[0.23]Down Under Aerospace & Party Supplies Continued 0.52 Balancing & size reduction

[Albert VDS]

Down Under Aerospace & Party Supplies is a mod made by Sam Lewis, original thread can be found here.

List of parts:

+ X-4 "Gumleaf" Fuel Tank

+ X-8 "Gumtree" Fuel Tank

+ X-16 "Murrumbidgee" Fuel Tank

+ X-32 "Murray" Fuel Tank

+ Poseidon Fuel Tank

+ Olympian Fuel Tank

+ LAB Liquid Engine

+ "Wallaby" Efficient Liquid Fuel Engine

+ "Kangaroo" Liquid Engine

+ "Theseus" Heavy Liquid Engine

+ "Wombat" Liquid Fuel Engine

+ "Koala" Liquid Fuel Engine

+ Kite-9 Liquid Fuel Engine

+ LAB Advanced S.A.S.

+ DIY Decoupler

+ Large DIY Decoupler

+ Short Engine Shroud

+ Small Engine Shroud

+ Large Engine Shroud

+ Small-Large Engine Shroud

Version history:

0.5.2

- Balanced parts. No more heavy rockets and huge amounts of fuel.

- Reduced size from 166.5 MB to 25.5 by converting .mbm files to .png files.

0.5.1

- Added 0.23 compatiblity

- Changed SAS to use new module

- Added parts careermode

Edited August 23, 2014 by Albert VDS

[theSpeare]

Screenshots would be great

[Xobotun]

I wish there were screenshots and/or short description:)

[sirkut]

It even says screenshots will be added soon. No sense in stating the obvious.

[Cby]

I did not expect to see this mod revived! This was one of the first Mods I used! Thankyou, can't wait for screenshots. As an Australian myself, you're awesome.

[Albert VDS]

Temp screenshot added to the first post.

[Albert VDS]

Temp screenshot added to the first post.

I'm also trying to make Ausplane compatible with 0.23, but that needs more than just cfg fixes.

[katalex-3]

Huge polygons and textures 166 Mb

[enneract]

I eagerly await the ausplane, personally.

[Ratzap]

Huge polygons and textures 166 Mb

The in memory compressor will handle that for you.

Now if the Ausplane interior is full of spiders and snakes you might have something to worry about

[aeTIos]

Waa, that stubby shuttle thing looks cool!

[Ratzap]

I just unpacked it and had a look. Nice pretty gear but you will probably want to revisit the engines (I know, first release etc) as the numbers seem to be all over the place. Compared against stock, KW and AIES engines some of the DU parts are not very compelling (eg heavier than a mainsail, less efficient and less thrust). Of course you don't want to be a carbon copy but so your parts are in the same ballpark.

One other thing that struck me was using underscore '_' in part names, those get converted to full stops '.' internally to KSP and it can be annoying to match the names up. But hey, at least there's no spaces

[Albert VDS]

Thanks for the comments Ratzap, I'll see if I can balance them and still keep them unique.

[Albert VDS]

Mod updated:

0.5.2

- Balanced parts. No more heavy rockets and huge amounts of fuel.

- Reduced size from 166.5 MB to 25.5 by converting .mbm files to .png files.

[Ratzap]

I shall have a look me old mucka, cheers

[GabrielG.A.B.Fonseca]

I have such good memories of this mod... My first Mün landing was using the lander that came with this mod...

[likke_A_boss]

Still working on that stubby shuttle?

[Albert VDS]

Sorry, I got a bit side tracked by other things. =X

I'll see if I can complete the conversion in the coming week.

[likke_A_boss]

Sorry, I got a bit side tracked by other things. =X

I'll see if I can complete the conversion in the coming week.

Awesome, glad that this hasn't falling off your radar.

[Legendary Emu]

I like this. Are you planning on adding auto-shrouds for the engines?

[The Destroyer]

Holy... wow, I remember this!

...I still miss IFE, the one that got me to the first orbit and mun landing

[spudcosmic]

Those are some nice looking engines

[chickenplucker]

Oh wow, I was just thinking about this and wondering if the little Ausplane was ever updated. Keep up the good work!

[Albert VDS]

Worked some on the Ausplane and it's in game now. The next step is to rework the cfg files and allow it to actually glide instead of dropping like a brick.

I like this. Are you planning on adding auto-shrouds for the engines?

Haven't planned this yet.

The next step is to get a working version of the Ausplane released.

After that I'll see how much work the 0.4 parts would need to have 0.23 functionality and update textures.

Maybe from that point on all the 0.5 parts will get extra stuff like auto-shrouds.

[Albert VDS]

There hasn't been a lot of work done on the Ausplane, mainly because I'm too busy with doing other stuff.

I'm looking for someone who has experience with configuring plane parts who wants to overhaul/recreate the cfg files.

Send me a PM if you want to help out.