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Grumman F-14 Tomcat - With Autopilot! [Shade'd]

• Razgriz Squadron livery
  
• Variable geometry wings
  
• Faithfully recreated control surfaces
  
• Two full-auto 7.0 power guns
  
• Two Air-to-Ground missiles
  
• Near-lagless negative water cannon engine
  
• STOL capability
  
• Block count: 375 (80%-90% timescale recommended)
  
  
• Toggleable landing gear, toggleable wing sweep, heatwave exhaust effect, automatic afterburner flame, automatic contrails and a simple AUTOPILOT - these six features are available by installing mods - see Mod Support below for more info!

Steering:

R T Y
F G H - Pitch, Roll and Yaw

C - Toggle Engines
X - Afterburner (held)
Z - Airbrake (held)

M / N - Make the plane even more sexy - I mean, sweep the wings (held)

Utility:

Right Alt / . - Landing Gear
Arrow Keys - Ground Controls
V - Cameras (1st person + crosshair, chase close, chase far, landing/missile)

Weaponry:

1, 2 (NumPad) or U, I - Bomb-tipped rockets
. (NumPad) - Semi-auto cannons
Enter (NumPad) or J - Full-auto cannons

This plane supports three mods:

• Scripter[forum.spiderlinggames.co.uk] (by Lench)
  
• ACM[forum.spiderlinggames.co.uk] (Advanced Controls Mod by Lench)
  
• VectorThrusters[forum.spiderlinggames.co.uk] (by Pixali)

With these installed, you gain access to additional features:

• (VT) Exhaust heatwave effect
  
• (VT + ACM) Afterburner flame + automatic wingtip contrails
  
• (ACM) Landing gear and wing sweep become one-key toggles (Right Alt and M, respectively)
  
• (Scripter) Autopilot script that will keep the plane level for you (toggle with keypad 8). Flying with autopilot on will overwrite TGFH keys to instead control the offset of roll and pitch angles - for passing over mountains and stuff)

ACM will prompt you to download a library for custom axes upon loading the machine, this is required in order for ACM-associated features to work!

Please note that none of these mods are required for the plane to work. They simply make it easier to use and add purely cosmetic effects.

Building Tools[forum.spiderlinggames.co.uk] by TheGuysYouDespise
Easy Scale[forum.spiderlinggames.co.uk] by Lench
PBP2[forum.spiderlinggames.co.uk] by ITR
NoBounds[forum.spiderlinggames.co.uk] also by ITR

Building hit a stop cause it was unstable af. After like a week I realised I did a dumb and fixed it. Building resumed. Then Shado came by:

GG Shade XD
I'm not a huge fan of the livery tbh. Edgy as hell. The top is too flat as well, it was hard to cover the sweep mechanism up in a better way. But I feel that it'd be weird to post it with a different one than in the video, or go with two different versions.

Also I'm a little sad that the blockcount makes it hard to play around with this fighter at 100% timescale. Would have given it more missiles otherwise. Performance took priority over firepower here.

Oh, and hey, I spent a couple weeks learning python and basically adapted Lench's PID controller to planes, with some additional features. The script is pretty unorganized and amateurish, but has a ton of potential for recording cinematic shots. It helped Shade immensly with recording this video, but each scene had to receive a separate version of the autopilot script adapted specifically to it.

I might make a tutorial for the Scripter mod in the future, and will make the code public and go over adapting it to almost any piston-steered aircraft. If you can't wait, the code can be found here, in F-14's forum thread[forum.spiderlinggames.co.uk]. I can't post it here as steam offers no way of shortening it. Cheers!