[WIP][1.3.1] Sigma Under Pressure

[Sigma88]

    

 

Sigma Under Pressure

Adds Ballast Tanks and Air Compressors to help making submersibles.

 

This is just a proof of concept, not a complete mod.

For now it includes 2 types of parts:

• Ballast Tanks:  are tanks that can hold "Ballast" (basically sea water)
• Air Compressors: which are used to let the water into the tank or push the water out.

The mod also contains a plugin to manage the function of these parts.

 

I'm not used to work with PARTs so all suggestions are apreciated.

 

I am particularly interested in:

• research requirements
• prices for unlocking and buying parts
• balancing of the various parts in general
• possible mods interaction

 

Download: https://github.com/Sigma88/Sigma-UnderPressure/releases

Source: https://github.com/Sigma88/Sigma-UnderPressure

License: All Rights Reserved

Edited February 2, 2018 by Sigma88

[fourfa]

Great idea.  I've had USI 'Otter' installed in the past, but it just didn't gel with me as being kind of non-Lego and a bit too far out of the KSP palette.  My personal opinion only - adding a few simple things to manage buoyancy of otherwise-stock parts is more my style, so I'll be giving this a go.

One piece of feedback - in stock the concept of jets and props working underwater is all fine and well.  But I'm currently playing in FAR, where nothing works underwater.  Any interest down the road of a line of simple screws and impellers?  Or perhaps something as simple as an optional reskin/re-cfg of Juno engines etc as underwater only?

[Sigma88]

4 minutes ago, fourfa said:

One piece of feedback - in stock the concept of jets and props working underwater is all fine and well.  But I'm currently playing in FAR, where nothing works underwater.  Any interest down the road of a line of simple screws and impellers?  Or perhaps something as simple as an optional reskin/re-cfg of Juno engines etc as underwater only?

to be honest I'm not what I call a "Part modder", I don't have the necessary skills to make nice models (all parts in this pack are cloned stock parts)

the idea here is to create a system to allow more talented people to develop submarine parts without having to worry about the plugin side

 

if there is enough interest this will become a full-fledged mod. otherwise it will just one of a series of side projects I start and never complete for lack of feedback

[klgraham1013]

3 hours ago, fourfa said:

in stock the concept of jets and props working underwater is all fine and well.

This always bothered me.