UK Inter Galactic BioDomes

[michaelpooper]

UK Inter Galactic BioDomes

By Michael Pooper

I am presently trying to create bio domes that you can place objects in and in which Jeb can run around in. The domes come in 5, 7.5, 10, and 20 meter diameters, and have fittings that attach to 2.5 meter and 3.75 meter parts. Presently they will have no functions apart from being structural elements, yet I am looking for suggestions. Future projects after this has been completed include a fusion reactor that will run on hydrogen (liquid fuel) and produce electricity and Helium for use in ion engines (Helium will act in a similar way to xenon as it is also a noble gas, However in real life the ionisation energy is high hence it is not used.)

These are the preliminary shots of the fusion reactor models I am currently working on to go with a huge ion engine. I have tried to base as close to the real life toroidal magnetic confinement reactors such as ITER. (Look them up - they will save the world).

As the tritium-deuterium plasma heats up in the torus (doughnut) fusion takes place releasing energy, mostly in high energy protons. The energy released continues the reaction. Currently it is 50 years away until the first commercial power producing reactor, and 20 years until the first plasma in ITER.

I have decided not to use the laser design as the torus is in a later stage of development plus I think that a doughnut shaped star is way cooler!!

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Changelog

03/07/2013

• Created Sketchup 3D models, Need exporting to blender and finishing.
  
• Started Fourum post.
  
• Models should be released soon however it is my first model so be patient.
  
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05/07/2013

• Started model for Fusion reactor.
  
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Edited August 5, 2013 by michaelpooper

[Kous]

Nice looking models.

You could have the fusion reactor produce Neon or Argon which have reasonably lower ionisation energies.

[Scotius]

Most logical step would be to integrate this mod with one of Life Support ones - either Ioncross or Taranis Elsu.

[michaelpooper]

That could be a really good idea, however I first have to actually get the parts working. Plus I could make trees to and foliage to populate the domes

[OopsThatNotWork]

Most logical step would be to integrate this mod with one of Life Support ones - either Ioncross or Taranis Elsu.

What is the second life support mod, i dont recognize it.

[michaelpooper]

TAC Life Support

[Itsdavyjones]

the one thing i find about the smallest one is the fact that it has a very small curvature to it due to the small number of triangles used. I think that appx doubling the number of triangles used would make it a bit more pleasing.

[michaelpooper]

Possibly, I could rescale the larger ones, however I shall get over the hurdle of making a final part first.

[Itsdavyjones]

Do what you need to do, they do look good though.

[michaelpooper]

I have spent all day trying to get the small dome part from sketchup to KSP, I managed to get it to the part folder stage yet it will not load up in KSP. If somebody could get this part working I would be ever great full. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3saxhVuJGCTWUNNQkVIQVI5QzA/edit?usp=sharing , the link to it in Google drives.

[OopsThatNotWork]

I have spent all day trying to get the small dome part from sketchup to KSP, I managed to get it to the part folder stage yet it will not load up in KSP. If somebody could get this part working I would be ever great full. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3saxhVuJGCTWUNNQkVIQVI5QzA/edit?usp=sharing , the link to it in Google drives.

I would love to but I dont have experience with this. Someone with experience help this person please.

[Franklin]

Hey Michael. I know this thread's been collecting dust for a bit, but I was curious if you were still working on it? Those biodomes are exactly what I've been looking for, and would love to see progress on em.

[gl0ryh0und]

I have spent all day trying to get the small dome part from sketchup to KSP, I managed to get it to the part folder stage yet it will not load up in KSP. If somebody could get this part working I would be ever great full. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3saxhVuJGCTWUNNQkVIQVI5QzA/edit?usp=sharing , the link to it in Google drives.

I had a quick look at this and as far as I can see your not using unity to try and get this into KSP. I loaded the model into blender and it just looks like a chunk of geodome, loaded into unity and it was unusable. You need to modify your approach a little.

First abandon doing a complex model right up front, download unity and then lookup some the fine tutorials on this forum that deal with getting models into unity. If you simply interested in having your models in KSP then you could perhaps team up with someone familiar with unity enough to achieve what you are looking for. I've got enough know how to build simple objects and engines, but I haven't figured out docking ports, doors, ladders anything animated yet, it's not a steep learning curve, but can be time consuming.