[1.12.5] CRE - Stockalike British Rocketry [2.2][02/03/2021]

[Drakenex]

On 11/16/2018 at 12:10 PM, BRAAAP_STUTUTU said:

Hmm, now i wonder if a Tea rockets, now in colour is ever gonna be made 

[Cheesecake]

@BealeAre there any news or is this mod dead?

[Beale]

49 minutes ago, Cheesecake said:

@BealeAre there any news or is this mod dead?

I wouldn't say dead, but just "complete". At least in its basic form. I am happy where it is for now.
What were you looking forward to if I'm curious?

The planned stuff with @steedcrugeon and @CobaltWolf is on deep-freeze though

 

Edited May 4, 2019 by Beale

[Barzon]

I dont know about @Cheesecake, but if possible, could you finish the HOTOL, @Beale? And maybe make some launch stands for the Black Arrow?  

[Cheesecake]

9 hours ago, Beale said:

I wouldn't say dead, but just "complete". At least in its basic form. I am happy where it is for now.
What were you looking forward to if I'm curious?

The planned stuff with @steedcrugeon and @CobaltWolf is on deep-freeze though

 

Especially I ask for the expansion of Europa-Launcher.

[CobaltWolf]

14 hours ago, Cheesecake said:

@BealeAre there any news or is this mod dead?

14 hours ago, Beale said:

I wouldn't say dead, but just "complete". At least in its basic form. I am happy where it is for now.
What were you looking forward to if I'm curious?

The planned stuff with @steedcrugeon and @CobaltWolf is on deep-freeze though

4 hours ago, Cheesecake said:

Especially I ask for the expansion of Europa-Launcher.

I had big plans for improving the Blue Streak / Europa and making a bunch of new variants related to them, especially alt-history stuff. Blue Streak and it's derivatives (real or not) is one of my favorite rockets, it basically combines the best parts of Titan (strong enough structure for boosters) and Atlas (partial balloon tank for efficiency, kerolox instead of hypergols) into one LV core. Unfortunately, I just don't have time to devote to fleshing it out with how long my to-do list for BDB is (I have literally years of content planned for that mod and I have consistently felt behind schedule on it since I started working on it). I'd like to come back to it some time, but for now the Blue Streak and Europa parts are on indefinite hiatus.

[The Dressian Exploder]

Any plans on ever developing this mod further, @Beale? If not then no worries. Cheerio!

[Beale]

30 minutes ago, The Dressian Exploder said:

Any plans on ever developing this mod further, @Beale? If not then no worries. Cheerio!

It's considered "finished" for now. But thanks for the prompt to update it to 1.8.X.

[golkaidakhaana]

Just out of curiosity, what ever happened to the single-nozzle Gamma engine and Cobaltwolf's Europa expansions?

[CobaltWolf]

10 hours ago, sslaptnhablhat said:

Just out of curiosity, what ever happened to the single-nozzle Gamma engine and Cobaltwolf's Europa expansions?

The Europa stuff is on my hard drive somewhere but none of it even got close to being textured.

[Beale]

Several fun experiments with new texture layering, makes colours a lot easier, trivial even.

[claustro]

What a surprise, Beale! It seems like the spacecat cannot stop chasing mice! :D

Nice new textures!

 

[Beale]

22 hours ago, claustro said:

the spacecat cannot stop chasing mice!

They just need to be a different flavour

Edited February 24, 2020 by Beale

[Beale]

[Foxxonius Augustus]

It makes me unreasonably happy to see this mod getting some dev time put into it again! Thank you for coming back to it.

[Virtualgenius]

I really would like to learn how you guys do this 

[Beale]

4 hours ago, Virtualgenius said:

I really would like to learn how you guys do this 

I use Wings3D and Photoshop for production, with Blender for some advanced things. Wings3D is free, Photoshop isn't, but there are many free tools:

• Blender (3D modelling)
• Krita (Texturing)
• Gimp (Texturing)

If you are a university student you can probably get your hands on these for free or cheap:

• Maya
• 3DS Max
• Photoshop

On the general art side, you must just practice, and practice often - you can become really good quickly (I am not that amazing honestly, and stick to things I know ).

I have a basic KSP modding tutorial here, but it is pretty old:

 

Edited February 27, 2020 by Beale

[Beale]

RZ.2 Engine for Blue Streak.
Basic model done. Will have the option for 0.625m bare, 1.25m boat-tail - and of course supports surface attach.

Can you guess what you could build with a 1.25m boat-tail?

[Virtualgenius]

Looks good any intentions to create the original orange fairings that are not procedural

Edited February 28, 2020 by Virtualgenius

[Virtualgenius]

I created a real plume for the liquid stages and resized a KW Fairing from  simple adjustable fairings for looks what do you  think

Edited February 28, 2020 by Virtualgenius

[Foxxonius Augustus]

6 hours ago, Virtualgenius said:

I created a real plume for the liquid stages and resized a KW Fairing from  simple adjustable fairings for looks what do you  think

~cool pic snip~

I think that might be too bright(opaque?). The plume on the Gamma 8 engine was very faint, to the point that in some recordings the plume is not visible at all. In others, all you can see is the mach diamonds.

Edited February 28, 2020 by Foxxonius Augustus

[Beale]

7 hours ago, Virtualgenius said:

I created a real plume for the liquid stages and resized a KW Fairing from  simple adjustable fairings for looks what do you  think

1 hour ago, Foxxonius Augustus said:

I think that might be too bright(opaque?). The plume on the Gamma 8 engine was very faint, to the point that in some recordings the plume is not visible at all. In others, all you can see is the mach diamonds.

Plumes are allways appreciated, but this is a fair point, the HTP flame was almost white.

 

 

 

[Foxxonius Augustus]

2 minutes ago, Beale said:

Plumes are allways appreciated, but this is a fair point, the HTP flame was almost white.

@Virtualgenius my last comment was made before I had coffee. It was meant to be more on the constructive side and I don't think it came across that way. Keep up the good work!

[Beale]

Your RZ.2 sea level rocket engine, ma'am.

[Virtualgenius]

@Foxxonius Augustus that was fine no issues here, I picked the hypergolic as it was the closest i got get to almost clear the next closest one was alcolox still trying to master the real plume configs the black arrow ran a really high concentration of htp to kerosene. I might try alcolox see what it looks like