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Spaceport release Here is a the WIP, still needs a bit of balancing as well as sounds, real textures and normal maps.

For simple objects mark certain edges as seams and just use the unwrap function, in a cylinder for example, just mark the edge loops on the top an bottom of the cylinder ( the outside edge of the circle ) and on of the edges that go the length of the cylinder. When you unwrap you should see 2 circles and a sheet of retangles on your UV map. Now when you say your faces where upside down, do you mean upside downin the UV map or that the normals were reversed?

Ya, I could probably manage something now.

I have had 1 comment on spaceport from a sililar issue - al lthe fuel vanishing in seconds - but I have been unable to recreate it

Is that using the Xenon injector or no? The whole thing is odd as the part is basically a SRB on steroids, at least that is how I have it set up. I am wondering if there is a mod conflict of some sort. The FFR only has 10 units of thorium, and each unit is massive. I am wondering if some other part is using Thorium a a resource and somehow the resource definition gets a little wonky. If its denisty drops dramatically the burn rate will go up the same amount to maintain thrust.

Just .20 compatibility. I am considering a rework of the parts now that I have gotten a bit more modeling experience under my belt.

Try throwing the rear mount PDEs on the SM-S planes, you'll need to use the adapter and run struts from the engine to help radiate heat. Add the compressed air tanks and air compressor parts with your intakes.. you make want to put the intakes and air compressors on action groups to enable/ disable.. but you can get to Mun and back. It is horribly unbalanced, but it is fun to have a sort of "space fighter" that you can cruise around in. The engines included with the SM-S pack are also heavy and eat fuel like no-one's buisiness

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Exactly what I was looking for, thanks

OK, so I was a moron and didn;t see the pitch adjustment in FSengineSounds. Is there a way to turn off the engine sounds at 0 throttle though?

Are you planning on releasing any documentation for FSengineSounds? my coding knowledge is basically non-existant, so I can not really see how the innards work. Although I can get engine sounds to play, I can not get them to alter pitch based on thrust.

Anyone know if there are new part tools floating around out there any where? I am still using .18

This isn't balanced for use with FAR, it has big intakes, so, lots of drag

I suppose I could make a rear stacking one, but it generates a lot of heat

The difference between a pulse detonation engine and a pulse jet is that in the jet the fuel deflagerates/burns where in a PDE it actually detonates/explodes and the exhausting gasses are moving much faster. A pulse jet is pulse at around 250htz where a PDE is pulsing more than 1000htz

Try this perhaps: MODULE { name = ModuleResourceIntake resourceName = IntakeAir checkForOxygen = true area = 0.04 intakeSpeed = 0 intakeTransformName = Intake } RESOURCE { name = IntakeAir amount = 5 maxAmount = 5 } MODULE { name = ModuleGenerator isAlwaysActive = true INPUT_RESOURCE { name = IntakeAir rate = 1 } OUTPUT_RESOURCE { name = Oxidizer rate = 1 } } attached to your part, the the intake uses a generator to make oxidizer which, perhaps using fuel lines, you ca use to pipe back and forth to the fuel tanks. Obviously you'll have to play with the numbers a bit to balance it. Add atmosphereCurve { key = 0 350 key = .01 350 //this is where it adjust to be a non-airbreather key = .015 1500 key = 1 1500 } you may have to add a couple more keys in to set up atmospheric values, but you get the idea.

About Mach 5 from what I have seen, with fairly constant operating parameters all the way up to that speed. A few places are saying Mach 10+.

It certainly is balanced to other engines, but have you looked up any info on PDEs? the Isp on the original was actually low, the thrust, if anything, is what should be tweaked. As far as the Isp at different altitudes, one of the main things about a PDE is that the internal pressure is pretty constant as long as it is operational, hence the constant ISP. I figured that oxygen deprivation would make a natural, if very high, ceiling. As far as Velocity CUrve, I actually have no idea how that works. Thank you for the suggestions though, and if more people agree I may change the release values, or release an alternate, lower powered version

Actually I haven't had any problems using emissives, it is when object actually rotate that has been giving me grief. The intake thing spinning is done using Snjo's firespitter plugin

That sound is actually one I captured from the video in Canopus' post, modulated it a bit and looped it

I still may have to tweak the Isp and propellant ratios a bit, but you can cruise at 30000 meters if you are a bit careful

This needs Snjo's Firespitter Plugin to work Wikipedia link for PDE information.

There are just 4 separate parts moving and they can not be combined and still animated correctly

I'll try that and see what happens