Nertea

Hey, they don't look that bad... I considered it but it's quite a lot of work. It might happen eventually but it's not a gameplay improvement, just artistic.

I would like to ship revised .625, 1.25 reactors and a new 1.875m model as part of this update.

Haha, wow! I haven't even seen a PR so you probably are safe, not happening yet.

Mostly done!

Yes all correct :). This one's easy, I modeled all the RTGs like 1 year ago a

I haven't modeled them as such but I guess I could think about it. I also had in the past modeled some RTGs that I will be working on More or less balance as follows: PB-NUK Early General Purpose Heavy Advanced .8 Ec/s .5 Ec/s 1 to 1.5 Ec/s 2 Ec/s 3 Ec/s Poor mass ratio Poor mass ratio Poor mass ratio Poor mass ratio Adequate mass ratio

Working as intended.

You are ultimately trying to make SH behave more like KSPI, which in my opinion is not really wise. Some things you'll run into, functionally: SH has no locational understanding, so you could have a reactor on the other end of a 500m vessel from the engine with no issues SH doesn't represent 'consumers' very well so there may be specific issues with trying to have a part consume flux. Good luck though!

Both of those, primarily. I would need to do my work with SH to make fully functional 'independant' reactors which seems like something I don't want to do. I've generally finished the two microreactor meshes and bakes now. I don't intend to make inline versions for these as they are principally designed to be surface attached and have the 0.625m rings as a bonus.

Ok great. There are some fixes to be released, I will wait for the PR before releasing 2.0.4.

This is probably the stock recovery cost bug. Recommended fix: So... is the intention for this to live somewhere? In this mod? In some mod of your own?

Sorry I missed this. There isn't but I should make one. In the meantime you can ask questions here.

That's the thing though, if I'm putting reactors that are smaller than the .625 reactor, wouldn't that be the place for SNAP? I too find using the rotation tool a nightmare. I haven't even decided what cylindrical models, if any, will look like, but they will have colliders that approximate their surfaces

I looked at the patch file and it's a mess (stuff commented out everywhere, etc). Not sure what to do to fix it. They are docking things really. The make two ships count as docked. No, I'd be fundamentally worried about that plus the collider-ful moving legs would cause destruction.

The WaterfallRestock package removes those plumes, which are built on the stock effects system. Looks pretty cool!

Why? If you look at the inspiration, SNAP-10 produced a piddly total of 590W, is functionally smaller than the other reactors and was ultimately superseded by other, more scaleable and reliable designs. It fits much better as a lower tech, lower output power source with something more reasonably powerful stepping up to fill the 0.625m slot, which is currently 'inspired' by a Kilopower type design. The Constellation FSPS is a great fit there, as it fits both the target power envelope and size envelopes. I don't generally copy reality like that but if it fits so well... Yes a couple lower power lower mass solutions. In the intermittent times I play the game I find the high (>500 Ec/s) power areas are serviced well, but there's a lot of times where I am wishing for something functionally smaller that 40 Ec/s to run some experiments, cool some radiators or cool some hydrogen tanks. I've tentatively baselined the reactors in the image as 1 Ec/s, 10 Ec/s and 40 Ec/s, which is probably going to be mostly correct in terms of order of magnitude No external tank reactors are planned.

Very unlikely.

Ah, I'll have to take a look at that...

I might be willing to do that for the LF-> LH2 but not the other way.

No, this mod does not involve ionizing or particle radiation, only thermal longwave. It's never going to happen :/

Oh this is beautiful! I don't see people using the extending tubes enough. Thanks!

So apparently working on Heat Control is mind numbing and motivationally sapping so I've been doing some new reactor model work. From left to right, models based on SNAP-10A, Kilopower, NASA Fission Surface Power System. Rightmost is the current 0.625m reactor The idea is that the FSPS replaces the 0.625m reactor (at 40 kWe) and the other two smaller reactors are more entry-level, probably at 1 kWe and 5 kWe respectively. I will also add a new 1.25m reactor model based off either the SNAP-100 or a Project Prometheus concept, and a all new 1.875m model.

Aaaaand it's updated. Don't say I never did anything for you all.

Yes.

You can think of it as functionally part of the nozzle, so you can't stick things to it for the same reason that I don't let you stick things to other nozzles. If you observe the model you see similar art language for radiation shields and magnet cooling systems - something placed near that area without the specific shadowing that the 'built-in' radiators have will have a very unpleasant thermal and radiation environment.