XilentDude Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 The animated solar panel was from BACE if I remember.. The video was posted before he joined the Squad . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paprika Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/user/novasilisko?feature=results_main There you go.Haha! Nice avatar on there! Romantically Apocalyptic is awesome.Back on topic we go!With the planets really close to the sun, or moons really close to each other or their planets, would it be possible to get an orbit in a figure of eight going round them both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadownailshot Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Haha! Nice avatar on there! Romantically Apocalyptic is awesome.Back on topic we go!With the planets really close to the sun, or moons really close to each other or their planets, would it be possible to get an orbit in a figure of eight going round them both?No because the moon is moving relative to the planet, and the planet is moving relative to the sun, and your ship is moving relative to all three. You would have to make constant course corrections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maltesh Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 No because the moon is moving relative to the planet, and the planet is moving relative to the sun, and your ship is moving relative to all three. You would have to make constant course corrections.You can, however, put three equal-mass objects into a stable Figure-Eight Orbit, and even put that figure-eight in orbit around a star.Wouldn't work in the KSP physics simulation, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikeyhat09 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Nova said that for the time being, it's a normal planet, but if you go into its surface, bad things happen.Navigating in its surroundings will prove to be both challenging and fun, as the moons seem quite close to each other (or are they all just really big?).I think the planet should just be atmosphere. you just descend into thicker and thicker atmosphere until your ship can't handle the pressure and explodes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vexx32 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 I think that was what Nova said. It doesn't have an actual surface in the actual sense, but there's an auto-kill zone where if you go to a certain depth of the atmosphere, it kills you because of the pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfree97 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 They should populate the lower Meandan atmosphere with space krakens. It'd be more interesting than just having a certain point where your ship explodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo-not Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 I think that was what Nova said. It doesn't have an actual surface in the actual sense, but there's an auto-kill zone where if you go to a certain depth of the atmosphere, it kills you because of the pressure.I think it would be cool if the space kraken was in the middle of the gas giant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientAstronaut Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 But the Kraken is dead now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfree97 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 But the Kraken is dead now.Not until they roll out the vaccine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaSilisko Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 (edited) Scaled space objects are no longer just spheres. The transition is now basically seamless between scaled space and actual terrainAn ion engine would be useless in game. You cant accelerate time when you are accelerating from an engine burn. (most of the time you cant even with SAS on). An ion engine would give you so little thrust you would have to leave it on for days on end to see any acceleration. So it would be useless in game.If all goes well, we'll have possibly up to 10x physics-enabled timewarp in this update, which would make ion engines a lot more feasible. Edited August 15, 2012 by NovaSilisko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProdigy Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 --------------------------------------------------------------------R.I.P Kraken, despite all the troubles you have caused us, deep down inside our hearts, you will be missed.Let us have a moment of silence.------------------------------------------------------------Anyway, Im gonna build a interplanetary ship with 4 landers, and land on all of the gas giants moons within a small time frame >=3 First target: the icy moon, since the moon Europa is my favorite moon ever.There should be a volcanic moon like lo orbiting it too ;(Also, I don't understand what that means nova, but then again i am kinda slow at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAO Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 it means that the body starts out as a ball, then as you get closeronly THEN do mountains and craters start to form.what he's saying is that this no longer happens, and instead of the bodies starting out as spheres, they just spawn with mountains.It's the difference between starting out as a grape, and starting out as a raisin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aceassasin Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Scaled space objects are no longer just spheres. The transition is now basically seamless between scaled space and actual terrainIf all goes well, we'll have possibly up to 10x physics-enabled timewarp in this update, which would make ion engines a lot more feasible.Is that Eve's Munlet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaSilisko Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 (edited) No. That is Bop*, the smallest moon orbiting the gas planet.*Thank you Winston for providing the best name for any small moon ever Edited August 15, 2012 by NovaSilisko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vostok Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 No. That is Bop*, the smallest moon orbiting the gas planet.*Thank you Winston for providing the best name for any small moon everThat's one hella' bop.Hale bop?Hale-bopp? no? nothing? Loving the look of that tiny moonlet there, looks like it'll be fun to try and ramp off some of those hills into an escape trajectory... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaSilisko Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Actually, it's slightly bigger than Minmus. It's much easier on Eve's moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAO Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Nova, is there a certain real world body that Bop is based on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElJugador Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 "Anyway, Im gonna build a interplanetary ship with 4 landers, and land on all of the gas giants moons within a small time frame >=3"God now I really wish we could have separate parasite craft in this update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy4422 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 "Anyway, Im gonna build a interplanetary ship with 4 landers, and land on all of the gas giants moons within a small time frame >=3"God now I really wish we could have separate parasite craft in this updateYou can any debris with mechjeb on them is controllableAlso Nova that is looking really nice I can't wait to see charr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfree97 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Nova, is there a certain real world body that Bop is based on?It reminds me of the Saturnian moon of Epimetheus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhnifong Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Nova, Got any rocket building advice for getting out to the gas giant's moons? Can we see what your rocket's look like on the pad before you fly them out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfree97 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Nova, Got any rocket building advice for getting out to the gas giant's moons? Can we see what your rocket's look like on the pad before you fly them out there?He doesn't fly them out there, I don't think. He uses debug tools to do it (basically a box with options such as 'orbit which body', 'what sma', 'what eccentricity', etc.) so he doesn't have to spend ages designing rockets to test a tiny change to a moon's gravitational pull or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProdigy Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 well im sure hes flew to the gas giant...if my memory recalls correctly, it took him around 120-129 days to get there he said (some where in that range for sure). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfree97 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 well im sure hes flew to the gas giant...if my memory recalls correctly, it took him around 120-129 days to get there he said (some where in that range for sure).I don't think he would have needed to fly there to figure that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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