Flyout news & patch notes

Hello Flyout Community!

I'm pleased to announce that the QOL update (UNDO BUTTON!) is now available for testing on the "dev test" branch:

Patch Notes: Added:

• Undo and Redo for nearly every action you can make in editor

• New Cylinder part as a fuel tank

• Warnings in editor related to disconnected parts and overwriting existing save files

• Palette in Paint mode saves more colors

• Ability to control clip distance for camera in editor

• Pressing Right Mouse Button while scaling part now resets it back like with movement or rotation

• Right Mouse Button to cancel now present in Cross Section Editor

• Movement, Rotation and Scaling tools are now FPS independent and follow your mouse. Can set editor settings of those to 1

• Blueprint toggle button to quickly hide/show them

• Input fields for decimal numbers now accept separators other than dot

• Straighten 3D and Bezier tools for Cross Section Editor

• Field for Z-offset of Vertex in Cross Section Editor

• Pressing P in editor now hides UI, Grid and current pink line in Cross Section Editor

• Pressing G in editor now switches between Local and Global orientation

• Target Mach warning for Rocket Motors attached to missiles with that value set

• During flight missile info panel will now show its name and time of guidance

• Using Trim with Gamepad/Joystick

• Ability to delete Subassemblies by holding Shift while clicking on them

• Game will ignore keyboard inputs when UnityExplorer external mod has active overlay

Changed:

• Improved soft-locking behavior for mouse-free operations

• Blend tool now acts on selected points only if they are selected

• Rotor scale now shows diameter

• Default size of Drop Tank is now for 1135L / 300 gal

• Missile Objects' material settings can be applied to other parts

• Symmetry now affects most actions in editor. Disabling symmetry might allow for modification of single part only

• Stock crafts no longer have warning about saving before flight

• Camera no longer moves when game is paused

• Speed of camera movement in cockpit view using dedicated keys

Fixed:

• Gamepad/Joystick not resetting properly

• Basic Wheel having too high resistance

• Landing Gear not having high enough rolling resistance

• Landing Gear having different size in editor when clicked for some variants

• Rotated Landing Gear being unstable (if it still does - increase diameter/spring)

• Angular Acceleration not properly updating for inputs

• Custom Solid Fuels not loading properly

• Local rotation of already rotated part

• Objects are no longer moved/rotated/scaled when cursor is over UI

• Opacity of blueprints not persisting across loads

• Blueprints remaining after creating new craft

• Vertex in Cross Section Editor not updating position when scale / rotation / offset is changed

• Straighten tool with point 0 selected

• Solar panel collider

• Drop Tank collider of end bits when scale is set to 0

• Missile with dual seeker thinking it has lock too early under certain conditions

• 3-spool Turbines no longer have IPC and HPC tied

• Rotor area and lift performance error

• Typing in fields in editor triggering hotkeys

• Custom Input name not refreshing in editor

• Gun & Drum allowed calibers not matching in editor

• Infinite loading bug with certain imported meshes

• Exploding upon loading screen end with starting speed over Mach 1

• Imported meshes not loading on another craft after launching to flight

• Imported meshes not copying over to new craft when Save As feature is used

• Bluetooth fuel for jettisoned parts

• Mirroring persisting to duplicated parts under certain conditions

• Wing getting messed up when switching sides

• Moving tool floating after exiting Wing Edit mode

• Separated wing pieces having weird interactions in Wing Edit mode

• Mirrored wing points moving in opposite direction in specific scenario

• Hitboxes of wing elements not updating while editing

• Blurry UI when un-hidden during pause

• Pressing Space in Cross Section Editor on scaled Fuselage would jump to wrong place

• Not being able to box select points after cancelling move in Cross Section Editor

• Wrong blade rotation when changing blade count on Propeller that is rotated

• Mirrored turbine name after applying preset

• Decimal point in Lofting Cut not saving correctly

• Decimal point in Cruise Trim not saving correctly

• Missile Cruise Guidance terminal mode activation too soon over the ocean

• Missile Cruise Guidance over long distances

• Pausing on Loading Screen under certain scenario soft-locking the game

• Display of decimal numbers in Gauges

• Rocket Motor sometimes not having a trail behind it

• Fuel Dump's trail at certain scales moving in wrong direction

• Fuel Dump having multiple info panels open, inconsistent toggle behavior

• Fuel Dump trail re-connecting with old if re-enabled

• Fuel Dump draining fuel with Infinite Fuel enabled

• Fuel Tank order when current one is destroyed

• Certain fuel tanks not having dry weight

• "Paint All" in paint mode not saving

• Paint from Subassemblies not saving

• Paint from Subassemblies being identical for all instances

• Changing material no longer gets rid of paint

Patch 0.2405 Added:

• Ctrl+Y to undo option in Editor Settings (Ctrl+Shift+Z by default)

• Mirror buttons to lights

• Configuring control surfaces mirrors inputs if you have symmetry enabled

Fixed:

• Palette add/remove height not updating

• Text field in Paint mode not blocking shortcuts

• Fuel dump trail when traveling fast

• Movement tool in Wing Edit mode with sensitivity other than 1

• Applying editor settings breaking undo/redo

• Default material texture on FLIR

• Shaped charge warhead with Nosecone selected

• Trailing edge messing up after configuring on one side

• Scaling loop points not undoing

• Rotating loop using R-hotkey not undoing

• Jammer lower bound being 400MHz instead of 300MHz

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer so far! I have another small preview of the next update to share with you all: The rotation and translation tool has been revamped to allow for more fine adjustments of your parts, and to fix that pesky "over-rotation" bug!

