Gman_builder

I'm confused here, I am using NEAR nuclear reactors to generate power, I have full exotic matter, but when I click activate engine nothing happens. The warp bubble just appears for a second and then shrinks and I don't go anywhere. I did everything in the OP tutorial but nothing is happening. Help please! I really want to try this out!

Oh yeah forgot about that.

Judging by the level of expansion of the blades, I'd guestimate MAYBE 30 -35 rad/s. A simple mod called V.O.I.D will give you and exact engine RPM readout and a whole bunch of other useful info.

Good to know, thanks!

Current design: Doesn't work at all. Cant get any head speed for some reason. Tail rotor spins at 40 rad/s and main rotor spins at 18 rad/s uhhg when this exact engine is on a plane it makes 52 rad/s so I have no idea why it hardly spins at all here. There's not much more mass to spin either. Its just essentially my plane prop times 2.

@Azimech What RPM does your main rotor spin at?

Uhhhhhhh. I don't think that's possible. You would have to code it to actuate control surfaces on a certain axis of the craft. Not just actuate one surface at a time. At the speeds necessary to lift a vehicle, I don't think the surfaces move fast enough to have any effect on the attitude.

All this recent improvement in helicopter design turns me on No but seriously tho this stuff is amazing you guys. I have to try some stuff for myself!

Heres a download link to my fastest turboprop. Works great with the RPM limiter turned off and the drag setting at minimum but it should fly, be it slowly in completely stock physics as well. https://kerbalx.com/Gman_builder/Gremlin-Mk-3

This mod has a ton of content that the OP has so much information on every part I don't even know what to do with it

true. but a simple addition like raising the stock RPM limiter or removing it all together is simple and could benefit us greatly

Heres a good one fore you to consider optimizing. Multi-craft.....craft. I.E. turboprop aircraft and other various things that utilize part to part collision meshes to make something work. Like tank tracks and complex collective pitch helicopter rotor heads. Currently the part collisions are actual trash and it takes TONS of tweaking and changing just to make something as complex as these things function without breaking the physics or the game let alone make them move or even fly. I would like to request upping the normal RPM limit to 50+ rad/s. Or around 500 RPM to better suit turbo-nerds like myself and @Azimech. Along with that, make the stock joints stronger and make the PhysX not go absolutely crazy at high RPM. Just start spinning up a stack of reaction wheels in space and you'll see what I mean. its ridiculous. Thanks! -Gman

SO MUCH STUUUUUUUUFFFFFFF

I don't care, I was just surprised at how he had more than double his post count in rep. It is high too. Not like 6 posts and 12 rep but something noteworthy.

Azimech's, Pds's, and my planes all fly fine without changing the physics. Just poorly. I doubt they would get much faster than 100 m/s but it can be done. @Jon144 What did you post in order to get twice as much rep as your post count?

'Twas I told you, electric bearings are unreliable and underperforming.

Why? A prop should hold up fine up to 51 rad/s if you strut it. The speed of the bearing without a prop on it is not indicative of the speed WITH a prop on it. My bearing sustained 62 rad/s without a prop and made 52 rad/s max with a prop on at 250 m/s. Without a prop, the bearing is "unloaded." meaning there is almost zero drag on it, especially with the slider set to minimum. Drag gets applied once you add the propeller.

Hmmmm. Will have to look into that. I was testing a 3 bladed prop to replace the 5 bladed one on my Gremlin Mk3 yesterday and saw it maintain 55 rad/s for a solid 10 seconds IRL time. So like 3 seconds in game time. Before the vibration got so intense that the engine frame came apart.

@Ozin Wow! Some great work your doing with that script! I had been watching the Matrix series since this morning and had no idea what was going on until now. @AzimechThat RPM was achieved by a control surface that went spinning off after engine exploded. It seems like the more parts you have on your driveshaft that are lined up linearly. I.E. not the prop or blades. The more likely it is to become kraken bait at high RPM. So theoretically if we had a 2 or 3 part driveshaft, it would reach much higher RPM.

Cool Check that out. 94 rad/s.

bingo

I would describe us as "nerds" but turboheads works too.

Ahh dang. What kind of boats?

Diesel engines on boats or in trucks? I know some truck engines utilize turbocompounding and I was wondering if you knew anything about it that isn't expressed in the Wikipedia article, which is very brief.

My midi-chlorian levels are high enough to influence the game physics with the force