Mihara Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 It might seem strange to call the parts "ballast tanks" when they can also help a vessel to float, but that seems to be the appropriate nomenclature based on what I have read about submarines. Any suggestions from self-taught submarine captains are welcome. As far as I know the English terms are correct. An Earth submarine naturally floats, though, it doesn't sink when the ballast tanks are empty -- it typically has at least three different ballast tanks. The main ballast tanks are typically designed to get the submarine down far enough so that only the sail is showing. (Yeah, I was also amused when I found out that in English that part's called a 'sail'.) At that point the boat isn't neutrally buoyant yet, but almost, and one more tank is used for fine adjustment, with typically two extra tanks for pitch control.And then there's a special extra tank for emergency dive that is kept empty throughout all that, and special tanks to handle what happens when you open torpedo and missile tubes.Hearing that only crew quarters provide buoyancy gives me an important idea, though, that shouldn't be too hard to code and should make it work both more realistically and more interesting: Gasoline has been used as a flotation device, notably in batyscaphe Trieste. This works because it's lighter than water, but is nowhere as compressible as air, which eliminates lots of engineering problems.I'm not sure about oxidizer or monopropellant, but LiquidFuel should definitely float, and determining it's displacement is trivial because you know exactly how much volume units the ship has and where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelShisen Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 As far as I know the English terms are correct. An Earth submarine naturally floats, though, it doesn't sink when the ballast tanks are empty -- it typically has at least three different ballast tanks. The main ballast tanks are typically designed to get the submarine down far enough so that only the sail is showing. (Yeah, I was also amused when I found out that in English that part's called a 'sail'.) At that point the boat isn't neutrally buoyant yet, but almost, and one more tank is used for fine adjustment, with typically two extra tanks for pitch control.And then there's a special extra tank for emergency dive that is kept empty throughout all that, and special tanks to handle what happens when you open torpedo and missile tubes.Hearing that only crew quarters provide buoyancy gives me an important idea, though, that shouldn't be too hard to code and should make it work both more realistically and more interesting: Gasoline has been used as a flotation device, notably in batyscaphe Trieste. This works because it's lighter than water, but is nowhere as compressible as air, which eliminates lots of engineering problems.I'm not sure about oxidizer or monopropellant, but LiquidFuel should definitely float, and determining it's displacement is trivial because you know exactly how much volume units the ship has and where.Normal water has a density of 1000kg/m^3 and JP-5 (Military Jet Fuel) has a density of just 810Kg/m^3. Oxidizer however, assuming it is LOX, is a SUPER light 1.141g/cm^-3 !! Also monoprop, again assuming the most common one which is Hydrazine, would also float at just 1.021g/cm^-3 . Xenon gas is an obvious one though. So it would appear that, using realistic float math, it would take a LOT of force to pull anything underwater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooligan Labs Posted September 6, 2013 Author Share Posted September 6, 2013 Did you guys by chance ever entertain the idea of implementing this fix for walking on airships with Kerbals?I actually was in a private message conversation with the guy while we was making it! It went something like this.Him: I am walking my kerbals on your airships! This is awesome! Why aren't you doing this?Me: I tried but something strange happens when you try to tell a ship that it is "landed" at a high altitude, not exactly sure how high.Him: Uh oh, my ship is stuck now. I can't get it to move. And it's lagging like crazy.Me: Yeah, that will happen.Sorry, but I really recommend that you land your ship first, using an anchor, and then click Make Stationary. Then you can walk your kerbals as much as you like without fear of breaking the game! That is how I did Bungee Jumping on Jool, etc.I have talked to Mu about this and it sounds like it may be possible in the future when they change how things are saved. No ETA.As far as I know the English terms are correct. An Earth submarine naturally floatsAn Earth submarine is a huge, sealed volume that is mostly filled with air... Unlike a KSP space ship.Hearing that only crew quarters provide buoyancy gives me an important idea, though, that shouldn't be too hard to code and should make it work both more realistically and more interesting: Gasoline has been used as a flotation device, notably in batyscaphe Trieste. This works because it's lighter than water, but is nowhere as compressible as air, which eliminates lots of engineering problems.Normal water has a density of 1000kg/m^3 and JP-5 (Military Jet Fuel) has a density of just 810Kg/m^3. Oxidizer however, assuming it is LOX, is a SUPER light 1.141g/cm^-3 !! Also monoprop, again assuming the most common one which is Hydrazine, would also float at just 1.021g/cm^-3 . Xenon gas is an obvious one though. So it would appear that, using realistic float math, it would take a LOT of force to pull anything underwater.I put the buoyancy of resources out of the question because of how they are handled in KSP. Consider this: In KSP, electricity has a density. It's very low, but if you attempted to use the density and amount of all resources in a part to determine if it would sink then batteries would float like crazy.It gets even harder when you think about what happens when