[1.12.x] [WIP] Stock Scale Sea Dragon - Adds the Sea Dragon SHLV, in Fully Accurate, Stock Scale!

[ThatGuyOnTheLeft]

No idea why, but I only have like 2300 m/s of DeltaV with 220 tons of payload. And I'm playing on 2.7x rescaled. The first stage only fires for like 10 seconds. I'm so confused.

[AquaBoi]

The first stage practically immediately runs out of fuel at launch. Playing with JNSQ if that helps anything.

[EndAllFilms]

Make sea dragon 2nd stage reusable

[ThatGust]

Did support for this mod ended? 

[hugoraider]

This mod is great, but I noticed something weird: the ballast doesn't show in game, even though all the required files are there

[ThatGust]

3 hours ago, hugoraider said:

This mod is great, but I noticed something weird: the ballast doesn't show in game, even though all the required files are there

The autor said it has been disabled due to issues with the model

[hugoraider]

Damn... that's a bummer, and pretty much kills the interest of Sea Dragon . Do you happen to know how to re-enable it?

[ThatGust]

18 hours ago, hugoraider said:

Damn... that's a bummer, and pretty much kills the interest of Sea Dragon . Do you happen to know how to re-enable it?

I was tinkering with the .cfg a couple weeks ago and didn't get it to function, I might take a look to it again later 

[hugoraider]

Oh yeah, that'd be great

[hugoraider]

On 9/26/2023 at 12:30 PM, ThatGust said:

I was tinkering with the .cfg a couple weeks ago and didn't get it to function, I might take a look to it again later 

So, did you find anything yet?

[ThatGust]

34 minutes ago, hugoraider said:

So, did you find anything yet?

Still nothing, i swear i checked everything up and down in the cfg and didnt found the reason why it doesnt appear in the game. Im new in this so maybe i made a mistake tho

[hugoraider]

On 10/2/2023 at 6:47 PM, ThatGust said:

Still nothing, i swear i checked everything up and down in the cfg and didnt found the reason why it doesnt appear in the game. Im new in this so maybe i made a mistake tho

Yeah, couldn't see what's wrong in the cfg either, maybe it's in the model itself?

 

@AaronDoesSpace Could you please tell me how to enable the ballast? I'd really like to use it.

[hugoraider]

So @JadeOfMaar found why the ballast doesn't work: there's a non-existent node defined in the cfg, so just delete it and it works!

I also edited the 1st stage engine and fuel tank to adjust fuel amount and ratio and added the ballast filling module from ZeroKerbal/NecroBones Sea Dragon: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a8CcbYompMLwtNvGU5n_r4c2EtY49MEx/view?usp=drive_link

Edited October 8, 2023 by hugoraider

[ThatGust]

1 hour ago, hugoraider said:

So @JadeOfMaar found why the ballast doesn't work: there's a non-existent node defined in the cfg, so just delete it and it works!

I also edited the 1st stage engine and fuel tank to adjust fuel amount and ratio and added the ballast filling module from ZeroKerbal/NecroBones Sea Dragon: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a8CcbYompMLwtNvGU5n_r4c2EtY49MEx/view?usp=drive_link

Cool! , I also was thinkering with the values of the engine/fuel tanks trying to find the perfect spot with mixed results, but im going to try this config

Oh also, one thing i did was change the value of the parts to make it somewhat viable in carer mode 

[ltajax]

Anyone know how to use the ballast? I have it attached, but I can see no way to fill / enable it

[hugoraider]

11 hours ago, ltajax said:

Anyone know how to use the ballast? I have it attached, but I can see no way to fill / enable it

Oh yeah, it needs NecroBone's Real Scale Sea Dragon to work.

[ltajax]

2 hours ago, hugoraider said:

Oh yeah, it needs NecroBone's Real Scale Sea Dragon to work.

Ah cool, thanks for the info, I will give that a try. In the interim, I just ended up increasing the mass of the ballast to 12500, which had it sit nicely in the water even with an extra 300 tons of payload if you use a slightly submerged spawn point.