Commander Zoom

Love your work. More, please. (After exams, which I hope go/went well for you.)

*watches video in first post* I... I love you.</gir>

It\'s true. I recently discovered that my very first (stock) orbiter can (just barely) manage a munar transit, swingaround and return, now that there\'s a Mun to shoot for.

I was lucky enough to own a Big Trak back in the day, and a couple of years ago I scored another off eBay. Seeing this really tickled me, and you\'ve done a great job adding the blade etc. I\'ll be sure to download it.

*plays John Barry\'s 'Capsule in Space' theme as the deadly flower unfolds*

All your BACE are belong to us? Seriously, glad to see you back. And making more top-quality parts, too.

Awesomely detailed and accurate model.

As a fan of the classic Eagle (who used to have a two-foot toy version), I approve.

Not quite Project Orion, but the next best thing. (Great writeup, N3X15.)

If it\'s just a few parts that you want, I suggest that you open up the zip file and copy (drag and drop) ONLY those parts into your Parts folder. That\'s how I got my first set of lander legs.

So I went and replaced my first-stage LV-T30s with M-50s, as suggested, and ... dang. Are you sure these things are legal?

... didn\'t we have this thread a couple of days ago? I\'ll give you the same advice as the other guy: practice more in private first before you go for a public release.

You\'re mad. That\'s awesome. (and yes, Tiberion, that\'s probably the issue. ... along with the fact that I\'m a writer as much as a gamer, and trying to construct a narrative of a space program, with a progression of designs like we had in our real space race, doesn\'t work so well in a silly sandbox game where parts specs and/or the laws of physics keep changing and half the rockets blow up on the pad, fall into the ocean, or crash into the Mun. :\'( )

Huh. Okay. Nice job. (The points of failure for mine were the engine cluster at the base - instead of the big engine, I used five stock LFEs on a 3x5 plate - and the mid-stage decoupler.) Starting to think I should start over fresh, rather than trying to adapt what I had before with the original SIDR + Wobbly parts.

I\'d been using SP\'s big 3 meter tank as a first stage on my Mun rocket (as seen here, among other places), but with the rebalance, it\'s just too heavy and hard to handle. More fuel than I really need, and most of it seems to go into lifting its own weight. So I swapped it out for the short 3 meter (the one with the pipe along the side) and that seems to work better. My attempt to build a 'scale model' Saturn V ( long 3m tank, short 3m tank, 2m tank, CSM & LEM, with engines in between) was so heavy it just kept falling apart on the pad.

Let\'s get back to applauding this one, eh? \'Cause it\'s awesome.

Subtle, but... I like it!

I remember watching this as a kid, during its original run. Loved it then, and still do. EDIT: And for fans of the music, which was used in a couple of other Filmation cartoons of the era - but it\'ll always be TAS for me - while there\'s never been an official release, has most of the familiar tunes.

Amazing tool (if still rather intimidating - math was never my strong suit). I look forward to putting it in action, once I figure out how. I can\'t help but think of it in the context of the software and hardware used to put the actual astronauts on the Moon, forty-plus years ago.

As I said before, this is not (IMO) release quality. Practice more first. I once had to tell a friend that no, his pencil drawings on notebook paper about himself and his friends were not really webcomic material. He was hurt, of course, but he came to see the truth of it. My own art is writing. There\'s an oft-quoted aphorism in that field: 'Your first million words are going to be crap, so you might as well get them out of your system.' While showing your work to fellow artists in private to get help and criticism can be a good thing, there is no obligation (and good reasons not) to do so before a general audience. Feedback is not likely to be positive or helpful.

I strongly advise you to practice more before you release anything. These skins are not yet what I would call ready for public use. (No, I probably couldn\'t do better. That\'s why I don\'t mod.)

Any estimates on when this will be out of alpha and .13 ready? I\'ve been holding off on downloading it.

That\'s a great Titan, Silisko. Any chance of you posting the .craft for that?

Nice little lander design. Looks very stable, and all with stock parts.

Then I can\'t be bothered to read any more of your threads.