Added to the best steampunk airships collection!!!

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2774835058

@ Turborhino64 well for that i favor a f-117 nighthawk

it's a nice early to mid Neter airship

прекрасный!

Ok, if I do, I'll list you as a contributor

Thank you all for your comments and likes\dislikes! They are very important for me)

eishaaya, its not my average style, really. Usually i build random ships in FTD. Latest airships are more like successful attempts to build something new. But i dont mind if you will use them in your custom campaign.

@antonin i have noticed just how kind the always up force is. its like a small plus shape can hold an entirely metal craft up, almost.

Hey, I'm building a custom campaign, this is a really nice style you have here, do you want to join me? It's private because it's super incomplete, but another builder would be nice.

pretty kewl

An airship you can balance by off-setting the helium pumps in the separate compartments --- especially near the front and rear --- to keep the pitch at whatever you want it to be. You probably want a PID to control pitch even when weight and/or lift chambers are lost, e.g. battle damage. As long as you have sufficient lift, that works.

Of course you can also move ballast or even weapons around, using pistons or rotators. Or try if tractor beams can carry and release ballast --- haven't tried that one.

For planes and at least in real life, you want the CoM before the CoL, or you will be unstable and tend to flip over; but still fairly close, as with a CoM at the nose and CoL at the tail you have become an arrow or lawn dart --- very hard to maneuver.

With helicopters, the always-up force is very, *VERY* kind to builders, and again a PID would be a great help for keeping things on an even keel.

It gives you lots of indicators as to where things are, I just try and get the COM and lift in the same place, but I don't make planes often, only helicopters.

but i cant balance aeirial propulsion at all

one area where im lucky is i like to build angular so my stuff moves decently well through water

@CTH2004
Lel, recently, I've been trying curves in my design to create a MIL28 similar build. (It's not going well, mimics hurt my brain)

Oh...

Sounds like me then! My cubes aren’t very arerodynamic... though, I’m getting better! Next, I think I’ll try, well, who knows!

And, my bad! (I have had some bad luck with people on steam recently, so that may have colored my interpretation of it)

Well, good luck!

you misread me entirely i was refering to myself as inept in the plane department

@serdio

who are you talking to?

If me, what do you mean?

If K.W. [rus]
that is just rude. It's a practice vessel, not a perfect vessel! And, it's still usable, and pretty effective! And, you mispelled the acrynoym!

@Freddy The Green Fox
Definitly better than my cubes!

tfw this is someones practice and your completley aeirially inept

Amazing!

Especially for a ship made just to practice!

It looks amazing. When I first started FtD I tried doing a similar style but never got anywhere. You're really doing a good job of it.

yes yes more!

Updated save file. Repaired broken front wood pole and added extra heliblade spinner for speed boost.

Hey that pretty pretty! Love the way you curve the balloon :D