Leicontis

I'm trying to figure out if I can repeat a trick I used when playing with the RemoteTech mod and design my rockets to use spent stages (like a transfer stage) as comm relays. The question is: Other than a relay antenna (obvious), what, if anything, is required for a craft to function as a relay? Is a probe core and/or command pod required? Are there power requirements? I haven't been able to find any clear information on this.

There are mechanics already in place that could work well for this: Add "payload" parts that don't show up in the tech tree, and thus are only available as "experimental" parts when you're doing a related mission. These "payloads" would be various satellites and scientific experiments, which the player has to deliver to a certain location/orbit (and bring back to Kerbin safely, in the case of experiments). Another contract idea: Space tourism. A "passenger" kerbonaut that you have to carry up to space, but doesn't contribute to the control of the ship.

Basically, I want to set up a ring of communications satellites, and was hoping I could pull this off by packing a number of compact relays onto a single larger carrier vessel. What I'd like to be able to do is set the carrier into a phasing orbit, launching each comsat at the same point in the mother-craft's orbit, with the comsat circularizing its orbit with a single burn. I want to be able to work out the delta-V required for the circularization burn, and ideally tailor the orbits so that a set of separatrons provide the exact amount I need, so inserting them into their orbit is a fire-and-forget operation.

Is there a Version History for this mod anywhere? I haven't found one, and having to sort through page after page of forum for Ferram's posts is a bit tiresome...

A bit of fun work from 0.19: First, my very first successful interplanetary flight (even if the terrain did knock one of the solar panels off the probe when they deployed...) A docking of which I'm particularly proud - I did use the docking camera, but other than that this was entirely on manual. Between the high part count and my old laptop, things were running like molasses. While that did give me more time to react, it also meant that I had to hold down a key for up to a full second before the control input registered, which made fine control a bit iffy. And the view from inside the CSM on the left:

So, how where would I put the Infernal Robotics plugin and the DR parts in 0.20.x to get them to work? Other than just putting the files in the right place, is there anything else required (like tweaking .cfg's to point to the new .dll or something)? I've got a fairly important ship in-flight that uses DR hinges, and those hinges are what I'm waiting on at this point to get back into KSP.

An important note, for those (like me) who might not notice or think of this at first: The first letter and file extension (i.e. the ".png") of the flag's filename MUST be lower-case.

I created and used the /GameData/Leicontis/Flags/ directory, but my custom flag didn't show up in the listing in-game, thus my confusion in that regard.

In short, which files/folders go where? It seems like mods that have been updated for 0.20 can just be extracted into their own folders under GameData, but I've got a number of un-updated mods that I'm not sure what precisely to do with, as they don't seem to be loading...

It\'s a useful part to have, but the illustration in the OP is what really makes this part for me. =P

Here\'s my best effort yet: A mostly-wing monstrosity that accidentally ended up with a thrust/weight ratio greater than 1 on a single engine, and far more fuel than sanity should allow. It\'s not very fast or pretty, but it flies like a dream, and can glide, maneuver, and land nicely even on full tanks. The tricky part is not scraping the bottom vertical tails off on a horizontal takeoff. Uses C7, C7 experimental (with landing gear plugin), and one booster from KW used solely as a gantry (though you could certainly tweak the staging to launch on the booster instead of the LFE, but I make no guarantees about the safety of such a plan...).

Please edit posts instead of triple-posting. Triple-posting makes Jeb cry, and nobody wants to see that.

So he made some new scenery Anyway, don\'t rush the guy people. Nova clearly has high standards for his work, which is part of why it tends to rock - let him get the mods to where he\'s satisfied with them, and the results will be worth the wait.

Do you have any idea how much drool people are trying to mop out of their keyboards because of that post? ;P

Just had another idea to suggest - some sort of non-decoupler radial trusses, to make it possible to have secondary stacks around the main stack, but with some separation rather than tight to the side of the ship (I know that would be a bad idea in practice, but the Kerbals don\'t strike me as the type to let practicality get in the way of aesthetics...). No rush, and there are probably a few parts from other packs that could serve, but figured I\'d put the idea out there.