Discreet (not just aircraft anymore) Parts. (Updated 21-06-15)

lazaruz76 · June 9, 2015

That's cool. I knew I was the cause of the lag with building such an over engineered airship in the first place. My current thought is to mix what i have with Infernal Robotics to make it fold-up nice and tight for delivery planet side, then unfold and use as a highly mobile sky crane on planets like duna. Current design only needs 18% inflation to maintain alt. on Kerbin. Still playing with the design tho. Currently uses a nuclear reactor from Near Future Electrical for power. Need to do a redesign and figure out how to manage the heat on the reactor.

sashan · June 9, 2015

Please, please man, give us Curiosity-style retractable suspension! Would fit great the concept imo.

electronicfox · June 9, 2015

That's cool. I knew I was the cause of the lag with building such an over engineered airship in the first place. My current thought is to mix what i have with Infernal Robotics to make it fold-up nice and tight for delivery planet side, then unfold and use as a highly mobile sky crane on planets like duna. Current design only needs 18% inflation to maintain alt. on Kerbin. Still playing with the design tho. Currently uses a nuclear reactor from Near Future Electrical for power. Need to do a redesign and figure out how to manage the heat on the reactor.

I kinda wanna see that monstrosity.

In other news, I gave the tracks concept a little polish, I'll be handing them over to Lo-Fi soon to get them up and running, but some work is needed before that.

kenbobo · June 9, 2015

Note- make a liquid fueled foldable prop please

It's quite hard to keep up with something that uses a pair of 2 foldable props without using extending solar panels... and fuel is better for blimps.

sashan · June 9, 2015

An engineer's notice: Those small wheels need something that woule prevent them from bending sideways. Some kind of levers like this long one, only going front to rear for rear pair and vice versa for front one.

electronicfox · June 9, 2015

Fueled ones are in the works. The current ones do work at about 1 third thrust using a full charge from the deployed blimp. Enough thrust for a decent airship. Some fuel cells would work too. As for planes, yeah they weren't designed for high thrust purposes.

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An engineer's notice: Those small wheels need something that woule prevent them from bending sideways. Some kind of levers like this long one, only going front to rear for rear pair and vice versa for front one.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Solid_Axle.jpg

I concur. They need just a simple axle that snaps into place when deployed.

sashan · June 9, 2015

I concur. They need just a simple axle that snaps into place when deployed.

Maybe. But they definetely need something.

Btw, I see some polys that are crying to be optimized on side doors and on big wheel hubs.

electronicfox · June 9, 2015

Maybe. But they definetely need something.
Btw, I see some polys that are crying to be optimized on side doors and on big wheel hubs.

Don't worry about the optimizations, they'll be taken care of before I start unwrapping things. This was literally put together in about an hour, I wanted to get something looking good before messing with cleanups.

riocrokite · June 10, 2015

holy crap that expandable tank tracks are awesome \o/

it'll be interesting to see whether they fit MFS frame

Tyren · June 10, 2015

I guess not riocrokite, they are way to small^^

riocrokite · June 10, 2015

I guess not riocrokite, they are way to small^^

no worries, if they are too small it's okay, one can always use offset in editor to move them lower and they still should look good thx to the top box

Tyren · June 10, 2015

Its more regarding to durability, dunno if these tracks can withstand the weight of a full MFS Ore Tank

ujm1 · June 11, 2015

it wont load with atm

electronicfox · June 11, 2015

it wont load with atm

What wont load? The game? The download?

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I did not read that properly. I'll check out the requirements for ATM.

Edited June 11, 2015 by electronicfox

Tyren · June 11, 2015

I guess the game with active texture management.

electronicfox · June 11, 2015

I have just tried with ATM, and its loading for me without any problems. Do you have other mods installed?

ujm1 · June 11, 2015

Yes i do

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