Water intakes?

[IronCretin]

Is it possible to make a water intake? Or an intake for atmosphere on non-kerbin planets?

[SpannerMonkey(smce)]

Hi you can only have an intake that has a defined resource List Here

You can define your own resources without issue and they'll work for all kinds of things  but for an intake to recognize them will take a plugin of some sort ( this is my current understanding, could be wrong )

[Deimos Rast]

@SpannerMonkey(smce)

Actually no, you can use an RCS thruster, for example, with a negative ISP curve for IntakeLqd as the inflow and another with a regular ISP curve as as the vent. It'll fill and vent the IntakeLqd reservoir as you would expect; you'd need to obviously disable or enable the respective thrusters via action group or they fight it out. Works pretty well and it's 100% stock + CRP.

Alternatively, intakes should work fine as long as the resource is defined and present, no? I just know you can have intakes pull in IntakeLqd.

Edited July 10, 2016 by Deimos Rast

[Van Disaster]

You can have intakes which grab anything you like - but I'm not sure if you can have them only work submerged ( I did ask for that exact thing when the new water appeared ). Hopefully there's a flag for it.

The standard CRP resource for inert atmosphere is IntakeAtm, there's several mods with patches for stock intakes to grab that too, of you browse some engine packs.

Edited July 10, 2016 by Van Disaster