Beccab Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 8 minutes ago, Zorg said: God, I love every single solar panel I see in that pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starhelperdude Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 11 hours ago, CobaltWolf said: but nobody posts the actual Dawn of the Dragon pictures... hehe I know and buildt them (in an adapted form to be more gemini-looking) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1124max Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 46 minutes ago, Beccab said: God, I love every single solar panel I see in that pic Hard agree, between this, the new siv content, and everything else I'm genuinely amazed by all the work that has been put into BDB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorg Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 UPDATE - BLUEDOG DESIGN BUREAU V 1.10.3 "Луна" This is a minor patch update. v1.10.0 RELEASE ALBUM DOWNLOAD GITHUB DOWNLOAD | SPACEDOCK DOWNLOAD (pending upload) should also be available via CKAN soon. Changelog v1.10.3 Updates and Enhancements - Update some RL10 stats - Add RL10-B3 to BDB extras (Thanks to Pappystein) - Add J2A2 to upper stage thrust buff patch in BDB extras Bug fixes - Fix Saturn AJ260 radial decoupler force direction - Fix photometer experiments (Thanks to Rodg88) - Minor titles, descriptions and tag fixes - Fix LM top hatch textures - Fix LM EVA antenna animation - fix Star motor level 3 and E1 engine upgrades - Fix Space Dust bug with OAO instruments. Dedicated Space Dust versions of the instruments are now used instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1124max Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 24 minutes ago, Zorg said: AJ260 This reminds me, did anything happen with the proposal to add a config for the high thrust version of the AJ260? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdog357 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 On 6/16/2022 at 11:45 AM, CobaltWolf said: Ok, thought about this a bit on the drive in to my office. I'd just stick to BDB v1.9 if things are working well for you now - BDB v1.10 was almost entirely focused on updating the Saturn and Apollo parts, so if you're already happily using the existing versions of those, there isn't a lot to get from the update. My chief concern, if you were to try and 'merge' 1.9 and 1.10, is that stuff like the compatibility files, things like that, are all updated and pointing at the new part names, not the old one. So I think if you tried to use BDB v1.10, but with the v1.9 Saturn folder, those Saturn parts would have issues. I actually did briefly look into that while I was making the shortened S-IVB. I wanted to take the green 'cone', and everything that attached to it, and stick it on the tankbutt in the S-IVB mount. Zorg did the same thing, in reverse, for the single engine S-IV mount. I didn't work well, but I think I can make it work with a bit of elbow grease. First off - I'm really not taking Gemini requests right now. I've got a pretty long to-do list at the moment. Regarding "wide nose" Gemini, and this pretty much all applies to the Apollo as well, it's actually a pretty big ask. From a real-life hardware perspective, once you start changing the shape of the capsule like that, you're suddenly designing an entirely new spacecraft. So it's a somewhat unrealistic solution. With the Gemini, you also rapidly lose visibility out the forward windows. Then there's what it would actually take me, the modder, to do such a thing. I'm going to try and illustrate this, so people understand the problem with doing something like this. Here's just a normal cylinder, ring of vertices on the top and bottom. It's easy to change the diameter of one end by grabbing them and scaling them. Here's the Gemini capsule. As you can see, the geometry is much more complex (to a fault, almost), and selecting the top to change the diameter just results in a really jacked up model. Properly changing the slope would take an extensive amount of time moving all those vertices by hand - and the end result probably wouldn't be that good. Yeah it's been on my to-do list for a bit now. I don't see why not, I suppose? But Cobalt, it's easy, you just push a couple of buttons don't you? (real conversation between a PM and me, the drafter, he's lucky I didn't strangle him...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MashAndBangers Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, birdog357 said: real conversation between a PM and me, the drafter, he's lucky I didn't strangle him... Amen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveyJ576 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 4 hours ago, Zorg said: This is superior, master level work @Zorg. It will make a great addition when done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shlyopa Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 I have a nice idea. Why not to add science container module to Gemini automated resupply pod, so it can return data? