Engine Fuel Burn Selector

[Sampa]

Ok, I am wondering if someone would be willing to make mod or plugin that would allow us to select the kind of fuel a chosen engine will burn (namely for the radial engines). For example...I really like the large radial engines provided in stock and thought they'd look good on shuttles. I do not like how wimpy the current RCS engines look. I would really like to make it so that the beefier liquid fueled radial engines could be used to burn monopropellant instead or be able to switch to monopropellant if the liquid fuel/oxidizer mixture runs out. Is this possible?

[Mecripp]

Should be it would look like rapierEngine cfg

MODULE
{
	name = MultiModeEngine
	primaryEngineID = AirBreathing
	secondaryEngineID = ClosedCycle
}
MODULE
{
	name = ModuleEnginesFX
	engineID = AirBreathing
	directThrottleEffectName = power_open
	runningEffectName = running_open
	thrustVectorTransformName = thrustTransform
	exhaustDamage = True
	ignitionThreshold = 0.33
	minThrust = 0
	maxThrust = 190
	heatProduction = 400
	useEngineResponseTime = True
	engineAccelerationSpeed = 0.2
	engineDecelerationSpeed = 0.35
	useVelocityCurve = True
	PROPELLANT
	{
		name = LiquidFuel
		ratio = 1
		DrawGauge = True
	}
	PROPELLANT
	{
		name = IntakeAir
		ratio = 15
	}
	atmosphereCurve
 	{
		key = 0 1200
		key = 0.3 2500
		key = 1 800
 	}
	velocityCurve
	{
		key = 0 0.5 0 0
		key = 1000 1 0 0
		key = 2000 0.5 0 0
		key = 2200 0 0 0
	}

}
MODULE
{
	name = ModuleEnginesFX
	engineID = ClosedCycle
	runningEffectName = running_closed
	thrustVectorTransformName = thrustTransform
	exhaustDamage = True
	ignitionThreshold = 0.1
	minThrust = 0
	maxThrust = 175
	heatProduction = 650
	fxOffset = 0, 0, 0.25
	PROPELLANT
	{
	 	name = LiquidFuel
        	ratio = 0.9
		DrawGauge = True
	}
	PROPELLANT
	{
	 name = Oxidizer
	 ratio = 1.1
	}
	atmosphereCurve
 	{
   	 key = 0 360
  	 key = 1 320
 	}

}

[Sampa]

lol, now if I only understood how to read cfg files! lol

[Mecripp]

Give me a engine name that you want to work like that ?

[MatterBeam]

Ok, I am wondering if someone would be willing to make mod or plugin that would allow us to select the kind of fuel a chosen engine will burn (namely for the radial engines). For example...I really like the large radial engines provided in stock and thought they'd look good on shuttles. I do not like how wimpy the current RCS engines look. I would really like to make it so that the beefier liquid fueled radial engines could be used to burn monopropellant instead or be able to switch to monopropellant if the liquid fuel/oxidizer mixture runs out. Is this possible?

I could make a multi-modal engine (like the stock Rapier) and force it to use liquidfuel/oxidizer as the first mode, and monopropellant as the second mode.

However, I do not know how to force it to switch modes if it runs out of one fuel or the other.

Tell me how beefy you want the liquidfuel/monopropellant modes to be.

[Mecripp]

Would be something like

@PART[radialLiquidEngine1-2]
{
    %MODULE
    {
     name = MultiModeEngineFX
     primaryEngineID = Liquid_Burner
     secondaryEngineID = Mono_Burner
    }

    @MODULE[ModuleEngines]
     {
      name = ModuleEnginesFX
      engineID = Liquid_Burner
      @ignitionThreshold = 0.33
     }

     MODULE
     {
	name = ModuleEnginesFX
        engineID = Mono_Burner
	thrustVectorTransformName = thrustTransform
	exhaustDamage = True
	ignitionThreshold = 0.1
	minThrust = 0
	maxThrust = 90
	heatProduction = 350
	fxOffset = 0, 0, 0.1
	PROPELLANT
	{
		name = MonoPropellant
		ratio = 0.4
		DrawGauge = True
	}

	atmosphereCurve
 	{
		key = 0 360
		key = 1 320
 	}

}

But you would have to set action groups for each toggle engine and, I missed a line where the FX show up on the Mono_burner not sure how to do the FX there.

[MatterBeam]

If OP responds, I'll write up a .cfg file for the O10 monoprop engine so it can have a second mode where it burns LFO.

[Sampa]

ok, I will if I remember to do so...dinner in 10 minutes

[Sampa]

ok, the engine I would like to have the fuel selector switch added to is the Rockomax Mark 55 Radial Mount liquid engine. If not a fuel switch, than I will accept a whole new part based off of that only running on monopropellant

[Mecripp]

Thats what, I posted on #6 but the monopropellant engine side don't have fx and you have to set action groups to change engine or they both will run at the same time.

EDIT- SEC let me make a quick changed will post in a sec or min.

+PART[radialLiquidEngine1-2]
{
    @name = radialLiquidEngine_Mono1-2
    @title = Rockomax Mark 55 Radial Mount Liquid Engine & monopropellant burning
    %MODULE
    {
     name = MultiModeEngineFX
     primaryEngineID = Liquid_Burner
     secondaryEngineID = Mono_Burner
    }

    @MODULE[ModuleEngines]
     {
      name = ModuleEnginesFX
      engineID = Liquid_Burner
      @ignitionThreshold = 0.33
     }

     MODULE
     {
	name = ModuleEnginesFX
        engineID = Mono_Burner
	thrustVectorTransformName = thrustTransform
	exhaustDamage = True
	ignitionThreshold = 0.1
	minThrust = 0
	maxThrust = 90
	heatProduction = 350
	fxOffset = 0, 0, 0.1
	PROPELLANT
	{
		name = MonoPropellant
		ratio = 0.4
		DrawGauge = True
	}

	atmosphereCurve
 	{
		key = 0 360
		key = 1 320
 	}

}

This one will copy that engine so you have both to one of us fix it all up.

EDIT- You just need ModuleManager. *.*.* installed which good chance you do already

EDIT- Here is a file if you need it just put it in your KSP/GameData folder anywhere. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72893034/TEST_Engine.cfg

Edited April 3, 2015 by Mecripp2

[Sampa]

Ok, will do! Thanks!

[Windspren]

I can do that, just give me a sec.