DonLorenzo Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Maybe its better to look for a spot where to ground curves away below you, that way your high speed doesn\'t need to be redirected at all. I\'m guessing that\'s doable at 30m/s, not so much at 400, which will cause damage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semininja Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 The problem is that there\'s a downward force created by the cart which prevents you from lifting off if you aren\'t forced off the ground by a sharper edge, like a small bump. The hill\'s too smooth of a curve.You can turn off the downforce in the part.cfg file for the cart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 look for a spot where to ground curves away below you Sensible suggestion, but there IS no place lower than sea level on Minmus, and the plateaus don\'t seem smooth enough to get up to speed. there\'s a downward force created by the cart Thanks. I figured it had to be something like that, otherwise the car would have just tangentially floated away from the surface once I got going that fast. Oddly, you don\'t get much additional impression of speed once you get over 100m/s. I think it\'s just too fast for the animation to give the impression that the ground is flowing beneath you. By the way, the cart was still picking up speed when I hit the hill. There doesn\'t seem to any upper limit to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteevyT Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 I managed to get the cart up to 300ish m/s per second on Minmus. Then I tried to turn, blew up my engine and went flying 3/4 of the way around the rock, I think I managed to fly up to about 14km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadoworgon Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 To be honest i can not for the life of me remember what influenced me to make this, but i did it anyway, even though the thing was a pain the in rear to get up to 200Km.....but i present my Orbital Ring Station! 8)I plan to make a network of these things around Kerbin, when i have the time and more patience... (personally i love the pic of it in the sun ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bioman222 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 You\'ve most likely been watching/reading 2001: A space Odyssey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadoworgon Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 no definitely not that (at least not directly =P) i havent seen that in a few years and quite frankly, i never want to see it again lol...but no i think it was someone on the forum that used the damnedrobotics hinges on something that gave me the idea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bioman222 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Oh...But do you no likey 2001? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadoworgon Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 to put it lightly..no i didnt lol dont get me wrong i loved the first 3/4 of it but that ending.. =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bioman222 Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Oh, OK, that\'s reasonable. Here\'s a screenshot to keep people from yelling 'off topic!' at me.This is a picture of the KSO (Kerbal Space Outpost) XIX (19) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAO Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 in this particular image, my craft disintegrated into its individual parts after a fairing failure. My craft\'s fairings failed to separate so when I gunned the engines it couldn\'t exactly handle pulling the weight of stage 2. It made a nice debris field around Kerbin thoughstage separation with fixed cameras mod, beautifulOrbiter-A1 above Munlanding gear on MEM-3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrypowers Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 My pic is more stock evil than add-on awesome. Come on, I can\'t be the only one building death rays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronda Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 My pic is more stock evil than add-on awesome. Come on, I can\'t be the only one building death rays?Nice looking machine. I can honestly say that I have not seen a better-looking death ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronox Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 I\'m a big fan of the Gemini program, so i\'ve been brushing up on my docking skills with tosh\'s gemini =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Aerospace Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Lovin\' that Agena target vehicle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronox Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Thanks! The pics are from two different rendezvous missions, and two different Agenas.DOCKING PLZ. :\'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrypowers Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Nice looking machine. I can honestly say that I have not seen a better-looking death ray.Thanks. For complimenting Death Ray 0ne, you shall be spared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Oh, this is just great. Our new moon is only a month old, and somebody already put a crack in it. This is why we can\'t have nice things! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav12c Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 hauling some serious ass on the mun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronox Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Lol\'d @ 'The Rapening' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 I don\'t think I\'m the first person to do this, but it\'s still pretty exciting when you\'re the one doing it. (That cart climbs like a fly!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav12c Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Lol\'d @ 'The Rapening'my first successful mun lander was called 'Mun Raper', i thought a sequel was in order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shazbot Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 I think I\'ve made the most absurd working spaceship I could possibly come up with. It took roughly 4 billion tries before I got the whole thing right.It\'s a rocket launched space plane that lands on the Mun using rotating engines, then flies back to Kerbin and lands on the runway. A design flaw made the rear engines on the plane run out of fuel when the front ones still had some, and it actually ended up being a good thing as you can see.Oh, in case you didn\'t know, to launch vertically from the runway just grab the cockpit/capsule and press W.(the low res ones were taken from a livestream recording, the higher res ones when I was actually flying it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigibro606 Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Donlood plzNo, seriously, that\'s a brilliant lookin\' bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khyron42 Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 The ultimate Rocket-powered motor cycle jump. On a suborbital trajectory from KSP; He\'s on course for a landing on the south polar cap, and can do it safely if he can avoid tumbling during re-entry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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