CobaltWolf

Very WIP, but found a new part for Apollo - another spotlight! I wanted this to be a 'part-in-an-evening' type surprise but I wound up getting a late start - I'll be able to finish cleaning it up and get it on Github tonight before resuming LDC work. \

Sorry, I just realized nobody actually responded to you. Yeah haha, nothing will break if you install it alongside FASA. The parts aren't interchangeable, at least I don't think, since both mods have their own little quirks about how things are put together. The BDB Saturn V's first two stages are a different, more realistically proportioned diameter than FASA's (specifically, 5.625m diameter compared to 5m, relatively). I'm not sure how they compare on balance - BDB's parts are balanced against the stock parts (meaning a BDB tank would have the same mass, fuel units, etc as a stock tank of equivalent size) so as to be consistent with other modpacks. In turn, the entire KSP solar system is too small for the stock rockets and thus, to get correct delta V amounts, you should play with a rescale. I'm not sure how FASA handles that with their larger (read: Saturn/Apollo) stuff. I remember thinking the Titan II parts were underpowered but that was years ago. EDIT: Oh jeez I spent too long typing... EDIT2: I don't believe any will occur, since the BDB launch clamps have a different internal name to prevent that exact issue

I would move to using a pair of 2048s before I use a single 4096. Indeed, that is what I am doing for my similarly sized LDC Titan.

Hey @akron, here's something! The Pioneer Outer Planets Orbiter (POPO?), a 1974 Ames study to affix a propulsion module to the leftover Pioneer H hardware (the one in the Smithsonian now) in order to build an orbiter, either for Jupiter or Saturn. Basically, a relatively low cost precursor / pathfinder flight that could have fed into Galileo and/or Cassini development. I thought I remembered you saying you wanted more propulsion parts... Might be a nice diversion / warm up if you're not up to tackling Viking yet. There are some other differences, the magnetometer boom is a scissor style since it was decided that was kinder to the instruments, as well as what appears to be a new square-shaped equipment bay opposite the trapezoidal one already in the mod. http://www.ninfinger.org/models/vault2005/Pioneer Outer Planets Orbiter/index.html

oh dam those are nice.

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We need Proton Light. You promised.

He's remaking the same Proton from scratch at a higher quality / level of detail.

at least 3

Yes but are you certain that is being saved out correctly? When I tried to make Windowshine configs it was really hard to convince photoshop to save to a flattened image (png, etc) and preserve that alpha layer.

Are you certain youre saving it with an alpha channel correctly? Like really certain?

@Jack5.exe only thing I can think of, considering that it crashed on the Agena Materials Bay part, is that it maybe has something to do with what version of DMSA you're running. Which version of DMagic Science Animate do you have, and which version of KSP are you running?

Fantastic as always @Alcentar!

I'm glad y'all picked up on it considering I've been offhand mentioning I promised it to some people about a year ago. So, what I'm doing is kind of boiling down all the various 'big Titan' proposals into a single launch stack, which we're calling LDC Titan (or LDC Prometheus if you're feeling saucy) and, yes, will be 3.125m. Shown here is the two first stage tanks and the third stage tank (the black one on top). The nose cone is actually a really old nose cone that @Beale made for his old Blue Streak (pre-Commonwealth Rockets) that I have laying around and use in place of a payload fairing in Unity. But, yes, a new 3.125m (and 3.75m, for that matter, since right now you can't build Multibody H03!) nose cone is probably in the mix here. Re: Engines, I think this configuration (with the single F-1) is pretty smexy... I might have to make a mount for it that fits in with all this stuff. I'm currently planning the canon configuration to be 4 AJ-87s for the first stage, and a single vacuum nozzle AJ-87 for the second. I would like to do a Titan engine revamp (they aren't aging well at all) at some point, but for now I think it's going to just keep using the engine bells we already have. You might note that this looks more like a 'dirty Saturn' than a Titan, and that's because the other motivation for doing this is to expand/extend the range of 3.125m parts and give you more Saturn size (albeit, the lower end) hardware to play with, whereas I don't intend for this to directly interface with the existing Titan parts. The single-engine mount and straight 3.125m interstage will be compatible/drop in replacements for the Saturn S-IV stage's 6-engine mount and 3.75>3.125m adapter interstage, respectively. There's going to be some other neat stuff going on here. I'm experimenting with having the parts interface with each other in ways that shouldn't be annoying. For example the second stage engine mount will have an external pipe that wraps around into the part above it. This is actually the last new rocket I have planned for BDB for the foreseeable future. All the other LV parts I have lined up are either Saturn variants, or the Atlas SLV-3X stuff I didn't get around to when I remade Atlas. That's not to say there won't be more, obviously, just that I'd like to shift new content more towards payloads. Of course, I have quite a bit of rocket revamps left on my plate (Delta II first stage and SRBs, Juno, the various solid fueld rockets like the Castor 120) so I'll still be stuck working on them for a while.

mmhmm. I also asked him about that. My 2c on the issue, the simplest thing is to just have one first stage length - make it the average of the two lengths.

Of course! Submit a pull request on Github. I believe localization was already started - the mod is all prepped for other languages. They just need to be written in.

As I said in our group chat, considering that this is the first time he's remade Proton from scratch since those were announced, there's no way he can get away with remaking it and not leaving a provision (ie, modeling and texturing it in a way that easily allows him to replace two of the six segments with dummies) to make Proton Light.

Nope! Sorry y'all, I was working on these parts and was trying to get them farther along before I showed them, but then one thing led to another, I got involved gaming with @Foxxonius Augustus, and didn't get any more work done. Exhausted, unable to form coherent thoughts, I simply took a quick screenshot before closing Unity. However, I will give you a hint - shown there are 3 separate tanks, along with the nose cone and the engine mount/F-1. The engine mount (from the Saturn 1C) has been rescaled for this screenshot to 3.125m...

:thinking:

My mini return capsule should still work

I already tagged them so hopefully the know.

Please let me know if the values are out of whack or if there are any parts missing supplies that should have them.

I know that @IronCretin is very busy with school right now, but would @linuxgurugamer or @HebaruSan be kind enough to take care of CKAN?

Oh, you weren't tagged it seems. I said congratulations on being chosen for StarMods this week.