a resource is depleted. Is it being replaced with air? Water? Nothing really, in the case of electricity?And what are the density units meaning anyway? And what if some mod brings in some new resource with an even stranger property?The challenge seemed outside of the scope of this mod. If anyone want to take a shot at coding it, go ahead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelShisen Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Very good point. I was just providing the stats to go with what Mihara had said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mihara Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Actually, you don't have to get so complicated about this.The amount of resources is known in abstract units, and so is the mass per unit and the volume of an empty tank in the same units -- you just need to know the volume of an actual unit per resource (because it is different per resource) to get a reasonable ballpark estimate. Whether used up resources are replaced with air or vacuum will make relatively little difference, if they are replaced with water the difference will be significant, but in KSP situation this won't normally happen, because none of these parts are intended for use as ballast tanks.So you make a user changeable config file which assigns a volume for a unit of every known resource, read it at vessel unpack, start it off with good guesses, assume unlisted resources have some reasonable volume unit, and add corrections over time. Electricity might have a density, but it's volume unit would be zero, or very close.I'd code that myself, but both C# and KSP API are outside my normal expertise, my specialty is obscure dead programming languages like the kind where you say [if(setr(4,match(%0,[setr(2,ucstr(%1))]:*)),replace(%0,%q4,%q2:%2),setunion(%0,%q2:%2))] to even get at the concept of a hash table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteDice Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 It's nowhere even that difficult, can be done out of the box with stock ksp modules/resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sufficient Anonymity Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 I've posted this in some other threads, but I've just realised I hadn't put it here, the home of one of the most crucial mods for the entire mission. Anyway, photos:Javascript is disabled. View full album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelShisen Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I've posted this in some other threads, but I've just realised I hadn't put it here, the home of one of the most crucial mods for the entire mission. Anyway, photos:Javascript is disabled. View full albumVery cool~ I'll be adding the picture of the airship to the wiki later tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakairyu Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Simple. They either used an old version or they modified to base code for the mod.do you know how to change the base code? or could you tell me where to go and what to change? or something? because i am really interested to make a base at the bottom of the ocean, with ICBM's & vessels ready to launch from an under water kerb city!Cheers, Ryan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelShisen Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 do you know how to change the base code? or could you tell me where to go and what to change? or something? because i am really interested to make a base at the bottom of the ocean, with ICBM's & vessels ready to launch from an under water kerb city!Cheers, Ryan.No clue. I'm not a programmer. I just know that hooligan put the limit into the core of the plugin to deal with KSP having really bad physics issues if you go more than 600m underwater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooligan Labs Posted September 9, 2013 Author Share Posted September 9, 2013 Great airship, SA!Wakariyu has been messaging me about the submarine depth limit. The biggest issue is landing under 600m. When you reload the vessel, like after a save, it will not be able to judge the distance above the ground right and will stick your vessel halfway in the ground. A tremendous explosion results.I also know that KSP throws a constant stream of render errors under 600m, so who knows what else might go wrong with the code.It's amazing that KSP works as well as it does while underwater. I coded in the depth limit to give one distinct reason to not go that far down. Otherwise we have to deal with every other problem that KSP might have separately. Truly uncharted waters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelShisen Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 @SufficientAnonymity: Your airship has been added to the gallery!@Hooligan: I'm loving this mod~ Mind if I ask what is next on the table of 'Things to do'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooligan Labs Posted September 9, 2013 Author Share Posted September 9, 2013 Indie speed run! Probably going to do it this weekend. http://www.indiespeedrun.com/devsite/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelShisen Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Looks awesome!