-
Posts
684 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Developer Articles
KSP2 Release Notes
Everything posted by Jso
-
Not likely unless I can find an easy way to do that, I'm trying to keep it simple. Right now if your tank is shielded either by a fairing or a cargo bay it will treat that as insulation and slow the boiloff rate by 10x. Settings are located in difficulty options. You can turn it off and adjust the rate. 100% boils off half the contents in 8 hours. It uses a half life calculation, so whatever is remaining, half will be gone in 8 hours.
-
It needs to be heavier than the pod to accomplish that. Even shifting the CoM all the way down to the bottom node leaves the vessel CoM at the decoupler. Given that it doesn't have cargo bays or anything, it can legitimately hold 1100 units of fuel, so it's a bit under fueled for it's size. That would add mass. The engines have their CoM even with the butt plate. Shifting that south might help a little.
-
It looks to me like the IVA is correct, and the model is backwards. If we call the docking port side Up, the engine side Down, and the windows Forward, pitch control is reversed when flying Forward. From the IVA view pitch control is normal. I believe windows facing the sky is the normal attitude for the LEM on descent. Facing the ground you'll be looking behind you when you pitch from horizontal to vertical. Edit: I don't see any props at all in the LEM IVA, should I be?
-
That's the line, it needs to be negative. The force is applied from the center of mass of the decoupler to the center of mass of the part being decoupled, which would be a downward direction in this case since the decent engine is below the center of the adapter. Making it negative will send it in the right direction (up/forward).
-
I left the enable/disable staging buttons on for the decouplers on the petal adapter in the event someone had some other use for this stuff. For normal use don't touch them. The way it works when you stage it is A: Doors begin opening. B: The top node decouples the CSM. And C: The payload node decoupler is enabled. When you turn around and dock with the LEM you can right click on the adapter and trigger the payload decoupler (which at the moment clips badly and throws you away). There is a slight delay between the doors opening and the top node decoupling to let the door colliders get out of the way of the CSM. We're 1.2 only, this won't work in 1.1.3.