PilotNaut Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 a few shots from my latest adventures:Crash Landing on LaytheOsiris II Liftoff Leto 2 Lands at Mun Base 1Leto 3 EVA on Minmus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueMason Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 How did you do this?Check my [Tutorial] Circular station building. I'm pretty sure RogueMason build his in a similar way.(Damn, I REALLY should update that tutorial to 1.0.X. )It's somewhat similar to the third technique in that tutorial thread with the hitchhikers. Start off with a core module, then place some radial attachment points on it, because these will be where the 'spokes' are attached. The spokes themselves can be any suitable part, ranging from the emptied SRBs in my mega torus to smaller structural fuselages.When you've got spokes of the desired length, and you've decided on the thickness of the ring (Mk3 as seen in the torus in question will do for this, but Mk2 is also nice), place a crew cabin with an attachment node; they don't surface attach, so this is a necessity, but it's good because it keeps it tidy. Once attached, use the rotate and offset tools to align the cabin as necessary. Now you've got the starting points of the ring. Start placing more cabins around the ring, using the rotate tool to adjust the curvature with each additional part.Once all the cabins have been placed, there'll probably be gaps on the outer edge of the ring. Go around the ring and use the offset tool to get rid of these. After you're done with that, offset the spokes to adjust the length as needed in order to bring the sections of the ring into place. Hopefully, having been through all that, you'll have a torus that just needs some struts where appropriate -----Got some good stuff done today. I had two missions en route to Laythe, so I figured I'd get on with them. One is a rover, the other a probe with a piggyback lander, Cassini-Huygens style.The Surveyor probe got to Jool first, but because I foolishly thought I could use gravity assists to completely change the orbit direction, only the lander has thus far completed its objective, while the probe has, somehow, managed to tour all of the 3 innermost moons.Tylo fly-by on the way in. I used this to get a Jool capture, and it worked, thankfully. I was spared a merciless aerobrake. Going the wrong way round, though.First Laythe encounter, and there was an, umm... significant speed difference. Not much I could do, there.A short while prior to the next Laythe encounter, I released the piggyback lander, already being on course for re-entry. The Surveyor got clear of the atmosphere......and the lander splashed down mostly intact. Mostly. It lost its RTG upon entering the atmosphere (at around 6.5kms-1!!) and so it didn't have long left before dying, but hey, I got something from it, even if I'm only playing Sandbox.The Surveyor probe flying past Vall after I decided to attempt to get to the furthest reaches of the Jool system in an effort to swap the freaking orbital direction around.Second Vall fly-by.And then came the rover. Made orbit with the NTR stage without overheating, despite the insidious lack of radiators (?!).Touched down successfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Kerman Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Nice pictures! What mod gives you those nice clouds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueMason Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Nice pictures! What mod gives you those nice clouds?Thanks! The clouds are part of Astronomer's Visual Pack: Interstellar v2. You need EVE for it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mister Dilsby Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Lots of traffic at Kerbstation Two today due to some obsolete asteroid tugs coming in to offload crews. Clockwise from left: Mun, C-class hauler, E-class hauler, Kerbol, 'Debris One' vehicle famously used in "Duna Ore Bust!", Ore Piggie Mk2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endersmens Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Do Renders of KSP craft count as KSP pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Logan.Darklighter Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Salute to Gerry Anderson. Thunderbird 2 into the sunset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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papercuts Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 http://i.imgur.com/IbfLld1.png' alt='IbfLld1.png'> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KAO Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Experimental Interstellar Landerscreenshot16 by moon-man1, on FlickrICX-4 mothership for Kerbal Galaxyscreenshot17 by moon-man1, on Flickr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Getting a little bit toasty down at 250,000 km above the surface of Kerbol. Just about everything is tucked into the shadow of the heat shield, though the solar panels do stick out a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Corleon Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 THUNDERBIRDS!Awesome. (Oh this is Niles, Had an Ex Hack into and destroy my machine. had to by a new one. )Niles (Don) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queeblo Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 You can clearly tell who are the tourists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mythbusters844 Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Seems like I got the light wrong. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alchemist Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Somehow, I got a bit too much into R-7 replicasFirst thisThen thisNow this What a cute probe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TicTacToe! Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Shenanigans with RLA Test Version 3: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartwo Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Gilreese or something unpronounceableI don't know how to say thisBut I sent you on this mission knowing you would certainly die, I didn't expect you to make it to the surface.Well she seems to have taken it well.Enjoy the last few milliseconds of Tylo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAO Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Finally! after so much planning, so much construction! it's finally ready to disembarkscreenshot19The ICX-4 Starnought, boasting an impressive 72,000m/s of dV in its assembled state (barebones mothership clocks over 100km/s of dV) and enough provisions to create a small city on an exoplanet. Capture3Carries the Jules lander, the Vernes habitat, an ISRU lander with drills, facilities for the production and assembly of various parts, and tons of KIS storage space. All bound for the icy moon, Hoth, in the Polaris system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickSawyer Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 what a cute probe!Hail Probe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan.Darklighter Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 So Nertea's new Mk 4 Spaceplane parts are perfect for recreating Thunderbird 2. In fact Nertea has confirmed a couple of times it's inspired by and meant to do similar heavy lifting jobs. You can make some truly GIGANTIC SSTO load lifters with this mod. But yeah - Thunderbird 2. I had to try my hand at my own version. And it flies very nicely! And fast, too! (Mach 3+ top speed and around 23,000 meters max altitude)So I managed to load a rover from the runway and carry it over to the Snowy mountain area (Kerbinside). This is the real gimmick though. Achieved with a little help from IR Robotics parts. Ta daaa! Full Album below: Javascript is disabled. View full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Dilsby Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Cadets in the get valuable decision-making and crew-sploding experience in the Kerbfleet Command Bridge Simulator! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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