[Part] Useful Parts Pack by Parameciumkid

[problemecium]

I intend to add a few more parts to the pack before "officially" releasing it, as it only includes two so far, but this here is a pack with extra bits I felt were necessary to fill some gaps in the stock parts' functionality.

1. Hexagonal Meteoroid Shield

(Also useful for building death spheres or a giant boob nipple gun.)

For those who like to put meteoroid shields on the front of ships, the square plates kind of suck (IMO anyway). Sure they're useful for other things, but for gently curving surfaces, domes, meteoroid shields, etc. they don't tessellate well at all. So I created a hexagonal version. It's about the same size and has pretty much the same properties, but it lends itself a lot better to this kind of thing.

2. Shunting Engine

Monopropellant thrusters are great for small, precise movements, but sometimes you need to wrangle a massive hunk of ship and the RCS just doesn't cut it any more. This is a small surface-mounted engine that functions as an RCS thruster (including SAS functionality), but uses Liquid Fuel and Oxidizer the same way normal rocket engines do, allowing it to take advantage of a much higher thrust and specific impulse as well as not require special fuel tanks.

DOWNLOAD: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13276416/KSP/HexPlate%20and%20RCSEngine.zip

Edited April 8, 2014 by parameciumkid

[bs1110101]

Not to complain, but your bipropellant rcs thruster can run if it has just liquid fuel or oxidizer, and thus is kinda overpowered if you have a spaceplane that makes orbit ether fuel heavy or oxidizer heavy.

Unfortunately, the only way to fix this would be using a plugin.

[KAO]

is it possible to have the shunting engine have the fx and sfx of a normal engine?

[problemecium]

^ Only with a plugin. I may write one later; I'm still trying to make up my mind whether I should go big and make a plugin for it or go small (i.e. easier on people's computers) and stick with just the CFG.

[blackheart612]

Lost it at giant boob nipple gun. XD

[DasBananenbrot]

Lost it at giant boob nipple gun. XD

Me too sitting here laughing childishly while realising, I actually should leave to my bus.. Oops

[Dix2lespace]

great idea! Big RSC truster LOX will be very usefull for the mothers ships! thanks

[frizzank]

You could cheat, make the thrusters an SAS that uses liquid fuel and oxidizer resources and make the RCS thruster fx only.

Also you could have a generator on it that converts liquid fuel to mono and then use the mono as fuel for the RCS thruster. Have the tank store a really small amount and have it convert at a high rate so it would look like it was converting it on the fly.

A better option may be to included two rcs moduels in the config, one burns lox and other liquid fuel. and have the thrust in the same spot.

[wasmic]

A better option may be to included two rcs moduels in the config, one burns lox and other liquid fuel. and have the thrust in the same spot.

That would still allow it to function once one of the resources have been drained out. The other two wouldn't.

[frizzank]

Yes but only at half capacity

[Stone Blue]

@problemecium any chance of getting this re-hosted?

[problemecium]

I suppose I could, although I'd sort of abandoned this in light of the stock Vernor engine being introduced.