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[23.5]Better RoveMates v1.7 - Community Addition Edition

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Have you ever thought "ROVEMATE Y U USELESS!?". You have? Good,you came to the right place! I had a thought popup into my head "Rovemates are so useless by themselves. Why not make better ones?". I did just that.

You can now have Liquid fuel and Oxidizer in your rovemates! Want to jump the VAB? Sure!

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Want to use a rover for docking? Pfft who doesn't?!

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Don't like solar panels? Want kerbals to cook eggs on your rover? Go with ThermoElectric rovers!

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v1.5 Has brought you larger Rovermates! Meet Bertha aka Flatter Probodobodyne RoveMate

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Default Size SAS Rovemate? Lets roll, litterally

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Newer/Better Mates! SAS,ThermoElectric,and Flatter respectively .

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Wanna drill Kethane and store it in your rover?

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KAS Storage in a rover!? Be lazy and carry stuff in your rover!

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Always wanted to rove and convert Kethane?

Top: KAS, Middle: Kethane Converter, Bottom: Kethane Storage

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TacLifeSupported RoveMates

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More attachment Nodes!

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In v1.3+ all Better RoveMate bodies have probe control. No need for those pesky probe bodies!

v1.5 Brings Probe control and more electricity to the stock RoveMate!

1.7.5 Brings more attachment nodes for the rovemates courtesy of user Gaiiden

I did my best to try to balance the mass and the amount of resources in them. If you want me to change something,tell me!

Remove all older Versions of BetterRovemates before installing new versions!

Download v1.7.5

Alternate Download: Download v1.7.5 Here

License:GNU

To-Do:

Better Textures(?)

More Kinds of Bodies

Versions


1.7.5:
New Body-
    MechJeb'd Probodobodyne RoveMate: I'm sorry Jeb, I can't let you do that.
        Just a General Mechjeb module

Added side nodes for better attachment:
            All rovemates will have this function,the Flatter Rovemate's side nodes a bit messed up,just ignore it. This will be fixed later on.

1.7:
New Bodies-
    TacLifeSupport Probodobodyne Rovemate: Stayin' Alive,Stayin' Alive!
        General LifeSupport: 80Food,80Water,8Oxygen

    TacLifeSupport Food Probodobodyne Rovemate: "SNAAAAAAAAACKSSSSS" -Jeb
        240 Snack Units

    TacLifeSupport Water Probodobodyne Rovemate: Drinks are on the house,er ship.
        240 Water Units

    TacLifSupport Oxygen Probodobodyne Rovemate: Kerb Vader will be proud. 
        240 Oxygen Units

v1.6:
New Bodies-
  Kethane Storage Probodobodyne Rovemate: Drill baby drill!  -Works with Kethane Pack 0.8.5 
    Holds 120 units of Kethane

  KAS Storage Probodobodyne Rovemate: Hate carrying all of that luggage? -Works with KAS 0.4.7
    Holds 40 units of "stuff".

  Kethane Converter Probodobodyne Rovemate: Convert while you Rove!  -This more of a Beta product,it could have problems with it,just so you know. Works with Kethane Pack 0.8.5 
    Converts as the same rate as the 1m KE-C090 Medium Converter Unit

  Update ModuleManager to 2.0.8 and is now included with the download

1.5:
New Bodies-
  SAS Probodobodyne RoveMate: SAS in your rovemate? sure!
  Flatter Probodobodyne RoveMate: Flat(er) mate for your liking

The Stock rovemate has a built in probe core and has 150 Electric Charge(Remove the BetterRoveMates.cfg if you don't want this) 

Nuclear Probodobodyne RoveMate is now known as ThermoElectric Probodobodyne RoveMate
    Updated Textures
        Note: This change may/may not break your .crafts!

1.3:
New Body- Nuclear Probodobodyne RoveMate
-Holds 150 Electric Charge and Generates Electricity @3.5 Per second 
All bodies now have command control to them, No need for probe bodies!

1.0: 
First Release

Do you want more kinds of Rovemates? Post below!

Got some criticism for me? Post below!

Got a suggestion for something else? Post below!

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No pics no clicks

Click the spoilers?

Battery/RTG version, and version that is a command pod with battery/RTG.

I hope to make this next version(sometime in the next few days)

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Version 1.3 Has been Released!

1.3:

New Body- Nuclear Probodobodyne RoveMate

-Holds 150 Electric Charge and Generates Electricity @3.5 Per second

All bodies now have command control to them, No need for probe bodies!

If you find any problems just tell me!

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Iteresting...

Suggestions:

1. Manned RoveMate(One of the unfinished, windowless stock IVAs, like the Mk2 cockpit might work.)

2. Longer rovemate

3. wider rovemate

4. combo of both 2 & 3

5. Rovemate with a slot for a small engine on the back.

all I can think of. Remember, suggestions, not demands.

