Goddess Bhavani

Looks great! Noticed your Rescue emblem is not a transparent PNG so I took the liberty of making one out of the Ambulance logo as you requested. Flight tested, looks good. Just for lulz perhaps you'd like me to make a bigger boat? Do we need a bigger boat? Like this one - if I rip out the internal structure, plate over the interior hull and reconstruct in stressed-skin format she could be much lighter in part count.

I took the liberty to modify the ambulance logo as requested; here's how it looks on a test flight. I wish we had the option to color the aircraft; red and white Coast Guard livery would be perfect here! Here's the download link for the transparent PNG "RESCUE" emblem for your next release. http://imgur.com/3m0exuJ <-- you can right click and save as from imgur.

OMG LOL Mikki's little plane could fit inside it. Wait. We need a small plane to fly through the big plane from nose to tail - put Mk3 ramps fore and aft!

That would be cool if we can set these things up on Sketchfab, but remember - we can't. We can only export the craft and set up the lightning angles. And some materials stuff. That's it. No props. No separate craft on screen. Something like this. It's a bit hard to setup a Star Wars action scene with just one ship. It's not really SketchFab's fault or KSP's fault, it's just how we export our models using craft files. I'm pretty sure one can build an absolutely massive "craft" as an interior diorama but that's not the point of KSP craft building. It's not impossible to convert the VAB or SPH into a huge sound stage though!

Once the thermal simulation came with stock, I've noticed a slight bit of frame drop in certain situations but certainly not as bad as the mod equivalent feature of old; Squad does make an effort to streamline the implementation and they're doing quite well. I daresay a stock 1.0.2 or 1.0.4 should perform as well as stock 0.90, at least until the part counts get excessive.

1.0.5 near stock install - during one late afternoon I looked at the slowly setting sun and its awesome lens flare and suddenly my framerates dropped to 1/3. Running on a nVidia 850M here. Any way to get the old lens flare back (or tell me off to not look at the sun? ) hehe

This was the first thing I built in 1.0.5 because new water physics.

Hi, Historically I've been a big user of mods but recently find myself creating small pieces of artwork (flags), craft requests and actively testing mods; currently I have several video requests, a formal trailer for a big release, and a craft building project for a new maritime contracts pack. In addition to various crazy projects involving space sheep and flying pigs. I am quite delighted to have a chance to contribute an important part of the community and would like to leave the floor open - what are the best practises for content contribution and how should I split my time between various projects? Of course, I'm not the type to spontaneously disappear from stuff that I like but I do want to see if some sort of "what I'm working on at the moment" WIP list could be beneficial to help plan my time between mod teams. Yours sincerely, - kitten :3

Fun stuff - you need to be SketchFab Pro in order to change the background. In your place I would actually create a diorama in KSP itself, like building the Death Star hangar around the Falcon in the old version of KSP, and then export the entire shebang to SketchFab. It's possible. I've uploaded 200++ part stations to SketchFab before and the only persons who suffer are mobile phone users. Hahaha! If you get that in the contest I'll follow up with a Y-Wing from 1.0.5 or something. Maybe the royal Naboo cruiser since I like princessy stuff. And on a random note - Apparently a few blocks from my workplace there's a life size X-Wing on display at the airport!

Hi, I'll be glad to help with the above and some more. I was thinking of doing a series of Hawaii Five-O themed things as well just for fun. (Kawaii Five-O!) Last night I made a small patrol craft which is also suitable for use as a civilian powerboat, she's pretty quick and can be configured for several scenarios. As per @inigma's request I need to add a few chairs to the back for passengers, and I also need to add a couple of ladders to the side as the game doesn't allow Kerbals to climb up on the stern even though it looks perfect for roll-on/roll-off duty. I think you could fit a tiny rover or submarine in there otherwise. A Coast Guard mission could also involve maritime interdiction; load up the speedboat with some cargo, spawn it with engines on, let it randomly cruise around at 50 knots out of control and send the player's seaplane after it. It may not be possible to stop the boat with stock weapons but it'll be fun to try and eventually it will run out of fuel. Thanks for bringing me aboard the project (no pun intended!), it will be fun to contribute to a mod project directly.