The update is progressing smoothly, and will contain many bug fixes and player requested features (can you spot a few in the preview image?). We estimate that it could be pushed out mid-July if all goes according to plan. As always, this is just an estimate and not a hard deadline, and we will keep you updated as it grows closer!

Hello Flyout community! The devs have shared a little information on the next update to Flyout, and I can now share a little teaser with you all:

Undo and redo is coming to Flyout! By default, it will remember 100 changes, however this amount is tweakable based off your preferences! The next update to Flyout will be less content heavy and more focused on QoL updates and bugfixes! I hope to have more information to share with you all soon! -Flyout CM

Fixed:

• AI spawn position at sea

• PRH fixed

• Warhead preview

• CRW warhead on nosecone

• Battery weight in editor

Flyout Munitions Update moves out of testing and into the main branch!

Rafale model made by ATKA on the Flyout Discord

After a brief testing period, we are proud to present the Munitions Update 0.2322 which brings the procedural weapons to Flyout! This update is fairly significant and adds some highly requested features, new parts, and many bug fixes!

New and Improved Parts

• Functional sensors: FLIR, RADAR, IRST

• Functional Jammer

• Solid Rocket Motor

• Stage Separator

• Explosive Warhead

• Missile Core (Seeker) - Can be configured as IR, ARH/SARH, ARM, Laser, directly controlled or simply unguided

• Procedural Missile Fins

New parts can also be combined with fuselages, fuel tanks and engines to create unique and advanced weapons, also an important note: To have your missile control the throttle of the engine, delete the throttle response in the editor!

If you've been following the preview posts, you'll recognize this image featuring the incredible variety of munitions possible in the new update!

New Editor Features and "Missile Flight Replay"

With the new parts comes new options to tweak and change, RADARs come in a variety of types (Mechanically Scanned, PESA, AESA) and can be configured to fit the needs of your aircraft with several tweakable options. The "Warhead" part can display a preview function that shows the effective radius, the fusing distance, and the fragmentation pattern of your munition. Additionally, the missile will remember its most recent flight and will be able to replay it upon returning to the editor, this can give the creator useful information on the performance of their weapon!

The warhead part preview allows for visualization of the fuse, fragmentation, and explosive radii

On the new Rocket Motor part you will be able to edit the thrust curve to really fine-tune the performance of your missile

The Missile Flight History screen will display the most recent flight of the munition

New Enemy Spawn Options

A very highly requested feature, the ability to select the distance and direction of enemy spawn has been added. A new SAM Radar enemy has also been added for testing of Anti-Radiation Missiles, and enemies are now able to be spawned in the water to simulate ship targets!

Some amazing creations from the members of the Flyout Discord: https://discord.gg/flyout

Change Log for Flyout 0.2322

Added

• New "SAM Radar" Enemy for early detection

• Distance/Direction inputs for spawning enemies

• 9 new Procedural Munitions parts

• Functionality to RWR, IRST and Countermeasures

• Ability to drag missile info panel

• ASL Field to missile info panel during flight

• Trim+Flares keybind to cycle countermeasure modes

• Label to "Own Craft" when cycling view with F1

• Distance to Camera in F1 view

• Kinematic energy is now accounted for explosions on missiles

• Jammer and Radar get ability to be hidden

• Ability to use Radars on launched munitions as companion drones

• Toggle for random vs. manual enemy spawning

• Rocket Motor Class Rating in editor and flight

• Rocket Motor ISP in info panel during the flight

• Custom fuels for Solid Rocket Motors

• CEP for missiles in Advanced settings (1m by default)

• Gain for missiles in Advanced settings

• Initial Coords for missiles when both Remember Position and Lock On After Launch are enabled. When selected and has coordinates - will fly there like with Coords guidance while trying to find a target

• Submunitions now get instant lock when fired if they share same seeker type

• Tab keybind to open Thrust Curve Editor

• Trim+Flares keybind to cycle countermeasure modes

• Sounds for Soft Locking/Unlocking an enemy during the flight

Changes

• Custom Fuel location moved to AppData/Mods/Fuels

• Button "Release" on hardpoints renamed to "Jettison"

• F1 to cycle camera targets, most recently fired missile will be first in cycle, Alt-F1 to cycle back

• Destroyed Targets and "dead" missiles no longer in F1 cycle

• Scrollbar in editor increased 5x speed

• Fuel in Turbine and Piston test run now uses actual craft fuel

• Radar weight now scales with size

• Easier locking with laser/coord

• Field "Radar Power" renamed to "Average Power"

• Cannot cycle Radar modes when radars have no power (shows popup)

• Diameter/Length fields on Procedural Munitions now go to bounds instead of rolling back

