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

[Taki117]

I love this mod. Could stand to have end caps so that it looks more finished. (It just seems odd to me to not have some kind of end) but other than that absolutely amazing!

[Andon]

There's another update to Firespitter that came out a few days ago. Seems to have solved my non-opening door issues.

[Ratata]

can't thank you enough for this!

[Paul Kingtiger]

Love this, the too much monoprop issue really annoyed me. I echo the requests for end plates to make mounting stuff easier.

Also having an unmanned opening option would be great for my unmanned probes, I'd be able to mount instruments in they bay then deploy them once in orbit.

[Galane]

Without the firespitter.dll, they simply work as hollow bits to put stuff in? Not going to do wonky things like not using the toolbar plugin with the latest Infernal Robotics?

I'd like to have the doors on these openable without needing to EVA a Kerbal. Imagine mounting an Infernal Robotics hydraulic cylinder inside one to extend an antenna, or using them horizontally as landing gear bays, or even just using the doors as landing legs.

[Andon]

Without the firespitter.dll, they simply work as hollow bits to put stuff in? Not going to do wonky things like not using the toolbar plugin with the latest Infernal Robotics?

I'd like to have the doors on these openable without needing to EVA a Kerbal. Imagine mounting an Infernal Robotics hydraulic cylinder inside one to extend an antenna, or using them horizontally as landing gear bays, or even just using the doors as landing legs.

You can go into the config file and change the EVA-only bit for the doors. Don't remember the specific name for it though.

[TerrificToby]

will this work with ferram?

[Captain Sierra]

The changelog says it should.

Also, could we perhaps see designated science bays in the future? Which open not on EVA so we can then toggle our science?

[Mitchz95]

This mod looks amazing. Do you still have the 0.22 version available to download? I haven't updated yet.

[krashkart]

Brilliant! Thank you for this addon, nothke. My spacecraft look a whole lot better now without all the extraneous crap bolted to the exterior.

[MaverickSawyer]

Works really well with a couple of "deployable" type experiments, like a magnetometer boom or long antennae.

Also, if you're clever with it, you can use them as an "Interstage" with surface mounted engines. :3

[Helix935]

i can just imagine this evolving into like procedural cargo bays or even habitats in the future.....

[Taki117]

Is it possible to make a plate to fit on the top and bottom as well? I think that would look better than just attaching them to whatever is above the thing.

[Mitchz95]

Is it possible to make a plate to fit on the top and bottom as well? I think that would look better than just attaching them to whatever is above the thing.

That would make it difficult to stack them. Just use an adapter or an SAS module or something.

[bulletrhli]

The items inside the compartment, are they treated as a single part so that the center of weight is balanced correctly regardless of how the items are placed inside of it?

[mossman]

Would it be possible to mod a part that is functionally similar to this, except it abstracts the individual service parts that don't need to be physically simulated or rendered?

[wasmic]

Would it be possible to mod a part that is functionally similar to this, except it abstracts the individual service parts that don't need to be physically simulated or rendered?

That would probably be very, very hard to do. You can achieve this effect with this mod and the UbioZur welding plugin, but it'd be very impractical to do it that way.

[mossman]

That would probably be very, very hard to do. You can achieve this effect with this mod and the UbioZur welding plugin, but it'd be very impractical to do it that way.

I was thinking something similar to the way Modular Fuels works; i.e you'd have some UI function in the VAB to add parts to a SM (Which is just a non-hollow cylinder part), which then simply adds the mass of the part to the SM, and the SM assumes the newly added part's behavior - so say you added a bunch of small batteries to a service module, the SM part would increase its mass and give itself electrical storage to simulate their presence. That should be easily doable with the current resource system.

Could we then add the behavior of other part-modules to the SM part? Sensors and communications equipment would probably be most relevant. It doesn't sound like this would be outside the scope of an addon, but then again, what do I know?

[Stone Blue]

Thanx so much for this mod....

Up to this point, I have been using the large stock ASAS part in this way, by stuffing the small spherical RCS/fuel tanks, RTGs, batteries, mechjeb, Engineer parts, etc in....Basically anything that would fit...But it is hard to get things in there exactly symmetrical...

Thanx a bunch.

[Whitecold]

These compartments look so great, together with fairings my rockets now also look like rockets, and not ungainly monstrosities atop some rocket engines.

[Camelotking524]

I was thinking something similar to the way Modular Fuels works; i.e you'd have some UI function in the VAB to add parts to a SM (Which is just a non-hollow cylinder part), which then simply adds the mass of the part to the SM, and the SM assumes the newly added part's behavior - so say you added a bunch of small batteries to a service module, the SM part would increase its mass and give itself electrical storage to simulate their presence. That should be easily doable with the current resource system.

Could we then add the behavior of other part-modules to the SM part? Sensors and communications equipment would probably be most relevant. It doesn't sound like this would be outside the scope of an addon, but then again, what do I know?

You want to be able to add part modules on the fly. It could be done...I don't know how to code it.

[MajorSystemError]

Just posting to express my appreciation for this mod, nothke. For such a simple little 2-part mod, you've completely changed how I build my ships, they are way nicer looking now...I love you dude! (no homo)

[koksny]

Is there any way to make them longer? As much as i like the look and idea, i also find them very much not practical. In most cases i would love to use few stacked, but it's getting part count out of hand really fast.

Are you considering possibility of including some more variety in terms of height, or maybe even borrowing some code from procedural fairing mod to include such feature here?

[Kulebron]

This pack should be included in vanilla!

[Deltac]

i also find them very much not practical.

I... I don't know how to respond to this.