N17 Fabrication by Neronix17 My Background: Hey all, I've been a forum member for a long time (long enough for that forum crash a bit back to not affect my forum account I guess). I tried to get into making parts a few months back but around the time of the forum having to roll back I ended up being unable to afford the rent on my flat and have spent the past few months looking for somewhere to live (bad times), I will be moving into my new and much more affordable flat on Monday and have decided it is time to come back and continue creating parts for KSP (good times). I may not have internet for the first couple of weeks but I will be able to do much of the work on models/textures and probably have the tools downloaded before moving in on Monday to have everything needed to work on the parts I have planned. I was speaking with several people on these forums a while back but their accounts no longer seem to exist after the forum roll back and I have no idea what their usernames are now (message me if you were talking to me please! ), hopefully I can get back in contact with everyone easily. Too Long, Didn't Read - I was here, then I was gone, now I'm back and ready to make parts. Current Plans: So far I have decided to try and mostly work on my own, when I work with others it won't be posted in this thread and I'd like to keep it to a minimum till I get back into the swing of things. The thing I have noticed about many part packs on the forums is that while they usually have amazing parts and clearly a lot of work put into them they rarely, if ever, seem to add everything needed to build an entire rocket/ship/whatever in their particular design. The few that do this well are generally designed for the space planes/atmospheric craft, and to be honest that's where I spend the least time as I see the game as a space exploration game, not a plane flight simulator (although it is fun doing that and I know plenty of people like that side of it, it's not what I enjoy). So my plans are to create several different designed packs, in particular based around the colonization and scientific exploration themes, I already have a few things I modelled prepared to import, but I am still getting used to it again so it will be slow to begin with. I'd post some renders of the landing craft I've been working on but I'm still in the middle of animating it and I'd prefer to simply post the video render of it doing a landing (in the modelling program first, then another when it is in-game). Here is a list of what I have in the works right now: Colony Vessel: The Colony Vessel is designed to have everything needed to take a one-way trip to any planet in the system with an atmosphere, it has enough room for 16 Kerbals and when set up properly, can become a self sustaining colony. The Vessel itself becomes a permanent orbital platform once the colony has been established, the habitation modules have enough room to transport 2 Kerbals to the surface and deploy to provide a living space for up to 3 Kerbals once on the surface. The station is best manned by 2-4 Kerbals at any one time so once the colony is ready you can have up to 21 Kerbals living in the colony. +Colony Vessel -Kethane Satellite -2x Lander -Mining Lander -Science Equipment -Rover -Airborne Probe -5x Habitation Module Terraformer: The Terraformer Vessel is built for the purpose of providing a Kerbin-like atmosphere on other worlds, even ones with no atmosphere currently! The ship itself lands as a whole, it then deploys to reveal several nuclear reactors powering the central device, while no Kerbals will see any change on the selected world for many generations, it is still an important goal among Kerbkind to complete this task. Setting up a colony around these terraformers is recommended, as any Kerbals living there will be the ones performing maintenance on the devices if required. +Terraformer Vessel -Terraformer Future Plans: I hope to eventually provide full support for several other mods I use regularly, in particular the Kethane mod (as shown in the Colony Vessel parts) is a priority. My goals are to provide as complete a part pack as is possible, to the extent that you don't need to tape on another mods parts to ships from my pack, for example, my plans already include a Kethane scanner and mining drill following my packs designs, I'm already preparing for the research equipment for the next KSP update too. If you use a mod which you would like to see supported by my parts then feel free to let me know, I'll do my best to make it work. Screenshots: Coming Soon! Videos: Coming Soon! Ways to Support the Pack: Coming Soon! Don't worry I won't ask for donations! Credits: Neronix17 (everything at the moment)
Looks great, would be awesome to have an entire base of half a dozen structures along the wall. Would be cool if it was possible to have a platform suspended in a similar fashion using two opposing walls (like North and South wall supporting their side of the platform). I gather that there aren't any craters which would be capable of this purely because of the distance limits. Very cleverly done though, always surprised by the creativity of people on KSP.