[1.0.2] NovaPunch 2.09. - May 6th - 1.0 Compatibility Update

[frizzank]

Those winglets... I know there are control surfaces attached to them but are they new parts I don't recognize them

Else those look gorgeous, awesome work

Because the fairings on the bearcat 5x flair out at an angle I had to make new winglets that would flair out by the same amount.

I also put the attach point inside the model so they would work on both the angled fairings and strait ones (like you saw me testing in the 3X picture previously).

I didn't include them in the model because the do provide a lot of added stability as an aero part rather than just including them in the model.

Edited July 19, 2013 by frizzank

[hellion13]

thats awesome, hard to believe though that the ONLY manned apacecraft to ever break low earth orbit was designed 40-50 years ago, and that to do it again the rocket being designed now is almost a direct copy, but as i always say if it aint broke dont fix it

also did the fist rocket fly?

[frizzank]

thats awesome, hard to believe though that the ONLY manned apacecraft to ever break low earth orbit was designed 40-50 years ago, and that to do it again the rocket being designed now is almost a direct copy, but as i always say if it aint broke dont fix it

also did the fist rocket fly?

44 years ago tomorrow we landed on the moon.

Also yes want to see fist rocket punching the sun!

[Pliuple]

Holy *fist* !! O_o

[hellion13]

44 years ago tomorrow we landed on the moon.

kinda why i like this pack so much, it doesnt try to make the game entirely too easy, uses parts that might have been made IRL at some point, and instead of trying to add some convoluted propulsion system that may or may not work, uses reality based rockets, Nerva motor aside, that actually got tested once or twice IRL

also that fist rocket needs its craft file uploaded LOL i wanna punch the VAB....

Edited July 19, 2013 by hellion13

[Floki]

Punching isn't very nice, but it's fun.

Sexy engines btw.

[NoMrBond]

also did the fist rocket fly?

Not yet, need to balance it still

[hellion13]

Not yet, need to balance it still

anyway you could upload the craft file? id like to try and fly it...

[NoMrBond]

Sure, have fun with The Fist

Mostly novapunch parts, has a couple of stock parts (pb-nuk's and clamp-o-trons)

[hellion13]

Sure, have fun with The Fist

Mostly novapunch parts, has a couple of stock parts (pb-nuk's and clamp-o-trons)

awesome thanks, been stuck in the twitch marathon LOL will look at this and see if i can get it to fly later

[frizzank]

K2 re-skin, I fixed some of the seems and added some shading, also gave it a proper normal and spec map. Its a 1.25m engine now so I down sized the texture to save on room. Also Gave it the same fairing as all the other new ones.

Old one

New one

[Discordic]

Any tips for getting the example rockets from the pack into orbit? No matter what I do, even up to massive changes that involve absurd numbers of struts, they always flex and wobble all over the place and eventually go badly off course. Or just break horribly. They tend to end up upside-down even before 10 km.

Aside from this, though, I'm loving the pack. I've made some pretty good things of my own, and I especially adore the emergency abort nose-cones.

[frizzank]

Can you post a pic of your rocket

First instinct is its probably has too many stages or too tall.

Step one reduce the number of stages. If you have more than 5 its too many.

Add aero fins to the bottom and turn off gimble on your engine.

Add more struts?

[Troberg]

Use one of the mods that give stronger struts, and strut a lot.

[Discordic]

I'm talking about the ones the pack comes with, the CaptMorgan and Odin-thor heavy launchers. The ones I've made on my own are working fine, but I just cannot get these two to fly, even straight up.

[Tiberion]

There's 2 strong struts in the pack (strong and REALLY strong) - and they should be used in the supplied craft files.

I find that either disabling the gimbals or flying manually without ASAS during the 1st stage (perhaps 2 stages) allows them to fly properly. Hopefully things will be improved if not fixed by the next KSP patch.

[viperwolf]

the super heavy strut is hard to get a hold of again once you place it. It may just be me. i stopped using it for now. bc sometimes i cannot grab it again to try another angle or bite

[Tiberion]

they're both clones of the regular strut with the stats turned up, so it should be exactly the same to grab.

[frizzank]

I do miss how they were a different color darker I think

[Tiberion]

yeah me too; but when I tried to import the old DAE version through unity, I could not make them function in game at all - so I don't have a way to edit the texture anymore. (I tried the hex editor trick on the MBM with no luck too)

[hellion13]

ive had issues re grabbing struts as well, but its not restricted to just the NP2 struts either tho i get it with KWs and the stock strut as well, its just when i place them on NP tanks or parts....

[frizzank]

Images are kind of hap hazard so I put them all in one album, but here is all the latest work that I have done on the new stuff for NovaPunch. The second and 3rd ones are the latest engines I did, RMA3 and Quad Bronco. The orbital Bertha is the only thing thats missing I think?

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[stupid_chris]

Okay the Quad Bronco is gorgeous.

[Galacticruler]

Okay the Quad Bronco is gorgeous.

They are all gorgeous, how dare you!?

[frizzank]

Fixed the ugly normal maps on the matriarch as well.