A Divide in the Sky —graphic novel (Chapter 4, part 2 is FINALY HERE)

[Chemp]

34 minutes ago, Musil said:

oh, and interior scenes, as I suspected, are hell. Any help or advice is appreciated. 

From the top of my head, @Angel-125 has some very nice IVAs for his pathfinder mod IIRC, and Kerbal Animation Suite and free IVA can help you nail some shots. I have no experience with any of them though, my laptop can't take much more than a stock install...

Edited February 21, 2016 by Chemp

[Starhawk]

Great chapter Musil!

Very nice work.  I'm definitely enjoying how you've developed the rivalry between Jeb and Val.

Happy landings!

[Just Jim]

OK, besides you being a good writer, I am really loving your artwork style on this! 

[Musil]

Not enough time to update this week because of RL, boys, but here are some previews. 

 

 

 

[Musil]

The second part of chapter 4 is finaly here, guys. Sorry for the delay, it was sort of a hellish week. This line is the link.

You can find out about all of the contracts that were done and the cost of such and such on this spreadsheet.

 

[Mister Dilsby]

Oh mission control, you poor sillies--I guess you don't have patched conics yet, or you could have figured this out for yourselves  Well done, Val--though (assuming this is 1.0.5) a whole lot of "interesting" things could happen entering atmosphere from that high an apoapsis. I don't see a heat shield on that capsule, so, well, good luck and 'happy landings'  

[Starhawk]

Nice chapter.

I have complete confidence in the Mark 1 Command Pod.

Happy landings! ninja'd by @Kuzzter

Edited March 7, 2016 by Starhawk

[Mister Dilsby]

1 minute ago, Starhawk said:

Happy landings! ninja'd by @Kuzzter

I feel bad now. That's not mine to ninja. So actually, I pirate'd you  

[Chemp]

It happened to me more than once to survive the rentry heat, just to be reduced to smoke because I couldn't slow down enough to open the chutes. Now, Val said she guesstimated the length of her burns, so maybe she still has a few m/s in the tanks. Maybe just enough to slow down and trigger the parachutes.

Edited March 8, 2016 by Chemp

[SpaceplaneAddict]

Don't worry. I stress tested the Mk1 Capsule from an altitude of 5.5 million km, and it worked! Without a heat shield!

[Musil]

I think it's great how you guys worry about Val  I will say, she did explote once because I was too busy taking pictures. When the story is a little more advanced I am going to be willing to let kerbals die explody deaths, but at this stage it's kinda pointless. 

By the way, I have decided that from now on not every mission is going to be featured in a comic, since it would be hard to make another simple orbit (I have a contract to orbit for two days) exciting. To compensate, I am going to start mission logs on the excel, with descriptions of what happens. Not sure if they are going to have any relevance to the story. Also not sure if you guys would like me to post them on this thread: would that be too spamy? 

Edited March 8, 2016 by Musil

[Chemp]

I like the idea of a table where we can see what's going on. Why don't you add the link to the spreadsheet to your signature? That way, you don't have to repost it after every contract and we know where to find it.

[Geschosskopf]

On 3/7/2016 at 11:02 AM, Kuzzter said:

Oh mission control, you poor sillies--I guess you don't have patched conics yet, or you could have figured this out for yourselves  Well done, Val--though (assuming this is 1.0.5) a whole lot of "interesting" things could happen entering atmosphere from that high an apoapsis. I don't see a heat shield on that capsule, so, well, good luck and 'happy landings'  

Or she could get flung out into solar orbit by Mun.....  But apparently that didn't happen.

[Musil]

16 hours ago, Geschosskopf said:

Or she could get flung out into solar orbit by Mun.....  But apparently that didn't happen.

She did get into the munar SOI before the Mun, so that was not possible. Actually, if I had just let her keep the initial orbit, she would have returned just fine, but I forgot that by getting close to it the ship would gain a lot of anti radial speed relative to Kerbin.