Yep, surely. I will post the goods once I sneak in from Kuba some odd hour tomorrow morning The boat could indeed be furnished but I wanted to keep part count low and left the chairs on shore. I'll add 2 or 3 chairs and leave it as that. I am thinking of making a shipwreck as well. I could partially dismantle a coastal trawler and I was thinking rescuing 1 Kerbal from shipwrecks are not fun enough. A broken ship and a half dozen rescues at once could be amusing, if only for a low frequency contract. Hmm, what are we doing shanghai-ing marooned sailors and sending them to space? Lol

Anyone need an innocent looking boat for those overnight supply runs to Key West? It looks kind of dinky and slow but with 2 concealed Juno water-jet units, she can reach nearly 60 knots in planing configuration and is perfect for those clandestine rendezvous you don't want the Coast Guard to know about. Craft thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/139338-WaveRunner-PC-1-Speedboat-For-your-Kerbal-s-first-marine-license-and-overnight-runs-to-Key-West?p=2293250#post2293250

WaveRunner PC-1 This simple low part count speedboat is powered by 2 concealed Juno engines in water-jet configuration. It is simple to operate and has ample room for passengers and other stuff you don't want the Coast Guard to see. It looks like an innocently dinky old speedboat until you floor it, whereupon it will rise and plane on its jet pods for reduced hydrodynamic drag. The craft file is available on KerbalX and a convenient disposable rover is provided to move the boat to the water. Jettison the rover chassis by staging and light the engines for a quick getaway! Depending on sea state and craft balance, top speed is in the range of 40 to 60 knots.

Somewhere off the coast a clandestine rendezvous at sea took place. Don't worry, the speedboat was not filled with contraband. It was just a shakedown cruise for the WaveRunner PC-1 speedboat, released separately in another thread. It's a very simple small boat powered by 2 concealed Juno engines, perfect for your Kerbal's first marine license and those overnight supply runs to Key West.

I happen to have two boat building "contracts" and am going to start work on some basic small craft and maybe chop apart my old fishing trawler for a shipwreck you could spawn. I'm thinking it would be fun to have to rescue multiple kerbals so there is a necessity to bring larger rescue ships or even Thunderbird 2 to the scene if you can be evil / fun enough to make it a mission to recover the entire vessel!

Hi, in some aviation related KSP discussion groups would it be possible to add fuel storage capacity to stock wing sections under StockPlus?StockPlus? The new BigS and airliner parts have wet tankage but not the old ones.

I think there's no harm trying. If its a parts only mod without custom functionality it should work alright.

Whoops I will withdraw then. I don't have anything notable that has stayed around for 6 months or more.

Having a little issue in 1.0.5 where every time the camera pans towards Kampus the frame rate gets halved. I didn't have this issue in 1.0.4 and will investigate more later.

All you need is a weather mod for wind, articulated mast for control and you have Kerbal sailboat racing!

I like it! Good adaptation and yours looks closer to the proportions of a radial engine flying boat. I was half expecting to see a larger ship as per your earlier post, having a flyable PBK with walkable interior would be all kinds of awesome. With a Mk3 size design you could launch boats and submarines off the back too. I think a lot of people are playing SeaKuest DSV at the moment One thing on planes with interiors, they work better in FAR as the voxel model doesn't add drag for clipped or internally mounted parts. Yes please! I would like to fly air sea rescue missions or even buoy and sensor placement flights; more variety over current rescue missions, and Navy seaplanes were used to drop stuff over the ocean too. It would be fun if the contracts spawned simple boat like targets too, I could make you some low poly lifeboats and civilian craft. Or just use round8 tanks as life preservers. The better water and the new Porkjet plane parts are definitely worth releasing early. The turbofan, afterburner option and the Mk1 crew pod are often in demand. The water is ridiculously fun to crash into and I was surprised we are able to dive underwater now. Squad once upon a time stated underwater operations won't be a priority due to space focus, but the same could be said for spaceplanes too - I once lobbied on the forums for mirror symmetry and some other plane related features. I'm looking forward to even better designs from you I might carry on building different types of seaplanes, maybe a Be-200 or even an ekranoplan. We don't have ground effect simulation but with the stall speed in stock aero so low it could be fudged well enough to look the part.

