Esquire42 Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 36 minutes ago, The-Doctor said: I intend on building it in the VAB and docking it up. I intend on using keridian dynamics to build surface bases and using planetary domes to build surface bases. I also intend on using kerbalism which causes critical ship malfunctions, I have actually practiced a bit with it, I did a 100 year mission, the ship was fairly damaged and it was still thousands of years to proxima b. I have a LOT of planning to do for this mission, I intend on gaining help. I have actually never created a colony or surface base before lol. Do you wanna join the initiative? I still dunno what you mean by long range relays, if you mean for communications, then yeah Possibly. Is there a thread for this? Nertea doesn't need to be spammed with unnecessary notifications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Doctor Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 Not yet, I haven't made a thread, also, I forgot how, can you tell me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceception Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 (edited) @Nertea Hey, I just wanted to ask, because I don't know what page you address this in, but are those white tanks redesigned ones? Becasue they're awesome looking Edited May 9, 2017 by Spaceception Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddd9000 Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 On 07/05/2017 at 10:19 PM, hab136 said: The Emancipator cannot be refueled due to its design (Open Cycle Gas Core). If you need a refuel-able engine, use a different one. I just sent a huge mothership to Jool powered by four of those things and a tank of 960 units of refined uranium thinking it could use that. How long does the uranium last, approximately? Ship has 20 km/s of dV in LH2 Also, wouldn't it theoretically be possible to refuel the engine from a realism standpoint? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esquire42 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 15 hours ago, Spaceception said: @Nertea Hey, I just wanted to ask, because I don't know what page you address this in, but are those white tanks redesigned ones? Becasue they're awesome looking Same(ish?) models, new textures. But I agree Nertea did a great job with them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hab136 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 21 hours ago, Hoddd9000 said: I just sent a huge mothership to Jool powered by four of those things and a tank of 960 units of refined uranium thinking it could use that. How long does the uranium last, approximately? Ship has 20 km/s of dV in LH2 Also, wouldn't it theoretically be possible to refuel the engine from a realism standpoint? Oops. Send some replacement engines and an engineer, and you can swap it out using KIS and maybe Konstruction. AFAIK it was a design choice - better stats in exchange for a sealed, single-use system. It basically spits its waste out the nozzle along with the heated H2, which can't be good for the engine. You'd basically have to rebuild it after use, rather than just refuel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nertea Posted May 22, 2017 Author Share Posted May 22, 2017 On 5/9/2017 at 7:53 AM, Hoddd9000 said: I just sent a huge mothership to Jool powered by four of those things and a tank of 960 units of refined uranium thinking it could use that. How long does the uranium last, approximately? Ship has 20 km/s of dV in LH2 Also, wouldn't it theoretically be possible to refuel the engine from a realism standpoint? It'd probably be a good idea to add some info about this to the tooltip I suppose. I thought I had but eh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadet_BNSF Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Does this mod convert the stock NERV engine to LH2 as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nertea Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Yes, I am currently working on the Kerbal Atomics update for KSP 1.3. They will include rebalances and possibly some craft-breaking changes. If you use the mod in KSP 1.3 in its current state, you will have a Bad Time. On 5/22/2017 at 2:45 PM, Cadet_BNSF said: Does this mod convert the stock NERV engine to LH2 as well? Yes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerAce Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I'm coming back to this from a good bit of time away from KSP. What ever happened to the NSWR engine you were working on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PocketBrotector Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 2 hours ago, PanzerAce said: I'm coming back to this from a good bit of time away from KSP. What ever happened to the NSWR engine you were working on? NSWR along with other relatively "exotic" propulsion is in development over at Far Future Technologies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nertea Posted June 1, 2017 Author Share Posted June 1, 2017 I ran into a fairly annoying problem that I should have expected when cleaning up the new fuel tanks. Basically, using a more 'perfect' capsule shape made it so that the short tanks in the larger radii are not feasible. Imagine making a short capsule - the wider you make it, the larger your minimum height is before you start cutting off parts of the rounded end. I have three options to proceed, realistically two: Scrap the small 3.75m and the small 5m tanks (fastest option) Create completely different models for said tanks (adds ~2 weeks to release time for CryoEngines and KA, so like a month at least for now) What should I dooooo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maja Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 1 hour ago, Nertea said: What should I dooooo. Scrap them for now and make different models later? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PocketBrotector Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 7 hours ago, Nertea said: What should I dooooo. 