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Iteresting...

Suggestions:

1. Manned RoveMate(One of the unfinished, windowless stock IVAs, like the Mk2 cockpit might work.)

2. Longer rovemate

3. wider rovemate

4. combo of both 2 & 3

5. Rovemate with a slot for a small engine on the back.

all I can think of. Remember, suggestions, not demands.

Those are some great ideas!

Cockpits: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/67450-WIP-IVA-PLUGIN-ProbeControlRoom-x-y-IVA-All-the-things%21

It should work with my mod, I may try it out later today.

Parts:If I knew how to model parts then I would add different sized mates. If anyone wants to help,thats fine with me :D

Engine: Slot as in an attachment node?

How about when the nuclear rover body is in use that the rover 'overheats' as the amount of power being used at one time increases? More power = more heat

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First the "nuclear powered" one should be a nuclear decay thermoelectric. (You aren't going to fit a full nuclear reactor in a rover, no matter how tiny.) It should have either a heat sink-ridges on the surface or a perforated surface because of this. (I recommend the perforated surface.) This can be implemented with parallax maps, or normal maps, so long as the surface details aren't too deep.

Second, I agree on making one with more battery capacity than the stock one and a built in probe core.

Additional things to throw in are science storage and a wielded on pilot's seat.

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First the "nuclear powered" one should be a nuclear decay thermoelectric. (You aren't going to fit a full nuclear reactor in a rover, no matter how tiny.) It should have either a heat sink-ridges on the surface or a perforated surface because of this. (I recommend the perforated surface.) This can be implemented with parallax maps, or normal maps, so long as the surface details aren't too deep.

Second, I agree on making one with more battery capacity than the stock one and a built in probe core.

Additional things to throw in are science storage and a wielded on pilot's seat.

I agree on the Nuclear change. I most likely won't do the heatsinks since I don't have experience with modeling. Perforated surface, I may/may not do this,I'm not the greatest texture creating person( :P ).

I'm currently working on the Welded pilots seat, I'm running into a few bugs with this. The part icon is misplaced in the part box,don't know why yet.

Battery capacity and probe core for the stock rover(via module manager) will come soon as well.

Science storage as in an operable cargo bay type thing?

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Hi guys!

Sorry for not updating or posting anything for the past few days,I've been sick ;.; . But! I've been working on something special!

Nuclear Rovemate is now called "Thermo Electric Rovemate"(This may break .crafts,sorry :/) and a better texture for it as well, Bigger Rovemates(2m! 3m?!?! 4m!?!??! Who knows! soonâ„¢)

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Expect the update within the next few days!

-Codey

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If I knew how to model parts then I would add different sized mates. If anyone wants to help,thats fine with me :D

MODEL { Example/Parts/Example-1/MODEL.mu X, Y, Z)(Some one correct me if I'm wrong.)

Engine: Slot as in an attachment node?

Yes.

How about when the nuclear rover body is in use that the rover 'overheats' as the amount of power being used at one time increases? More power = more heat

That last one may be hard to do without an invisible engine that produces no thrust or a plugin.

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Hurray! Version 1.5 is here!

1.5:

New Bodies-

SAS Probodobodyne RoveMate: SAS in your rovemate? sure!

Flatter Probodobodyne RoveMate: Flat(er) mate for your liking

The Stock rovemate has a built in probe core and has 150 Electric Charge(Remove the BetterRoveMates.cfg if you don't want this)

Nuclear Probodobodyne RoveMate is now known as ThermoElectric Probodobodyne RoveMate

Updated Textures

Note: This change may/may not break your .crafts!

Download v1.5 Here

If you have a problem just tell me,enjoy!

-Codey

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This mod is absolutely a great idea! I'd like to have a rovemate with a kethane drill and/or a small kethane storage, is that possible?

EDIT: maybe a lower-res texture download?

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This mod is absolutely a great idea! I'd like to have a rovemate with a kethane drill and/or a small kethane storage, is that possible?

EDIT: maybe a lower-res texture download?

Yes! Those 2 mates are both possible, wouldn't it be easier to add the drill yourself? :P I will start the work on the small kethane storage soon.

If you want a lower-res texture use this great mod:Active Texture Management

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Yes! Those 2 mates are both possible, wouldn't it be easier to add the drill yourself? :P I will start the work on the small kethane storage soon.

If you want a lower-res texture use this great mod:Active Texture Management

I was just about to suggest that actually! Also perhaps make all of them controllable aka, no need for a probe part?

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I was just about to suggest that actually! Also perhaps make all of them controllable aka, no need for a probe part?

In v1.3+ all Better RoveMate bodies have probe control. The stock rovemate also is controllable+extra electricity.

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