Drone Flight Controller Pro: Realistic Physics & Creator

Real drones don't slide around on rails. They push air.

Drone Flight Controller simulates a multirotor the way the real thing works. Every motor spins up and down with its own lag, a mixer turns your stick input into motor speeds, and the drone moves because of the thrust and torque those motors make. Momentum, drag, wind and prop wash all come for free, and the drone still flies smoothly enough for a beginner.

Try it in your browser: Play the web demo.

New in 1.2 (free update): winch and delivery mode, cinematic camera tools with a Shot Sequencer, follow-me and patrol AI, formations, and 3 new realistic drones.

THREE WAYS TO FLY

• Cinematic: let go of the sticks and it brakes and holds its position, like a GPS camera drone.
• Sport: the sticks tilt the drone and it levels itself when you let go. Fast and fun, with altitude hold and a drift brake.
• Acro: full manual rates with expo and Air Mode. Flips, rolls and dives, like a real FPV quad.
• Arcade: no wind, no crashes, and turns that carve like a kart. Boost rings, coins, combos and a score system included.

COMBAT, READY IN TWO CLICKS

• Weapon attachments that turn to follow the mouse: twin-gun turret, 4-tube missile pod or nose cannon.
• Blaster, Machine Gun, Rockets and Homing Missiles with lock-on.
• Health, teams, explosions and respawn.
• Practice targets that never shoot back, and enemy AI that hunts, circles and fires.
• Any object can be a target. No models, sounds or textures to import.

PHYSICS YOU CAN FEEL

• Per-motor spool lag and a real mixer for quads, hexas, octos and coaxial frames.
• Drag tuned to a top speed you choose; spinning propellers slow the drone by themselves.
• Ground cushion, extra lift in forward flight, and prop wash wobble.
• Wind with gusts and turbulence, weaker near the ground.
• Crashes and motor cut-outs at high impact speed.
• Six presets: Beginner, Camera Drone, FPV Racer, Heavy Lifter, Tiny Whoop and Arcade.

AI DRONES

• Fly with the same physics and sticks as the player.
• Hover, Follow, Orbit, Wander, Waypoints, Race, Chase, Move To and Land.
• Dodge obstacles and each other, free themselves when stuck, respawn after a crash.

Winch, cargo and deliveries.

• A hook on a line: lower, raise, pick up and let go, with real swinging loads that pull the drone down.
• Cargo kinds (parcel, crate, medical kit, rescue buoy, food bag), fragile cargo, lift capacity and line strength.
• Pick-up and drop-off depots and a ready-made Delivery Game: jobs, timer, points and streaks.
• New Drone Delivery demo: a town with a warehouse and rooftop drop-offs.

Cinematic camera tools.

• Six one-key cinematic shots: Orbit, Tracking, Reveal, Pull-back, Top-down and Fly-by.
• A stabilised gimbal camera with tilt and zoom, which can aim itself at what an AI drone is filming.
• Record a flight and replay it on the drone or the camera, smoothed and in slow motion.
• Keyframed camera paths and a Shot Sequencer for level intros, mission cut-scenes and flyover videos. No Timeline needed.

Follow-me, patrol and formations.

• Follow-me camera drones that film a person or vehicle at a set distance, height and angle.
• Patrol guards with a vision cone: look around, spot, follow, search and return to their route.
• Low-battery return home and charging for every AI drone.
• Formation helper: V, line, column, echelon, diamond, box and circle, even with the drone you fly.
• Quick setups in the Setup Window and a Sneak Challenge demo in Drone Park.

DRONE CREATOR

Build your own drones: the Drone Creator. A full editor window with a live 3D preview that generates drones from scratch, with no modelling needed:

• Pick by picture: every choice is a picture button that shows your drone with that option, from the frame layout to the propeller tips.
• 12 starter designs, including an X8 cinelifter with an action camera, a folding camera drone, a guarded beginner quad and a Recon Drone in woodland camo. Plus 8 colour palettes and Randomise with locks.
• 7 frame layouts: Quad X, Quad +, stretched X, Hexa, Octo, Y6 and X8 coaxial.
• Body: shell, racing stack, heavy hub or pod. Arms: round tube, square beam, flat plate or curved.
• Realistic small parts: copper motor windings, screws, clamps, wiring, boards and battery straps.
• Propellers: any blade count and tip shape, with guards or ducts. Plus landing gear, gimbal and FPV cameras, batteries, payloads and LEDs. An "On this drone" list shows what's fitted at a glance.
• Paint: 8 zones, 6 finishes, 6 patterns including multi-colour camo (Woodland, Desert, Urban, Arctic and Night in one click), decals, dirt and wear, and a brush that paints directly on the 3D model.
• Ready to fly on save: each drone saves as a prefab, with mass and flight settings worked out from its parts.

Realistic drone models included. The Falcon FPV Racer (a 5-inch carbon racer) and the Atlas X8 Cinelifter (a coaxial X8 with a cinema gimbal) are detailed, textured and built at real-world size, with spinning propellers. They fly straight away, and Make Selected Model a Drone turns your own models into drones the same way.

EFFECTS, SOUND AND HUD

• Propeller blur, surface-aware downwash (dust, grass, sand, water, snow), sparks, smoke, explosions and speed trails.
• Every sound is generated: motor whine that follows the real RPM, air rush, impacts, arming beeps and weapon sounds. Custom clip slots included.
• Chase, Onboard (gimbal / FPV), Orbit and Line of Sight cameras.
• A HUD with speed and height dials, motors, battery, compass, horizon, race times and a combat crosshair with missile lock. No Canvas needed.

THREE DEMO SCENES

• Drone Park: a golden-hour valley with forest, an industrial yard, a tower crane and a 12-gate race against AI.
• Drone Arcade: sky islands with waterfalls, an 18-ring course, boost rings and coins.
• Drone Combat Arena: bunkers, radio masts, a fighter drone with a mouse-aimed turret, and targets to shoot.
• Plus a simple Test Flight scene.

BUILT FOR DESIGNERS

• One Setup Window: a searchable drone gallery, presets and plain-language sliders.
• Pages for controls, camera, AI, combat, effects, sound, battery, wind and the HUD.
• Check & Fix finds setup problems and fixes them with one click.
• Make Selected Model a Drone works with your own models.

FOR PROGRAMMERS

• An input interface for your own controls, AI or replays.
• Events for arming, take-off, landing, crashes and mode changes.
• One-call combat setup, plus weapon, turret, aim and health APIs.

Works with Unity 6 on the Built-in Render Pipeline and URP, with the Input System package or the old Input Manager. Keyboard, mouse and Mode 2 gamepad. Includes a 7-page Quick Start and a 26-page Documentation PDF.

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