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Helicopters

Helicopters are air vehicles. They take off vertically, hover, and are limited by a configurable height range. They use a special spinning rotor part.

PropertyValue
MovementAIR
FrictionLOW_FRICTION
Tilts/banksYes
Foldervehicles/helicopters/

Controls

KeyAction
W / STilt forward/back and move horizontally
A / DRotate (yaw)
SpaceIncrease lift (ascend)
ShiftDecrease lift (descend)

When the driver leaves, the helicopter descends gently and keeps some of its forward momentum instead of dropping.

Type-specific parts & settings

  • Rotor — the spinning blade. Add one rotor part (see Creating vehicles → rotor).
  • heightLimit — the min/max Y it may fly to, e.g. { minHeight: -64, maxHeight: 320 }.

Everything else (skin, seats, speed, fuel, etc.) works exactly like a car. For the full file format see Creating vehicles.

.part(new Rotor())                 # or in hjson: { type: rotor, ... }
heightLimit: { minHeight: -64, maxHeight: 320 }
gearbox: { realistic: false } # helicopters don't use a gearbox
trunkSize: 0