Helicopters

by kumpu

Adds a fully animated attack helicopter to the game. Ideal for getting from A to B quickly, exploring the map, building islands and nuking biters from the sky. Now 84% less buggier!

Content
4 years ago
0.15 - 0.17
290
Transportation

g Cargo Helicopter

4 years ago

Hey buddy,

I really love your mod. thank you for this, keep up the good work.

I was wondering if it would be possible to integrate a cargo heli, shouldn't be that hard, i guess? due they already can fly alone from port to port, can you integrate the option to let them fly, when the inventory is full or a time set has passed like the trains?
Also i'd love to see your cargo heli, think it will be great ;)

4 years ago
(updated 4 years ago)

+1
I'd like that too

You can use the same mechanics that the cargo mod does for selecting a route and stations.

4 years ago
(updated 4 years ago)

Hi, the problem is the 3D model. I have some experience with blender but doing such complicated things is outside my capabilities.
Some while ago a guy called zumf (https://www.zumf.co.uk) did a scout model for me. Really excellent work but after that he had no time left and quit the project. I also got distracted with other things so the model is still sitting on my disk. We had a scout (https://i.imgur.com/izNgxfF.png), attack (remodel of the current heli) and cargo variant planed.
Well if you or anyone knows someone willing to do the remaining two models, let me know.

4 years ago

Oh dude, the scout is looking really nice, very factorio stylish. I'd like to help, so I'm going to try to do some modeling - but I can't promise anything. I will do some stuff and send it to you ;)

4 years ago

Yup the goal was to have models that look 100% vanilla and I don't want to accept anything less. I'm curious what you'll come up with :)

4 years ago

I'm getting back into modelling on blender, might try and make a new heli model soon.

4 years ago

Hey dude,

could you please send me the scout model? imo and technical understanding you would construct your two helis, stranded on a lonesome planet, with the same main functional parts (turbine, rotor blades, etc.) you can contact me via mail: lapo.lappen@gmail.com. i'm actually in a good state of progress i guess. i started out building a chinook type of helicopter and wanted to thin it out afterwards, but that didn't work out for me. so i just started all over again.

4 years ago

Hey guys. I feel bad about not carrying on with this. It was fun, but I had other commitments I had to focus on. You should be able to download all the source files here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mTB8NM9XCqdJIhFw9YcTIR5d5e-H5tEZ?usp=sharing

I hope someone can help kumpu create something really cool!

4 years ago

I too am very excited about the prospect of addition helicopters being added. I really like the idea of a chinook style cargo helicopter!

Thanks for everyone coming together to try and make this happen! Factorio seems to really have a wonderful modding community.

4 years ago

Hey guys. I feel bad about not carrying on with this. It was fun, but I had other commitments I had to focus on. You should be able to download all the source files here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mTB8NM9XCqdJIhFw9YcTIR5d5e-H5tEZ?usp=sharing

I hope someone can help kumpu create something really cool!

What would it cost to have you finish the cargo variant? Because we might pull something together. I'd kill to have a Chinook cargo helicopter I can fly or it can provide me requested resources.

2 years ago

Hello?

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