting with spaces even in code blocks: everything in the program above has to be in the while ( true ) loop
12 days ago@GalacticAerospace1 I'd love to see mods on mobile too though, and without those rules the devs probably would've already added mod support for mobile
19 days ago@PZLAgencies Let's wait with the fire station till a future update then. Depending on how much time I have to work on it I might get the rest done this week, and I don't want to put unnecessary pressure on you. I'll tell you once I start working on v1.1
+1 19 days ago@PZLAgencies Any news about the fire station? No pressure, just need to know if you think you can do it
19 days agoThe problem is Google - according to their policy for developers, "[The developer is] responsible for ensuring that third-party code and practices do not cause [the] [...] app to violate the Google Play Developer Program Guidelines." So if any mod violated Google's guidelines, the devs would be responsible. Overcoming the apple app store's guidelines would be a bit easier (the website already has most of the stuff they require, like the ability to report and ban people), but they'd still have to make mod makers give things like contact information
19 days ago@Aludra877 Thanks, you too
+1 one month ago@Aludra877 Oh, good luck! My next one is on tuesday, computer science
+1 one month ago@Aludra877 I've been doing good, thanks for asking man! How about you?
one month agoHey brother, I saw your comments on TriVector. He probably won't tell you much, so I'll try to explain it briefly. Quite a few of his posts were removed. He claims the mods removed them, but after talking to one I'm not so sure about some of his posts. He also removed all comments on the one you commented on, seems like my (and others') arguments were a bit too good. Also noteworthy: he was banned for a few days just a few days after creating his account. I don't want to start another discussion with him though, so I'll leave it at that for now
+1 one month agoYay, congrats!
+1 one month agoI don't think the < > stuff works here. Also, there's a pinned post explaining everything
one month agoAfter editing this picture to have more contrast and closely investigating it, I can confidently say that... I have no clue what this is
one month ago@PZLAgencies
one month agoPicture
You see the red circle on that picture? A fire station for that corner would be great, do you think you can do that? I had to hide the only custom building I made so far in a hangar, a fire station is far out of my planet studio capabilities. I wouldn't consider that "basic stuff" though, so if that's too much, please be honest - I don't want to waste your time by making you build sth and then not using it
@PZLAgencies Thanks! Are you good at making buildings (like a fire station) in planet studio? Apart from that, the base is mostly done, I just need to work a bit on taxiway lights (one rapid exit is done, need to do the same for the other one) and add some more decoration. And the LODs, I surely forgot to set some...
one month agoSadly I still can't reach im.ge, so I still can't add any pictures
@dzanos There only was 1 submission (JLaerospace), so I figured making an announcement with a "ranking" wouldn't really make sense
one month ago@MAKO2143 The planet??? Or a Drood?
one month ago@MAKO2143 Do you have a recording (or screenshot)? Or the craft saved so you could take one?
one month ago@MAKO2143 Also, when you answer people, it‘s usually best to ping them - otherwise they won‘t see it. To ping someone, simply click on the “reply“ button on the right of their comment
one month ago@Lq11 Oh, he's banned again? Could be copying others, I talked to a mod about him a while ago. I'm not sure though, back then we couldn't find enough proof
one month ago@Livingg017 The ping didn‘t work for some reason, I just stumbled across this in the forum list. Declaring Usrelia as the winner seems logical though, I‘d take him blocking you as a surrender, especially with you already leading 1-0
one month ago@lawedgie hi
one month ago@lawedgie
one month agoA fun little challenge to celebrate a new #events channel in our discord server - have fun!
one month agoWelcome!
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@Livingg017 Oh, cool, in that case, I'd give it a try
one month agoFor the first contest I'd probably pick a photography one as that's the easiest to participate. 2 options you say? photography - land vehicles and photography - ships sound interesting. Though I won't be able to participate cause I'm really bad at building, ignore my vote if you only want participants to vote
+1 one month agoI tried that once, iirc the craft is crushed even with damage at 0%. I don‘t think you can bypass that without deactivating crush height in planet studio
2 months ago@castellareospace160706 You need to get a link to the image, one that ends with the file type (e.g. https://www.somewebsite.com/imagelink.jpg).
