Fine tune the baricenter

[StuntMax]

Hi all,

I'm going to send up some pretty complex structures for a mun base.

My problem is that the structure, with all the landing engines and other ancillary junk, isn't even remotely symmetrical, so I need to place some ballast to balance the launch vehichle.

Is there a way to know how misaligned are the COM and the COT? A mod or something like this, the stock "balls" are way too approximative, i ended up with a vehichle that spins during the LKO ejection burn....

Edited August 21, 2014 by StuntMax

[blizzy78]

The RCS Build Aid plugin can show you how much torque you're going to get from off-center mass.

[Pondafarr]

sarbian has the autogimbal plugin that may help as well

[Red Iron Crown]

There's also Throttle Controlled Avionics, which can use differential throttle on multiple engines to smoothly accelerate unbalanced ships.

[Superfluous J]

Not to mention that in the unmodded stock game (I know it's crazy) you can click the COM and COT markers and just eyeball it.

But I would use RCS Build Aid. That spinny circle thing makes balancing rockets a fun mini-game.

[blizzy78]

Eyeballing things?? Unthinkable!

[StuntMax]

The RCS Build Aid plugin

THIS.

Great, thanks.

(Eyeballing with the balls just can't cut it)