Dragon Rider Capsule [0.23 (2/14/14)

[CardBoardBoxProcessor]

The Dragon Capsule is basically the minivan of space transportation with it’s ability to hold Seven crew members and it’s spacious interior. It comes fully equipped with built in a docking and propulsion to allow it to shuttle its crew and cargo about in orbit. The Dragons array of Lights, landing gear and engines enable it to be the perfect drop pod to make landings on any celestial body.

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R4:

Band-aided Solar and Landing leg animation problem. only real fix is a DEV fix.

removed Dragon Brain as it is pointless now.

Changed some engine power and the like.

added Reaction Wheels to Capsule.

R3:

Fixed RCS Translation instability

made compatible with 0.20 finally….

added mechJeb2 support to brain and Capsule (AFAIK not tested)

Added Docking Cam Support (AFAIK not tested)

Press:

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Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/orvjijt6ukoiq1r/unity.rar

Edited February 14, 2014 by CardBoardBoxProcessor

[The Destroyer]

That video is awesome. The Dragon is awesome, used it since first release.

THIS THREAD IS AWESOME.

*downloads*

[CardBoardBoxProcessor]

Cool. good to know Will be releasing an update eventually that fixes the problems with the RCS when it comes to translating. No more flipping and spinning for no reason Thanks C7

[The Destroyer]

That's even better!

*hugs*

*Starts picturing massive craft with 100 dragons attached to invade Duna*

See you later....

[Guest]

Cool. good to know Will be releasing an update eventually that fixes the problems with the RCS when it comes to translating. No more flipping and spinning for no reason Thanks C7

Excellent news! I absolutely love the Dragon. Thanks for all the work you've put into it!

[CardBoardBoxProcessor]

Welll i havn't exactly put all that much work into it

[MennoLente]

Welll i havn't exactly put all that much work into it

Hush! Don't say that! Every modder needs pats on the shoulders from everyone, to get the motivation to create something better, and better, and better... Of course that's why I always tried at school to avoid getting an A+, it's too lonely and depressing at the top when you could have gotten a B, a girlfriend and a life.

My point is that you've done a great job, you've got yourself an A+. Now go do more modding! Transcend yourself: stagnation means decline. Go for the next A+!

[M5000]

Is the IVA complete for this model yet? I remember it not having any textures.. Either way, great video... I've used this in the past but it got lost on the wayside when I slimmed down my game to trim load times, about to go re-download..

[Itsdavyjones]

It got updated, sweet.

[Glaucus]

This is pure awesome.

[iDan122]

Think you could add parachutes for easier landing? Also Plz make a tutorial how to properly take advantage of the trunk cuz my probe came out with some sort of ring attached

[Guest]

Think you could add parachutes for easier landing?

-snip-

Or you could simply add radial parachutes to the capsule on your own and save yourself a lot of time.

[iDan122]

Or you could simply add radial parachutes to the capsule on your own and save yourself a lot of time.

Yeah but they will ruin the whole shape of it, I already thought of that

[Guest]

Yeah but they will ruin the whole shape of it, I already thought of that

Not really, but then I suppose it's a matter of how picky you want to be.

[Nibb31]

If you use MechJab, it can do perfect pinpoint powered landings. No need for parachutes.

[iDan122]

If you use MechJab, it can do perfect pinpoint powered landings. No need for parachutes.

Apparently you do not understand the difference between "easier to land" and "pinpoint landing". I meant that it would be easier to just kill your horizontal speed with parachutes than with the built-in thrusters, the atmosphere should be taken advantage of.

[betaking]

my one and only problem is the sort of emptiness of the interior.

If you could add some stuff inside it would be appriciated.

[ninenineninefour]

I was doing a KSP version of the proposed "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dragon_(spacecraft)Red Dragon" mission, and I took some really cool screenshots I thought you might like.

On the launchpad:

Liftoff:

Final stage separation during Duna transfer burn:

And my personal favorite, the Dragon leaving Kerbin with Kerbol and the Mün in the background:

I really like this mod! It's one of my personal favorites.

[shadowsutekh]

Not really, but then I suppose it's a matter of how picky you want to be.

What is the "trunk" beneath the Dragon pod? I don't recognize it from anything I've seen before.

Edit: I got bored and accidentally found it on spaceport: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/sn-advanced-service-module/

Edited May 12, 2013 by shadowsutekh

[Designer225]

So will the dragon rider mod be compatible with KSP 0.20?

[Nibb31]

Try it and tell us.

[daver4470]

Try it and tell us.

It works fine mostly fine. The only issue I had -- and I'm not even sure it's a new issue -- is that if you're building the Dragon from scratch, it's tricky to attach the Dragon Brain, as no attachment node shows up on the top of the capsule. You've got to fiddle with it until it grabs an attachment that's apparently underneath the docking port.

Other than that, I had no problems. Except for running out of power in the vicinity of Minmus because I had the ship pointed in the wrong direction... (Stupid solar panels that can't rotate 360 degrees... )

EDIT: I can't get the Dragon Beak to load, either.

Edited May 24, 2013 by daver4470

[Big_Ron]

This is by far my favorite Mod......but .20. killed it...any word or help on how to fix it? the nose cone is gone, the solar panel covers don't match up. i had a lot of can not load certain items.

Edited May 24, 2013 by Big_Ron

[Nibb31]

To fix the nose cone issue, edit the CFG file and replace "module = part" with "module = Part". It looks like 0.20 is picky with upper/lower case.

To fix the solar panel covers issue (and any other attachment node problems in 0.20), add the line "scale = 1" to all of the CFG files.

My Dragon is heavily modded with cfg file edits, but it works perfectly. After resizing it to 2.5m ("rescaleFactor = 1"), this is what it looks like on top of the fully reusable Laztek Falcon 9:

Edited May 24, 2013 by Nibb31

[daver4470]

To fix the nose cone issue, edit the CFG file and replace "module = part" with "module = Part". It looks like 0.20 is picky with upper/lower case.

To fix the solar panel covers issue (and any other attachment node problems in 0.20), add the line "scale = 1" to all of the CFG files.

Awesome. I was futzing around last night trying to fix these, and couldn't figure it out.

The capsule itself works fine in .20 -- it's mainly the trunk items that are wonky.