New Building on the KSP Campus: the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

[SirJoab]

I'm and engineering nerd kinda guy... and I was thinking it would be pretty cool to have a Jet Propulsion Laboratory (analogous to NASA's JPL) where you can build the engines you need. In this building you need to work with parts like nozzles, cooling jackets, fuel pumps, auxiliary power turbines, coolant, magnetic coils, gimbles... and whatever else you guys might think of. This way you could make precisely the engine you need for a task.

Upon save, the program could simply write a CFG file for the engine, thus the in-game physics wouldn't have to work any harder during a space flight.

I suppose these features could also be built into the R & D facility too.

[Tidus Klein]

Yes such a thing is a ace in my book do it!

PS ( did you start this because of the random new building in the update that just sits there and looks pretty? Ive been wondering about that too.)

[Synapse]

This sounds like a really easy implementation, except for the fact that you can't write 3d models to a cfg file

[leax256]

modular engine designing? sounds cool.

[BubbaWilkins]

I'm hoping more for a "simulator" so that you can test your various crafts/rovers/satellites.

I hate building a craft, launching it, getting it to the target such as the Mun...and then discovering that suspension on the wheels of my rover are too stiff for Munar gravity.

Or that my RCS is not quite balanced.

Or that my lander doesn't have sufficient thrust to take off or land safely.

Or that my probe core is on backwards.

Or that I really needed to add a ladder.