Conclusions from extensive testing of drag occlusion/heating/ect (EXPLOIT FOUND!).

[-RanZ-]

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MAJOR BUG FOUND!

Occlusion does not care whatsoever about the size of part its shielding, so if you place a cubic strut in front of a 3.5m tank, you get the drag associated with a cubic strut AND the tank gets FULLY OCCLUDED!

As much as i hate to see this, im so abusing teh crap out of it to make dragless planes that use basically 0 fuel to get out of the soup!

Was this fixed in 1.0.1? I have not had a chance to play so can't test myself. I seen a note in the change log about occlusion so assuming it has but can someone confirm?

[Wanderfound]

Was this fixed in 1.0.1? I have not had a chance to play so can't test myself. I seen a note in the change log about occlusion so assuming it has but can someone confirm?

AFAIAA, this is exactly the occlusion bg that was fixed.

[NathanKell]

Correct.

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[Aerindel]

Heat shields are different. I just tested this by aerobraking a large interplanetary ship with an assembly of seven overlapping shields. 6 Of them mounted radially, they worked as they should and completely protected the parts behind them. I'll try to get a picture up.

[Foxster]

the simple mechanism that was put in place to make nosecones do something useful. Now they're basically mandatory.

How so? All the nose cones have high drag. All the craft I've tested have performed better without nose cones than with them.

[Renegrade]

How so? All the nose cones have high drag. All the craft I've tested have performed better without nose cones than with them.

Really? I just did a simple test - half-fuelled BACC, four starter fins, nothing else - reached 8.7km altitude going straight up. Plop the basic aerodynamic nose cone on the top - reached 11.4km. (adv nosecone reached about 16.5km)

Now if you're using larger, heavier nosecones on a larger, heavier ship (especially the larger scale parts, square-cube is in your favor then), the extra mass of the nosecone may be overwhelming it's aerodynamic advantage.

(the test rocket had a probe core underneath on a launching platform that's discarded, and I quickly [ ] to the flying part)

[Aerindel]

Craft with radial mounted heat shields (but not mounted to radial parts) post aero braking only the heat shield is hot, radial parts protected.

Same craft without the radial heat shields central stack protected by central heatshield, outer sections now overheating.