Das Boot: U-Boat With Full Interior! [New Low Parts Version]

[Columbia]

Congrats on the sticky, pTrevTrevs! For such a detailed ship, this deserved it

Forgive me if I hadn't read the summary entirely, but how do you place it in the water?

[FlipNascar]

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Dive Capable- I plan to use a mod that adds some sort of ballast tank to the game to submerge the boat. Let me know which one I ought to use. Better Buoyancy may come into play here as well.

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BDA Equipped- I don't think BDA has torpedoes, but I can probably replace the stock deck gun and flak gun with BDA weapons. I may even be able to rig up some makeshift fish with Air-to-Ground missiles.

Fengist's maritime pack will be worth looking at. It uses bitts and blisters and some compressors, but they should be very easy to conceal within the depths of this steel beast.

As for torps, the most reliable German torpedo of the early war was the gas/steam driven torpedo. So potentially once 1.1 drops you could use the mini jets and do it stock

Congrats on the sticky, pTrevTrevs! For such a detailed ship, this deserved it

Forgive me if I hadn't read the summary entirely, but how do you place it in the water?

Hyperedit

[Azimech]

Congrats with the sticky!

[AxleMC131]

Absolutely incredible. I love the way you can turn regular KSP parts into naval guns, torpedoes, control panels, bunks... Wow! I really wish I could do interiors this detailed, but my computer won't handle much more than 200 parts. I'll stick with small-scale stuff, but this build is truly something else.

[Yukon0009]

Absolutely incredible. I love the way you can turn regular KSP parts into naval guns, torpedoes, control panels, bunks... Wow! I really wish I could do interiors this detailed, but my computer won't handle much more than 200 parts. I'll stick with small-scale stuff, but this build is truly something else.

You can do a lot with just 150 parts if you know what you are doing.

[pTrevTrevs]

Congrats on the sticky, pTrevTrevs! For such a detailed ship, this deserved it

Forgive me if I hadn't read the summary entirely, but how do you place it in the water?

Yeah, Hyperedit is your best bet. KerbinSide launch sites may work for you, but they gave me weird problems. If you want to go stock, you can strap wheels on it and drive it down to the water, but good luck safely launching it!

Fengist's maritime pack will be worth looking at. It uses bitts and blisters and some compressors, but they should be very easy to conceal within the depths of this steel beast.

As for torps, the most reliable German torpedo of the early war was the gas/steam driven torpedo. So potentially once 1.1 drops you could use the mini jets and do it stock

I'll take a look at it.

Torpedoes: I'm not so worried about how to make the torpedo itself, the problem is going to be building tubes for it. I've already just about maxed out my computer's max capabilities when I try to run this craft, and adding tubes without ruining the look of the nose will be difficult.

Congrats with the sticky!

Danke schön, danke schön!

Absolutely incredible. I love the way you can turn regular KSP parts into naval guns, torpedoes, control panels, bunks... Wow! I really wish I could do interiors this detailed, but my computer won't handle much more than 200 parts. I'll stick with small-scale stuff, but this build is truly something else.

Thanks, the low parts and welded parts versions will be for you.

You can do a lot with just 150 parts if you know what you are doing.

Indeed. Many techniques I found on the aesthetics thread or developed them from similar techniques found there. I think the radiator bunk is my own design, as is the periscope eyepiece. The top of the periscope (the retractable drill) was stolen... I mean... Uh... Borrowed, yeah, borrowed, from Azimech and his yellow submarine.

[Majorjim!]

You can do a lot with just 150 parts if you know what you are doing.

Errrrr, nope.

If it takes 800 parts to make an interior this detailed, then it takes 800 parts to make an interior as detailed as this. Take away 750 parts and its not going to be anywhere near as detailed is it?

[Yukon0009]

I'm talking about generally smaller stuff though.

[pTrevTrevs]

Errrrr, nope.

If it takes 800 parts to make an interior this detailed, then it takes 800 parts to make an interior as detailed as this. Take away 750 parts and its not going to be anywhere near as detailed is it?

I think what he means is you can make a detailed interior with 150 parts, but not one quite as grandiose as this. There are plenty of places I could have scrimped on detail, but didn't. I probably could have replaced the structural plates in the floor with large wing segments to save on parts, removed a few instruments in the control room, etc.

[Majorjim!]

I'm talking about generally smaller stuff though.

Right I see, yes of course you can get a good amount of detail with less parts. Alas for this level of detail you got to take the part count hit.

[AxleMC131]

You can do a lot with just 150 parts if you know what you are doing.

Yeah... I really just need practise.

[clivman]

You can do a lot with just 150 parts if you know what you are doing.

I certainly can with Tweakscale:D

[pTrevTrevs]

I guess I should put some of my techniques on the Open Source Aesthetics Thread.

[HiAmerica]

I likes. A lot.

[pTrevTrevs]

After much procrastination, the Economy Class U-Boat is out. This version only has 302 parts, making it easier to run, and sits somewhat lower in the water to look more like a real U-Boat.

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Edited October 17, 2015 by pTrevTrevs

[Castille7]

Downloaded as soon as I saw it, very creative craft

[V7 Aerospace]

I always love when people make interiors in KSP, this is no exception. Brilliant work! 

[Raptor9]

That sub is amazing looking, especially the inside.  The creativity and attention to detail is awesome, down to the wartime red lighting.  Well done sir.

[ImperialistPigDog]

looks awesome, any way to make workable torpedoes?

[Majorjim!]

Just now, ImperialistPigDog said:

looks awesome, any way to make workable torpedoes?

I think he is working on them at the moment. I have seen some WIP pics from him recently. Check out the WIP thread.

Edited January 2, 2016 by Majorjim

[ImperialistPigDog]

Sweet I'll definitely check it out.

[pTrevTrevs]

1 hour ago, ImperialistPigDog said:

looks awesome, any way to make workable torpedoes?

Eeeehhhh..... I could... But I have yet to get them to go fast enough to do damage. Also, I don't know where I could put them without either ruining the shape of the boat or adding lots of parts.

Huh, I guess I could put them on the top deck, but then I would have to make the boat able to submerge to make them easy to fire.

 

To be honest, I think it would be a bad idea to screw around with this boat any more, it's had a good run, but I'm afraid trying to add some new feature may ruin it. I really don't want to ruin it. I have been toying with the idea of doing a new, smaller U-boat with torpedoes and no interior, but it won't be coming very soon. I need to finish the ironclads, and school starts back in a few days.

[CommanderSpock]

20 hours ago, Majorjim said:

I think he is working on them at the moment. I have seen some WIP pics from him recently. Check out the WIP thread.

@Majorjim you're thinking of saturnianblues' pt boat torpedoes

Edited January 3, 2016 by CommanderSpock

[Majorjim!]

17 minutes ago, CommanderSpock said:

@Majorjim you're thinking of saturnianblues' pt boat torpedoes

Oh yeah, whoops sorry man.. Oh well, the guy asking could always attach those to this boat I guess!

[TedwinKnockman66]

Now we need KSP movie parody! And we name parody: maybe Jeb Boot! or KSP Boot

Edited January 27, 2016 by TedwinKnockman66