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Helicopter rotor torque - Updated, now with reverse thrust for all thrusters!
   
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Type: Mod
Mod category: Block, Script
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1 Feb, 2020 @ 3:49am
17 Sep, 2021 @ 4:40pm
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Helicopter rotor torque - Updated, now with reverse thrust for all thrusters!

Description
Modification on Digi's realistic thrusters that requires you put a tail rotor on a helicopter to prevent it spinning violently.

This will:

* Limit helicopter speed to 60m/s

* If it finds TLB jets, limit their thrust if they're angled too steeply (no VTOLs)

* Require a helicopter tail rotor

* Deploy "realistic-ish" thrust, scaled to 0.5 and configurable

* If there is a ! as the first character of custom data for that thruster, either the torque (for helicopter rotors and tail rotors) or the thrust (for other thrusters) will be reversed. Handy for making pusher prop designs in servers that don't have pusher prop blocks, or for making Chinook type helicopters.

Also includes a gyrocopter rotor.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOUGZGiob_g&feature=youtu.be

Now those tail rotors aren't so cosmetic anymore!
4 Comments
spiritplumber  [author] 7 Apr, 2022 @ 12:01am 
can you try the other prop, maybe I derped on the mesh name
condottiere 5 Apr, 2022 @ 8:32pm 
Per your description, I put a single exclamation mark in the custom data of the propeller:

!

Did it need any other tags?
spiritplumber  [author] 5 Apr, 2022 @ 7:54pm 
what did you put in the custom data?
condottiere 5 Apr, 2022 @ 3:16am 
Hello, spiritplumber! I think your ! custom data is not working any more, at least for the large plane propeller. I just tried making a pusher prop plane, and it flew backwards. But otherwise thank you for the rotor torque addition to this mod!