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synik4l Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I actually was in a private message conversation with the guy while we was making it! It went something like this.Him: I am walking my kerbals on your airships! This is awesome! Why aren't you doing this?Me: I tried but something strange happens when you try to tell a ship that it is "landed" at a high altitude, not exactly sure how high.Him: Uh oh, my ship is stuck now. I can't get it to move. And it's lagging like crazy.Me: Yeah, that will happen.Sorry, but I really recommend that you land your ship first, using an anchor, and then click Make Stationary. Then you can walk your kerbals as much as you like without fear of breaking the game! That is how I did Bungee Jumping on Jool, etc.I have talked to Mu about this and it sounds like it may be possible in the future when they change how things are saved. No ETA.Gotcha...Well thanks for the response. I figured there was a reason that wasnt done. One more question though. How does the anchor actually work on Jool? Doesn't the anchor have to be dug into something to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimberly Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 An anchor just has to touch the ground to allow a craft to be "landed". And Jool does have a solid ground, glitchy as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synik4l Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 An anchor just has to touch the ground to allow a craft to be "landed". And Jool does have a solid ground, glitchy as it is.Ya i've anchored b4. Just didnt know Jool had solid ground lol.. Awesome thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooligan Labs Posted September 10, 2013 Author Share Posted September 10, 2013 (edited) See my Bungee Jumping on Jool video... ... and my Colonizing Jool album.Javascript is disabled. View full albumBe warned, Jool's surface is very finicky. This colonization effort did eventually lose an airship to the Kraken, but a single vessel at a time should be safe. Edited September 10, 2013 by Hooligan Labs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synik4l Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 See my Bungee Jumping on Jool video...... and my Colonizing Jool album.Be warned, Jool's surface is very finicky. This colonization effort did eventually lose an airship to the Kraken, but a single vessel at a time should be safe.hahah thats awesome. Super sketchy entry. lol. I actually saw your picture of that Jool craft, and modeled one after it. To do some bungie jumping on kerbal, because it looked so fun. I'm going to have to try that with jool as well. Thanks for the info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuBisCO Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Ok so I made hyper long KAS winch set and went down to 2 km of Jool surface with deadly reentry off. I then dropped the "anchor" (which was a pod all its own, UNDOCKED) with parachutes and when it reached 0 altitude I began raising my Jool station via balloon from 2 km up to 50 km (this was a slow process) locked position and saved, then I dropped the hyper long cables and the game still thought I was attached to the surface so it let me save with the station actually floating 50 km above thee surface! I can return to the station but sometimes the game relies it is afloat and won't let me save again, the kraken is clearly circling but it does not try to go in for the kill. I've done this on Kerbin and EVE and been able to even dock other aeroships with it and get them to think they are docking with something attached to the ground (thus can save). The anchors though have to be disconnect from the anchor pod, they seem to automatically disconnect passed ~2.6 km, best not to have them docked and it best to either retract the cables once reaching the desired altitude or just drop the hyper long KAS winch altogether Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelShisen Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Introducing my newest Heavy Air Lift Designs!Heavy Lift Airship with 24m long S2 Cargo BayHeavy Lift Airship with 6x Half Sphere RocketPart containers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jivaii Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Introducing my newest Heavy Air Lift Designs!Heavy Lift Airship with 24m long S2 Cargo BayHeavy Lift Airship with 6x Half Sphere RocketPart containersOh wow....Afraid to ask, but any chance of a .craft file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrluckypants96 Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 I'm having a bit of an issue with the submarine mod: anytime I create a craft with the sub ballast tanks and drive (or fly with the airships mod) it over to the sea, it just sinks immediately at 0% ballast. if using the airship balloons i can get it to float, but the lift is from the balloon and not from the ballast tanks or the craft itself. It is quite hilarious, though, to see my carefully built submarine airship combo fall under the sea as if it isn't there (and subsequently smash into the sea floor at over 100m/s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelShisen Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 (edited) Oh wow....Afraid to ask, but any chance of a .craft file?Sure! You'll need B9, HL (Obviously~),Firespitter, and the Spherical Tanks mods.https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ij3vjn7cav1723/Heavy%20Lift%20Airship%20Rocket%20Parts.craft <--- RocketParts (Will need either EL or OC)https://www.dropbox.com/s/0uax1n87o9qybxd/Heavy%20Lift%20Airship%20S2%20Cargo.craft <--- Basic Corehttps://www.dropbox.com/s/ddv63ieaawsscxy/JewelShisen.zip <--- The main beams that are on each side of the body, place into a folder of your own in GameData Edited September 12, 2013 by JewelShisen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelShisen Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 I'm having a bit of an issue with the submarine mod: anytime I create a craft with the sub ballast tanks and drive (or fly with the airships mod) it over to the sea, it just sinks immediately at 0% ballast. if using the airship balloons i can get it to float, but the lift is from the balloon and not from the ballast tanks or the craft itself. It is quite hilarious, though, to see my carefully built submarine airship combo fall under the sea as if it isn't there (and subsequently smash into the sea floor at over 100m/s)You'll need more of the ballast tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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