LLL - Lack Luster Labs - Development Thread

[ickli]

@Lack how did you make an imgur album show up like that on the forum? Much easier than filling a page with images!

[shadowsutekh]

@Lack how did you make an imgur album show up like that on the forum? Much easier than filling a page with images!

This is your answer ickli.

[Ember]

Cool I like this plugin

Anyway, here's a deployable Static Solar Panel concept

[shadowsutekh]

Cool I like this plugin [in response to sketchfab]

Anyway, here's a deployable Static Solar Panel concept

I think we all do

Wouldn't those two white things at the top block the sun?

[ickli]

The ability for us to rotate around the model and view it ourself is great. I think it looks reall good. but maybe have those middle flaps retract into the body so they don't block sunlight?

[Ember]

The ability for us to rotate around the model and view it ourself is great. I think it looks reall good. but maybe have those middle flaps retract into the body so they don't block sunlight?

that's generally what they do but i left them there so you can see that there are panels that cover up that area, don't think I can put animations in sketchfab

[ickli]

In that case, It looks pretty cool!

[ickli]

A 1x1 varient would also be nice

[brobel]

that's generally what they do but i left them there so you can see that there are panels that cover up that area, don't think I can put animations in sketchfab

that would be cool if you could. it would allow us to see the animation in any view we wanted

[mastercluff]

I have an off-topic question lack, what movie is the gerty probe thingy from? I have seen people posting movielike pictures and feel like that's a movie i might like. =)

[mushroomman]

I have an off-topic question lack, what movie is the gerty probe thingy from? I have seen people posting movielike pictures and feel like that's a movie i might like. =)

It's from Moon. That's a great movie.

[Pigbear]

Cupolas of any sort cause huge lag even when its just one of them lit up, I have a scout car that when I press the light button I get MAJOR lag. Is this a know bug or is it just me?

[Retro.Humanoid]

Is anyone unable to keep the top portion of a rocket stable? No matter what it keeps on wobbling.

[ruiluth]

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It's the Forward Unto Dawn

If I use MechJeb it's even balanced enough to fly, but I hyperedited it up to orbit.

[shadowsutekh]

It's the Forward Unto Dawn

If I use MechJeb it's even balanced enough to fly, but I hyperedited it up to orbit.

That's really good!

[ickli]

The attachment nodes for the track housings are off for me on all but the smallest. Anyone else got the same? :/

[Mekan1k]

Looks kinda like the Mother of Invention

[ruiluth]

Looks kinda like the Mother of Invention

Ay they're both frigates.

[Greys]

when a description or name refers to something as being 2x4, is this an arbitrary designation within the LLL set, or is it supposed to be a measurement?

I ask because I made this yesterday and later on noticed that by the numbers for the fuselage sections (2x4 2x1 ), my hexcans appeared to be hugely out of scale, and I did just do a big change so I was worried

Once I had the chance I grabbed my 10 meter stick and measured it to be sure

turns out the 2x4 2x1 is 2.6m wide

Edited June 19, 2013 by Greys
said one thing meaning another

[ickli]

^ Tsk Tsk Lack

[PringleMan]

-snip-

They are in reference to the standardized size of his 1x1 hull pieces. Basically if you look at the connector-side of a cockpit like the buster, or grab the structural walkway node part, that profile is 1x1. The 2x1 hull is then two 1x1 wide and one 1x1 tall. The 2x4 is two 1x1 tall and 4 1x1 wide.

[Ember]

the parts within ksp, including vanilla are measured by 1 meter and 2 meter but scaled with 1 meter being 1.25 and 2 meters being about 2.5

[Greys]

That's factually inacurate, the models for the stock parts are built on a meter scale because they used to be meter scale, but then physical Kerbals were added and they don't conveniently fit inside a meter tube so they made the stock parts 25% larger, thus creating the 1.25 standard, which is 1.25m within the game, they are not nor do they purport to be 1m, 1m in KSP is still 1m.

Edit:

It's difficult to get truely accurate measurements of cylinders, especially the stock cylinders because what you see and the collision mesh are only vaguely related, in this case that mating lip is non-collidable, and the orange tank wall is inset from the actual 2.5m standard for aesthetic reasons.

As such the tank wall is slightly less than 2.5m, and the lip is slightly more.

Not so much of a problem with LLL.

Edited June 19, 2013 by Greys

[Kreuzung]

IIRC most of the stock models are built in the correct scale, only the older ones are rescaled. Not that this is any important but whatever

[comham]

Talking about "meters" in videogame worlds doesn't make any sense at all unless you've got something real to compare it to (I would say "yardstick" but that's staggeringly inappropriate). It makes sense in arma 2, a realistic simulator. It doesn't make sense in KSP, or minecraft, or supreme commander.

There's nothing in KSP to use as a reference.