[0.25] 6S Service Compartment Tubes - "Design smooth!"

[wasmic]

I don't suppose there is a way for non-radial parts to be used inside the compartment? My issue is that I want to put a probe core inside the compartment (with a Fuel Tank as the root part), but it uses the spare attach node so the compartment can't be capped. Is there a way around this that I can't find, or could this be a future feature?

Love the part regardless. =)

The BZ-52 Radial Attachment Point could be used, although it is a bit bulky. You could also add a cubic octagonal strut and place the core on that.

[Hetsin]

The BZ-52 Radial Attachment Point could be used, although it is a bit bulky. You could also add a cubic octagonal strut and place the core on that.

Oh! I didn't think of the attachment point. Thanks!

[RoboRay]

I just turned Part Clipping back on. Its unfortunate that something buried in the Debug Menu is pretty much essential for using realistic construction techniques.

[jrandom]

What if interior attachment node points were added, similar to how the Procedural Fairings interstage part works? That way we could get non-radial parts in there without using extra surface-attach pieces and no resorting to disabling Part Clipping.

[Commander Zoom]

Brilliant!

[WinkAllKerb'']

nice, love it

[nothke]

What if interior attachment node points were added, similar to how the Procedural Fairings interstage part works? That way we could get non-radial parts in there without using extra surface-attach pieces and no resorting to disabling Part Clipping.

First, it would add more probability of not stacking the compartments correctly. Many mods have attachment points very close to each other and it's very hard to know to which attachment did you actually place it. Even stock parts like decouplers and docking ports tend to do that. Secondly, it would add another giant green ball when placing parts making it hard to see.

[mwlue]

hmmm, it make my lander looks Kool indeed. i added another attach node in the middle tho.

[Pulsar]

Absolutely love it. By the way, which mod you use for that decoupler in OP picture.

[Dante80]

I think the decouplers are from the Deadly Re-entry pack.

[jrandom]

My set of additional configs for RSS/RO now include a .cfg for this mod that rescales to 1, 2, 3, and 4-meter parts, for those who wanted those. (You can just delete anything in the config pack you don't want. See the ReadMe file for specifics.)

[mwlue]

This stuff really looks cool on the ascent module of my lander \o/

[czokletmuss]

These parts should be stock!

[Guest]

I'm pleasantly surprised that these parts don't block engine exhaust, like some part hiding schemes that involve clipping. Great work Nothke!

[somnambulist]

This stuff really looks cool on the ascent module of my lander \o/

Where are those toroidal fuel tanks from?

[CleverClothe]

Yes! I've been doing this with fairings, which as been less than ideal.

[Guest]

Where are those toroidal fuel tanks from?

Those are from kommitz' nucleonics pack.

[WinkAllKerb'']

It's really amazing actually. Because all the other simple ideas I started working on somebody "took over" ahead of me.. Independently of course. It's just a usual problem with "simple" ideas xD

bah, in fact not a problem at all ideas are like trees, they have many roots and many branchs, but more important there time reference are not human one, let's them grow like precious seeds even if you not control there evolve or harvest them yourself, it's like child, ideas are magic in some way

[nothke]

Absolutely love it. By the way, which mod you use for that decoupler in OP picture.

Yeah, the decouplers are from Deadly Reentry, they are made to specifically fit beneath heatshields.

I'm pleasantly surprised that these parts don't block engine exhaust, like some part hiding schemes that involve clipping.

That's cause the colliders are set in a ring (right where the hull is), most other parts, like stock ones, just fill the whole cylinder with a single collider and the engine checks colliders beneath and not the graphical model, which might look hollow but is not.

Edited December 16, 2013 by nothke

[WillHop]

Couple of issues in 0.23 - service door starts open and I have no ability to close it from EVA :/ just thought you should know

[ModZero]

Unless Nothke answers, and without testing (it's late here), I'm going to suggest trying out replacing the Firespitter plugin with the one released today.

[volkkeslate]

Unless Nothke answers, and without testing (it's late here), I'm going to suggest trying out replacing the Firespitter plugin with the one released today.

Tested and confirmed working with updated firespitter plugin, also works with the tweakable menu in the VAB

[Andon]

@nothke: So, was reading through the Ferram thread when I found this:

Yeah, I did, when I was going through and setting up the new way that people can manually specify what part title indicates a cargo bay / payload fairing. The titles can now be specified in the config.xml, but there's no special handling for procedural fairings anymore.

so a simple modification to the config.xml file found in GameData\FerramAerospaceResearch\Plugins\PluginData\FerramAerospaceResearch will allow you to specify what you want.

However, that being said... This is now in the config.xml file:

<string name="cargoBayTitle2">service compartment</string>

So these will work with FAR now, without any further modifications.

[nothke]

Yes, Ferram came up with the improved system cause I asked him to. That's why he also included service compartment into the .xml. I will update service compartments also to use new Firespitter plugin.

[Andon]

I figured you had some part in it. It's a great improvement to FAR for other mods. And having these things work as intended is really nice too