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Royal Wingman

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a little side project I've been toying with. There is still a long way to go, it's trailer launched and parachute/airbag recovered, both are modeled, but I'm having difficulty figuring out how to incorporate both, I don't think they can be shoehorned into a landing gear template. One key spawns it, one key summons it, or let's it follow loosely and one key fires the missiles which are currently set to target AI aircraft. It has no problem pacing at any speed, but it has trouble holding close formation above 200 kts, which I believe is the update cycle and I think if I just pushed it a couple of hundred yards ahead, it would still be able to compensate adequately turning while staying closer.


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2020. Works for either sim with any aircraft.


Here it is with a different wingman and different code for controlling the missiles.
 
Here are a few more stills. The hope had been to make the wingman interchangeable between versions and while that remains possible, advances in the basic 2024 engine are pulling this development more toward 2024. Specifically, the beta version SDK is lightning quick, it builds and updates projects as quickly as we can think of something to tune or adjust, preventing the editing process from distracting the creativity process, plus the added functionality and control is starting to look much more accommodating to the current goal of deploying the Royal Wingman from launch rails on a flatbed trailer.

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We're getting better at the course matching algorithm and have the model set up to fire a missile on command, it carries 3 in total and once the missile mesh leaves the aircraft it is deleted and replaced by a spawned mesh missile that flies to target.

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Here we can see the wingman tracking with the user Hornet over San Francisco.

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And after firing two missiles, we can see those are also tracked on the tablet. They could have specific targets if we wanted to type that all into the console. For now they are set to the nearest AI.

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