Dres bridge

[KSP Bro AE]

This challenge is one involving Dres. Surprised? Well, Dres is AWESOME. There is a huge canyon on it. The challenge is to build a bridge over the canyon that can support crossing rovers.

Badge:

Rules

• no rules (except 2), hyperedit is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
• coolest/most structurally sound bridge wins
• bridge must be over widest point

Edited April 22, 2016 by KSP Bro AE

[max_creative]

DRES DRES WHOO!!! 

I am already making a giant ramp to do a canyon jump, but this is going to be fun! You have to be careful because it's 3 km deep! 

Edit: More points for bigger rovers? Or extra points for returning the rover to the other side by a giant rover jump?

Edited April 22, 2016 by max_creative

[KSP Bro AE]

1 minute ago, max_creative said:

DRES DRES WHOO!!! 

I am already making a giant ramp to do a canyon jump, but this is going to be fun! You have to be careful because it's 3 km deep!

Makes the challenge better

[KSP Bro AE]

11 minutes ago, max_creative said:

DRES DRES WHOO!!! 

I am already making a giant ramp to do a canyon jump, but this is going to be fun! You have to be careful because it's 3 km deep! 

Edit: More points for bigger rovers? Or extra points for returning the rover to the other side by a giant rover jump?

Signing off, might not be on 'til tomorrow

[Ultimate Steve]

Interesting challenge. Just saying, though, that the width of the canyon at its widest may be more than 2.5 kilometers. I think that distance is calculated from the root part, so really 5km is the limit. It would be interesting to see how it would support itself, and to see what would happen if the thing you are driving on suddenly disappears due to physics distance.

Interesting idea, though! I wonder what the part count would be. Also, you probably would have to use hangar extender.

[suicidejunkie]

With EPl and KAS, it would make a good tinkering project while between launch windows.

[Turf]

Can you give me the location of the canyon?

[SpaceplaneAddict]

Wouldnèt making something like this count for Dres Awareness?

[RA3236]

Sorry to break to you, but a bridge like this will have over 2000 parts for the deck and heaps more for the supports.

[SingABrightSong]

For a second I thought you meant a bridge *to* Dres and was considering the many infractions against the laws of physics that would entail.

 

Then I realized I was actually thinking of a bridge to Duna, not Dres. I'm afraid the Dres Appreciation Society has their work cut out for them.

[max_creative]

17 hours ago, SingABrightSong said:

I'm afraid the Dres Appreciation Society has their work cut out for them.

Well, it can't be that hard right? You only need to hack physics and control a multi-kilometer long craft!

[Jetski]

We need someone to drop a probe or rover at each side of the canyon and screenshot to get a distance measurement. Longest craft I've ever been able to hold together stock was 1.2 km, basically just a string of girder, and it wanted to shake apart just orbiting (was working on a Gilly space elevator).  Weirdly, one of the hardest things was zooming in on parts I wanted to see, as camera keeps focused on COM, so really hard to look at the ends.

[KSP Bro AE]

On 4/22/2016 at 1:46 PM, Ultimate Steve said:

Interesting challenge. Just saying, though, that the width of the canyon at its widest may be more than 2.5 kilometers. I think that distance is calculated from the root part, so really 5km is the limit. It would be interesting to see how it would support itself, and to see what would happen if the thing you are driving on suddenly disappears due to physics distance.

Interesting idea, though! I wonder what the part count would be. Also, you probably would have to use hangar extender.

And BD for extended physics

On 4/23/2016 at 5:54 AM, Anbang11 said:

Can you give me the location of the canyon?

Should be in the wiki page for Dres

On 4/24/2016 at 10:01 PM, SpaceplaneAddict said:

Wouldnèt making something like this count for Dres Awareness?

Sure! I'll ask the owner of that thread.

On 4/24/2016 at 10:33 PM, RA3236 said:

Sorry to break to you, but a bridge like this will have over 2000 parts for the deck and heaps more for the supports.

That's why I said use any mod!

17 hours ago, max_creative said:

Well, it can't be that hard right? You only need to hack physics and control a multi-kilometer long craft!

Its called BD armory

[Turf]

On 24/4/2016 at 0:33 PM, RA3236 said:

Sorry to break to you, but a bridge like this will have over 2000 parts for the deck and heaps more for the supports.

 

And lag.

17 hours ago, KSP Bro AE said:

That's why I said use any mod!

Look, mods aren't magic.

[KSP Bro AE]

14 hours ago, Anbang11 said:

 

And lag.

Look, mods aren't magic.

Mods are magic. Plus, ever heard of part wielding?

[Turf]

We can probably reduce the amount of parts by using single long parts than many short parts.

[RA3236]

9 hours ago, KSP Bro AE said:

Mods are magic. Plus, ever heard of part wielding?

EVEN with that, you would need countless hours of testing and guessing, as well as having to send a mission to Dres to find coordinates. I am going to mark this as 'Highly Improbable to complete'.

[KSP Bro AE]

9 hours ago, RA3236 said:

EVEN with that, you would need countless hours of testing and guessing, as well as having to send a mission to Dres to find coordinates. I am going to mark this as 'Highly Improbable to complete'.

Then use vessel mover. there must be a way to do it.

[EpicSpaceTroll139]

With part-welding you could probably make your entire bridge into about 10 parts, maybe even one. And the below estimate seems a bit large. A 4m wide, 2.6km long deck could be easily made with under 600 of the large mk3 spaceplane tanks (emptied of course). Granted, this would be without the supports, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was possible... barely... not saying I'm going to try it though, I'm kind of busy in life at the moment (AP final exams coming up ).

On ‎4‎/‎24‎/‎2016 at 1:33 AM, RA3236 said:

2000 parts for the deck

Edited April 27, 2016 by EpicSpaceTroll139
Some of my post didn't appear?

[SpaceplaneAddict]

On 4/25/2016 at 10:09 AM, KSP Bro AE said:

 

Sure! I'll ask the owner of that thread.

 

I am

*Determination.

[TopHeavy11]

On 4/24/2016 at 0:33 AM, RA3236 said:

Sorry to break to you, but a bridge like this will have over 2000 parts for the deck and heaps more for the supports.

Not with the powers of...TWEAKSCALE!

There's no rules forbidding the usage of mods like it, so it's perfectly legal!

Edited April 28, 2016 by TopHeavy11

[Canberra_Gaming]

I promise I'm going to attempt this with stock parts (and hyperedit)

[KSP Bro AE]

9 hours ago, SpaceplaneAddict said:

I am

*Determination.

can completers get the badge?

1 hour ago, TopHeavy11 said:

Not with the powers of...TWEAKSCALE!

There's no rules forbidding the usage of mods like it, so it's perfectly legal!

exactly!

[Turf]

On 28/4/2016 at 7:17 PM, TopHeavy11 said:

Not with the powers of...TWEAKSCALE!

There's no rules forbidding the usage of mods like it, so it's perfectly legal!

Then what? A 20m scaled I-Beam 200? I'M IN!!!

[JebsDead]

On April 25, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Jetski said:

We need someone to drop a probe or rover at each side of the canyon and screenshot to get a distance measurement. Longest craft I've ever been able to hold together stock was 1.2 km, basically just a string of girder, and it wanted to shake apart just orbiting (was working on a Gilly space elevator).  Weirdly, one of the hardest things was zooming in on parts I wanted to see, as camera keeps focused on COM, so really hard to look at the ends.

 The Camera Tools mod would solve this problem.  You can set the view target yourself or fly a free camera around while still controlling a craft.  Any pics or video of the space elevator?