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[PHOENIX] LVS Parts

This unofficial expansion to LVS adds custom entities and functions using PHOENIX, a new work in progress LVS base.

The addon allows creators to use custom models for destructible parts on their planes, and uses a slightly modified Fighter Base for ease of use in making new planes.

Current features:

• Destructible parts
  
• Animated flap entities
  
• Custom part entities
  
• Damage based on collisions
  
• Parts effect flight
  
• Optional propeller

Planned features:

• Gear Support
  
• 3rd person camera ignores parts
  
• Canards
  
• Rudder-vators
  
• Improved propeller animation

Q: Why not spend more time working on the addon until all the planned features are done?
A: I'm going into surgery tomorrow as off this addon's initial creation, so I don't want to risk forgetting everything and not being able to get SOMETHING out

Q: Will Neuromicro get updated with this?
A: Yes, Neuromicro will be ported to LVS with this parts sytstem in the coming months (probably maybe less time)

Q: What projects are going to happen next?
A: After I update Neuromicro I hope to begin work on Neuromicro Naval in some capacity while I wait for LVS Tank or something

Q: Why is this so janky
A: Im still learning GLua... hopefully this addon doesn't hurt too much

Q: Can you make [something]
A: I'm not taking any suggestions currently (unless its feedback about this addon), and my commissions will be inactive while I'm recovering from surgery


*plane not included


I first assume that your plane already as the parts models. The parts you need are

1. Main Body
   
2. Left Wing
   
3. Left Aileron
   
4. Right Wing
   
5. Right Aileron
   
6. Tail
   
7. Elevator
   
8. Rudder
   
9. Propeller (OPTIONAL)

You'll also need a skeleton in the main body of the aircraft that will be used to animate the flaps, and be able to spawn them in the correct position. the names of the bones don't matter, the positions of them do as they control where the flaps are spawned. (The propeller is considered a flap aswell)

The wings and tail need to have their offset already in the model, like this[cdn.discordapp.com]

The flaps will be spawned using attachments, and need to not be offset unlike the wings. The attachments need to be in a specific order for them to work:

(propeller is optional)

They have to be the first attachments, otherwise the code will put a nil model where your part was meant to go.

Once the model has been compiled like this, the code should handle everything from here. You can get a modified version of Luna's fighter base here[github.com].

You only need to add the models for the parts into shared.lua, and everything else is handled by the code. The flight turn rates currently cannot be modified to anything other than 1, but I am going to work on fixing that when I'm recovered from surgery.