[WIP] Orbital Manufacturing

[boberts314]

I dub thee "Holy Hand Grenade of Kantioch"!

[Yorik]

I dub thee "Holy Hand Grenade of Kantioch"!

Yeah, I was pretty sure that comment would come up.

[drtedastro]

And the count shall be three, not two, not four, but three..

[Patupi]

I just love the angelic music as it soars through the air.... BOOM! And shouldn't that be 'the kount shall be three'?

[Helix935]

wow this stuff looks cool

[taniwha]

I've tried to do exactly this, and failed... the technique is simple and slick, but it doesn't work without the player performing a save/load after construction is complete. Since this is unacceptable, I'm moving on to piecemeal construction, which incidentally dovetails nicely with a delayed construction feature.

I thought you got EL close to working? (at least got rid of the NREs). I was hoping for a patch...

[Patupi]

OK, I had another go (finally) at sketching the Smelter. Also did a brief concept sketch of a 'constructor'. IE a place to build ship components against. The frame is supposed to suggest the maximum width, but I'm not sure if they'd be separate components to bolt onto the center section. IE different frame brackets would spread further and allow bigger ships to be built. The center of the frame is supposed to be an airlock, and around that are four locking units to hold the ship to the frame.

[taniwha]

That smelter looks good for about 10kg/day

As for the construction frame... aaahh! big spider!! keep it away!!!

They both look good, though.

[Patupi]

A low limit for throughput on smelter sounds good. As a reference it's supposed to be about the size of an X200-32 fuel tank, ie half an orange fuel tank. Being able to mass produce the metal with minimal mass doesn't sound realistic anyway to me.

[boberts314]

Would it be able to process while the vessel wasn't loaded though? It seems like making processes take a reasonably long time always clashes with the need to for only one ship to be doing anything at a time.

[Patupi]

I know quite a few mods are dealing with the 'not active vessel' thing. Two life support mods, a scan mod and KSPI. I think something could be managed, even if the actual store of ore and metal only update when you select the ship and it then works out how much it made in the interim

[boberts314]

It does seem like there have been an increasing number of clever solutions to that issue lately. SCANsat is especially impressive...

[Patupi]

You know, I still haven't gotten around to testing SCANsat yet. Gotta try that.

[Donziboy2]

I know quite a few mods are dealing with the 'not active vessel' thing. Two life support mods, a scan mod and KSPI. I think something could be managed, even if the actual store of ore and metal only update when you select the ship and it then works out how much it made in the interim

Yep KSPI uses it to calculate Fuel usage in the reactors and how much science the science lab has made. It just calculates the amount based on time between loadings. Althou I think its possible to run out of fuel before you come back to the ship, I dont remember if the ship runs out of power or what, its been a while since I ran out of fuel for anything lol.

[likke_A_boss]

This models look amazing, I hope your still working on this.

[hieywiey]

I think this could be a very good mod!

[Taki117]

I am also looking forward to this.

[Captain Sierra]

Hearing the plans for expandable build zones keeps making me think of my own orbital shipyard (not plugin enhanced to do this tho ).

Perhaps this gives some inspiration for how to expand the build area restriction.

Having a mod to make something like the above functional would be too cool.

[Patupi]

But it would have to expand in width and height as well as length for bigger ships. You can't just add end pieces on. That means expanding the side panels vertically as well as extending the top panels wideways when larger ships are needed. Maybe an 'Upgrade' button on the station which costs resources? Perhaps with X, Y & Z sliders for size?

[lacedemonian]

Make the VAB show how many parts are needed for the craft. If it currently is on OC, then I can't find it and it needs to be more visible.

[EpytronOmega]

any progress on this mod?

[MarethyuGamer]

Hey, I was just wondering if you're still working on this mod or it's abadoned idea.

[OmniNoc]

So, it's abandoned... Shame, its a great idea

[Helix935]

yes it is abandoned although the models have been released as some science parts by the planetes corporation by Yorik