[WIP] TAC Life Support, CLS MM and Science Configs for MIR, ISS, Soyuz, etc.

[MDBenson]

Hi,

I started doing these for fun to make my station simulations a bit more interesting but lately I have started getting more serious about them because I think they really add some extra dimensions to the simulation of life on a space station on KSP.

As Dragon01 is re-releasing the MIR and ISS parts from BobCat I thought it would be nice to add CLS and TAC support to them so I am starting that work. I will do CLS first as this is straightforward enough. For the TAC support I need some input on my plan.

TAC Life Support for ISS and MIR

My plan is this:

- Most modules will have storage capacity, but I am not sure how much to give them right now.

- Some will store food, some water, others Oxygen, some will have all 3 (most likely on all Russian modules)

- All modules, unless I am told otherwise, will have

- 2 days of Oxygen

- NO Food or Water to start with (as they likely would have been in reality)

- I will also add 'sinks' to store extra waste

- MPLM will have significant Waste capacity as it's where trash is stowed prior to loading on supply vessels

- I will research where the water and air recycling equipment is and add appropriate recyclers to those modules

In all cases, any ECLSS resources will be modded or removed with ModuleManager adjustments to prevent damage to the original configs.

All suggestions and info are welcomed, especially capacity suggestions for modules and such.

GitHubs

TAC Life Support Configs: https://github.com/MDBenson/TAC_Configs

CLS Configs: https://github.com/MDBenson/CLS_Configs

Edited June 25, 2014 by MDBenson

[MDBenson]

Added My first work on TAC and CLS configs. Feedback welcomed.

[Fishbed-J]

Hello....may I ask, how do I use those configs? Where do I copy them, or must I copy part of cfg for every part?

[Dr. Jet]

Once you have a ModuleManager - just drop those anywhere within GameData. Configs will automatically hook to whatever corresponding parts you have.

[Fishbed-J]

Thank you very much

[MDBenson]

I have added science configs to this. I'm working on a system that uses stock science configs and the Ship Manifest plugin to do science and allow you to transfer the data to a return capsule to take back to Kerbin, or transmit the results back to Kerbin from orbit. All this involves using a Lab module to clean the experiments, which consumes a resource called 'Experiments'. This should add a somewhat analogous situation to the real ISS and allow science to be carried out in exchange for Experiments flow up form the ground, then return to the ground by recoverable return craft like Dragon. HOWEVER it has a few niggles I need to iron out so right now it's not going to be seeing the light of day for a while.

MEANWHILE I also intend to jump on the CLS then TAC configs for the ISS liveable station modules. CLS is straightforward. For TAC I still need to research some stuff but hopefully I can see that getting done in the next few weeks.

Hello....may I ask, how do I use those configs? Where do I copy them, or must I copy part of cfg for every part?

I apologise for the currently very rudimentary state of these files, they are currently heavily in development so I haven't packaged them up for easy Mod installation yet. Dr. Jet was on the money, just install ModuleManager (2.0.5 or later) and put them inside GameData, preferably in their own folder for neatness sakes.

[MDBenson]

Just a heads-up - at some stage I'm going to redo these for the experimental 0.9 version of TAC, but I haven't got to investigating it yet.