[1.9.x] Structural Tubing Restructured

[linuxgurugamer]

Placeholder for new release in progress

A forum user, @DrunkenKerbalnaut, made this wonderful set of structural tubing with many switchable textures.

He hasn't been around since November, 2016, someone mentioned he had been injured. 

The original thread is here:https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/152597-12x-structural-tubing/

I've updated it for KSP 1.4.1, replacing the old FireSpitter texture switching code with the new stock texture switches.

DK Salvage is proud to present

Structural Tubing.

This mod adds a few structural components for ruggedizing your various crafts.

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Download Link:

• Spacedock: https://spacedock.info/mod/1753/Structural Tubing Restructured
• Source: https://github.com/linuxgurugamer/StructuralTubingRestructured
• License: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

Available via CKAN

Features:

• 24 different tube sections, etc.
• Stock Texture Switch support. 
• Tweakscale support. 
• Agency and Flag. 

 

KottabosGames Review of v1.0:

License: I've changed the license from the original as permitted.  It's still very open

Credit:

@SpannerMonkey(smce) for modeling, making sweet rovers, and including FSTextureSwitch support. He did pretty much all the important stuff, really. 

@BureauJaeger for the addition of new textures for Firespitter users. The USI-alike one is my new fave. 

 

Edited March 30, 2018 by linuxgurugamer

[Daniel Prates]

Good to see this being picked up. Thanks @linuxgurugamer

Edited March 18, 2018 by Daniel Prates

[snkiz]

That's got to be over 200 mods now. wow man. Thank you @linuxgurugamer These are what I did the MK2.5 shuttle challenge with. 

Album https://imgur.com/VGaHbzy will appear when post is submitted

I wasn't trying to sway the judge, I swear.

Edited March 17, 2018 by snkiz
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[Drew Kerman]

holy crap in the midst of updating a ton of other mods you find time to pick up another legendary

[Trashy_Spartan]

Damn it. I didn't know I needed this mod until I saw it.Thanks you for your continued efforts to maintain all these mods @linuxgurugamer

[Fireheart318]

Sweet!

[Jognt]

Awesome mod. 

Thank you for picking this up linuxgurugamer, though honestly it’d be a relief to hear from drunkenkerbalnaut. 

Edited March 18, 2018 by Jognt
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[Gargamel]

Stop, just stop LGG.  You are addicted.  

Kudos sir. 

[linuxgurugamer]

This one was fun, and I used it to learn the new texture switching methods in stock

[graphite747]

I haven't even installed it yet, (I'm about to) but i can already tell that this is a permanent addition to my mod list. My friends are always requesting various ships from sci-fi, and I've been missing this exact thing for detail/structural. I'm just starting to think about all the uses I'm going to put these babies to.. epic stuff!! Thanks a quadrillion! (goes without saying, but thanks for ALL the other mods you've been holding down too!)

[Daniel Prates]

I am finding this mod excellent so far.

But it sure is difficult to place those damn tubes!  The green placement node gizmo gets in the way and doesnt let me see what Im doing.

Its great for giving that extra bling to vehicles!

[Daniel Prates]

Just an FYI:

The OP mentions the original post, with the original version. Its a 1.2.1 version,  on the creator's dropbox. I tested it and it works just fine with 1.3.

I mention this since I am (and presumably,  lots of other people) still playing my heavily-modded 1.3.1, which took some effort to mod to perfection,  whike  waiting for the 1.4 dust to settle a bit.

Of course @linuxgurugamer,  I am also running a 1.4 testbed and your 1.4 recompile works like a charm there too. Many thanks!

[Daniel Prates]

An example on what you can do with those structural tubes. 

They are fully attachable, and with tweakscale, there's not limit on how and where you can use them. They are pretty light too. 

BTW, I use F.A.R., and those who use it know that it makes aircraft design that much harder. Drag is more dramatic, lift is less abundant, engines provide less power (proportionally to all else, that is. The part's specs remain the same). So weight-saving measures are necessary: those two crappy planes you see there barely lift the ground, given their underpowered engines. The first stalls at 50m/s or so, but has a top speed of 70m/s. So the structural tubings were not purely a cosmetic issue: with other parts, those planes would have been heavier and the design would not have worked. 

Edited March 29, 2018 by Daniel Prates

[linuxgurugamer]

@Daniel Prates

Nice,  can I add one of them to the OP as another example?

[Daniel Prates]

5 hours ago, linuxgurugamer said:

@Daniel Prates

Nice,  can I add one of them to the OP as another example?

You sure can! I would be very glad if you did. 

[Beetlecat]

I totally forgot I had installed these and a new career contract just asked me to test one. I'm gonna make a bee line to unlocking these. Unbelievably useful!

[Virtualgenius]

I created these 

Edited May 18, 2018 by Virtualgenius

[Virtualgenius]

I love this stuff, I couldn't find a suitable Drop Frame to land the payloads on so i made this, if you have KIS installed Jeb can EVA and disassemble the frame it also floats

Edited May 18, 2018 by Virtualgenius

[Beetlecat]

6 hours ago, Virtualgenius said:

I love this stuff, I couldn't find a suitable Drop Frame to land the paylods on so i made this, if you have KIS installed Jeb can EVA and disassemble the frame it also floats

That's really cool. Is that a smart-part for the parachute deploy timer?

Thank you for the KIS hint -- that makes creating these types of structures with the *intent* of disassembling them make total sense.

[Virtualgenius]

Yep smart part to deploy the drogue chutes at set altitude and another one to deploy main chute and cut the drogues and ditch the heat shield. The batteries dont really last so consider RTG  one of the cool things I found is it floats so if it goes pear shaped you can salvage it.

Edited May 18, 2018 by Virtualgenius

[Ruedii]

I love this mod but some of the parts seem to have their lengths a little off.  (For instance the elbow joints have one side longer than the other.)

[linuxgurugamer]

New release, 1.0.7.1

• Updated .version file

[Tahvohck]

Is it intended operation that not all of the attachment nodes actually attach to each other, or do I have a bug?

I think I'm just dealing with the finicky-ness of attachment nodes, don't worry about it.

Edited June 17, 2018 by Tahvohck

[EstebanLB]

@linuxgurugamer
DrunkenKerbalnaut got the lenghts wrong for some of the straight parts, there is an extra cero on the 250cm, 300cm and 500cm. They should be 25cm, 30cm and 50cm respectively

[linuxgurugamer]

5 hours ago, EstebanLB said:

@linuxgurugamer
DrunkenKerbalnaut got the lenghts wrong for some of the straight parts, there is an extra cero on the 250cm, 300cm and 500cm. They should be 25cm, 30cm and 50cm respectively

Thank you.

I'm going to change it to be mm instead of cm, which will fix the problem.