Saturn v

[Piwa]

Since software development Rockets for "RSS" suspended I decided to make "stock version." Rocket has four versions. As there is a beta version of "Apollo",at a Denny's on the LEM, you can perform "Apollo Mission".

WARNING:

1. Possible conflict with the addon "World space"

2. Apollo has no internal IVA,has no docking port,has no parachute (use the Mk-2 R)

3. Rocket does not work with the FAR, (first stage outputs almost Rocket into orbit)

it will be corrections in a special version for FAR.

4.In add-on has a powerful Struts, fasten them all motors and stages.

Please report bugs you find, I have not much time to check all...

Interesting Addons:

-Downloading LEM from Denny, you can perform a full "Apollo Mission".

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/70557-APOLLO-LEM-OLDD-%28Odd-Looking-Devices-by-DennyTX%29-present-%28v-0-23-03-03-14%29

-Great FASA tower, suitable for Rocket.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/71032-FASA-Launch-Towers

I'm waiting for your advice, criticism, bug reports,and suggestions for the future.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/16y2xlekl2xki6a/1jzuxr-zlP/SATURN%20V.zip

[Piwa]

Sorry for the terrible screenshots...

[Guest]

Great release. I'll soon send you some tips on how to improve the rocket. Also, get in contact with Nazari and ask him for realistic effects. It's possible to make custom smoke now, so you could have really nice F-1 effects. J-2 had no smoke, being somewhat similar to SSME (also a hydrolox engine), but fainter and without the "blue bit" inside the flame, and LM and CSM engines (as well as S-IVB APS) should resemble OMS effects on the CSS (they're also small hypergolics). For retros and ullage rockets, I dunno, but they're all solid, except the APS.

[scorchdestroya]

Slight bug, the S1C cannot lift the rocket's weight even with no payload...

[Space_Kraken]

Wow, right out of nowhere. Keep up the good work!

[Camacha]

The Apollo program is getting a lot of love lately - and that is a good thing.

Wow, right out of nowhere.

Not entirely out of nowhere, this has been brewing if you knew where to look

[Piwa]

Slight bug, the S1C cannot lift the rocket's weight even with no payload...

Perhaps you use a plug-in fuel (Real fuel, World space).It conflicts with other plugins fuel.

[kiwiak]

I started testing it, two small comments;

I think that standard IVA for mk1-2 pod woudl be better as placeholder for apollo capsule.

Also, for some reason part catalogue dont properly tags all parts.

edit:

CM service module needs additional attachment points on bottom, to attach it to top of LEM fairing.

Right now i have to use struts, otherwise CM breaks away from rocket immediatly.

Edited March 9, 2014 by kiwiak

[CaptainKipard]

Very nice. I'll wait until this mod matures a little, but still. Wow.

It's amazing that this hasn't been one sooner.

[GJS]

Very nice!!!

[kiwiak]

I played around with it again and here are some comments:

- S-IVB decoupler used during LEM extraction has too high decoupling force. It ejects LM from S-IVB while, at least on apollo 13 movie LM was gently released and than moved away using CM rcs

- Adding decoupling module to CM engine woudl be nice. Now to separate CM from LM still attached to S-IVB i have to use some stock decouplr that gets in way during docking.

- LM doesnt have torque and relies on rcs, so shoudl CM capsule. I have to turn off it anyway, because when i use it ships start to wobble like crazy.

[CaptRobau]

I noticed you're using a lot of real geometry to convey detail. That's a big no-no. All those modelled rivets, etc. on the engines or command pod are just killing performance and don't even look better than a decent texture.

[Guest]

Wrong. Polygons don't decrease performance, textures do. Graphics in general are non-critical in KSP, memory is. And that's why what he's doing is the optimal way of modeling parts. Lots of polies, simple textures.

[Woopert]

Fantastic work on this! I'll try this out later today. I'll be following along!

[CaptRobau]

Wrong. Polygons don't decrease performance, textures do. Graphics in general are non-critical in KSP, memory is. And that's why what he's doing is the optimal way of modeling parts. Lots of polies, simple textures.

Then something is dragging down performance, as those parts lagged the hell out of my PC. And my point about a nice texture (doesn't even have to be that high-res) looking better than polygon details still stands, at least that's how I see it.

[Guest]

The thing is, to get high detail, you need high resolution, and that does ​cause problems with KSP. Polygon details are almost certainly not the reason.

However, I didn't test the latest version, so perhaps it's got some custom colliders. Those do drag performance down very, very quickly with rising polygon count.

[Reddragon]

I see you have been working a lot on this pack Piwa. The models you made are extremely good!