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorg Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 16 minutes ago, Shlyopa said: I have a nice idea. Why not to add science container module to Gemini automated resupply pod, so it can return data? sure why not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Future Astronaut Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 @Zorg@CobaltWolfWhen will v1.13 be released? This Summer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MashAndBangers Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 41 minutes ago, Future Astronaut said: @Zorg@CobaltWolfWhen will v1.13 be released? This Summer? I highly doubt that seeing as they are currently developing 1.11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Cutest. S-IVB. Ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappystein Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 4 hours ago, Beccab said: Cutest. S-IVB. Ever. So what, 6 seconds of Fuel with 4 J-2 engines? The APS engine looks SOO out of place on the Orbital small SM.... Thanks for the screen shots! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starhelperdude Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 46 minutes ago, Pappystein said: So what, 6 seconds of Fuel with 4 J-2 engines? The APS engine looks SOO out of place on the Orbital small SM.... Thanks for the screen shots! *4 XLR-129s but yeah, it's maybe a bit too powerful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketBoy1641 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 22 hours ago, pTrevTrevs said: Aw crap, the Chinese done licked the MOL. Can't have anything in Houston... Thats what Washington said. We got pretty good out of Skylab/Kane.... although it retired much too early. But still the Military has had pretty good with the Keyholes; and with more cameras for the same/less money than if they were manned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeaKaka Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 8 hours ago, Pappystein said: The APS engine looks SOO out of place on the Orbital small SM.... I'll be honest, I actually kind of love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shlyopa Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 When S IC wetlab? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starhelperdude Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 59 minutes ago, Shlyopa said: When S IC wetlab? tbh, what I would really like would be a sort of S-IC drylab where the crewed section is in the intertank section, this, coupled with Saturn 5-B (1.5 stage S-1C), leads to a pretty cool station Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappystein Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 3 hours ago, KeaKaka said: I'll be honest, I actually kind of love it. Fair Enough. I guess I am a big TR201 fan for that SM so anything else is either BIG, SILVER or WHITE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biohazard15 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 14 hours ago, Pappystein said: So what, 6 seconds of Fuel with 4 J-2 engines? The APS engine looks SOO out of place on the Orbital small SM.... Thanks for the screen shots! Surprisingly, short S-IVB works quite well with 2 APS. Kind of super-Transtage, or super-SM for Big G. Combine with any S-IVB-based lab to get a FAT MOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorg Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 (edited) EOSS now up on github. node with jetissonable cover is available to fit an Apollo drogue port to. The module also has an airlock where kerbals can exit from. PS: discovered a slight bug which we might not be able to easily fix. If you launch a Skylab with an SLA and add an apollo on top, when you decouple if will also jettison the MM shields if the Apollo capsule is root (or anything *above* the SLA). Can avoid this by keeping something like the instrument unit root even if you want to have an spacecraft on the SLA. Edited June 18, 2022 by Zorg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beccab Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 29 minutes ago, Zorg said: EOSS now up on github. node with jetissonable cover is available to fit an Apollo drogue port to. The module also has an airlock where kerbals can exit from. PS: discovered a slight bug which we might not be able to easily fix. If you launch a Skylab with an SLA and add an apollo on top, when you decouple if will also jettison the MM shields if the Apollo capsule is root (or anything *above* the SLA). Can avoid this by keeping something like the instrument unit root even if you want to have an spacecraft on the SLA. Fantastic! There's also a couple colour scans of that same station online, they look pretty cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorg Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, Beccab said: Fantastic! There's also a couple colour scans of that same station online, they look pretty cool Neat, I've actually not seen these! 22 hours ago, Shlyopa said: I have a nice idea. Why not to add science container module to Gemini automated resupply pod, so it can return data? Looks like it already has one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shlyopa Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 22 hours ago, Beccab said: Cutest. S-IVB. Ever. I see you like to put large engines on small stages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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