Designing Aircraft

[gw15]

Designing aircraft is extremely frustrating because you have to go through 4 or 6 choices before the program will let you know if it is viable and the range. With the possible thousands of combinations it takes a long time.

Anyone have suggestions on how they do it efficiently?

[DTurtle]

Pymous did this mockup for tanks:

Something similar for aircraft would probably work.

[BlueTemplar]

Oh wow, this is gorgeous !

I redid the design many times over in changing just a single parameter and comparing the results. Still cumbersome, yeah, something like Alpha Centauri's (cost!) or Distant World's (drive parameters!) unit editors would be sooo much better !

[arvcran2]

Kewl!

Would have to have scrolling lists, air craft require more resources.

Drop down scrolling menus per choice may be better than scrolling lists.

Though seeing the differences may be better.

[gw15]

Pymous - excellent! Where can I get the files?

I wish I had the skills to prepare something like that for planes. Maybe EXCEL with drop downs.