[1.12.x] Mk2 Expansion v1.9.1 [update 10/5/21]

[Manul]

7 minutes ago, Pauver said:

I'm having trouble with the Mattock engine. Whenever I'm flying it sometimes flames out (the prop. requirement reaches below 65%) and I don't know how to fix it. Can anyone help me?

How many air intakes do you have and what type? Only shock cone intakes work well at high mach numbers.

[Pauver]

1 minute ago, Manul said:

How many air intakes do you have and what type? Only shock cone intakes work well at high mach numbers.

radial pump intakes. That might be the problem

[Manul]

8 minutes ago, Pauver said:

radial pump intakes. That might be the problem

Of course. They are tiny and they choke above Mach4

[pingin]

Hey, am I misunderstanding how the "Sledgehammer" engine from this mod works? It seems to drain a lot of oxidizer, and actually drains significantly more oxidizer in airbreathing mode, even with fully satisfied intake air. Is it supposed to do this? Am I stupid?

[Manul]

2 hours ago, pingin said:

Hey, am I misunderstanding how the "Sledgehammer" engine from this mod works? It seems to drain a lot of oxidizer, and actually drains significantly more oxidizer in airbreathing mode, even with fully satisfied intake air. Is it supposed to do this? Am I stupid?

This is how air augmented rocket works.  It doesn't have a mighty compressor and precooler to compress air until it starts to liquefy and push it into  the combustion chamber of a rocket engine, replacing the source of liquid oxygen. So it just uses the exhaust of a rocket engine to heat up some intake air and make it expand in the nozzle for extra thrust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-augmented_rocket here is the difference between liquid air cycle rocket and an air augmented rocket.

Do you know what a bypass ratio of a jet engine is? It means that some compressed air from the compressor doesn't go into the combustion chamber, it goes directly to the nozzle to create thrust. Air augmented rocket has a 100% bypass ratio, it's just a rocket engine in a long tube 

Edited June 1, 2024 by Manul

[CensoredUsername]

I ran into, and managed to fix the issue with the tricouplers occasionally forgetting their centre node exists. Here's the pull request https://github.com/SuicidalInsanity/Mk2Expansion/pull/69 for anyone interested. Seems KSP doesn't like mixing bare stack_bottom and stack_bottom[number] nodes in the same part.

[alberro+]

[Kimera Industries]

Beautiful! Might get this just for the chines.

[Retsof]

The sledgehammer isn't making any sound for me.  I'm guessing it doesn't play nice with Rocket Sound Enhancement.  Any ideas to make them work together?

[BGYT]

I've got a parts request if possibe half fuselages i.e fuselages that basivally split  from top to botyom instead of the ones from airplanes plus that are split from side to side

[Hangdog]

In CKAN, there is a missing file in the GameData/Mk2Expansion/Agencies folder: Thumbs.db

I assume it's in there by mistake. CKAN keeps trying to reload the mod.

 

Same thing in the Mining Expansion mod.

 

[Drew Kerman]

There were a number of ReStock whitelist errors and texture copy errors in the KSP.log that I fixed with a new whitelist file that adds missing asset paths and removes the unnecessary paths - just replace the original file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pEregcfhH8Eld6Dz_T-fyLW6Lilzsvwa/view?usp=sharing

[JonnyOThan]

On 1/26/2025 at 11:13 PM, Hangdog said:

In CKAN, there is a missing file in the GameData/Mk2Expansion/Agencies folder: Thumbs.db

I assume it's in there by mistake. CKAN keeps trying to reload the mod.

 

Same thing in the Mining Expansion mod.

 

Thumbs.db is a windows cache file, and windows will edit or delete it as it feels like.  So the file isn’t missing from the mod; it was probably installed and then removed by windows.

Ideally this would not be included in any mod releases, but we can also filter it out in CKAN’s install instructions for the mods that do include it.  Or you can add a global filter so that thumbs.db files are never included.

Edited 4 hours ago by JonnyOThan