If the picture already is somewhere on the internet (e.g. as thumbnail of a craft here), that link already exists and you can just copy it. How that works depends on your browser and the website. On samsung internet, to copy a picture link from most websites (including simplerockets.com) you need to click on the picture and wait for a window with a button that says "show picture" to appear (on PC it's probably right click, I'm not sure how it works on safari). It then opens a link with just the picture. Copy that link and insert it here (note: doesn't work in comments) like this:
. It should then show the picture.If the picture isn't on the internet yet, you need to do that yourself. Upload your picture to an image hosting platform (e.g. im.ge, linked on my profile) and find "markdown full linked" in a dropdown menu you'll see after uploading (says "viewer link" by default). That already does all the formatting (the
![]()stuff) for you, so you can simply paste this entire string into a post here.There are tons of other ways of formatting here, check out Mostly's post formatting guide.
2 months ago@Christine56 I like it, it has a cool cinematic look. It just took me a bit to get what exactly it is (cause of the zoom, maybe a bit the blur too), so I only gave 11 points on task fulfillment
+1 2 months agoLet‘s finally get to the prizes:
1) @VoidAerospace - 25 Upvotes (14 / 25 done)
2) @Chtite451SR2 - 15 Upvotes (15 / 15 done)
3) @NorthStarAerospace - 10 Upvotes (10 / 10 done)
4) @RokugouSystems - 5 Upvotes (5 / 5 done)
4) @Nksskssskss11 - 5 Upvotes (5 / 5 done)
You‘ll receive your upvotes soon. Please have some patience, thanks to the Upvote limit it will take a while. I‘m going to tag Void and Chtite about the demos in an unlisted post
Thanks to @lawedgie for helping out giving the upvotes!
2 months ago@BeaconIndustries I didn't expect so many submissions, so I tried to make it as easy as possible to participate. But I'm surely going to make more contests at some point, so at some point there will surely be one about Planet Studio or spaceships
2 months ago@BeaconIndustries Well, 11th is top 50%
2 months ago@Livingg017 Yeah, I read that after writing that comment
2 months ago@Lq11 There was a tie, so there are two fourth places instead. The prize is the same anyways
2 months ago@Cooldude88 I only added each participant's best picture here, otherwise it would've gotten too long
2 months ago@BeaconIndustries https://www.simplerockets.com/Forums/View/328241/Contest-Ranking
+1 2 months ago@Livingg017 If you wanted them to feel lonely and uncomfortable you definitely reached that goal
2 months agoWow, that really deserves the bonus point. I should probably tell you why you weren't even further up (even though 7th is great!). You took pictures with a ton of hidden meanings and insane details, however, that wasn't the point of the challenge. I wanted you to "show one of your crafts or planets from its best side on a picture", to make a craft or planet look good. I hope you understand that I couldn't give full marks on a picture where the craft only is a little spot (helicopter) or where the craft is so dark all you can see it its shape (plane with missile).
About the visuals: I don't think any of your pictures look bad, I just think those above look even better. Their crafts have tons of little details (where they need them) and are put in a fitting environment that does exactly what the contest was about: it made picture and craft look better without taking the focus (or too much of it) from the craft. On your picture (the one that scored best) the environment doesn't take too much of the focus from the craft (even though I think it could've been even better without / with different tonemapping), but it didn't make it look better either - it was just... there. Possibly because of the tonemapping, the craft blended in to the background, instead of the opposite. Those and a few more reasons (e.g. I'm not sure if that's really the angle the plane in the dunes looks best from) led me to give others more points.
If you had followed the task and "show[ed] one of your crafts or planets from its best side on a picture" you would've surely been in the top 5, maybe even won.
Hope that clears it up a bit.
Also, I had wifi issues again while writing this, so I couldn't read your other comment(s) yet
2 months agoThe winners will receive their prizes over the next days. Please have some patience - thanks
+1 2 months ago@Aryabhata21 @Luc3s @VoidAerospace @JotaVe @doddy123 @jacobthanos @Christine56 @WSR @BeaconIndustries @Livingg017 @JAIndustries @Rocketnerd2025 @Aludra877 @MJGoat739 @TriVector @PZLAgencies @NorthStarAerospace @RokugouSystems @AngryElf @Chtite451SR2 @Lq11 @Zazo @Nksskssskss11 @Cooldude88
2 months ago@Aryabhata21 @Luc3s @VoidAerospace @JotaVe @doddy123 @jacobthanos @Christine56 @WSR @BeaconIndustries @Livingg017 @JAIndustries @Rocketnerd2025 @Aludra877 @MJGoat739 @TriVector @PZLAgencies @NorthStarAerospace @RokugouSystems @AngryElf @Chtite451SR2 @Lq11 @Zazo @Nksskssskss11 @Cooldude88
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