• Updated Stock Crafts

Fixed

• Target Drones should be less prone to fly into mountains or water

• Enemies no longer spawn underwater

• SAM missiles exploding on firing

• SAM not seeing player

• SAM sending missiles straight up into space

• Missiles going underground

• Explosion following missile after stage separation

• Black screen when placing joints on missiles

• Chaff inside landing gear breaking physics

• Chaff not affecting SAM's ability to see player

• Hardpoint Separation Force

• Missiles not firing when attached to a hardpoint

• Hardpoints only jettisoning a single part attached to it

• Cycling of rocket pods

• Hole Material affecting RCS

• Dropped fuel tanks still being drained (No more bluetooth fuel)

• Engines working with all fuel tanks closed

• Piston and Ramjet black screen error

• Ramjet reverse thrust bug

• Deleted turbine throttle input reappearing in editor

• missing custom fuels not loading the craft or causing previous craft to be loaded instead

• camera in editor rolling during lag spikes

• being unable to click under F4 panel

• F4 panel obstructing UI elements

• Control bindings not working while under "F2 flight mode"

• Popup not decaying while paused

• HUD being visible in editor

• Static Wick spelling

• Warhead preview not showing button first time

• Warhead preview not showing targets

• Radar settings not being accessible

• Rocket flame getting inverted at extremely low pressures

• IRST panel settings

• PRH missiles not finding targets

• Direction in Spawn Menu not aligning with compass

• Default settings on Stage #1 being wrong

• Small missiles having absurd weights

• Not being able to type decimal numbers in Direction field

• Not being able to type decimal numbers in Loft Cut Advanced Guidance setting field

• Lofting guidance

• Missile behavior on extremely long ranges

• "To Target" staging option triggering when no target was present

• Manual Guidance option showing not related fields

• Submunitions name not shown when fired

• Laser missile being guided by FLIR placed on it

• Fuel Dumps not working

• Radar searching while no energy present

• Radar model having flipped text

• Increased missile stability (wobbling) at lower physics FPS

• Increased Procedural Fin lift at low AoA

• Missile trail weird behavior

• An issue with missile and Target Drone sound effects

• Piston Engine with 0 idle throttle breaking craft physics

New Keybinds

• X - Trim, but also modifier for weapons systems

• F1 - Cycle camera forward

• Alt+F1 - Cycle camera backwards

• Tab - Cycle missile types (Rename the "Missile Core" to separate missile groups)

• F - Fire Missile

• T - toggle Soft-Lock of the target

• T+X - force Soft Lock of the target

• Y - Cycle RADAR modes

• Y+X Cycle RADAR modes backwards

• H - Select Laser / Coordinate location

• X+H - Toggle Air to Ground mode / Air to Air mode for RADAR

• R - Fire Countermeasures

• R+X - cycle countermeasure modes

• F8 - "Microwave" rotation in craft editor

Hello faithful Flyout fans!

It's been a while but patience pays off: The long awaited munitions update is finally here, as an opt-in beta! With a bunch of new functional parts, and an entire suite of customizable missile parts, you will now be able to arm your creations in all the ways you've been dreaming about!

New parts include modern phased array RADAR and early mechanical RADAR, a jamming pod, and a FLIR targeting ball. For the missiles, there is a procedural seeker head, warhead, rocket motors, separators and fins! Custom missiles support various tracking methods including ARH/SARH, IR, direct coordinates, PRH, and "unguided", and your warhead has various options for explosive type and fragmentation pattern!

With these new parts, there will be new bugs, which is why this is a "Dev_Test" of the new update. We wanted to get it into the hands of the players as soon as possible, but please remember that you will encounter various bugs as the testing progress continues. Bug reports should be made on the Flyout discord (discord.gg/Flyout)! We look forward to seeing all the crazy things you come up with utilizing these new parts!

Turbines

Rotors

Aerodynamics

New Parts

Game Mechanics

Craft Inputs

Weather and Effects

Other

New features / changes

Fixed

New update in a Test branch: To download the update, right click on Flyout in your Steam library and go to properties > betas and select 'real_scale' from the menu. Some save files may be broken in the new version! Backup is recommended.

• Fixed fuselage parts generating too much lift at very high AOA

• Wing camber is now adjustable. Camber combined with thickness increases lift at any angle of attack, but also increases drag at high speeds
• Wing aspect ratio now has an effect on stall angle and peak lift angle
• Wing joint flexibility is increased
• All parts now generate lift in addition to drag
• Angle snapping now works in rotation mode
• Added options for airspeed and altitude units
• Fixed a mirroring bug in the editor
• Possibly fixed a bug that caused planes to get stuck in the air while launching

• Added a part deformation effect
• Turbofan RPM is now independent of core RPM as it will be required by the upcoming engine building mode
• Bad weather is now less rainy, but more foggy and turbulent
• Added more rotor customization options, making coaxial and tamdem rotor helicopters possible
• Added a subtle motion blur effect (optional) that mostly affects propellers and rotors only
• New runways and taxiways
• Possibly fixed a bug that caused wings to flip when loading a vessel on some players
• Added a couple of non-procedural wing parts
• Small performance improvements