Can I leave this here? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/130450-HX-1-Circular-Wing-Experiment-Or-what-happens-when-I-fuse-the-Normandy-with-a-Corellian-Corvette

I cross-bred a PBY Catalina and a P6M Seamaster. It's my first ever 1.0.5 craft http://kerbalx.com/pandoraskitten/PBK-1-Katarina

PBK-1 Katarina Multi-Mission Flying Boat Stock 1.0.5 Amphibious Aircraft - Download @ KerbalX Description: The PBK-1 is a new generation of low-cost, high efficiency armed maritime patrol aircraft made possible courtesy of cutting-edge small-diameter turbine technology in KSP 1.0.5. It is intended for coastal operations ranging from armed patrol to amphibious transport. The Katarina's unique planing hull design reduces hydrodynamic drag during its takeoff run. Water landing speeds are in the range of 35-50m/s - watch the sink rate! Activate flaps (Action Group 2) for takeoff. Optional (stock) air to ground missiles fitted to increase possibility of sales to private Kerbal military companies and nation-states.

Hi! Thanks for all your great feedback! I am very appreciative of all the replies here and they're very useful for managing my situation. I think we managed to make a few improvements to the situation without upsetting anyone and you're right; there is an element of cross-cultural interaction involved, and this must definitely be handled at the partner's end - and she has agreed with the same as well. I'm very impressed with the scope and depth of all your replies and they are all dead on. I didn't actually want to give a lot of details that might prove too personal or too much 'dirty laundry' for a spaceflight game forum but you're all correct! The notion that my partner should take control of the issues on her side of things is definitely valid but I had no opportunity to advise her of the same prior to this "incident", but rest assured she has taken necessary measures to ensure no one touches her communications devices nor will they be allowed to benefit from her goodwill in sharing, from now on. It's like what you all said, stealing contacts off someone's personal phone and misusing is criminal. This situation has drastic implications for the future; if her family wants to s*** on her every achievement just because she grew up with mental illness, then the fruits of her labor will not be available for them in future as well. This is her own decision and strategy and she has voluntarily requested to learn a few new tricks to add to her growing arsenal of business related skills. The whole problem with the toxic family started after I demonstrated that things like ADD, autism are not barriers to a person's success in studies and science. Parents started forcing her to be confined at home to do housework; she wants to go out to join the workforce and start building a career portfolio. Parents want her to squander her future salary buying property for the rest of the non-working, non-academically-performing, lazy siblings, I teach her property and people management skills; they should work for it and not expect handouts. Issues like culture and religion, I won't discuss here due to the sensitivity, but there are certain religious principles that remind people to welcome all cultures/races. The funny thing is while the 'younger' generation seems to have a bone to pick with me, the partner's grandparents seem to have taken a curiosity towards us and regularly asks how I am doing. This is funny, because isn't it the other way around - the younger generations are more open, etc? Strange world, but I don't hold it against them; not everyone has the same upbringing or desire to neutralize cultural boundaries but in this case I find it the right thing to do. People should not be looking down on those with special needs, restricting them to the home, not teaching them anything to control their disorders, not sending them for treatment. When I found my partner she had violent tendencies and was at risk of causing physical harm to self and others but within a few months these all gone away. I am curious why, if I can say a few nice things and teach her to be positive about her issues and to see them as a unique way of thinking differently - why has no one else done the same? Thats why I like to be with her - for humanitarian and security reasons, sentiments very much appreciated and loved by the other party. I'll write more and reply in more detail later but I'll just leave this here for now.