6 hours ago, maja said: Scrap them for now and make different models later? This might be the best of both worlds. You could optionally keep the old ones around temporarily as a deprecated option. (Though given how incredibly annoying people behaved when you deprecated the old Near Future Spacecraft engines for the new models, I'd understand if you prefer not to.) What might the hypothetical new models look like? I'm guessing bundles of spherical tanks, like the larger xenon tanks from Near Future Propulsion? That would be neat as it might make it plausible to add the flat/pancake tank heights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmpCat Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 I concur. BOTH! Mostly because landers do better with shorter profiles, thus short 3.5m and 5m tanks would be very nice for my rocket designs. At the moment I put often nacelles full of fuel out to the side to keep my CG low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedParadize Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 10 hours ago, Nertea said: I ran into a fairly annoying problem that I should have expected when cleaning up the new fuel tanks. Basically, using a more 'perfect' capsule shape made it so that the short tanks in the larger radii are not feasible. Imagine making a short capsule - the wider you make it, the larger your minimum height is before you start cutting off parts of the rounded end. I have three options to proceed, realistically two: Scrap the small 3.75m and the small 5m tanks (fastest option) Create completely different models for said tanks (adds ~2 weeks to release time for CryoEngines and KA, so like a month at least for now) What should I dooooo. Or option 3 Keep it and does not look as good as it should with these two specific part? Hard to say, a picture would help to understand the nature of the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 11 hours ago, Nertea said: I ran into a fairly annoying problem that I should have expected when cleaning up the new fuel tanks. Basically, using a more 'perfect' capsule shape made it so that the short tanks in the larger radii are not feasible. Imagine making a short capsule - the wider you make it, the larger your minimum height is before you start cutting off parts of the rounded end. I have three options to proceed, realistically two: Scrap the small 3.75m and the small 5m tanks (fastest option) Create completely different models for said tanks (adds ~2 weeks to release time for CryoEngines and KA, so like a month at least for now) What should I dooooo. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spomb Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 On 1.6.2017 at 5:25 PM, Nertea said: I ran into a fairly annoying problem that I should have expected when cleaning up the new fuel tanks. Basically, using a more 'perfect' capsule shape made it so that the short tanks in the larger radii are not feasible. Imagine making a short capsule - the wider you make it, the larger your minimum height is before you start cutting off parts of the rounded end. I have three options to proceed, realistically two: Scrap the small 3.75m and the small 5m tanks (fastest option) Create completely different models for said tanks (adds ~2 weeks to release time for CryoEngines and KA, so like a month at least for now) What should I dooooo. Good time to thank you for your incredible work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nergal8617 Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 On 6/1/2017 at 10:25 AM, Nertea said: What should I dooooo. While I love all of your mods I have to say these two getting delayed while you work on models wouldn't really bother me as I don't use them as much as I do the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nertea Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 (edited) Yeah I think after some study the best course is clearly to remove the smallest 3.75m tank, not build a 5m tank of that height, and ship the mods that way. At some point in the future, rebuild these non-extant tanks. On 6/1/2017 at 4:29 PM, PocketBrotector said: What might the hypothetical new models look like? I'm guessing bundles of spherical tanks, like the larger xenon tanks from Near Future Propulsion? That would be neat as it might make it plausible to add the flat/pancake tank heights. I envision a simple cluster of capsule tanks, something like this old part, except of course skeletally matching the current set and much better looking. This time I would configure the size so that the capsules can be chopped up properly to create 3.75m and possibly 1.875m height inline tanks. The 5m diameter tank would have more capsules than the 3.75m tank I'd also like to put out the call for people who use this mod and either ModularFuelTanks, ProcedualFuelTanks or ProceduralWings and are able to spend some time looking at the configs. I don't know how these mods work, and there's user-contributed patches as part of CryoTanks that have been variously reported to "not work". I need some help repairing these. If not, I'll just rip them out. The current version of said configs are here. Edited June 5, 2017 by Nertea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PocketBrotector Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 17 minutes ago, Nertea said: I'd also like to put out the call for people who use this mod and either ModularFuelTanks, ProcedualFuelTanks or ProceduralWings and are able to spend some time looking at the configs. I don't know how these mods work, and there's user-contributed patches as part of CryoTanks that have been variously reported to "not work". I need some help repairing these. If not, I'll just rip them out I contributed the ProceduralWings patch but only ever tested it for B9 wings (it seemed to work fine at that time for that mod). I can test it out again in like two weeks when I have a functioning KSP-capable computer again. Is there a more detailed bug report we can use to direct the troubleshooting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nertea Posted June 6, 2017 Author Share Posted June 6, 2017 10 minutes ago, PocketBrotector said: I can test it out again in like two weeks when I have a functioning KSP-capable computer again. Is there a more detailed bug report we can use to direct the troubleshooting? Not really unfortunately, maybe dig through the thread? There's been a few over time (mostly MFT, I mainly included PWings because it's another patch I don't understand). I guess I just need a confirmation it works "as expected" with the latest versions. If you were the one who contributed the patch, do you mind if I note you as maintainer in the file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nertea Posted June 7, 2017 Author Share Posted June 7, 2017 So, while testing of the NFT builds is ongoing, I completed model and texture work for the tiny NTR. Additionally, the gas-core aerospike is s also completed at looking good! We've got three model variants here, normal, enclosed and 3.75m. Soon, the FX and emissives will be completed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyzard Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 @SQUAD, please hire @Nertea to redo all the stock models. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceception Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 2 minutes ago, Wyzard said: @SQUAD, please hire @Nertea to redo all the stock models. But then he wouldn't be able to keep these kickass mods updated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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