Rope?

[Deltafee]

Has anyone consider making rope that tethers kerbalnauts to the ship while they EVA. You know a "just in case" situation where they've no longer have enough fuel to get back?

[dishycourier]

In before the NO TETHERS s***storm.

Every once in a while (it feels like quite often), someone asks for this. It always blows up into a "not possible atm, gtfo" situation.

Suffice it to say, yes. It's been thought of. No there's no good approach to it yet. Soon.

[Romfarer]

It is entirely possible to do this atm. I'm doing something similiar with the tractor beams i got on lazor system. All you'd have to do would be to change the lazor into a rope model. I'd just define some points along the rope and add a bezier curve of cylinder meshes between them. Then it's just a matter of mimicing physics for the points you have defined. i.e. moving them towards the direction of gravity and simulate elastic movement.

[KospY]

And how do you change the lazor into a rope model ?

It's possible to load a model programmatically in KSP and stretch it on the Z axis to make a simple rope ? (like fuel line and strut in the vab editor) ?

Edited September 24, 2012 by KospY