Hot Staging

[DJ Reonic]

Has anyone tried hot-staging in KSP? Is it even possible to do without destroying the rocket trying to do it? I've been trying to get something working with Tantares, but I keep blowing stuff up. I'm thinking of just using MM configs to edit Max temps and such on the proper parts. Any ideas?

Edited June 27, 2017 by DJ Reonic

[regex]

That would probably be the best thing to do, edit part temps.

Edited June 27, 2017 by regex

[sebi.zzr]

54 minutes ago, DJ Reonic said:

Any ideas?

Try to play with:

MODULE
{
 name = ModuleEngines
 exhaustDamageDistanceOffset = 
}

 

[qzgy]

3 hours ago, DJ Reonic said:

Has anyone tried hot-staging in KSP? Is it even possible to do without destroying the rocket trying to do it? I've been trying to get something working with Tantares, but I keep blowing stuff up. I'm thinking of just using MM configs to edit Max temps and such on the proper parts. Any ideas?

I wonder if it would be possible to add a heat shield to at lest temporarily keep stuff from exploding. Never played with tantares though....

[DJ Reonic]

16 hours ago, qzgy said:

I wonder if it would be possible to add a heat shield to at lest temporarily keep stuff from exploding. Never played with tantares though....

I'm going to try doing that along with some offsetting, to see if i can come up with something. I'll try using Smart Parts to control the staging.

[genericeventhandler]

16 hours ago, DJ Reonic said:

I'm going to try doing that along with some offsetting, to see if i can come up with something. I'll try using Smart Parts to control the staging.

 

The part module you need is Stager,  I can't test this because as usual I am at work

I would try copying a decoupler and see if it works. 

 

@PART[somepartnameHere]:NEEDS[SmartParts]:FINAL

{

    MODULE

{

name = Stager

activationPercentage = 0.01 // not sure if this is 1 or 0.01 as a percentage

monitoredResource = LiquidFuel

group = 0

}

}

 

 

GEH.