[WIP] Ascending Velocity - Do not go too fast on lift off!

[Molybdene]

Hi,

While working on my other plugin (Mass Relay), I searched for a plugin that will tell you if you are accelerating too slow (fighting gravity too much) or too hard (fighting air resistance), so I decided to try to find it on the forum, with no luck.

Sooo...

Let's do this

I tried using real data of atmospheric pressure and altitude and drag and and...

Well I don't want to be dead precise, so a good approximation should be enough.

Ence, the fabulous trendline get from a terminal velocity table (for Kerbin - at first) that I get somewhere...

And I will try adding something like a slider next to the throttle that will tell you if you are in the green zone, or too slow/too quick.

Tell me quickly if something like that already exists, I couldn't find it, but as a french I have trouble finding the correct search words

[Camacha]

People make stuff like that with kOS. I do not believe there is a plugin that does it for you.

[XanderTek]

MechJeb can do this. Well, you can ask it to limit your throttle so that you don't exceed terminal velocity. A separate mod might be handy for people who don't like MechJeb.

[Molybdene]

Especially that it will be a part-free plugin. No risk of destroying your save file with unloaded ships if the plugin went missing.

Good news is I have a working plugin right now. (yeaaah, already).

Totally not user friendly, it's just a windows filled with debug data, but I have the info that I need. All I have to do now is making a pretty interface for it.

[The Destroyer]

Sounds good, just don't forget to work on both

[Molybdene]

Yes sir I won't forget sir

[Aghanim]

Make your mod work with FAR! Mechjeb terminal velocity limiter doesn't work with FAR

[AdmiralTigerclaw]

If it works with FAR, it will have to work with dynamic drag values rather than some strict pressure value. Probably just pull the Q value from FAR's in flight data and have the player set the max Q value.

[rkman]

The Engineer Redux mod displays this as "atmospheric efficiency".

[Molybdene]

I promise I will take a look at the real simulation drag force so that I can tell the "real" terminal velocity, using the FAR or the KSP model.

For now I will just give an approximation just to see where it gets me.