Suggestion About Parachutes

[64Bit]

Simple

İn Real Life Space Shuttle uses parachute WHİLE landing with some fighter jets

İn Kerbal Space Program when you have a touchdown they disappear

Make it dont happen

[Red Iron Crown]

What version of KSP are you playing? Chutes that remain after touchdown have been a thing for a while now.

[The Aziz]

They disappear after you stop moving, that's totally different thing.

[KSK]

I always figured the parachutes were simply cut free (as they would be in real life - check out any images of Apollo capsules after splashdown and before recovery). Once the parachutes aren't attached any more then in gameplay terms they're not adding anything, so why not save a bit of graphical overhead and have them disappear?

Spacecraft recovery operations are abstracted away anyway in KSP so I'm afraid I really don't see any point in having the parachutes not disappear. Or at least I would put it a long way down my list of graphical improvements.

[64Bit]

4 hours ago, Red Iron Crown said:

What version of KSP are you playing? Chutes that remain after touchdown have been a thing for a while now.

For some reason update in lanucher.exe isnt working...

[Red Iron Crown]

Just now, 64Bit said:

For some reason update in lanucher.exe isnt working...

Updates are downloaded directly from the store now rather than through the launcher. 

Which version are you playing?

[InterStellarExplorerKid983]

13 hours ago, 64Bit said:

"İn Kerbal Space Program when you have a touchdown they disappear"

They only disappear when the ship completely stops. This is to prevent and sort of damage or complications like flipping.

 

[Rath]

I think he must be playing pre-1.0...  You don't know what you're missing.  Where did you get KSP?  If you got it from steam it should auto-update, if it's from the store you need to manually update from there.

[Martian Emigrant]

On 2016-11-30 at 9:47 AM, KSK said:

I always figured the parachutes were simply cut free (as they would be in real life - check out any images of Apollo capsules after splashdown and before recovery). Once the parachutes aren't attached any more then in gameplay terms they're not adding anything, so why not save a bit of graphical overhead and have them disappear?

Spacecraft recovery operations are abstracted away anyway in KSP so I'm afraid I really don't see any point in having the parachutes not disappear. Or at least I would put it a long way down my list of graphical improvements.

They aren't cut free. They just disappear. It's as if they had some stowing function.

You can make other flights before you send an engineer to pack them and they are good as new.

So you don't see them but they are there to repack later if need be.

 

ME

 

[KerikBalm]

I wanted this for a long time.... and with 1.0... I got it... braking chutes are now standard equipment on many of my planes.

Spoiler

That was after a bug where it kept saying the wing was colliding with the launchpad... but you can see those drogue chutes are working even after contact

 

[MaxL_1023]

The parachute cutting function is a parameter tied to velocity, not ground contact. If you land a pod on a steep slope your parachute will remain active as you roll/tumble down. I suspect that in your situation, you are touching down slow enough and level enough to stop completely, causing you to lose your parachutes.