CobaltWolf

An initial commit of the Renovated Command Module Lab is now on Github!

Of course there is, that's why I didn't include it in that post! (light hearted ribbing, no worries) Still nothing on Viking. Rest assured you all will be the first to know once there is one.

Hey all! Sorry for the continued quiet... this year simply will not stop 'happening' for me, and it sounds like the rest of the team are in a similar boat. I was able to get the RCML in game... a week or two ago now, but haven't managed to find time to finish the configs and test it properly. Or, take a screenshot, apparently. In the meantime, Invader HAS been busy working on the release of ORANGES, which you should all really check out if you haven't! There is one piece of progress to share on my end, which is that Mariner 8/9 is coming along swell! The solar panels and some other parts are also used by Mariner 6/7, which will help Invader when he comes back to finish those parts.

Haha, yes, they’ve been gone since the first treatment which I believe was late June? And then we had to wait two weeks for an all clear but we haven’t seen one since the treatment thankfully. That’s one thing I can put behind me.

No news to report on any fronts. Been super busy with work and Armored Core 6. Hoping to have an update, not necessarily on Viking, in the nearish future. More likely to be on RCML or Mariner 8/9. Myself and Akron have figured out a plan for moving forward on finishing the lander but I’m waiting on some files, and once I have them it will still be a bit before we have some progress to show.

To whom it may concern, I am still alive. Armored Core 6, a title I've been waiting for since I was but a wee lad, has finally released. I am fully in the mech soup. Fear not, I'm sure I will return soon. Love, -CW

Oh, didn't mean for my response to come off in any sort of way. I was more chiming in - mostly for people who might not have known about the bridle trough and all that - that I'd looked at including it but wound up not.

No, sadly. Trying to get updates on it myself. In the meantime, I have made some progress on Mariner 8/9 which I also wanted to go along with this stuff. Oh, using the Voyager Mars PM as a roll your own Mun lander is actually very cool Delta IV with SRMUs is incredibly based and I can't believe it's not more of a thing.

I really wanted to make the bridle function like real life for the BDB Gemini, but it was too complex for the limited possibilities presented by the KSP parachute module. (for one thing, parachutes can only be suspended through/rotate about a single point). Correct - it's actually currently using the real thrust, not even reduced.

The two Agena engine variants with the big black radiative extensions are from the Shuttle Agena studies. I didn't make new tankage for them since that would have been a whole project itself, plus the SOT Agena was cooler.

Yeah mostly just meant that I forced myself to actually update the names/descriptions before pushing them, haha

Heh, I didn't even think it got uploaded - I was having trouble with creating a new branch last night. Ironic that you said they were copy paste - I put a lot of work into making them more polished than my normal uploads. There's still work to be done on them - that's just as far as I got last night before having to go to sleep. Thanks for the heads up on the solars, I hadn't gotten around to checking them, or the engine. The bioshield decoupler should decouple from the bottom - it's used to jettison itself and the bottom of the bioshield once the lander has done its thing.

UPDATE - BLUEDOG DESIGN BUREAU v1.13.0 “Забытый” BDB v1.13.0 Release Album GITHUB DOWNLOAD | SPACEDOCK DOWNLOAD TBA should also be available via CKAN soon. New Content and Features Surveyor parts including historical lander and conceptual orbiter Minotaur I parts including M55A1, SR19, Orion 50XL and Orion 38, both fairings Complete revamp of Helios parts, featuring additional Helios parts not previously in BDB, like dust analyzer experiment, zodiacal light photometer experiment, low gain antenna, and specialized adapter MORL space station including station core, solar panels, Plutonium Brayton-cycle generator, and resistojet electric RCS New Kepler Space Telescope part set New Syncom 1-3 satellite part Low profile 4.25m (s4b sized) stack decoupler New fairings and adapters for Carrack (from ETS) and the proposed Athena III by Estreetrockets New IVAs developed in collaboration with FreeIVA developer JonnyOThan for most station parts missing IVAs including the Skylab MDA, Airlock, and ETS Research Module. IVAs have support for FreeIVA. Updates and Enhancements New BDB Extras Patch for realism-inspired alternate XLR81 Agena engine textures. Features a green outer nozzle for the XLR81-8096 and white inner nozzles for the Agena-B and Agena-D XLR81 variants New BDB Extras Patch for alternate Juno/Redstone textures. Features a variant of the Juno tank texture with Latin alphabet lettering and a no letters variant New Agena-D Seasat Texture Variants TAC life support command pods update thanks to birdog357 Updated Extraplanetary Launchpads support Castor 120 Air variants Isp update Castor 120XL Air variant Bug fixes Fix compatibility with Tantares APAS-75 Improvements to realfuels compatibility with Scout solids Fix S-II Wet Workshop crew requirements Minor texture fixes for Juno/Redstone Various minor config typo fixes Changed Pegaus Micrometeorite Experiment Panel from a electric part to a science part Added electric charge to OSCAR-1 Update Module Manager version

Need to step in and manage expectations - we do NOT have new IVAs for the CM or related parts. Rodger started on one but it wasn't finished. Just to clear the air there! Hopefully some day. I don't know what conceptual Voyager variants there are, but I'm sure @Invaderchaos is planning on going as hard as he did for the Pioneer variants.

Sooooo actually I think we are going to push the 1.13 release tomorrow. No Viking but we realized we are sitting on a bunch of content from earlier this year and wanted to get it into the release build before going back to the big projects we’ve started (Viking, Atlas, Voyager). That would include MORL, Kepler, Surveyor, Helios, Pegasus, Minotaur, and Taurus. Are the FreeIVA cfgs on the dev branch? I don’t think I’ve used them.

Work is continuing on Viking. The Orbiter components are ready to go in game (indeed - I've already started getting their cfgs together), and the lander itself is almost completely modeled. Still a lot of work to go, but we are definitely getting a Viking in BDB.

Oh that's fantastic! I'd love to see more kitbashed recreations like this, there's a lot of stuff that we've never made dedicated parts for.

No plans, sorry.

... fair.

That's how it was on the real thing. Though it does seem like there's a way to shift the rover forward on it? You could try using the extender thingy from the LRV

Looks like you placed the ramp too high up on the side of the descent stage. The triangular struts that mount it to the stage shouldn't be sticking up like that. With that said, you could probably decouple the rover and it will be fine... I hope... quicksave first..

Yeah they require some tweaking, there wasn't a way to make it work automatically with every configuration of docking port etc that players might use.

Oh god we never fully released Surveyor

@Stolas I like that service module

Viking Aeroshell is coming along swimmingly. Soon we'll be on to the hard part...